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 giving out all the info you can on your sales 

letter for the affiliate program for the sake of 

the affiliates not having to search for important 

information, the time in which between reading, 

signing up and promoting, the time where they're 

most likely to be distracted and leave you without 

their profitable promotion. 

● Sharing so much information straight up alone can 

make you tens of thousands in affiliate sales that 

you wouldn't have normally received. 

● So, we have our affiliates, we've given the 

relevant information already, we've got them to 

sign up, so what's next? Getting them promoting, 

and keeping them promoting is what we need to get 

sorted.

● There are generally two type of affiliates, the 

ones that know how to sell and are going to make 

you money and the ones who don't know how to sell 

and aren't going to make you money. It sounds harsh, but that pretty much sums it up. Keep this

in mind when looking at your affiliate stats. Just

because they have ten thousand hits to their

affiliate link, doesn't mean they know how to

promote, that could have easily come from

guaranteed hits and you'll be getting downhearted

about nothing, when it's actually the quality of

their traffic at fault.

● To solve the problem of those signing up who

don't know how to promote yet or don't have the

resources is not an easy job, in fact, the only

thing you can do to get them to make sales is

educate them. Either by producing your own mini￾guide or searching for an affiliate promotion guide

with re-sell/give away rights, which is always a

good investment to make.

● This can take a long time, however, and you won't

see results straight away. It all depends on their

willingness to learn. You should direct 99% of your

attention to those who already know how to promote,

and make sure they keep promoting and getting a good deal for both parties over multiple products.

That‟s the only way that you'll be able to run a

successful affiliate base.

● Here are some ideas that we put into action and

have already tested. First and foremost are bonuses

for affiliates. What do you think of when I say

bonuses for affiliates? Well you wouldn't be wrong

if you have several ideas because there's a lot of

leeway here. Our aim is to get them selling and

keep them selling resulting in huge profits for

you, the way to do this is to make it in their best

interests to promote your stuff.

● How about seasonal bonuses, an extra percentage

push a few months before Christmas? Look at it like

this, we all want more money at Christmas to buy

our loved ones those extra special presents or

whisk them away for a weekend, and your affiliates

want the same, so give them a reason to earn their

money from your products. ● Bigger bonuses for the whole month, bigger

bonuses for top performing affiliates for example.

In fact this was one of the things that filled my

original site with members.

● I offered the first affiliate to reach 50 sales a

$750 bonus on top of their monthly earnings, and

everyone went for it. I had all sorts of traffic

coming in from all over the place. Now be careful

with this. Don't go offering $5000 at the end of

the month to your top affiliate if you've never

tested this before. What we don't want to happen is

you having to pay 5k out to your top affiliate who

was the only one to make any sales. Go about this

in a smart way, and set a hard target on the number

of sales or amount of earnings needed from an

affiliate to earn the additional winnings. This way

at least you know how much you'll be making with a

particular amount of sales and won't make any big

losses or any losses at all.

● Now I know this might seem a little bit of extra

work, and depending on your affiliate software, it can indeed be a hassle, however, trust me when I

say it's worth it. It's not the difference between

making an extra sale here, it's the difference

between getting affiliates promoting who otherwise

wouldn't, or have stopped and moved on resulting in

who knows how many sales. Five, ten, a hundred,

thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars are at

your disposal. Let‟s make sure we use this.

● Quick start bonuses also work real well. First it

provides a viable option for your affiliates if

your site has a low price (for example, a $27

membership site may offer 100% for the first one or

two months in commissions before moving onto the

regular two level 50/15 commissions). Who wouldn't

join an affiliate program that offers 100%

commissions? That's one heck of a powerful thing to

be able to say about your affiliate program.

● Second, it actually gets people promoting. It's

amazing sometimes how hard it is to get people to

do things. You know how you try your best to get

someone to do something or do a job well, and in

the end you end up saying something like 'Ah I'll just do it myself'. Well this is the job of quick

start bonuses on a deeper level. If you're

attracting affiliates that generally don't promote

very often or haven't promoted before, then this is

another reason for them to choose you.

● The next tip. Send congratulatory e-mails. Your

software should do this for you as standard and

it's one heck of a motivator. Pack in quick and

easy links to the affiliate system and your ads. It

never gets old seeing 'You've got Cash!' or

'Congrats, you made a sale!' as a subject line.

● This is really important, so make sure you craft

your congratulations e-mails and welcome emails

well. Everything should be quick and easy for

affiliates. Some just have lists that they want to

blast your ads out to. Your job is to make that as

smooth as possible. Send them a log in link in the

welcome mail, tell them again how much they'll

earn, give them some small stats and figures, “With

just 10 sales, you'll earn $7000”. Emphasize the second levels, no matter how small. This passive

earning is really important to a lot of marketers.

● I remember about four years back I joined a

membership site and was all ready to go off

promoting for them as an affiliate, then when I saw

the welcome mail, I was told to look forward to an

e-mail soon that would entitle me to extra earnings

promoting the product. Just that wording almost put

me off. I later found out that it was actually

bonuses and top affiliate rewards for the previous

couple of months, but see how that made me wait?

You don't want your affiliates to think twice. This

letter will have them log in, grab the ad and blast

it out. As quick and as easy as possible for them,

with the best possible rewards, means and the

highest amount of additional income for you. Give

it a try. You won't be disappointed.

● This also brings up an even more important point

that I see a heck of a lot. Ever had this? You join

an affiliate program, do a little promotion,

receive your cash or whatever, and before long you're receiving ads because the persons affiliate

program added you to an all out advert list that

they're charging to send to. Way to go annoying

affiliates. I have to admit, some people don't

agree with me here, but as far as I'm concerned,

every affiliate is valuable and should not be

bombarded by ads to buy your stuff. They're there

to make money through promotion, not receive ads

about your brand new piece of software.

Understanding the role of each of your resources is

important.

No ads, just offers that relate to the one thing

they've already told you and show you that they're

good at, and interested in doing, making a whole

bunch of cash for themselves and for you.

● Let's say you've created a guide, and sold it for

$1000, including audio, video, a free consultation

and some DVDs. You make fifteen sales from joint

ventures yourself in the first month, and make

$15,000. Now with 150 affiliates, with just ten

percent of them making two sales each at 50%

commissions, you've just netted yourself an extra…

I'll let you do the math on that one so it really

sinks in how powerful this is.● Affiliate growth is exponential. It's slow at the

start, and gets faster, depending on your joint

ventures, list size and the number of affiliates

you have. Every product, every single piece of

software or information you release relating to

your business should have this in mind.

● Don't worry if when you first start building

affiliates they don't quite make you as much as you

hoped. This is totally normal. What you'll find is,

in every twenty, thirty, fifty, or even 100

affiliates, there are a couple of real gems there

that make you (and them) a whole lot of cash. Take

it from me, take your affiliate building as

seriously as everyone‟s been telling us to take our

list building recently, and you'll see some amazing

results.

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