How
To Start Your
Own Affiliate Program
One
of the best ways to promote your product without having
to spend any money on advertising or buying traffic is to
set up your own affiliate program and recruit an army of
affiliates to generate a constant stream of sales for you.
Before
you launch your product you will need to decide whether
you want to use a third party hosted affiliate management
service or an affiliate management script which is hosted
on your own website so you will need to choose which one
best suits your needs.
The
most popular third party hosted affiliate management service
is called Click Bank because it has a built in affiliate
program (so you will not have to install a script on your
website) and it attracts a huge amount of affiliate marketers
who are looking for products to promote on their websites
and to their opt in lists.
The
main advantage of using Click Bank is that when you start
generating sales you will appear in the marketplace which
ranks each product by popularity using the current statistics
for the most recent pay period of 16 days and the most popular
products are placed at the top.
As you
generate more sales your rankings will improve and this
in turn attracts more and more affiliates who are looking
for the latest hot product to promote. If you generate enough
sales to appear on the first page of a certain category
you will attract an army of affiliates with little or no
effort on your part.
The
main disadvantage of using Click Bank is that affiliates
can promote your product without joining your affiliate
program so you will not have their names and email addresses
which you need if you want to contact them about new products
which they can promote or any other information which will
motivate them to advertise your product. This can be overcome
if you insert a subscription form on your affiliate page
and use an auto responder to send the affiliate link.
If you
want more control over your affiliate program you should
consider using an affiliate management script such as JV
Manager which you install on your website. The main advantage
of using an affiliate management script is that each affiliate
will have to create an account so you will be able to clearly
see the affiliates who are generating a lot of sales (which
is useful if you want to tell them about a new product you
are releasing) and see the inactive affiliates who you can
contact to encourage them to start advertising.
Although
an affiliate management script will give you more control
over your affiliate program its better to use Click Bank
because you will not have to spend a lot of time and effort
recruiting affiliates. If your product is high quality you
will attract a huge number of affiliates with little effort
which will significantly increase your sales.
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