4) Managing your affiliate programs can be a hassle if you have to deal with many different companies. Try to sign up with a site that administers many affiliate programs to chose from (one of best out there are Commission Junction [www.cj.com] and Befree.com [www.befree.com]). These sites give you hundreds of affiliate programs to chose from, and act as a one-stop shop where you can sign up with multiple vendors using only one account and receiving one consolidated commission check.

5) Chose affiliate partners that offer long term cookies. A cookie is a mechanism that allows destination site to know when a visitor is referred by your site. A long term cookie (for example, a three months cookie) means that a visitor who follows a link to one of your affiliate partners today but doesn't purchase anything, can come back and purchase at anytime during next three months and you will still be paid a commission. The best programs are those who offer unlimited cookies (although there are not so many of them around). However, a 90-day cookie or more is very good.

6) Link directly to product page and not to main page of destination site. If you link to main page, visitor will have to find its way to product and may not find it, making you lose commissions. By linking directly to product, you will increase prospects of visitor buying product (and of you making a commission). Many destination sites, like Amazon, recognize this fact and offer a higher commission to affiliates that link directly to product pages than to those who only link to main page.

Follow these simple guidelines and you will improve your chances of success with all your affiliate programs.

For example, you have a book on computer security. Who might you target?

Sites that deal with computer software, PC support, PC utilities, computer games, DSL (which creates a more vulnerable "always on" connection to your PC)

Success Tip 3: Make Sure Your Product Has A PSP!

What's your Powerful Selling Proposition?

If you had to write one sentence describing ultimate benefit of your product - what would it be?

For example...For security book -- "This Secure Your PC Book will making Bulletproofind Your PC as simple as Turning It on!"

If you don't have a PSP - you better get one RIGHT NOW!!

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Not only does fate of your affiliate program depend on this - so does your entire online marketing success.

Success Tip 4: Your Affiliates Are People To

It's to easy to sign up hundreds, even thousands of affiliates and look at them as numbers or JUST names.

Make your affiliate program stand out by contacting your affiliates - personally, either via personal email, telephone, or regular newsletter.

Help them be more successful with their affiliate marketing.

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Success Tip 5: Continue To Improve Your Business

To keep your most successful affiliates, you'll want to keep providing new products for them to earn money with.

They can only market a single product to their lists so often -- if you have more products coming through your pipeline, you'll find those affiliates will stay with you and work with you to a greater extent.

In addition - plan your price points and margins for your products with affiliate marketing in mind.

Can you turn your $27 eBook into a $67 course?

How about a $197 multimedia course?

Many super affiliates will not even LOOK at a product unless it sells for at least $50 and they get 45%+ of that product.

This does depend on market, but principle holds true -- higher payouts will motivate super affiliates to be more active, longer.

Don't underestimate power of affiliate programs.

Joint ventures and affiliate programs go hand-in-hand.

These two ADVANCED marketing techniques can easily mean difference between struggling online to making a very good living online.

Now you know how!