{"id":2037,"date":"2008-07-19T03:08:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T08:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/19\/affiliate-programs-how-to-set-one-up\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T19:48:36","slug":"affiliate-programs-how-to-set-one-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=2037","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Programs. How To Set One Up."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Lucas Heijn<\/div>\n<p>The best way to propel your business, is to use an affiliate program.  With an affiliate program you have a lot of other people promoting and selling your product.  One of the big advantages of this is that you only pay for the promotion after a sale has been made.<\/p>\n<p>It also means that your product now has many people promoting it.  This creates a viral effect and helps make your product to be seen as being very popular.  So even though you may need to share 50% of the income with your affiliates  you still end up making a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you didn&#8217;t want to share with your affiliates, and you are just going to promote it yourself.  Could you do as well by yourself  as opposed to using affiliates?  Well let&#8217;s have a look at it.  You have a list of 100,000 subscribers.  You advertise to your list and get to a 0.04% conversion rate.  This means that you would sell 400 copies of your product and get to keep 100% of the income.<\/p>\n<p>Now we will carry us a little bit further.  You decided you also wanted to use affiliates to promote this product.  With 100 affiliates selling 10 products each, you have just sold a further 1000 copies of your product.  Even though you now share 50% of the profit with your affiliates.  You still end up making far more money with far less effort.<\/p>\n<p>If you own a product,  you really need to use an affiliate program.  How can you set up an affiliate program?  There are two ways and both of them a good.  You could buy software to run on your server.  I&#8217;ve personally had experience with a software program called Jam Affiliates from Jrox.com.  It is powerful and easy to use and administer.<\/p>\n<p>Another way you could go, is to use ClickBank.  Many affiliates prefer ClickBank, as they are assured, they will be paid.  Another advantage of ClickBank, is that you don&#8217;t need to go through the difficulties of installing a script on your server.  Affiliates can join ClickBank for free.  To be a seller on ClickBank requires a small one time fee.<\/p>\n<p>There are real advantages to using ClickBank.  Your affiliates love it because they know they&#8217;re going to get paid because ClickBank handles all of that.  And you will love it as well, because you wont have to worry about paying the affiliates.  These problems are handled by ClickBank.  So the payments you get from ClickBank are yours and yours alone.  Using ClickBank is probably the easiest and best option for both yourself and your affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>The option of running your own affiliate program or running with ClickBank both viable and good options.  It&#8217;s obvious, that to really be successful online.  You must use affiliates and an affiliate program.  The easiest way to go, is to use ClickBank as all the administration problems are handled by them.  So even though they take a small commission, it is well worth it.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>Need Help?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to propel your business, is to use an affiliate program.  With an affiliate program you have a lot of other people promoting and selling your product.  One of the big advantages of this is that you only pay for the promotion after a sale has been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}