Setting up a professional affiliate program - advice?
I'm in the process of setting up a website with an associated affiliate program and I need some advice with regards to tracking and payouts.
The product that's going to be sold is highly sell-able and currently totally unique. For the first month or so - until competitors inevitably show up - there won't be anywhere else potential clients can go for an alternative quote and I'd like to maximize my gains during this period.
By that I mean that I don't want to be advertising any fixed prices on the website. I want my leads to contact the company for a quote based on their specific requirements.
Ok, so, if I do this then how can I prove to successful affiliates what the client has ultimately paid for the product? I would like to implement a pay-per-sale percentage based system with levels that increase the percentage for repeatedly successful affiliates, however I'm not sure if this might be the best approach to take in the beginning.
If any professional affiliates read this would you mind sharing your thoughts with me on it? Additionally, if you could tell me what your preferred type of affiliate program is I'd really appreciate that too. You know, what would be your ideal program, what sort of payout do you prefer? Fixed rates? Percentage based?
I've seen the power that's in affiliate marketing if it's done right and I want to do it right, to offer an attractive program that pro affiliates will be able to make great use of, a program that will draw the best efforts from my affiliates, which will ultimately land more customers at my door than I can handle.
Any advice any of you can give me with regards to this will be very much appreciated. Thanks for reading.
Alan
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travlinguy -
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