How to create an affiliate program for my graphic designing service????????

Considering that Graphic Design is a service and not a product, only thing I can think of is a brokering (or referral) service. If you choose to go that route, beware of people who will approach you asking for free work with the false promise of referring lots of clients...that's always BS.

You have 3 options :

1-If you own a WordPress blog/site, use WordPress plugin for affiliate recruitment, management and tracking you can find it here WordPress Affiliate Platform Plugin (I am not associated with this website so use it on your own risk)

2-List your product on affiliate plataforms as : Warriorplus,jvzoo,clickbank,e-junkie..etc

3- Run your own affiliate program script ..google it

Hi Think More. I own DigiResults.com one of the biggest instant pay affiliate networks and as such I've worked with a load of people to set up their affiliate programs. They're more commonly used by product creators but service based businesses that have a standard offering can get great results from it as well.

First of all, understand that it's not a technology problem you're facing. Setting up an affiliate program is a couple of hours work max on any number of different platforms (my own included). But once you have that, you'll have the ability to track and pay commissions but you won't have affiliates and that's what it's all about.

If you're planning to offer an affiliate commission on your service, then the first thing you'll almost certainly need to do (and this is true of just about anyone in your spot) is raise your prices *gasp*. Most people charge the absolute rock bottom price they can deliver the service for and thus leave no margin for advertising (affiliate marketing is a form of advertising).

Let's say you're happy to work for $20 an hour and it takes you an hour to produce an ecover graphic, including talking to the client, getting the spec, making amends etc. If you charge $20 then your margin for advertising is zero. You'll pick up a bit of low hanging fruit because you're cheap and a bit of networking will easily bring in some clients, but you'll quickly find it doesn't scale.

If you double your prices and start charging $40, all of a sudden you have $20 per client to spend on getting them through the door in the first place. You'll lose some of your existing clients and some of your existing funnels won't work so well but the amount of new business you'll be able to bring in with the increased margins will more than make up for it.

If nothing else, you can offer some one $20 for every paying client they refer and that'll go a long way to kicking things off.

On the subject of referrals, understand that they are your most powerful source of new leads with a program like this. Set up a process such that as soon as you've delivered work to the satisfaction of each client you immediately follow up to ask for a testimonial and ask them to refer new clients, offering them the $20 per client for each referral made.

The alternative option, is to set up a product lead gen funnel to get yourself new clients. Create something that your average client wants and then sell that for a high commission, making your money on the ecovers you deliver on the backend.

Eg you could create a series of photoshop action scripts that help people produce ecover graphics themselves. Sell it for $19.95 and pay 100% commission on it.

Then upsell your done for you service, for which you keep all the money.

Cliff notes -

1 - This isn't a technology problem it's a people problem
2 - If you're charging rock bottom prices, there's no margin for advertising (which affiliates are)
3 - Charge more and pay the margin as commission
4 - Create a front end product, pay 100% commission on it and then upsell the service.

the easiest way is to put your stuff up at the market place at Graphics River

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