Getting affiliates to promote your product works well for those on a limited
advertising budget, as you don't have to pay any out of pocket fees. All you have
to do is pay a commission on sales – that means you never pay a penny until
you're already making money. Even big businesses with deep pockets use affiliates to help promote their
merchandise. The reason is because this method is particular powerful and can
work very quickly. You can line up affiliates starting today and they could be
selling your wares in matter of a few hours or days.
The other reason this method is so powerful is because in most cases the
affiliate is a trusted third party who's recommending your products to their visitors
and their newsletter or customer lists. If you want to know how powerful this is,
just think of Oprah. When she suggests a book on her show, the book becomes
a best-seller over night. People trust her and buy whatever she suggest.
Now it's unlikely you are going to get Oprah to recommend your site, but that's
beside the point. The point is that there are plenty of affiliates out there that have
massive, responsive lists – and when they recommend your products to their
lists, their subscribers buy.
Setting Up An Affiliate Program.
If you are going to operate an affiliate program, you'll need to setup your sales
pages manually.
The easiest way to start an affiliate program is to use clickbank.com to collect
payments on your website. You'll also get your product listed in the Clickbank
marketplace by doing this, giving additional exposure to your offer.
To setup a product on Clickbank, you need to enter the details of the product into
your Clickbank account and replace the order link on the sales page with a
Clickbank link.
How To Recruit Affiliates
You can advertise your affiliate opportunity (usually for free) across various
affiliate directories. You can of course advertise your opportunity right on your
own website and in your own newsletter. And of course you can write directly to
potential affiliates and ask them to be your affiliate.
Where do you find affiliates? One easy way is to enter your niche's related
keywords in a search engine, and see what types of related sites come up.
Some of these people may look like your competition as they'll be selling
software too. That's ok! If it's not the exact same software, they'll probably be
happy to promote your products to their list.
You can also search out related blogs, forums, and other places that affiliates in
your niche might gather. Usually they are the ones who own these blogs,
forums, newsletters, and websites.
If you want to attract "super-affiliates", you'll definitely need to be writing to them
personally. Super-affiliates make vendors a ton of money. As such, they almost
never have to search for opportunities, because vendors are constantly writing to
them.
If you come across someone who you think would be able to sell a lot of your
product, you'll need to stand out from the other vendors who are also vying for
the opportunity to work with these affiliates.
That means you need to write a proposal to them that not only makes special
offers to them, but also lists the benefits they'll receive when they work with you.
This is in essence a sales letter, as you're "selling" the affiliate on promoting your
products.
As such, don't talk about yourself because the affiliate doesn't care. Don't use
the words "I, me, mine" and similar words referring to you. Instead, talk about
how partnering with you benefits the affiliate. Use the words "you, your" and
other words (including the affiliate's name!) that speak directly to him or her.
Now what kind of perks can you offer?
You may want to offer something special to your potential super-affiliate partners.
This generally means one or more of the following: higher commissions (e.g.,
75% instead of 50%), special personalized landing pages, special bonuses for
their members only, etc.
To help your affiliates promote almost any product or service, with minimal cost and
effort, you can create free ebooks branded with their affiliate links that they can
give away to their subscribers.
You can use the Affiliate PDF Brander software to Let your affiliates brand your ebook
with their affiliate IDs and then give away or sell the ebook to others.
This simple but highly effective strategy has already been used countless times to
generate massive sales for all sorts of products and services.
The key to this highly successful strategy is to create a "brandable" ebook, which
affiliates can easily brand with their own affiliate IDs or links. to make this task quick
and easy so that you don't have to do rebrand your affiliate's ebooks manually.
You may also consider an easy-to-use software solution that takes affiliates by the
hand - and arms them with special "affiliate weaponry" to really make an impact online.
Affiliate Commando is a brand new suite of proven affiliate marketing tools, strategies
and tactics that truly work to put more commissions in your pocket.
These sorts of tools and resources have previously by many experienced marketers
but until now were only available at a hefty price.
If you want to make it ridiculously easy for your affiliates and guarantee you make more
sales then you have to give them a variety of material that they can use instantly and
not just a single affiliate link to promote your product.
With "Clickbank Promo Tools Generator" you can now create your dynamic affiliates
promotion tools page in less than 2 minutes.You will have a ready to use affiliate promotion
tools for your affiliates with embeded affiliate links, graphics and popups, all of them ready
for your affiliate to cut and paste into their webpages.
