Topic: The other side of affiliate marketing (Read 1430 times)
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« on: Jan 22, 2007, 12:11:21 AM »
Has any of you ever promoted their own product thru an affiliate program? I have a product that I am selling with quite a nice profit (considering the work it takes for me) To get more orders for this product I'm moving it to a dedicated website and will do some marketing for the new site.
While thinking about how to promote the site, affiliate marketing came up. Since the profit is quite good, why not give some of it to others for promoting my product... The nice thing about the affiliate marketing is that if they don't bring me customers I don't have to pay.
CJ and LinkShare come to mind, since this is not a downloadable product clickbank can not be used here.
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« Reply #2 on: Jan 22, 2007, 10:13:12 AM »
Looking at the policies it looks like most affiliate programs would not allow me to join. You have to be quite a big company to promote your product this way, also signup fees can be quite high. I think I'll just have to create my own affiliate program for this.
The product are decals (I'll send you a pm with the website)
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« Reply #3 on: Jan 22, 2007, 10:51:05 AM »
I don't think you need to be a big company to enter an affiliate network, and in any case you should try that before creating an in house affiliate system, as it is really difficult to gain the trust of the people who want to promote your business, while being a member of a well known affiliate program makes this process easier.
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« Reply #5 on: Jan 23, 2007, 10:04:08 PM »
I would be interested in what you come up with - I currently have an empty category Decals & Transfers that is just waiting for someone to submit a site. <end of shameless plug>
I had also been thinking about making some of the links into affiliate links, so I am interested in what you come up with - assuming the decals you are selling could in some way be used for crafting.
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« Reply #11 on: Feb 01, 2007, 08:51:45 AM »
For anyone wanting to start their own affiliate marketing site, how would one begin? What software is available? And does it require a dedicated server and lots of money?
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For anyone wanting to start their own affiliate marketing site, how would one begin? What software is available? And does it require a dedicated server and lots of money?
There are plenty of scripts for that job, and every ecommerce software has a solution (built in or not)
I guess a dedicated server is not needed, but of course it would be better
IMHO The real problem when you want to start an affiliate program is the people. Check yourself as a publisher. How many times you haven't registered to an affiliate program because you didn't knew the company, or couldn't find feedback on them. Now if you try to find out what you need to make your program "trusted" you understand that things are not so easy....
I believe before you start an affiliate program you need some money for promotion and public relations.
It depends. Business has no specific price for each thing you do. You define the price. There are affiliate programs that made with $500 budget while other have a few millions