How To Attract Super Affiliates

Dec 12, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing

So you have completed your digital product, set-up your sales page and elected to have affiliates promote your product for you. There a lot of products on the market in every niche vying for the attention of affiliates. These are four keys I have found to be beneficial in attracting super affiliates to promote my products.

First you could have a two-tier affiliate plan. This gives your existing affiliates incentive to recruit new affiliates. This is the same thing a multi-level payments. You pay affiliate A – 50% percent of everything he or she sells. Then affiliate A recruits affiliate B. Now when affiliate B sells your product you pay affiliate B 50% (first level) and Affiliate A 10% (second level). Of course using this method you may pay more in commissions but your costs are much lower. You just had to pay the cost necessary to get Affiliate A. The second advantage to this is not a lot of publishers use this. This could give you a competitive advantage over your competition.

The second way to attract super affiliates is to hold contests. You could create a contest like an extra $500 to the first affiliate who sells X number of products. You could then promote the contest – as opposed to just an open ad for affiliates to sign up. A good way to announce your contest is through internet marketing forums. It is a lot easier to draw attention to the contest and the $500. Make sure you make the contest rules so that anyone can win.

Third, rather than using one of the large existing affiliate marketplaces, administer your own program. Using software scripts that are available make running your own affiliate very easy. This will give you a couple of advantages. First, you can pay your affiliates immediately and directly to their bank. There is no need for them to wait until the end of the month to get a check. Second, you can offer higher commissions, because your not paying any fees to the marketplace.

The fourth thing you can do is advertise your affiliate program. If you use Rapid Action Profits to run your affiliate program you can advertise your affiliate program in the www.DirectPayAffiliates.com affiliated directory for free.