You must remember that Mr Affiliate is not only your affiliate, but has more than likely joined numerous other affiliate programs on Internet. He obviously joined your program because he liked it, your product or service and compensation plan. But time moves very fast in Internet world and before Mr Affiliate has most probably even started marketing your site properly, he may have even joined yet another affiliate program that appealed to him.

There is certainly no shortage of affiliate programs on Internet that are free and easy to join. Mr Affiliate wants to make money, that's why he joined your program. Unfortunately Mr Affiliate may not understand Internet marketing as well as you do. He may simply insert your banner onto his site and wait for sales.

So both of you are sitting there waiting for Mr Affiliate to start making sales. That's your problem. This is a real shame. Mr Affiliate is obviously available, willing and able and if only he knew what to do, would gladly do it and that's down to you. You need to train Mr Affiliate right away. You can't wait for Mr Affiliate to get motivated, you need to train Mr Affiliate. You can't afford to be complacent. The most successful affiliate programs do well because they have trained their affiliates. Their affiliates understand program fully, they are supported and are kept in touch with. While you're sitting around waiting for Mr Affiliate to make a sale for you, he is being motivated by other affiliate programs and making sales for them.

Here are some practical steps to training Mr Affiliate.

Offer a free report to your visitor. This report should provide helpful and valuable information. This will enable you to collect your visitors email address and follow up with them. Use an autoresponder to automate this work for you.

Some of them are: http://www.getresponse.com http://www.aweber.com http://www.freeautobot.com http://www.permissionexpress.com 2) Publish your own newsletter;

Publishing your own ezine and building up your subscriber base. Most of successful Marketing Gurus have a large subscriber base. The reason is simple, "The Gold Is In The List". Successful Marketers like Terry Dean, Jim Daniels etc have been successful in using this technique. The list server you can use are

http://www.topica.com http://www.yahoogroup.com http://www.eGroup.com http://www.freelist.org

3)Write your own endorsement or review product you're promoting.

A heartfelt honest testimonial is hands down best way to get a prospect to buy. Your prospect wants to know how this product has ben helping you. This will help them to make decision to buy.

4)Use your web site 404 (Error) page.

Even though we try to build a perfect web site, sometimes something may be missing without our being aware of it. That's why software may still have bugs even after being tested a few times. Check with your web hosting company to see if you can customise error page. In my case, I use my error page to promote Marlon's products. I put up ebook cover and ad on error page. Whenever someone is looking for a page that is missing or mistypes name, this page will help me to promote Marlon's products .

5) Fully utilize your thank you page .