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  To make it easy for your affiliates to promote you, one way to do that is to ensure that you create tools, resources, and swipes for them to use in their promotions. The more marketing materials you can offer them that make their job “cut and paste” easy (notice a theme?), the more likely they will be to promote you.  Graphics – Provide branded graphics for them to use. If you give them the ability to edit the graphics they use in their own ads and promotions, that’s even better. It’s up to you of course how much control...

There are many techniques you can use to help your affiliates please their (your) customers. One of them is to let your affiliates promote a special freebie that you provide to them. This is a great way to build your list and to help affiliates make money by giving away free stuff. Let’s go through the process so you can see how this works. Set Up a Freebie Product for Your Affiliates It depends on the platform you use, but in general, you can create a free product that your affiliates can promote either by making the product free or...

The only way you can convert a sale is to bring the right audience to the right offers in the right way at the right time. This is almost like finding a needle in a haystack, except for it’s not. You can perfect and improve along the way, but the most important thing is to ensure your offers convert at the highest rate you can. When you do that, your affiliates will stick around because they know making money with you is easy. There are many techniques you can use to improve conversions. Let’s look at a few. Proper Funnel...

One of the most critical aspects of your affiliate program - aside from an amazing product - is getting it into the hands of your audience. If your sales pages are not perfected, you may be missing out on sales. If you’re not making as many sales as they’re hoping for, your affiliates will likely get tired of promoting something that doesn’t convert. To create a high converting sales page takes practice and testing. Let’s look at how you can do this. First, there is a lot of discussion about how to properly create sales pages and how to make...

One way to build your affiliate program strongly is to always keep in contact with your affiliates, reach out to potential new affiliates, and especially ensure you stay in touch with long-term affiliates regularly. You’ll need to understand how to speak to your affiliates as professionals who work side by side with your own efforts to promote your products and services. When you learn how to do it, and do it often, you’ll see significant results.  Reaching Out to New Affiliates People who are entirely new to the affiliate game are going to respond differently to your efforts than someone...