Best Way To Get Affiliates?

Hi Robin, if you don't have any experience in product creation then you must try and recruit affiliates, or you will be very inlikely to gain many if any at all. If you have a reputation and a solid email list of subscribers already then it's a different ball game as your name is out there already as hopefully someone who provides value to others.

Think about it a second from the affiliate's perspective. If you are an unknown quantity and no one knows much about you here or elsewhere then why should they take the risk promoting your product when there are many experienced marketers out there who are tried and tested for creating quality products and can prove they get good EPC's on their launches.

Thus, it is essential to do anything you can to get affiliates interested in your proposition, especially if you were considering launching a WSO. In my case I have been working hard on launching my first product, and I didn't want to do so until I had been a member here for some time and contributed to the forum and gained friends and JV partners. Even then having said that, it is not the main reason I have done so, as I want to gain friends and contacts outside of product launches. It simply comes down to, I have a good idea that I think an help others in a certain avenue and so have put time and effort into doing so, in as user friendly a manner as I can.

I know there are many sellers there with 0-20 posts who do well, it's just not the way I would recommend others to go about it. As WillR and others have said here, you should look at this forum as a means to provide value and assistance to others, build relationships with fellow members and only to launch a product almost on the side so to speak, if you feel you really have something worthwhile to offer.

Once you have gained respect and trust here over some time it is much easier to get affiliates on side I have found, but it still requires hard work and reaching out to others, and even if you have interest in the product you need to follow up with the interested affiliates. In short if you don't actively try and recruit affiliates then you are unlikely to succeed here with your launch.
"Fail to prepare, prepare to fail".

Good luck
Joel

Depends on your product offering. Joining websites like Clickbank or Plimus can be helpful, but you still have to be active.

Additionally, you can even join affiliate forums and make some connections that way

Best of luck!

Joel,

Thanks..I was about to post the same question. I'm having a great product being created and will have EPC and conversion #'s after some PPC testing..once they are solid I'm hoping to attract some affiliates to get some traffic going. If I can be helpful to you in any way just reach out

I bought a wso last week that goes over this. I have already recruited 20. PM me I can give the link.

I am going to share with you something I learned from Ewen Chia who is one of the most successful internet marketers in the world. I got this from his book.

In your affiliate program, once you get a customer, give them a chance to join your affiliate program right after you get them in as a customer. This is very true when it comes to money making opportunities online.

All those guys and ladies who have 100's and 1000's of affiliates, this is the way they did it.

The first thing is you have to be active in a community weather it's WF or some other group. Talk to lots of people and become friends with many other marketers.

It takes a special person with "Leadership" qualities to help properly promote a product. If your not that kind of person than you should JV with someone that is

“How do I build an army of affiliates that will want to promote my eBook?”

Here are the 3 steps:

01. offer an awesome product that affiliates want to promote
02. build an affiliate program that comes with useful sales tools (i.e. banners, email swipe files, product reviews, text links, email messages, blog posts, a killer sales page, product affiliates can use to attract leads, tc.)
03. Actively recruit a large # of affiliates by using clickbank, leveraging social media, your email list, and industry associates.

Thank you everyone for all the help!

It seems like the overall consensus is to really make the connections necessary just by being active in various forums and get the affiliates from these connections.

I was wondering, however, if anyone has used a JV Broker and how that worked out for them.

Thanks
Robin Danielsen

I have a yahoogroup of over 4000 people looking for online opportunities. You can generate such a list too. The key is to keep advertising and give them a reason to sign up.

An awesome product - a 100% comission rate always help to.

Holding sweet little competitions for your affilates.

The top sellers get such and such, might be money or tickets to go see something.

One effective way to recruit affiliates is by using offliner marketing.

1. Get some test data so you can show good results... epc etc... prove it backs out well.

2. Make different landing pages, banners, email creatives etc... everyone likes something different and no affiliate cares what you like or thinks works best! lol

3. Search for affiliates websites, all the big guys have one. Then just call them! Don't email unless you cannot get a number or cannot get through to them.

- When talking to them, don't be afraid to joke around, half of them will swear and say all sorts of things because they make a ton of money, many sit around at home and play video games, hang with family, wear pajamas all day and eat ramen, are college kids, seriously they come from all walks of life... BUT the other half will have office space and secretaries and the like, so try and feel out which camp they are from. Being someone they like is JUST as important as having a good offer. There are many good offers, why should they choose yours? Because you are their buddy ol pal! That's why!

4. Lastly, if all else fails, offer pre-payment... all affiliates go for that! Just make sure you deal with reputable people and sign papers! Don't spend money you can't afford to lose! Some affiliates WILL screw you over if you deal with enough, you WILL hit a bad apple eventually, especially if you are paying up front. So keep that in mind.

ALSO: Side note, be very firm with what traffic you will accept and what countries you accept etc. Some affiliates will try to squeeze you till you are unprofitable, they don't care. So know what details you will not bend on and know the limit on any latitude you are willing to negotiate. Feel free to play hard ball though and tell them, you already have someone running way better traffic and you just want to give them a shot because you heard they were great, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered. OR other similar things if they start to get out of line with their requests. Don't seem needy.

Hope that all helped!

Robin, if you plan on listing it as a WSO, don't really mention anything specific to affiliates about the product or give them access. They will leave positive reviews on the front page of your thread anyway to drive sales. So that would be a waste of time...

This is no longer just 'listing your product in the WSO section of the forum'...

You're LAUNCHING... it needs to be a big extravagant event that takes weeks/months to plan.

Here's the way it's commonly done these days:

1) Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre-Launch Mode: send PM's to everyone you think has a list saying you're in 'product development' mode and should be done with it in a few weeks. (Buy one of their products first so they feel obligated)

2) Pre-Pre-Pre-Launch Mode: follow up with the people you PM'ed, tell them the product is done, you'd love to have them onboard, and there will be more details shortly.

3) Pre-Pre-Launch Mode: set a date for the 'launch' and a specific time when the thread will go live. Setup your JV page, get in Skype groups and Facebook groups and tell EVERYONE about it. This is also where you announce the contest (you're going to need one of those) Here are some suggestions for prizes:

• A minimum of $20,000 in cash prizes
• A space shuttle
• 3 days do anything you want with prostitutes in Vegas (all expenses paid)
• A car (hot rod, vintage, or exotic)
• TV's and/or Jewelry
• A memory foam mattress

Affiliates get 100% of the frontend dimesale (which contains at the most a 10-15 page PDF throwing out general statements and talking about the OTO's) and 60-100% of your 4 OTO's

4) Pre-Launch - You list it, but no one can buy yet, it goes live tomorrow build a small list.

This will get you affiliates...

(of course I'm joking, but sometimes there's more truth in jest )

Nice one, Mark!

You know the ironic thing? Mark alerted me to this thread in one of those evil JV skype groups we both belong to, lol.

Mark is right, though. I get the feeling that not many people actually just browse the WSO section these days. Most traffic will be sent to specific offers by affiliates with a list that fits. This really means that bumping WSOs is a bit of a waste of money, I guess.

PS, If those prizes are not an incentive to build a big list, I don't know what is!

Depends on the affiliate. Some affiliates will come to you, some affiliates you have to give an arm and a leg in order to get accepted to the program and other affiliates will accept anyone.

Joining affiliate programs (clickbank, jvzoo, etc) is a good way to start with gaining affiliates.

However, if you can score a couple of individuals within your niche that has decent-sized lists, or you have access to JV's..then you will gain a lot of traction for your product (providing it is converting well and is of a good quality).

It's not about the quantity of affiliates...rather the quality! Sometimes it only takes 1-3 affiliates to blow sales out of the water.

Just giving you food for thought.

Get the product listed w/clickbank, or another affiliate / cpa network. They always have a base of affiliates who may be interested in promoting the product. Some affiliate networks will even test traffic with the product while having it opened to affiliates.

Guys, I think getting your product in Clickbank, share-a-sale etc is good, but by all means DO not stop there. That will often only bring in trickle affiliates, with just a listing, without buying "placement ads". If your have not time find a JV broker or Affliate recruiter.

Most affiliates market your products when they see them on affiliate networks like Share-a-Sale, Clickbank, Commission Junction etc. Try providing professionally crafted marketing tools to all affiliates. Naturally, generous commissions also attract more affiliates. Some offer a 100% commission to attract affiliates, and then sell other products to the people who make that first purchase.

EASY.

Make a list of all the forums/blogs related to the industry/niche your in. Once you have done that grab all emails contacts or contact url pages for those sites. Contact each site individually offering them a free sample of your product in exchange for a promotional post or if they would become apart of your affiliate program. If your just starting off, you might want to make the incentive more lucrative to your first affiliates, instead of 10% of every sale, find out what would they be comfortable with for promoting your stuff.

I SAY THE FOLLOWING BECAUSE, your product is new, your new, or your just starting out. Most affiliates don't want to offer crap to their audience, so offering them your product first to check it out is great. Also, if you really don't have the cash to purchase ad space and promotions, giving your affiliates 50% or bargaining a split price for your product sales sometimes is not a bad thing.

You are getting your product to the eyeballs you want.
-On the backend your grabbing their info on your mailing list for your next product.
-Your creating brand awareness through out the community your interested in.
-Building your reputation
-Building partners with your community gatekeepers
-Establishing your self as a guru/expert in the field

All of that does great things for you and your NEXT product. Most people always want their first product to be the bread winner, but in reality that type of thinking is short term, you should think long term.

THEN, if everyone in your niche is promoting your product because they are going to get an awesome percentage for selling it, other webmasters are going to see this as well.

THOSE other webmasters then will be interested in promoting your product as well, because they see all the other guys are doing it, so it MUST BE WORTHWHILE.

BUT when you have already got the primary affiliates doing work for you, you can setup a different affiliate program for the breed of webmasters now interested in promoting your stuff.

So this does 2 things....
1) Your primary affiliate promoters feel special because you gave them an AWESOME PREMIUM which equals = good business = established relationship = promotions for your next product at a lower rate preferrably.
2) Split more reasonably at the price you wanted in the first place, and just more exposure.

There you have it. Cheers

Interesting post this is exactly what I was just about to post myself. Some good advice.

build a list and make your list affiliates. Make offer attractive.

When someone buys, make them into an affiliate.

direct all your traffic to an affiliate joining page.

We do all this, but these days, we hire a affiliate and JV manager. My god, they do not come cheap, but they can get you good results, if you have a good product and know what you are doing with your marketing.

You have to look at things from an affiliates perspective

They only want to send traffic to pages that convert and convert well and they want
to be paid nicely for doing so as well

My advice would be to try and get your epc as high as you can and consider giving 100% commission on your front end product or certainly a very high rate ie 75%

There a number of other things to bare in mind but those 2 things above are certainly the most important when it comes to attracting affiliates

Paul

I usually use facebook groups and use my blognetworks.

If you have a great stats like "visitor conversion" and "dollar per visitor" for your WSO, you should have no problem to get affiliates.

This is what I learn from a guy, if you type in a keyword that is up on rank 1 - 3 and you see that it's a a sniper site. Contact them so you can talk to them about your product and see if they would promote it for you.

The best way to get affiliates is keep the affiliate commissions 90-100%.By doing this,you will have around 30-40 affiliates requesting you to promote your offer.It happened to me in my WSO offline profits system.

Start a blog, get followers, get opt in page....all of this with targeted traffic for your sale.

I joined a network meant where I can apply to multiple advertisers at once.

I would add my product to Clickbank, and also advertise on Clickbank. Do the same on Paydotcom. Promote it to your email list and sections of your website. Also create an affiliate sign up form and submit it to the affiliate directories.

I recommend posting an announcement on the following sites:

JV Point - JVPoint.com
MunchEye – I.M. Product Launch Calendar
Warrior JV

+ plus find the most popular JV groups on Facebook and post your launch there as well.

Cheers!