The best way to get affiliates in the program?

However you look at it, everything starts from having proven conversions of targeted traffic.

You need to start by being successful at marketing it yourself.

Otherwise you can fall into the classic trap of being able to attract some good affiliates, but not being able to retain them (which is what matters) if the sales page/system isn't fully tweaked, tested, affiliate-friendly and proven to convert.

Be aware that ("broadly speaking"/"oversimplifying") there are two pretty distinct "classes" of affiliates available: the 95+% of affiliates who collectively make very few sales, and the other less-than-5% of affiliates who, between them, bring in 95+% of the affiliate-referred sales.

The latter group (surely the ones you want?) are very often willing to look only at products promoted on a longstanding, established affiliate network such as ClickBank, where payment security and reliabity will never be an issue to them.

If you use the forum's search function by looking just in the Main Marketing Forum for threads with the words "affiliates" in their titles, you'll quickly find 100+ threads with titles like "How do I find affiliates for my product?", which are packed with additional, useful ideas and suggestions.

Good luck!

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