Offering 100% Commission to Affiliates?

Most of the stuff I promote from RAPbank pays 100% commission

I have never promoted such a product, but have seen such schemes. The goal here is always to make the email list. About your question of whether affiliates will get kicked about 100% commission or not - i think it will totally depend on the commission amount this 100% translates to.

At the end of the day, its a game about the cost spent on acquiring that user commission as compared to the commission itself.

Cheers
~V

I think many do.

Even ClickBank does, now, though it's done a strange way, through some new gadget of theirs.

Astonishingly, many affiliates actually seem more interested in percentages than in prices. "Go figure".

These conversations, in forums, about "attracting/pleasing affiliates" are something of a minefield. If you ask any high-volume vendor/merchant, they'll tell you that 5% of their affiliates make 95% of the affiliate sales. (If you ask a slightly less high-volume vendor/merchant, you'll hear "10%" and "90%" instead). There really are, broadly speaking, two radically different groups of affiliates available. When you invite opinions, naturally, you tend to hear from the huge majority who don't make many sales (just because there are far more of them). It's one of those situations (there are actually several of them, in internet marketing, for various different reasons in each case) in which the consensus of opinion is always likely to be fairly mistaken and misguided.

My own opinion, if you're interested, is that commission percentages will typically be only about 7th on the "mental list" of about 10 things that serious, professional affiliates will take into account in selecting products to promote. Those to whom it's "the most important thing" aren't going to make many sales for you. The sales page and the product itself are far more important.

Good luck!

I believe JVzoo is another network you can check out and it's straight into your bank account which is always nicer than waiting.

Complete tangent but the other day I received payment from a vendor who uses affiliate software where I believe the payments are a manual procedure. Users of this software usually have payment runs monthly (or weekly if you're doing large volumes).

The fact that this vendor has shifted towards paying the commissions instantly via PayPal (I think) is purely to motivate affiliates like John said.

The 100% commission tag is a mind thing. Most affiliates get greedy, and may not even realize that sometimes, a lower commission percentage may actually be more profitable.

But for vendors, offering that is probably the fastest and easiest way to attract affiliates

Personally I do not allow affiliates to sell my products unless they purchased them and use them themselves on at least one website. Also, I drive targeted traffic to their sales pages at my own expense.

The two main reasons I do that is because:
1) I build a list of 'vested affiliates'.
2) I build an 'affiliate empire' under my own companies control that produces an 'residual affiliate income'.

Alexa is 100% correct about the commission being just one factor to attract affiliates. In my own case the most important factor is a two fold 'vested interest' wherein the affiliate is vested in my company and my company is vested in the affiliate's company.

When an unknown product owner approaches me to join my own network the first instrument on the table is the owner's plan. In the end the commission is determined by the plan.

Example. An owner's plan may be to promote the product to my lists and via RAP. Nope! RAP does not work into my affiliate business model at all, so the owner's plan is off the table. Why? I have no control over RAP, so I will not vest my money and resources into anything I have no control.

The keyword is 'control of the investment'.

Jeffery 100% :-)

I think many will a raise doubt on 100% commission - particularly the veteran affiliates. Because normally it is not paid by the merchants. But in most cases it is the brand that an affiliate is more interested in than the commission rates. I do not think just 100% commission magic will work. But it will work if you can talk to the promising affiliates and justify the earning opportunity you are going to offer them.

Thanks

I'm planning the launches of a few 100% commission products in the not-so-distant future, as I think this is a great way to build a list quickly. Obviously, though, you have to be willing and able to invest the time or resources up front in order for this to be a viable option.

I definitely think affiliates love a product that pays 100% commissions. How could they not? I've even heard several members around the forum say that they have a hard time resisting products with 100% commissions. Think about it from the perspective of an affiliate. 100% does have a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

You can find tons of products that offers 100% commission here in WarriorForum. They might not expensive as you think like Clickbank products but they can easily be sold.

Most products have $9-$27 price and you'll get the sale one you sold it. But of course you have to apply first as affiliate at WarriorPlus.

WSPro on WarriorPlus has regular offers of 100% affiliate commissions. Yes you have to pay to join but very little and you get to promote a lot different WSO's. Plus I think it's a good place to meet marketers and possibly JV outside of WF with 100% aff commissions.