Do you really need affiliates for your offer?

This will be a brief reply. I'm far too important for forums, but I'll do you a favour whilst my private Airbus A380 is getting refueled (just off to Brazil to grab a coffee). Consider yourself lucky; furthermore, if you'd like to screen capture this post and frame it above your bed, be my guest.

The affiliate system works. It works for pipsqueak marketers selling 3 glorious pages of "How to Turn Your Pet Sheep Into A Thriving CASH COW!" just as much as it works for major corporations like Lucas Film and Disney. Trouble is, like most things, it only works if you know how to make it work.

We have a saying in the UK: pillock. Loosely translated, it means "a stupid person." Sounds to me that you've encountered a bunch of pillocks. Question is, can you benefit from the experience? I think - yes, most likely, yes, you can. Pillocks they may be, but they may also be an indication of something.

Before you can take a product or service to the affiliate market, you need to ensure you have not only something they can work with, but also (to support that) something (an affiliate program) that can help them. Help them earn money. Help them trust you enough to even bother trying.

What I'd do is chat to a whale, a whale in your niche. A whale? Someone capable of sending volume. Just be straight with him. Tell him your intention to have affiliates and ask what it would take to land him. You'll learn more from that experience than anywhere else.

And why? Because he (or she!) knows precisely what he needs to earn from you, and because he deals in big numbers, those needs mean a lot to him. He goes to sleep thinking about them. Dreams about them. And if you can make him happy, you likely have a decent setup.

Last bit of advice (plane's refuelled and a certain celebrity with a rather big bottom, Kim, or as I like to call her "Waitress," is waving me over): I wouldn't open yourself up to just any old affiliate. If you can, work with a select number whom you trust. Less hassle. And, trust me, a single whale can send as much as 10,000 regular affiliates.

Tchau!

- Tom

im debating this myself


..... i sell downloadable prints for about $10 a pop..

I sell a lot but i doubt affiliates would want to sell my prints for such a low commission..

I could install an affiliate plugin like:

https://affiliatewp.com/

and test, but I haven't gotten around to it..

...you think i should?

-Ike Paz

I agree with Tom Addams...choose quality over quantity when recruiting affiliates.

Using affiliates to sell your products works very well IF you have relationships with affiliates in your niche.

Most of the time spent with affiliates is not about your offer. It is about building relationships. This happens at events, by promoting for them first, reaching out on different media before you ask for the business etc. etc. etc.

Haha Tom Addams that post made my day, reminds me of the The Rich Jerk days, classy but too the point!

Say hi to Kim for me!

It's not hard to gain good affiliates If you're using JVZoo and you have a decent product and promote it right you will get affiliates that are interested in promoting your stuff.

One word of advice though if you go that route. You going to want to fork over a nice money prize to attract the BIG FISH affiliates to really do you some good.

So I would say at least $2k-3k as prize money would be a good start.

Get on muncheye dot com with your product, because this is the main place the BIG FISH hang out looking for new stuff to promote.

Good luck

Ronnie Rokk Smith

This is a fascinating thread...

Anyway, I get your point. It's just unfortunate that you have encountered with these kinds of affiliate marketers. But buddy, there are really good ones out there. It may take time for you to trust an affiliate marketer again, but if you do, show him something about your product that can be of value to both of you.

Well, good luck and wishing you success!

Yes you need affiliates for your offer if you want make your business easier personally me have a about 200 affiliates that promoting my products and pay them from 50% up to 100% commissions.