Hard Time Getting Affiliates To Promote My Ebook...

Affiliates don't care about ebooks! Let me explain:

Affiliates are in the business of making money, so the good ones tend to look for the following:

1. A good sales page - this proves to them that the vendor knows what they are doing, but more importantly that when they send traffic to it, the conversions will be high

2. Good promotional material (even if they don't use it) - again this shows that the vendor has some nous and in a sense 'cares' about the success of affiliates

3. A decent commission - obliviously only a fool would spend $27 dollars on getting a sale when the return is $20. You must make the commission high enough to justify potential advertising expenses.

There are other factors, but these are the main ones sought by affiliates before they start promoting.

From my own experience too I can prove the above. I recently launched a site on Clickbank and quite a few affiliates jumped on board (the commission was good), however, they stopped promoting because the conversion was terrible.

I would advise you to concentrate on getting the above to a satisfactory standard and your fortunes should turn.

Hope this helps.

Hav

The other thing that might grab potential affiliates would be a solid back-end offer or one time offer, preferably with a high commission.

Thanks guys, my product is $47 and pays 50% commission.

The competitors products I was talking about pays around $18 commission for the higher package which is pretty low.

It is typically hard to get started. And it is always frustrating even when you have a better product to find out that does not mean everyone will run out and buy or promote it. Right now you are the new guy on the block. If you do not have a major reputation in the niche you have still may have to convince and show everyone that it is better. if you have the name and rep in your niche that will help and it would make things easier.

Even then it takes time, work, and/or money to set up and run an affiliate campaign so just because your product is better that does not mean that everyone or anyone for that matter would stop their existing campaign and start promoting your new product. They might add your product and test it out to see how it converts. once again you might have the better mouse trap, but that does not mean it will sell.

It is a fact of life just ask the people would were selling Beta vcrs it was a better product, but VHS was able to market and get out of the gate quicker. I might be dating my self a little with that. Any to clarify for those that my know now. At one time there was a format called beta that was competing for the VCR market and they lost and most everyone choose to buy a VHS. I might still loose you there, but I think everyone may have at least heard of a VCR they are not completely gone yet

So it is your mission if you choose to accept it to get the word out that you have the better product. It will take time, but if your product is that much better like you say it will eventually get affiliates attention.

Another way is to start listing your product in your signature in any forum that allows it. I know I get some affiliates to start marketing my products just form that alone. Once you get some product sold you will start to get gravity in clickbank and that will get the attention of the affiliates that can really drive traffic to your sites. Until they know a product can convert they are less likely to set up a major campaign for the product.

Also you need to have a great converting sales page. Nothing will help you if your sales page is bad. If it will not convert it does not matter if you can get affilaites.
providing great marketing material also helps.
providing a good commission never hurts

I hope this help.

build a relationship with your subscribers, offering free material teaching them how to become affiliates. This will encourage them to promote your product

Right now I only have 2 subscribers and one of them is a potential affiliate.

I guess I should just focus on SEO, presell my best material on YouTube, Myspace, Article sites, etc... And from there hopefully it grows where affiliates will take notice.

Thanks everyone

It's good to see you are focusing so much on the content.. its shows you care about the customer and are interested in giving them their money's worth but as for affiliates one of the most important factors they look out for is the sales page. Your sales page needs to convert.. if it doesn't or if they feel it won't then no matter how good your ebook is few people will sell it for you.. yep.. just my 2 cents.

When selling ebooks online I have made a lot of money, but I stay away from using affiliates. I feel it's better to have 1 huge mega website, that covers many categories and subcategories. Create a high google ranking in the SERP pages and 1000's of social backlinks.Also maybe 300 articles on press-release's and then watch your business grow...but keep on it.
Thanks Mr Money Maker

P.S. don't judge my website....it's underconstruction...and I am not posting my other sites.....but I do know what I am talking about.

Yep, the first thing you need to do is work on your own marketing to get noticed. Affiliates don't want to promote the new kid on the block, they want to promote the tried and tested guy who everyone else is promoting.

Even if you can make them more money, they're much more likely to just keep promoting the site they are because they're already doing ok with it.

And Yudi is right, you can use a script to rotate your hoplinks so that your gravity gets boosted a bit. If you're not in a crazily busy niche, you can get up the rankings quite quickly.

And once you're noticed, things just grow from there. Also, you'll learn that the best affiliates are the other vendors in the Clickbank marketplace. So try and get to know those guys.

Ask for an interview, then just chat with them when you can. If you hit it off you'll find that doing JVs are a lot easier than you'd think

Sean