Create Your Own Affiliate Program

Selling someone else’s product or service is great. Having your own product or service to sell is even better. Having others sell your products or services is best of all!

Creating a product may sound like an overwhelming task but it is actually quite simple. You can take your teleseminar, record it, transcribe it and now you have a digital product! You do several of these and turn it into an ebook.

My absolute favorite is video tutorials. They are easy to make. Since a friend recently introduced inexpensive software, you can make these videos for nothing.

Why You Want Your Own Affiliate Program

How many people can you reach with your own promotions? Let’s say that you could reach thousands of people. An affiliate program will let you reach tens of thousands of people. The affiliates will tap into pockets of people that you never would have reached.

Affiliates are essentially an army of salesmen selling your product. They do their own promotions. Each affiliate will have a different strategy. Some will specialize in articles, others will focus on PPC ads and other will write articles. Every effort to sell your product is effort you didn’t have to expend. Every sale they bring in puts money in your pocket.

What Affiliate Program Should You Use

There are numerous options when it comes to affiliate management software. You must use some sort of software to track affiliate sales and commissions. This is one job where you cannot do it manually!!

Your affiliate program should provide automated sign up and provide affiliate links. It also should track impressions, clicks and sales, as well as track all commissions earned.

The affiliate should be able to sign into their account and view all their statistics, select a variety of banner and text ads and change their own contact information as needed. The more automated the system, the more smoothly it will run.

Not all programs are the same. You really need to understand all the costs and charges before you commit to a program. It is also important to make sure you will get good customer service. Read user reviews before settling on a product.

Wanting you to succeed,
Linda
PS You can make products numerous ways. I make video tutorials. This easy software makes creating screen capture videos a breeze.

Do you know these five things you can do today
to promote your affiliate product?

5 Ways for FREE Promotion

1. Blogging is a free way to promote affiliate products. If you are already blogging it should be easy to talk about the product you are promoting. Personal experience with a product gives credibility to your recommendation.

2. Articles can be used to promote affiliate products. You write an article that talks about the benefits of the product and your own experience. Make sure the article is informative and not a sales letter. Put you link in the resource box and submit your article to article directories.

3. Send an email to your list. You can set up a list for free through Yahoo. You can start a list with an opt-in box. Tell your list about your product and why you like it.

4. Forums are another way to promote your product. If you participate in a forum on a regular basis and the rules of forum allow you to promote a product, go ahead and promote your product.

5. Classified Ads are free with certain providers.

Wanting you to succeed,, Linda

PS Check out Affiliate Traffic Formula by Matthew Glanfield. He is one of the ‘good’ guys who is quite successful and helpful.

If you remember from an earlier post, I recommend starting with products that you know and love.

After you have successfully sold products that you have used, then you should look for other products in your niche. There are many ways to find affiliate products in your niche.

1. Do a search with the name of your niche plus the term ‘affiliate.’ This should bring up several affiliate programs.

2. Search the Clickbank marketplace for products in your niche. If you aren’t familiar with Clickbank, Stephen Pierce has a nice guide that will walk your through all the steps. The Clickbank Guide

3. Allen Gardyne’s site, www.AssociatePrograms.com is a great source for affiliate programs as well as general affiliate information.

4. www.AffiliatePrograms.com provides a list of affiliate programs.

5. Commission Junction, Link Share, and numerous others provide a variety of affiliate programs but if you are new and just starting out, Clickbank is the best place to start.

BOTTOM LINE: Look for the best commission possible.

The commission may be a dollar figure or a percentage. Always look at the cost of the product to determine how much you will make for each sale.

You also want to know how long your cookies are valid and what protection the program offers against click fraud. Look at how much you need to make before the program will send you a check. How does the affiliate program pay? Is it by check, money order, or paypal.

You also need to consider how difficult and costly will it be to promote this product. What is the conversion rate of the product?

Wanting you to succeed,

Linda

PS Every Tuesday night I listen to the affiliate marketing calls. These are available for a limited time.

Sign up now at www.WebTechAffiliates.com

I just listened to a call by Tim Knox on making my own product. It was a great call. He gave a lot of great content on product creation. (I can’t wait to hear him speak at the conference.)

Here is some of the content:
* what type of digital product you need to make
* how long does it need to be
* why you want to give away content
* how to get people to buy from you
* how he made $1,000,000 with an online eBook

If you don’t have a product, you need to listen to this!
Go to www.WebTechAffiliates.com

Give you name and email and on the next page you can listen
to Tim Knox and all the other great speakers

If you want to succeed, go listen,
Linda
PS If you want to learn how to become an affiliate or want
to learn how to have affiliates sell your stuff OR want to
learn about the new opportunities in affiliate management,
you gotta check out this conference. www.webtechaffiliates.com

Have you ever seen an opportunity pass you by because you didn’t believe in yourself?

Have you ever berated yourself because you should have followed your gut instincts and jumped at the opportunity?

Let me tell you… there is an opportunity here and NOW for affiliate managers! This is the time and you may have the skills. Answer these three simple questions:

1. Do you have good communication skills?
2. Can you send emails and make phone calls?
3. Can you follow instructions?

How did you do?

• If you answered ‘no’ on all three, then quit reading now and find another job.
• If you answered ‘yes‘ on one, you have a chance
• If you answered ‘yes‘ on two, you are in the game.
• if you answered ‘yes‘ on all three you are a winner!!

In order to be a good affiliate manager, you have to be able to communicate with the team of affiliates. You have to be able to motivate and encourage them.

In order to get more affiliates then you need to send a few emails and make a few phone calls.

To train your affiliates you have to be able to follow instructions.

Stu McLaren is an affilaite manager for some of the top Internet ‘gurus.’ He gave a lot of good content about affiliate management.

Here is what you need to do:

1. Go to www.WebTechAffiliates.com and sign up to get access to the calls.
2. Once inside, scroll down to Stu’s photo and listen to the recording.
3. Sign up for the Affiliate Marketing Conference. (If you are serious about a career change.)

Wanting to see you succeed,

Linda