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with regards to commissions. Look at quick start bonuses for example. How about offering 100% commissions for the first month, and then a smaller percentage ongoing afterwards? Quick start bonuses seem to be growing ever popular in the race to have affiliates promoting your product. It's worth thinking about what other types of ways, bonuses, and loyalty schemes for long term affiliates you can bring to life, too. You just might come up with the next big thing. If you're unsure though, it's best just to go with tried and tested methods we're talking about here.

Ok now we're done with setting up the affiliate program itself, and you know how to go about levels, reoccurring systems and percentages depending on your situation, it's time to look at those all important methods of actually getting these affiliates that have signed up to promote for you effectively. Not just once, but over and over again, because lets face it; An army of loyal affiliates means you can keep churning out quality products, and you've got people there ready to promote for you, and that's before you've sent ads to your list, anyone else's or gone in search of joint ventures for the project. Powerful stuff.


We'll do this after a quick summary of what we've just talked about so it's easier to commit to memory. Skip the summary if you don't need a refresher or believe all the information has sufficiently sunk in up to this point.













Affiliate Program Management Summary

? What you won't find here is technical information. What you will find is solid marketing information that's going to make sure that you get the best out of your affiliates, and to demonstrate why this should be one of your highest priorities.

? Let's talk first about affiliate programs and how important they are, and what they'll do for your business. Also how they have a correlation, or even a direct connection to another marketing methods that we'll talk about in a moment.

? So, why do affiliate programs make success much easier to come by? Well, to put it as bluntly as I can, can you imagine trying to sell a thousand units of your product on your own? That'd be pretty harsh on your pocket, and your time in most cases.

? Now, imagine you had a hundred people standing beside you with the same or greater promotion power than you. Can you imagine selling a thousand units of your product now you have a hundred helpers? You've immediately multiplied your promotion power by one hundred times.
? Let me put a scene to you using real monetary terms. You've just launched a brand new product, which happens to be pretty similar to someone you know, Mr. X. You both launch at the same time, but the difference is you've taken affiliate marketing seriously and have 150 affiliates in your system already, where he has none.

? Both of your products are priced at $500, and you both each manage to sell ten products, totally on your own, for a profit of $5000 each. You're about even so far, until your affiliates come in. Of course not all your affiliates are going to be heavy hitters or even promote anything, but lets say for this example, just a measly 10% of them make three sales each in that same month at 60% commissions.

? Pulling out my handy calculator, I

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