Follow Program Rules – Each affiliate advertiser will have their own set of program rules. They may place limitation on the language that you use and the ways that you promote their product or service. Actually take the time to read the rules set out by each advertiser to avoid having your relationship terminated because you inadvertently broke one of their program rules.
“Work with them to get them custom affiliate assets (custom landing page, custom email swipe copy, etc) if they are big affiliates, because they drive the vast majority of your revenue. Give them all of their assets well in advance of the mailing, so they have time to load and test. When you deliver the assets, give them their login information for your affiliate portal again, but also hand delivers their links and needed materials, so they don’t have to dig around for them in your portal. Make sure to test the link before delivery,” Spears said.
For example, to implement PPC using Google AdWords, you'll bid against other companies in your industry to appear at the top of Google's search results for keywords associated with your business. Depending on the competitiveness of the keyword, this can be reasonably affordable, or extremely expensive, which is why it's a good idea to focus building your organic reach, too.
The funny part of all this landing page, money making discussion is that the program that currently makes us about 70% of our income is one that I almost passed up promoting because of the low payout. It is a lead generation program that initially paid $8 per lead and we have since had that increased to $10 per lead because of the volume we produce (that is the nice thing about affiliate programs – if you are a proven performer, you will get higher payouts). At first I wondered how much money one could make $8 at a time – boy am I glad I took a chance with this program! So we have one landing page making us around 50-60K per year, $10 at a time. And we have many more landing pages promoting this same offer, they just aren’t performing at the same level – yet.
1. Commitment: The very first thing you have to do is to commit to yourself that you are serious with your choice, you’re serious with building your own business, serious about taking 100% responsibility with whatever you do. You might think that this sounds ridiculous, but it’ll guide you rightly on your journey. Once you can think, and are responsible like a real business owner, you’ll stand out from people.

You can’t just wait to be a rich man the next day when you prepared a web site at one night. Thing are not going so far. Affiliate is not a proposition to be a fast rich. You need to work hard. I have seen companies from all over the world with completely different set of skills, but one thing that all of them have in common was that they were dedicated to their web sites.


“Cost of goods changes from time to time, product prices drop, etc. One mistake I made was not re-calculating all commissions to determine they were set correctly. After doing some digging, I realized that commissions on a few of our products were way higher than what they should have been. One way to fix this is to re-adjust commissions each year,” she explained.
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