Most Useful Affiliate Resources?

Start social networking, brand yourself and your product/business. Then use the other resources.
Don't promote your offer directly to people, tell them about yourself, who you are, what you do in, where you from.. Let them say something about your online business, product..

I really like vendors who provide re-brandable ebooks.

A lot of people don't have any opt-in bait, providing them with a quality product they can brand with their link might get them promoting.

It will really depend on what kind of product you're selling and what's going to help your affiliates sell that product the best...the key thing is to make it as easy as possible for your affiliates to promote for you. So if you can include everything you mentioned (some of them shouldn't take more than a few minutes, so why not?)

But when I promote, I like to see at the very least some email swipes and banners. Those seem to be the most common forms of promotions for affiliates so having those resources done is a must.

Then the target market and PPC keywords are good things to have as well, since they help affiliates save some time having to do their own research (anything that saves time, money or effort is always good!)

Including affiliate resources and articles can be a huge help for beginner/intermediate affiliates (as you mentioned, most experienced IMers will have these or do the articles themselves, but we can all still learn a thing or two!)

And with the screen shots and product images, they wouldn't take more than a few minutes to put up there, so why not?

**not sure what you meant by "video download for your site" - does that mean that you have a sales video you would let affiliates download? If so, I'd place that up there under email swipes and banners. We all know video marketing is hot!

Hope that helps a little bit... And best of luck with your product sales!

Camron -

Most of what you've listed won't appeal to the
affiliates who can really help you - I've tried most
of it over 12 years.

I also know that as a top affiliate most of what
I use to advertise and sell is custom.

I do agree with Brent. And I'd chop that 70-80 pages
into 3-5 shorter chunks, if possible. The video would
be great too.

The least valuable thing on the list, IMHO, is affiliate
training - lots of work to setup and any affiliate that
needs it is extremely unlikely to be helpful.

Your time and effort is best used directly reaching
out to affiliates that can help you - high traffic sites,
and/or sites building lists. If necessary, they'll
tell you what they need.

All the best to you - X

I'll chip in with my opinion, though it's not going to be a representative one. (I'm a full-time affiliate marketer - mostly ClickBank, also Amazon and a few other specific in-house things).

Not much use to me: I rarely even take the ones the vendor might provide.

Useful for Amazon; not for ClickBank.

I don't quite understand this one ... where would/should I use screenshots?

I've been known to look at PPC keywords, very briefly, in my original "niche selection process", just to see who's advertising what and for how long and whether it looks like a potentially profitable niche, but not otherwise.

I don't use PPC advertising (I have done in the past, occasionally.)

From the vendor's perspective, affiliates who depend on keywords aren't often going to be the best-performing affiliates, anyway, surely? Search engine traffic doesn't get you far, for affiliate promotions? http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8659398

I always analyze the market, one way or another. This has to be quite a big plus?

I don't touch video (my typical subscribers and customers in 9 different niches hate it, and say so regularly, even without being asked).

I write my own. These generate 80% of my traffic, and 95% of my profitable traffic that's worth having. Clearly very useful to non-writers?

I write my own. But pretty much essential (one way or another) for profitable affiliate marketing. Very few affiliates are making a living without sending out emails. Vendors who will provide an "email series" for their affiliates must be stacking the deck somewhat in their favor (especially if it's any good)?

Of no interest to me. Rightly or wrongly.

With the quality of the product, and the sales page.

I think that this post explains more-or-less what most more-or-less successful affiliates are more-or-less looking for, when selecting products: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

Key concept: it seems to me that aspiring vendors need to be aware that "getting as many affiliates as possible" and "getting as many sales as possible" are two totally different things. 95% of affiliates make 5% of the sales, while 5% of us make 95% of the sales. That small group comprises the people you need to attract. A sales page that appeals "to the highest number of affiliates" won't be the sales page that converts well, and it will very often be a sales page that will put off the 5% of affiliates you most need and want. In my opinion.

I agree unreservedly with the statement from "X", just above (who knows plenty about this subject!), that your time and effort is probably best used directly reaching out to affiliates who can really help you.

I'd advise you against simply "trying to get as many affiliates as possible". That doesn't equate to making as many sales as you can.

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Thanks for all the answers and being so helpful.
I haven't figured out how to do multiple quotes from differnt people here on WF so please excuse me if I copy paste your posts.

@ mdrosenkrans ("**not sure what you meant by "VIDEO DOWNLOAD for your site" - does that mean that you have a sales video you would let affiliates download? If so, I'd place that up there under email swipes and banners. We all know video marketing is hot!"
==> precisely that.

@moneywithtim: ("Simply, great landingpage with a smaller X minute video is more useful for me! ")
==> Are 3:49 minutes of duration for a sales page video ok? It's been speeded up 400% because originally it's more than 13 minutes..

@Alexa Smith: "3 Screenshots I don't quite understand this one ... where would/should I use screenshots?"
==> I thought IMers who write their own articles could insert an image of the course here and there in their articles.

@Alexa Smith: "With the quality of the product, and the sales page."
==> I've studied your posts very well and, heck, I hope that my affiliate program stays under the radar.
Also I am going to make it more difficult for those affiliates who rely on SEO ebooks^^

@ everyone here on Wf:
How can I make sure that the successful 5% find my product and promote it given to have a great product, sales page, reputation, and no mistakes like an opt-in or popup on the sales page, no hyped sales page.

Will they automatically find my program because it's not an IM product and with low gravity?

For me :

- PPC
- Social Media
- Informative Articles

These three are best resource for me to generate good revenue.

It sounds like you are listing a product on CB and want to provide these resources to your affiliates? If thats the case I would think the more you can provide the better. As Alexa mentioned in here niches her customers hate videos. That's in HER niches, there are plenty of niches that love videos.

I would provide as many resources to your affiliates as possible, unless you are 100% sure that certain things will just not help the affiliates. Everyone has their own way of promoting products, so I wouldn't do anything to hinder them. Give them the tools and let them use them.

Start with social and get know some people, and let them know about your plan. You will find people love to help. Far as articles I use,http://hirewriters.com/ You can get some good articles there for a fair price.
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