Start Affiliate Program

Imagine having hundreds of websites linking to your website and promoting your product or service. Sounds nice huh? Now imagine not having to pay a cent for advertising unless you actually generate sales through your affiliates. Sounds even better right?

Now all you need to do is figure out how to set-up an affiliate program. There are lots of great services and software programs that will allow you to do so. When creating an affiliate program, you can go one of two ways: you can join a “network” of affiliate programs which will administer the tracking of sales or click-thru’s for your program. The down-side of joining a network is they charge 30%-50% of the original amount you are offering as a commission for themselves. The up-side of joining a network is they can help you find many more affiliates to help promote your product or service, and they will issue checks to the affiliates themselves which would save you a lot of time.

Here’s a few excellent affiliate program networks:

clickXchange
Click Bank
Commission-Junction

Your other option is to buy affiliate program software and host it on your own server. If you run a smaller site, then I would recommend that you join one of the above networks. On the other hand, if you run a high-traffic website that will attract many affiliates you should try to run your affiliate program yourself.

Click here for probably the best do-it-yourself Affiliate Program Software around.

Which ever option you choose, be sure to promote your affiliate program as much as possible (e.g. Banner Exchanges, PPC Search Engines, etc). After all, the success of your affiliate program may ultimately decide the success of your online business.

If you have any questions regarding setting-up an affiliate program, feel free to contact me.

J. Johnson
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