Morning all,
I have been studying and trying to get up to speed on the "affiliate" picture as a whole. My first website was back in 98 and I have been in and out of Internet marketing since. I have been drawn back to it over the last 4 months like a bee to sugar.
I'm guessing I'm a "merchant" according to my studies. We are getting ready to launch our site and I want to put together a affiliate program but have no clue where to start. Can anyone point me to an outline on the "do's and don't" of building a affiliate program? What we are offering is far reaching and can be sold everywhere. We offer free samples of the program and it is quite well designed from the marketing side. Now I need to find partners (affiliates) to start the spider webbing. We will be pre-launching later this week.
I'm aware of the big partners (CJ or LinkShare) but we are offering a product under $5.00US and don't want to 3 step our commission structure. I feel it will "water it down" too much.
Please...someone take my hand and point me. As I mentioned in my intro, I'm a very quick study so you don't need to hold my hand that long. Thank you all.
Drof 13
I have been studying and trying to get up to speed on the "affiliate" picture as a whole. My first website was back in 98 and I have been in and out of Internet marketing since. I have been drawn back to it over the last 4 months like a bee to sugar.
I'm guessing I'm a "merchant" according to my studies. We are getting ready to launch our site and I want to put together a affiliate program but have no clue where to start. Can anyone point me to an outline on the "do's and don't" of building a affiliate program? What we are offering is far reaching and can be sold everywhere. We offer free samples of the program and it is quite well designed from the marketing side. Now I need to find partners (affiliates) to start the spider webbing. We will be pre-launching later this week.
I'm aware of the big partners (CJ or LinkShare) but we are offering a product under $5.00US and don't want to 3 step our commission structure. I feel it will "water it down" too much.
Please...someone take my hand and point me. As I mentioned in my intro, I'm a very quick study so you don't need to hold my hand that long. Thank you all.
Drof 13