Archive for January, 2009

When You Are Building Your Affiliate Sales Force, You Should Keep In Mind The “80/20″ Rule - “20% Of Your Affiliates Will Make 80% Of Your Affiliate Marketing Profits.”

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

This isn’t always the case, but is often close enough, which is why you need to really focus on the quality of your affiliates rather than the quantity of affiliates you have in your affiliate program.
Virtually every affiliate program online today will have people who will sign up for the program, but won’t produce many, [...]

Adding Top Affiliates To Your Affiliate Program Can Lead To Greater Profits For Your Business, But It’s Often Not Easy To Recruit Them Into Your Affiliate Program. Not Only Do They Not Accept Every Proposal That Comes Their Way, They Are Often Very Difficult To Find Online. Fortunately, There Are Ways To Track Them Down So You Can Submit A Proposal To Them About Promoting Your Products.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

While searching for affiliate links to a product’s sales page can be a good way to find many top affiliates, this method doesn’t always work or doesn’t yield many affiliates. As a result, you’ll have to get them to reveal themselves, and the way to do this is to get them to communicate with [...]

Gaining Top Affiliates Is Often Very Challenging, But Surprisingly, There Are Some Relatively Easy Ways To Gain Top Affiliates. The Following Method Is One Way That Is Often Overlooked By Internet Marketers, Mostly Because It Is Almost Too Easy To Do, Yet Is A Very Effective Way Of Recruiting New Affiliates Into Your Affiliate Program.

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Word-of-mouth marketing, or marketing via recommendations from other people, is highly effective, not just for selling products, but also for recruiting affiliates and forming new relationships.
You can recruit new affiliates via this method as well. Just ask your current affiliates to spread the word about your affiliate program and its benefits. [...]

Working With Your Affiliates Is Sort Of A Give-and-take Situation. The Affiliates Are Willing To Utilize Their Time To Promote Your Products In Return For A Sizable Commission Of Each Sale They Make. In Return, You Allow Them To Sell Your Product For A Percentage Of The Sale Price, Which Helps To Spread The Word About Your Product Farther And Faster Than You Could Ever Do Via Your Own Promotional Efforts.

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Another thing you need to realize when building your affiliate program and working with top-performing affiliates is that you have to be willing to sacrifice some short-term profit for long-term gains. For instance, giving more than 50% of the selling price away as commissions to your affiliates is one example of giving up short-term [...]

When You Are Recruiting Top-performing Affiliates, You Need To Present Special Perks Exclusive To Those Affiliates. This Can Include Special Commission Rates For Them (that Are Higher Than Normal Affiliates), Special Offers They Can Present To Their Subscribers And Visitors To Their Web Page (again, That Normal Affiliates Won’t Have The Privilege Of Presenting), And Even Willing To Promote Their Products And Services At A Later Date (something That You Wouldn’t Do For Normal Affiliates).

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

You will likely present many special privileges to these affiliates in an effort to recruit them into your affiliate program.
Make sure you keep track of what you promise them and then deliver on it. Your reputation is at stake here - if you go ahead and promise everything to these top-performing affiliates, but then [...]

To Increase Your Online Profits, You’ll Want To Recruit As Many Top Affiliates As Possible Into Your Affiliate Program.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

There is a right and wrong way to go about recruiting top affiliates. The right way includes writing a proposal that is respectful of that affiliate marketer, mentions some of his/her other products, and emphasizes the benefits the affiliate marketer will get from joining your affiliate program and promoting your product offers.
The wrong way [...]

The Key For Many Internet Marketers To Make Large Online Profits Is To Employ A Large Number Of Affiliates. Often, These Successful Internet Marketers Will Have “super Affiliates,” Or Experienced Affiliates Who Are Very Knowledgeable In Promoting Other People’s Products, Resulting In High Conversion Rates, And Thereby, Large Profits, For Both Themselves And The Product Owners.

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Therefore, a major key in increasing your online profits is to gain more affiliates, and specifically, more super affiliates. First, though, you have to find those super affiliates. That can be a challenge for those not well-versed in Internet marketing.
One way you can find super affiliates is to find blogs or contests that [...]

When Recruiting Top-performing Affiliates Into Your Affiliate Program, You Need To Be Prepared For Rejection Of Your Offer. After All, Top-performing Affiliates Only Have So Much Time And Energy To Devote To Their Marketing Efforts - As A Result, They Cannot Say “yes” To Every Proposal They Receive; Otherwise, They Would Live On The Internet 24 Hours A Day, 7 Days A Week, 365-366 Days A Year. As Dedicated As One Is To His/her Business, Virtually No One Does That, Nor Should Be Expected To Do That.

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

At times, despite your best efforts, your proposals will be rejected by top-performing affiliates. This happens to everyone, and you should not take it personally.
You need to keep in mind that just because a top-performing affiliate said “no” this time around does not mean he/she will say “no” every time you send a proposal, [...]

When Attempting To Find Top-performing Affiliates In Your Niche, It Helps To Do A Considerable Amount Of Research Before You Present A Proposal To Them. For One Thing, You’ll Need To Do That Research In Order To Find Those Super Affiliates, Since They Don’t Exactly Advertise That They Are In Fact Super Affiliates.

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Additionally, though, you need to find out more about them, their sites, how they go about earning those commissions (i.e. do they like to promote high-priced items or low-priced items, what kinds of niche markets do they like to work in, etc.) This can help you greatly in convincing them to join your affiliate [...]