No question, the fastest way to profits is to start
your own affiliate program. You get other people to
promote your business in exchange for a commission on
sales.
Sounds great in theory, but your affiliate program
will fall flat if you don't have a simple training program
for affiliates. Follow these five steps to make your
affiliate team a streamlined money-making machine.
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Work hard to get all your affiliates
to put your link on their site and/or in their email.
This sounds rudimentary, but it is by far the most
difficult part of getting your affiliate program
off the ground. Despite good intentions, 80 percent
of those who sign up for your affiliate program
won't get around to putting your link on their site.
They are busy people and you will need to politely
remind them three, five, even seven times. Send
your reminders in the form of a free report showing
them how to promote the opportunity, a monthly newsletter,
or occasional email updates on how well the affiliate
program is progressing.
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Show your affiliates the magic of good ezine advertising.
Pick out a handful of good email newsletters that
let your affiliates place an ad for $15 to $40.
Busy affiliates will find this more attractive than
spending hours placing free ads and getting discouraged.
Send them to E-
zineZ.com, and BestEzines.com,
for info on ezines.
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Write, or have someone write for you, several
ads and sales letters your affiliates can use. Put
them on your website and have them available via
autoresponder. Be sure to remind affiliates that
spamming is forbidden. You may need to clarify what
spamming is to new affiliates. Most affiliate spammers
do so unintentionally because they are new and simply
don't know any better.
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Design some banners your affiliates can place
on their sites along with simple instructions for
linking them. You can get excellent free banners
from Zy.com and NetStudio.com.
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Develop a web page with your sales letter on
it. Offer individualized pages to your affiliates.
Many people find this the best and easiest way to
promote an affiliate program. If you have a few
dozen affiliates, you can make your pages manually.
For larger affiliate operations, check out one of
the many replicated page systems available. By creating
your own affiliate training program centered on
these five steps, you can avoid common pitfalls
and put your affiliate program in high-earnings
mode.
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