How to Use Affiliates to Sell Your Product
As a business owner, you want to sell as many products as possible without spending a lot of money on advertising. One of the best ways to do this is to recruit affiliates to sell your product. An affiliate marketer will work to sell your product on a commission-only basis, paying the full cost of his advertising program. In order to be successful, though, you need to attract the right affiliates and offer tools that can make their work easier.
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List your company in an affiliate network. This network can handle affiliate recruitment and will track and pay for affiliate sales. Clickbank and E-Junkie are popular networks for information-based products, while Commission Junction and the Google Advertiser Network focus on physical products.
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Prepare advertising tools for your affiliates. These can include reviews about your product, banner display ads, suggested keywords, sample text ads and sales emails.
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Contact the people who own websites that relate to your product. If you've got a hot new toy that encourages baby brain development, for example, you'd want to contact those who run sites about parenting.
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Stay in touch with your affiliates. Ask affiliates to join an email list so that you can update them on current promotions or new advancements in your product.
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Hold an affiliate contest for a big sales push. You could offer prizes to your top earners or give anyone who makes a certain number of sales a special bonus, such as an iPad.
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