Thoughts on promoting HOT physical product with no afilliate link ?

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Hey folks.


I have just found a really hot 'physical' product I really should promote.
BUT !

there are NO afilliate sites to promote this product through.
and many outlets don't have facility to purchase via thier website!

Any thoughts on how to go about driving traffic AND most important ..tracking sales made from my referals ?

Cheers guys.
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  • Profile picture of the author ankur sharma
    well, use your own website to collect money. Then wire transfer them and let them manually process it. See if you can automate this stuff. Its like getting money online and then handling it over to offline people.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Faber
    You can contact the vendor and explain to them how affiliate marketing works, then point them to an appropriate affiliate program such as Linkshare, Shareasale, or CJ. It is surprising that this situation still exists, but it does. Many merchants are completely unaware of affiliate marketing, or if they are dimly aware of it, they're not aware they can do it themselves.

    I have had the same situation as you're facing now, and that's what I did. Depending on the affiliate program, you can sometimes even make money for referring the vendor.
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    • Profile picture of the author steverich
      Cheers Guys,

      Ankur, I thought that BUT sounded like a LOT of work without automating the whole 'collect payment, deduct comission, transfer money and forward order' (which I couldn't do myself)

      Steve, I have contacted vendors and suggested afilliate options but these guys seem to know they onto a good thing and can't be bothered !???
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve Faber
        Originally Posted by steverich View Post

        Cheers Guys,

        Ankur, I thought that BUT sounded like a LOT of work without automating the whole 'collect payment, deduct comission, transfer money and forward order' (which I couldn't do myself)

        Steve, I have contacted vendors and suggested afilliate options but these guys seem to know they onto a good thing and can't be bothered !???
        That seems like bad business to not be bothered to increase your sales staff for next to no cost. There are some reasons they may want to avoid this, though. They may be happy with their income level now, and don't want to increase customer service, be bothered policing affiliates, and so forth. It's also possible they're selling all of the product they can produce now, and increasing production is not a viable alternative for them.
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