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How to
choose the right affiliate programs
There
are a lot of affiliate programs out there to choose from.
It’s often difficult to know which are the best programs to
promote. Here are a few tips to help you find the best
affiliate
programs:
Life-time cookies – A really good
affiliate program will offer life-time cookies.
Unfortunately,
some shopping cart systems don’t allow the vendors this
feature,
which isn’t so great for you – the
affiliate. A
life-time cookie means that you will get paid for referring a customer
who makes a purchase through your affiliate link even if they buy at
any point in the future.
When looking for a good program, try to
lookout for those which offer life-time cookies or at least a minimum
of a year. Remember sometimes it takes customers months
before
actually making a purchase.
Training and Customer Service – A good
program will provide training tools and resources for their
affiliates. Ideally, they should have a member’s
area where
you can log in and grab promotional materials, your links and check
your stats and commissions.
Good communication is also important.
If you email an affiliate program with a question and don’t
hear
back from them or hear back from them 2 weeks later, what will it be
like if you ever have an issue with payments or other important
question? A good affiliate program will respond to your
questions
in a timely
manner. By the same token, a good affiliate will make sure
they
read all the provided materials provided on the website before
contacting the program.
Sales Pages that Convert – Before promoting a specific
product,
have a look at their sales page. Does it look like it will
convert into sales? If a sales page is sloppy, has grammar
and
spelling mistakes, or just looks unprofessional, you may not make too
many sales – no matter how good the product is.
Now that you know some of the things you should look for in a good
program, here are a few things you should be careful of!
Advertisements and Google Adsense – If you’re
promoting an
ebook and sending customers to a sales page, be weary of sales pages
with Google ads or other types of advertisement on the sales
page. If you’re working hard to send traffic to
that page,
it’s not fair that your traffic will be used to make someone
else
money through ads (without you getting paid anything in
return).
If you see a sales page with ads on the page, I say stay
away.
You work hard as an affiliate and you don’t want to waste
your
traffic.
High Sales Minimum – Watch out for programs who ask you to
sell a
certain amount before being paid. For example if the
commissions
on a $20 eBook are 10% (that’s $2 per sale) and they ask you
to
accumulate a minimum of $200 dollars in commissions before they send
you payment, that’s a whole lot of books you need to sell
before
getting paid – 100 books to be exact.
Some of these programs operate on the basis that affiliates will
usually not make that many sales and they’ll never need to
pay
out. It’s unfortunate but this does happen, so
always check
payment terms before promoting a program.
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