A first-time seller recently emailed me and asked if she had a pop up on her site, would her affiliates lose out on their commissions if the customers bought through a link in her follow-up campaign.
I assured her that the affiliate network you’re using (ClickBank, ShareASale, etc.) gives each affiliate their own link to use [...]
FACT: Affiliates aren’t going to buy every product they work with.
So, if half of your affiliates have never read or used your product or services, would they be able to describe it correctly? Do you provide enough info about your product on your pitch page and ‘Affiliates’ page that they could [...]
So I’m on Google the other day looking for a local place to rent a mailbox (I just moved to Fort Worth, Texas and have no clue what’s around here) and an ad at the top of the sponsor ads on the side catches my eye. EarthClassMail.com. The catchy name sparked my curiosity [...]
Let’s face it… affiliates are money-grubbing weasels who will ditch you in a heartbeat if something better comes along. But there are things you can do to keep your affiliates (and maybe steal your competitor’s affiliates in the process!):
Do Better Than Your Competitors. Have:
a better site
better sales copy
a better offer
better free bonuses
better tools [...]
“I set up an affiliate program but affiliates aren’t exactly lining up to work with my product. What gives?”
This is why I built Affili-Fix-ation.com – for sellers just like you. Chances are there’s something about your site that turns potential affiliates off, and if your site turns affiliates off, it’s a safe bet [...]
I was looking for a product on a specific topic in Clickbank’s Marketplace recently and saw this in one seller’s affiliate ad:
“No Hint Of Affiliate Program On Sales Page.”
Um… Huh?
Think of a commercial you’ve seen on TV – Travelocity, South Beach Diet, Bowflex, Chemistry.com, NetFlix, Rosetta Stone… even Wal-Mart. Go to their [...]
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I was at this one site a few weeks ago and applied for their affiliate program and later checked my email and saw that they had approved me as their affiliate, but the affiliate link they gave me looked weird so I clicked on it and it sent me to a whole ‘nuther site [an [...]
I was recently at a site and clicked on the ‘Affiliates’ link to go to their affiliate page and it said to call an 800 number to join their affiliate program. Huh?
SouthBeachDiet.com’s affiliate page says to join their program, send an email to… What?
And then there are all the programs that make affiliates [...]