Affiliates: Answer Me This?

It depends on many factors - Can you trust or verify that person? How good is the product? How good are the conditions?.. etc. etc. But first question I'd ask - how did they find you and why they chose you? )

If I am selling a similar product and they are offering more money, a deeper funnel, a review copy, higher epc rates that they have experienced from ppc, email series you can plug in a autoresponder, rebrandable books then I might consider.

I know there are many factors... obviously, the email would point out a few things about the product, and why it should be promoted... but I am wondering if anyone would simply be annoyed by being contacted in that fashion, or if that is a good approach to use in contacting affiliates to begin with?

You did say something interesting, though, about "how" a person found you and why they chose you. I didn't think that someone would want to know that... but does knowing that from the first email help more in the consideration?

Perhaps to maybe explain where I am coming from....
It reminds me, maybe, of newcomers to IM, who will PM or Email someone who they feel may be making money, with messages like "Can you show me what you are doing, so i can do it too"...type thing...

Does it feel the same way on the reverse end of things... being the one contacted to promote someone else's thing... does it maybe feel like that?

I am trying to figure that out.



I have been trying to convince someone else about the email series and the automatic plug and play; and how that is more appealing to an affiliate, whether they are new, or are seasoned...

The re-brandable book theory is interesting... that is new light for me. Are you talking about an excerpt of a book, or a smaller report, that leads back to an affiliate URL near the end (or somewhere in between)? Or are you literally referring to an entire book?

(My mind gets really big with ideas, so I could see both of the above working...)

I get a couple of these a week. It doesn't annoy me at all. I must say that I rarely consider them. I think it depends on the affiliate and how committed they are to what their doing. There is a whole science to attracting big affiliates. I have heard that some people can be touchy and that it is important to contact them in the correct way. If you are really interested in learning how to get successful affiliates check out the JV attraction formula or work with an affiliate manager. You may find it worh the investment.