Affiliates can be good. If the quality of your product is high. Affiliates will want to promote. But you have to first prove to them it's worth, like good marketing, salespage copy, conversion rates, etc.

And, affiliates typically have high expectations because there are so many good choices out there to promote. So if you think your product is not high enough quality yet, then don't try to mess with affiliate now. Offer it to certain people as a 'review copy' so you can collect positive reviews. Build up some sales first. Then later you can think again about relaunching and pitching to affiliates.

We always give free copies to affiliates who have a proven track record .

We always maintain a diary with mentions of affiliates who have consistently done well in our previous launches.

Just before the launch mostly 5 days ago we email them the copy of our product using our personal email id

Now these affiliates promote our offer because he feels he should do it

Now obviously we do not give free copy to every affiliate because it could be that he is asking for it not to promote it but to have it for free.

You are blowing smoke. You start multiple threads with questions all over the place indicating you earn nothing working online and know little about it....

now you have 'products'?

OP doesn't even have a website, never mind any products. I asked him in the other thread and he ignored the question. He's a dreamer, don't waste your time.

You think he's seriously doing research....feel free to spend your time explaining everything to him.

I say troll.

free copies are the best way how to get more and more customers even repeat customers.
give them offer for free!

Concentrate on creating a product before you worry about giving it away. Cart>Horse

Rose

OK so give em the first course in a series. That will show what to expect as well as wet their appetite for more. Remember the 80 -20 rule that 20% of your aff account for 80% of the profit that comes in. Always try to make a good first impression. Most affiliates are hit every day with multiple offers that are guaranteed to make them money. Sadly, few new products generate green.

Regardless of the intent of the OP . . .

There may be others reading this thread with the same question wondering whether they should give affiliates a copy of the product.

If you know the affiliate, i.e. if he/she has made past affiliate sales for you or if that person comes recommended as a good affiliate by someone you know, then yes, go ahead and give them a copy of the product for their review. It will help them in their marketing of your product.

If you don't know the potential affiliate or have any reason to question whether he will really promote your product, then no, I wouldn't give them a free copy. What I would do if it's an information product is give them a screen shot of the table of contents and I would make a short pdf (could be done in 2 minutes - copy and paste) of the first chapter only. Thus they would have some copy to evaluate my style, spelling, grammar, etc.

You may not want to go to this little bit of extra work but you can spend 5 minutes doing this once and send it to all your affiliate requesters. You never know when one affiliate will bring you lots of sales and become a loyal affiliate bringing you $ thousands long into the future.

Steve

...and if they would visit threads started by others - instead of only their own - they would learn the answers.

It's not that a new member has a simplistic question or two - it's that several new members are doing nothing but starting thread after thread with one conjecture after another - no focus - no background - no real info and many of them are using a proxy to sign up here.

There is more to this than some new person asking questions.

I wonder how long it will take OP to realise that the only people who are "helping" him are those with links in their sig.

Sorry for my english.
I've been creating lot of products which targeting people from my country which is Malaysia. So my product is in my language, not English.

What i always do is - i make 3 different copy for each product.
1. free copy. to collect list. Something practical where user can try first and if they like, they can contact me or buying from me. Gain trust. Make them feel, "this is easy, the full product will be the same i believe."
2. review copy. usually 30% of product.
3. full product (this one is the one give to people buying my product)

Example: Make money blogging
free copy: how to make blog, get free domain. - proof pic
review copy - free copy + more proof pic they can use +swipe files
full - how to make blog until how they can make the first dollar +facebook support group

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I dont think it s a good idea, as this is illegal. I think all products already have a trial time, so you dont even bother about it

That would be a good start, however it would be nice if you will be running a feedback first, remember that there are a lot of people like us who offer the same dish, the only question is what is your edge compared to others.so evaluate first,then decide. Hope for your success

You should definitely give potential affiliates a review copy of your product.

This is a practice used by just about all of the top product vendors, and the reason for it is simple. It's to entice top affiliates to promote their product(s).

There are, of course, other reasons. One of the other major reasons is to allow affiliates to adequately and honestly review your product without having to buy it. This helps the honest affiliates decided what products they are going to promote. A lot of affiliates won't promote products to their list that they don't actually own themselves. This is because they want to ensure that they are promoting products to their list that are top quality and that deliver on their promises.

Giving good affiliates review copies can increase the "buzz" about your launch as well because most successful affiliates with make review videos and/or write reviews about the products they are promoting on their blogs. In other words, it's free publicity for your product.

In addition, you can use this as a tool to find out what areas of your product may need improving upon. You can ask the affiliate to give you feedback as one of the requirements of receiving a review copy. You can also use this as an opportunity to acquire honest and real testimonials for your product.

However, you shouldn't just give out review copies to every "Joe Affiliate" that asks for them. You should check these affiliates out to make sure that they are good at what they do. In other words, make sure the affiliate is actually capable of selling your product and not just somebody who goes around asking vendors for review copies because they want to get free products. Believe me, this happens a lot more than you think.

It's certainly appropriate to ask potential affiliates the following questions before you consider giving them a free copy of your product:

1. Do you have a targeted subscriber list? If so, how many subscribers do you have on your list?

2. Do you have a website, YouTube channel, or Facebook page where you review products?

3. What is the last product you did a major promotion for, and how many copies of that product did you sell in the first week?

4. How long have you been doing Affiliate Marketing?

5. What other vendors have you promoted for, and may I ask them for a reference?

6. How do you intend to promote my product?

7. Have you won any affiliate contests in the past year?


Of course, you can think of others and you can customize them to suit your niche. The reason for this "vetting" process is because you want to get affiliates on board who have a proven track record of making sales.

For instance, I sell a lot of resell rights/PLR products on JVZoo, and I have close to 6,000 affiliates that have applied to promote my products over the last 6 or 7 years. I would say roughly 75% of them have zero sales when they apply and another 15% - 20% have less than 50 sales. What I'm saying is that good affiliates are few and far between. Out of almost 6,000 affiliates that have applied to promote my products, there are probably less than 50 that have made any substantial sales for me.

Understand also that I don't have many of my own original products because I'm mainly an affiliate and not a vendor, but I have no doubt that even the top vendors encounter the same dilemma. That's why it's important to learn a little about the people that you are considering entering into a business relationship with.

Hope that answers your question a bit. Good luck with your launch!

You don't have to give away whole product, part of it will do.