Give Your Affiliate Program A Lift With A New Or Improved Product

Written by Keller Flynn


If an affiliate program is an important part of your business, your profits are only as good as your affiliate members. Sales drop like a rock when they get discouraged or lose interest.

You will seerepparttar dreaded signs if you frequently visit your affiliates' sites. The banner or enthusiastic endorsement they once had on their opening page is now relegated to a link onrepparttar 102625 second or third tier of their site. Something as simple as that can cutrepparttar 102626 number of hits you get by a factor of ten or twenty.

Two things usually account for members giving yourepparttar 102627 back burner treatment: Your product or service isn't selling as well as it once did for them. Or members are simply losing interest because newer, more exciting affiliate programs are grabbing their attention.

You can immediately solve both problems by offering a new or improved product or service. Spend time to make sure your new product is a big improvement over what has come before. The more you can insure your product is a big deal,repparttar 102628 more excited your affiliates will get.

Make your roll-out a big production. Give your new creation a whole new area with a fresh new look on your web site.

Two weeks before you unveil your new product, start sending announcements to your affiliates. Let them know something important is about to happen and they will berepparttar 102629 first to hear about it.

After you bring out your product, do a quick follow-up with members. Get comments on how they expectrepparttar 102630 new product to sell. Harvest early accounts of how some members are doing well withrepparttar 102631 product. Include these comments in your weekly email updates to members.

Choosing the Right Affiliate Program

Written by Keegan Michaels


Affiliate Programs can be a great source of extra cash. Depending onrepparttar program, you either set up an affiliate website, or place an affiliate link on your already existing website, then you just sit back and watchrepparttar 102624 cash roll in, right? Well, in a perfect world, yes. But we all know this world isn't perfect. If you sign up withrepparttar 102625 wrong program, you may find yourself disappointed or even frustrated, and certainly no richer.

As affiliate programs are becoming more and more popular it seems that just about every business out there is starting to offer one. With so many options, you want to make sure that you're going withrepparttar 102626 best program, so how do you know which to join? Here are a few simple checks you can use to make sure you're going with a potentially successful program.

First of all, really think aboutrepparttar 102627 product being offered. Is it something that a lot of people want or need? Is it something you would buy? Ask a friend or three ifrepparttar 102628 product in question is something they might go for. Ifrepparttar 102629 consensus seems to be that it is a stale or tapped out market, then don't do it.

Second. Do a web search. Go on to several search engines and do a few searches using various keywords describingrepparttar 102630 product in question. How many sites come up? Doesrepparttar 102631 amount of sites coming up seem proportionate torepparttar 102632 demand forrepparttar 102633 product, or doesrepparttar 102634 market seem to be flooded? If there are hundreds of sites coming up offeringrepparttar 102635 same thing, you'll probably end up lost inrepparttar 102636 shuffle. You might want to reconsider.

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