Affiliates Wanted, 4% conversion so far, 60% Commission, $28.20 Per Sale, non IM niche

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Hi everyone,

I've been building a site all about screenwriting for a couple of years now. It sells a product that helps people to achieve a very powerful dream - a dream they prize very highly indeed.

It's got a couple of hundred pages of sold quality content, two years of solid sales of the main product behind it, lots of page rank (main site 4) an active forum(PR 4) a blog (PR5) and a raft of testimonials.

I've just decided to push my existing tiny affiliate scheme because I really should have done that by now, but there are only so many days in the week.

Last month I lowered the price on my (currently sole) product by c. 50% to $47. I was doing about 1.7% conversions from traffic to sales before this, and to be honest I took a bit of a leap in the dark when I cut the price.

Delighted to say it worked out. I've seen sales leap up. My current figures at this price point are WAY too low to be statistically significant, but for what it's worth over the last month both affiliate traffic and general traffic to the sales page has converted at around 4%. Who knows if that will hold, but it's a great start.

I'm paying 60% per sale on my main product, which is currently working out at $28.20 commission per sale, 180 day cookies, a nice bonus every ten sales, etc, etc - but the main thing is I want to really develop this affiliate side, so I'm going to be on it every day. If people write wanting new resources, or support, branded content, whatever, I'm going to be doing my utmost to fulfill that as soon as I possibly can.

Take a look here:

Screenwriting Goldmine Affiliate Program - Introduction

And, as it's a brand new rollout of this affiliate welcome site - and I've never done anything like this before! - any feedback at all would genuinely be greatly appreciated - if it makes you want to head for the hills rather than sign up I'd LOVE to hear why!

T
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  • Profile picture of the author Thaddeus
    So a few days later I've had a few eyeballs, but not many signups. Which I find a little surprising. I'm new to setting these programs up, but as far as I can see I have everything in place to make affiliates happy - I've obviously missed one or several tricks.

    If you had a look but didn't sign up, I'd love to hear the reason(s) it didn't get you going - either on here or PM?

    All best,

    T
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    • Profile picture of the author ExceedStandard
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      • Profile picture of the author Dhruv_T
        Most of the people won't be interested in an independent affiliate program
        ...as there is no guarantee of payments and we can't see your stats are
        for real or not!

        I, personally, had a bad experience with independent affiliate programs!
        So I guess, trust is the main issue here...

        Why don't you go for something like Clickbank or PDC (a third party
        affiliate network)...you'll get tons of affiliate if your offer is proven
        and converting that well.
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        • Profile picture of the author Thaddeus
          Hmm, would like to demonstrate proof. But I can't go posting up jpgs of the inside of my google adwords account - surely that's against T&C?

          The other consideration is, as I say, I'm not trying to mislead anyone - I'm quite open about fact that though these conversion rates have held for a while by my own reckoning, the verifiable (ie adwords charted) sales are too low so far to be statistically relevant - (had about 40 sales).

          Product is actually in Clickbank, has been for a couple of weeks, but take up has been slow (Is that because it's not an IM product I wonder?) There's just been a hundred or so hops so far, no sales - and of course a large amount of those hops are from affiliates testing their own links as far as I can see, plus quite a few (not all) of those hops come from very low quality sites which I wouldn't expect to convert particularly well.

          Conundrum. How does anyone gain trust? Is it a matter of knowing the person apart from their affiliate program? Guess it's a slow reputation building thing.

          Thanks for the reply btw.
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          • Profile picture of the author footpod
            Hello mate, Being in the UK, I will sign up (and borrow some of your affiliate sales page btw also...) I have PM'd you some feedback...
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            • Profile picture of the author CaseWhitney
              Used to do screenwriting in college, would like to be an affiliate in this niche.

              Concerns are indie aff program, no "proven" conversions, 42 day payment waiting.

              Strong on product, site reputation, 180 day cookie.

              I'll sign up and test out building an affiliate campaign for 30 days.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thaddeus
    Good point in the PM footpod - I've addressed it I hope - take a look when you get a second.

    Case, thanks for those comments - point taken.

    Had hoped using brand affiliate software like iDevAffiliate would help your first concern - is there anything else you can think of that would help you out there?

    Re. lack of proven conversions, well, I don't really know what I can do about this - I guess you only ever get this kind of proof with Clickbank and similar? When we get going I can put a lot of testimonials up I guess, but it's still early days.

    The 42 day payment waiting is interesting - that's my own concern re trust showing - I was originally going to do next day payment of commissions, but then I started thinking someone could join up, run a bunch of 'sales', pocket the commission then demand refunds. Am I being paranoid? Would next day payment of commissions be a major incentive for people to sign up?

    And thanks for signing up you two - let me know if you need anything - branded PDFs etc - let's see if we can make some money...
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