3. Supply your affiliates with classified ads and articles. Affiliates want to promote your program but they don't have as much time or knowledge to devote to your program as you do. By providing a range of ads that you know work and articles promoting your program for inclusion in e-zines, you'll be making Mr Affiliate's job a lot easier.

3. Let your affiliates know exactly where to/how to check their stats and if possible, set up your affiliate program to e-mail Mr Affiliate automatically whenever he makes a sale. Affiliates love receiving these e-mails!

4. Keep in touch with your affiliates on a regular basis. Whether its weekly or monthly is up to you, but be consistent. Be helpful to Mr Affiliate, be interesting and he'll look forward to hearing from you.

5. Send your affiliates URL's of places to promote your program. Keep it updated. Again, you don't want Mr Affiliate to have to waste time looking for places to promote, make it easy by providing him with this information.

6. Always answer any questions in a timely and courteous manner. Be personal and let Mr Affiliate know he is a valued member of your team.

7. Be prompt with your payments. Your affiliates have most probably worked hard for their sale/sales so reward them when you say you will. There's nothing as motivating as receiving payment!

By following these simple steps Mr Affiliate will market your product easily and professionally with not that much more effort required. He will be making sales and will no longer just be Mr Affiliate, he will have become Mr Happy Affiliate Making Sales!

And if you can turn all your Mr Affiliates into Mr Happy Affiliate Making Sales, you yourself will go from being simply Mr Affiliate Owner, to Mr Successful, Lying-in-the Sun, Professional Affiliate Owner!

6) Track your ad and advertising.

You have to track your ad copy and advertising campaigns. This will enable you to know conversion rate and then your ROI. (Return On Investment) Some of tracking tools you can use are

http://www.roibot.com http://www.adminder.com http://www.linkkcounter.com http://www.hypertracker.com

7) Let your affiliate program presell for you.

Some of affiliate programs have prepared valuable reports, newsletters, or courses to help you to presell. Some of them are Ken's Site Sell products, Marlon's Weekly Marketing Tips and Sumatra's Search Engine reports etc.

What you need to do is try to get your visitors to opt in to these mailing lists and let their information do presell work for you. I was able to secure 2 sales for Marlon's product for this months through this method. What I do is put opt in form of Marlon's Marketing Tips into bonus page where my subscribers go to download bonus ebooks that I have set up for them. In addition, I also put opt in form into thank you and error page, right at bottom of product recommendation.

8) Give bonuses when someone buys from you.

Everyone on web is selling almost same products as you. By offering additional bonuses like software, ebooks or information, your prospect may feel that added value to your product tips scale in your favor over same product being offered by others.

This does make you different from others and puts you in "A Unique Selling Position"