Should
You Start Your Own Affiliate
Program?
Copyright
2003 By Willie Crawford
If you operate an internet-based business and market your own
product(s), you
eventually ask yourself, "Should I Start My Own Affiliate
Program?"
Even if you don't have your own product, I think you should have your
own
affiliate program. You can start an affiliate
program marketing
products you have reprint rights to.
Affiliates programs are a proven way to grow an internet-based business
almost
risk-free. They are the reason behind the biggest on-line
successes!
Here are reasons you should start your own affiliate program:
1) Since you only pay for performance, you have no
advertising investment.
Your job becomes to recruit affiliates who will do the advertising for
you.
If you have a two-tier affiliate program, your affiliates will even do
most of
the recruiting for you. You don't have to worry about which
ezines or
venues to advertise in.
2) You don't have to spend so much time worrying about
searchengine
rankings. Your properly trained affiliates will do things to
get your site
higher rankings. Your army of affiliates will place thousands
of links to
your site and build your site's link
popularity and link relevance.
3) You don't have to worry about pay-per-click
searchengines. Your
affiliates will set up campaigns to market your product.
4) You multiply yourself. You can only personally
reach a small
portion of your market. Your army of affiliates extends that
reach
hundreds of times over.
5) You don't need to worry about building a huge
list. Building a
huge list takes time - recruiting affiliates who already have lists
takes much
less time. Your affiliates with ezines already reach hundreds of
thousands of
prospects. These qualified prospects
will buy your products based upon the lists owners' sincere
recommendations.
6) An affiliate program allows you to make more money. Your percentage
from each
sale may be lower, but your total revenues will be hundreds, if not
thousands,
of
times as much. You get a smaller piece of the pie but the pie
grows so
huge that your share of the pie still adds up to so much more.
7) Setting up an affiliate program is much easier than you
think.
You can use a program like my ProfitAutomation.Com
to:
- Manage
all affiliate activity
- Track
all sales
- Automatically
communicate with your affiliates
- Automatically
communicate with affiliates prospects (as your autoresponders do the
conversion)
- Automatically
train your affiliates
- Automatically
track which promotional tools are working best
A properly set up affiliate program increases your sales many-fold and
requires
only a tiny fraction of the work. You do need good
organization and the
proper automation tools. You do need to put in some work
getting the
affiliate program launched. Then the affiliate program takes on a life
of its
own, and your business steadily grows from the efforts of others. You
reward
them for their hard work, and your affiliate reward you a larger bank
account.
If you don't have your own affiliate program start planning one
today.
Make sure you have a quality product, plan everything out, get an
affiliate
management system like my recommended http://ProfitAutomation.Com
and watch your business grow itself!
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Willie Crawford has been teaching others how to build an on-line
business since
late 1996. Frequently featured in radio, magazine and
newspaper articles
and interviews, Willie teaches the average guy what the top marketers
are doing
but seldom talking about. For example, Willie demonstrates
the power of
automated residual income through his system at: http://ProfitAutomation.Com
Test drive this system now.
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