Hi Daniel,

The short answer is "by having a quality product with a sales page which successful affiliates (that's about 5% of all ClickBank affiliates) feel will probably convert their traffic, and to which they're willing to send their subscribers/traffic". You need proven conversions of targeted traffic, before you start looking for affiliates, because finding them and retaining them are two different things, and it would be a great shame to put time, effort and energy into attracting affiliates only to find that they don't stay because they can't make enough money from your commissions..

The longer answers are in these threads, which will also help you ...

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Honestly you will need way more than an ebook to get affiliates to promote your product assuming its in the IM niche. You will need a great converting sales page, high priced upsells and downsells, only thing that is optional is a good product. Unfortunately most big affiliates will only promote stuff that will make them alot of money.

Good luck with your product though, keep cranking them out.

Definately go with the great advice provided by Alexa. Also pay a good commission

percentage of about 75% or more to attract more affiliates. Make sure that your book has

quality and helps others in your niche. Good luc

Draw affiliates to your offer. Make sure you have a fantastic sales copy, great tools for affiliates such as ad copys, banners and keyword lists. Affiliates love up-sells as well such as OTO's. Hope this helps!

Do a Google search for keywords related to your ebook content and look for blogs that review products - you could do a search for "keyword reviews".

Contact the blog owners and ask if they would be willing to review your ebook and that you have an affiliate program. Send them a free copy.

You then get exposure in the search engines as well as affiliates.

You always want to have a link at the bottom of your sales page where people can sign up to your affiliate program. That is one way to get more affiliates.

Your sales page and graphics must be professional too if you want affiliates taking you seriously.

Another suggestion is to actually take every customer that comes in and allow them to sign up to your affiliate program. Make it a part of the whole process and you funnel system right after they purchase. In the back office of your product, put up a banner that shows them your affiliate program.

Daniel, I don't know what structure you intend on having in place, but here's my advice as a vendor. If you plan on selling your ebook through Clickbank, and attracting affiliates, then consider putting up a simple offer page, without any leaks on it (no optins etc) for them to drive traffic to.

If you intend on putting together an authority site and publishing content as a traditional blog and promoting the product yourself, then consider giving your product a different name on Clickbank, than on your authority site. Why? Because once affiliates get hold of it, they'll be blasting your product name EVERYWHERE, and that can potentially cause issues with your brand.

How?

Let's look at my current situation.

I have literally hundreds of affiliates "promoting" my product. 98% of them have NFI what they're doing, with most of them simply copying my site, scraping my site, or duplicating pages. This has hurt MY site in the SERPS, through Panda penalties, because Google is now seeing the same crap everywhere.

Be warned. You say you want affiliates, but do you....really?

If you want to just throw up an offer and pimp the hell out of it, then none of this will apply. If you want to build a real business and a brand, then be mindful of what "attracting affiliates" might mean.

Where do you all buy traffic to test sales conversion? Are solo ads good for this?

Daniel

If you want to attract affiliates... Give them info or
show them where they can get software that will
make them more money. And chances are they'll
promote your product.

solos are good for testing...

You can attract affiliates by offering them some kind of benefit in return for promoting your product. Also you should be offering a high commission on the front-end

I do need critiquing from a different point of view. Am I allowed to post the link to my site here?

Daniel

Thanks for your insight Glen. Anyways, here is my sales page: No Product Profits
If any of you guys could give me some feedback, that would be great.
Also, if I am not allowed to post that link up, please let me know.

Daniel

First of all I think you should increase the commission from 50% to more. It is well known that many successful programs offer 75% commissions, so you're already shooting yourself in the foot I think by setting it at less.

And yes, also in your product description you should have a mention of your affiliate page and provide many things, banners, email series, videos, ebooks, etc.. that can be rebranded and republished.

Must look at this from the affiliate perspective. Why would they promote? I'm sure there are people here who would promote but you need to ensure them how would they profit from it or why would anybody buy the book. How would this book help someone, convince them, convince them more etc. Good wording helps a lot. Start like that and.. multiply everywhere.