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To What Extent are Cashback Sites Hurting Affiliates?

Posted by admin – June 11, 2009

Think Affiliate asked:


It wasn’t long after the birth of affiliate marketing that cashback sites started to appear. These are sites which offer consumers a refund on what they purchase, through the use of affiliate schemes. For example, if a merchant were to run an affiliate program, offering affiliates a 10% commission on all sales, a cashback site could offer consumers anywhere up to 10% off their order value. From the merchant’s point of view, it is still worth paying a commission in the form of a refund to the buyer, if it results in a new sale. At first glance, this appears to be a system which benefits everybody. Merchants get extra sales, affiliate networks get extra commissions, and consumers get a better deal. The person who loses out is the affiliate who might have already referred the customer.

If a review site funded by affiliate revenue advertises by PPC to get traffic, then they would not be out of line to expect that if any of their visitors went on to make a purchase based on the reviews, they should receive a commission. However, if at the point the visitor was about to make a purchase, they went through a cashback site; this would overwrite the most recent cookie set. This means that the affiliate has gone to all of the work of getting the customer to the point of sale, for the cashback site to take the credit. There is evidence to suggest that people just use cashback sites at the point of purchase. The EPC for some merchants is up to 5 times higher for incentivized traffic, suggesting that they only go through the cashback site when they are intending to make a purchase. Is it right that affiliates are being denied commissions because of cashback being a more attractive incentive to purchase?

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8 Ways to Recruit Affiliates For Your Affiliate Program

Posted by admin – May 22, 2009

Egidijus Andreika asked:


The affiliate program is also known as associate program and is increasingly becoming popular form of online marketing, where you pay a small commission to your affiliates for promoting your business. To make this affiliate program successful you have to recruit the right affiliates. If you run your own affiliate program you know that it’s not very easy to find good and performing affiliates. However, there are some tips that will help you recruit much more active affiliates and keep them happy, so they will promote your products even more. Here are the 8 best ways to recruit affiliates:

1) Use Article Marketing to Recruit Affiliates

One of the very cost effective and simple ways to recruit affiliates is article marketing. You can either write the article by yourself or recruit someone to write attractive and promising article focussing on the product or service that you provide and post them on article submission sites like Ezine, Submityourarticle and much more. The main advantage of article marketing is that only those who are interested in your product or service will read those articles and if you have successfully attracted them then you have gained a right affiliate for your business. This method can even attract potential customers.

2) Write Reviews about Products to Attract Potential Affiliates

Writing reviews is another very effective way to attract affiliates. All you have to do is write some reviews about the products you promote. You can generate a large traffic to your site by this way. While writing reviews try to make it unbiased i.e., you shouldn’t advertise yourself too much. The review should be very interesting and it would be even better if you do some comparison between similar products. Finally you can post the link of your affiliate page at the end of the review. So, the interested candidates will follow it and become your affiliate.

3) Post Comments in Related Forums to Signup Affiliates

Another very easy way to attract affiliates is to post comments on public forums where people discuss about your product and/or are interested in your product. The public forums have discussion groups where they post ideas and their opinions on a thread. Usually these forums allow you to add your signature below your comment. You can use this portion for advertising your product or can link it to your website’s affiliate page. If the comment that you post is interesting then you can expect more affiliates for your program. This method is very simple and less time consuming where you can attract the affiliates by just writing some three or four sentences.

4) Empower Social Networking Websites to Grow Your Affiliate Database

Social networking sites have great potential for attracting right affiliates for you. Today more or less who ever have access to internet has membership in any of the social networking site like Orkut, Yahoo groups, Myspace, etc. So, you can have large coverage by promoting your business on social networking sites and you can find the right affiliates for your affiliate program. On such social networking websites you can find friends of the similar interests, etc. This way you can even make business contacts and recruit affiliates for your online business.

5) Social Bookmarking Websites Can Be Used to Your Benefit

Social bookmarking like digg, del.ico.us and others are an excellent way for affiliate marketing. When a visitor visits your site and finds it interesting then he can bookmark it. Then others do the same and it creates an exponential amount of visits. In this large group of visitors there will be some right affiliates for your site. This way you can recruit a lot of affiliates easily.

6) Make Your Affiliate Program Page Attractive and Appealing for Affiliates

Now you might have attracted potential affiliates to your site successfully using any of these methods but making them to sign up as your affiliate depends on the quality of your site. The site should be appealing and shouldn’t make them feel that you may be a spammer. Otherwise you risk losing the potential affiliates hence, make your site more appealing and attractive. Keep the content well organized and make the sign up procedure simple and less time consuming. Try to explain them the benefits of your affiliate program in a polite manner, using bold letters or yellow background for the text nowadays are used mostly by spammers so, your affiliate may move away. If your website is good in all means then all the visits made by potential affiliates will increase your affiliates count. If you don’t know how to properly design a good looking website, just hire a freelancer and he/she will do all the work for you really cheaply.

7) Have You Considered a 2-Tier Affiliate Program?

To make your affiliate program more successful you must at least use 2-tier affiliate program. Where an affiliate will get more benefit for recruiting another affiliate. This type of program will encourage your affiliates to great extent and you can get more affiliates without wasting any resource, it will be done by your affiliates themselves. Empower your affiliates to recruit even more affiliates for you!

8) Find Out Your Competitors And Attract Their Affiliates

The best affiliates for your affiliate program are the existing affiliates of your competitors or other successful sites. But unfortunately there is no secret technique which can help you to get them. Instead you can try to trace out the methods used by your competitor and there is a large probability that these affiliates may be even visiting those areas like articles or social bookmarking sites and others. Just try to pin point the areas like the thread used by your competitor on a forum and post your comment as a reply to his post, hence you can get the attention of those potential affiliates.

These are some of the very potential and best ways of getting affiliates for your affiliate program. You may do some research based on your own experience on these methods to get even better results. We at Click2Sell.EU (http://www.click2sell.eu) always ready to help. Sell your products online, recruit affiliates, accept payments instantly. Recruit affiliates successfully and skyrocket your income!



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ClickBank Affiliate Super Tips

Posted by admin – April 28, 2009

Tanay Kumar Das asked:


If you want to become a successful ClickBank affiliate who better to learn from than this man - Harvey Segal (Mr SuperTips) He’s the world’s top ClickBank expert. A participant in ClickBank’s European Advisory Board meetings in 2007 and 2008 He owns: 1.The Complete Guide to ClickBank - the only site devoted completely to ClickBank 2.The ClickBank Success Forum - the only forum devoted completely to ClickBank: even ClickBank themselves come here to answer questions ! Contents include:

Where To Find A Product To Promote 1.The ClickBank Marketplace: where to find extra search facilities 2.How to find ClickBank products that are not in the Marketplace

Is The Product Worth Promoting ? 1.How to check a product’s history 2.Don’t be fooled by the Marketplace rankings - how a product can be top without ever having a sale ! 3.When the commission shown at the Marketplace is not the real commission Be an early bird - how to find new products which have just been released

Join The Affiliate Program: 1.Don’t use the hoplink until you make this check 2.The most common mistake made with your affiliate URL - it means you won’t get commission 3.What is the commission on a sale, the VAT, the transaction fee ? Let the ClickBankcalculator show you

How To Promote The Product: 1.The fastest way To ClickBank profits 2.The number one method of promotion 3.How to beat your PPC competitors 4.The last ClickBank affiliate gets the commission. How to make sure it’s you 5.Once your visitor clicks on your affiliate link don’t lose him: how to follow up 6.Why you should not link directly to your affiliate site (5 good reasons) 7.Why customers might remove your affiliate link - and how to stop them

Testing and Tracking 1.How many visitors click on your links ? Where do they come from ? ClickBank provides some stats - but there are better tools 2.Why You Are Losing Commissions 3.Affiliate link theft - what you can do about it 4.Sale page leaks - five ways that you are losing out on commission 5.When you should bypass the vendor’s sales page - and how to do it 6.The reason why a sales page shows multiple ClickBank products - and how you can promote them individually 7.A clever case of vendor fraud and no commission for you - here’s how to check 8.Refunds - how to get your vendor to minimize them 9.Downtime at ClickBank means lost sales. Here’s what you tell your vendor

Special Affiliate Programs 1.How to get paid for introducing others to ClickBank 2.ClickBank storefronts - the right way to use them 3.How to get commissions for ClickBank products you don’t promote ! It takes one line of code - and it’s free 4.How to avoid dead ClickBank links in rebranded books 5.Why use Google AdSense ? Try a ClickBank version 6.The ideal ClickBank affiliate program

PLUS - Bonus book Affiliate Marketing Success Road Map The ideal companion book for ClickBank Affiliate SuperTips. It provides a planned strategy for promoting any affiliate program covering web hosting and domain names, site creation, blogging, niche selection, obtaining content, search engine optimization, traffic generation via forums and press releases, and more. You can read about Affiliate Marketing Success Road Map here Value $47 * Resale rights included P.S: All future updates to this book will be sent to you for free. P.P.S: After purchase you can become an affiliate earning 70% commission for selling this book.

Read what other people are saying: What they’re saying about ‘ClickBank Affiliate SuperTips’ and ClickBank Vendor SuperTips’

1.If you are at all serious about building a successful online business you will, at some point, realise the value of promoting other peoples products as an affiliate and you will also realise the importance of having affiliates promote your products. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Clickbank provide the most effective ways of promoting your own or other people’s products. Now, if you want legal advice you should hire a lawyer, if you want medical advice you should see your doctor. If you want to know anything about Clickbank - ask Harvey Segal! But, to save both you and Harvey a lot of time, just buy his two newest books: “Clickbank Vendor Supertips” and “Clickbank Affiliate Supertips”. Whatever you need to know about Clickbank, I can virtually guarantee you will find an easy to understand step by step explanation in Harvey’s Books. John Taylor Test-and-Track.com

2.I’ve been reading both books, and am incredibly impressed. Harvey has packed so much information that you NEED into ebooks that are amazingly readable. There is no waffle, no ‘business speak’ just EVERYTHING you need to know in plain English. So much so that I can hand on heart make this statement: ‘If you want to sell your own product or make money selling someone else’s online, one or both of Harvey’s books are vital to your success.’ Martin Avis kickstartdaily.com

3.Harvey, I’m envious! You’ve produced not one, but two great new ebooks for the ClickBank marketer. Every previous ClickBank resource has been multi-purpose, but you’ve gone one step better and produced separate tactical manuals for ClickBank vendors and affiliates. You have crammed in dozens of the most powerful tips and, in your usual style, every one of them gets straight to the point. Any ClickBank marketer who doesn’t earn more after reading your ebooks is simply not trying. Tim Coulter ClickBank Definitive Guide

4.I just finished looking over your ‘ClickBank Affiliate Supertips’ and ‘ClickBank Vendor Supertips’ ebooks and found them both to be loaded with valuable information. Your ebooks will provide anyone interested in either selling their products through ClickBank or marketing ClickBank products with the exact information they’ll need to succeed! Congratulations on a job well done — you are no doubt the ‘ClickBank King.’ Shelley Lowery Web-Source.net

5.As usual, Harvey writes a superb, concise guide for Clickbank affiliates wishing to maximize their affiliate commissions. His tips on linking (Chap 6.6) are worth their weight in gold. If you’re not satisfied with your current affiliate commission, I’d recommend you pick up a copy of this excellent book - it’ll show you a bonanza of tips and tricks that will increase your profits. Adrian Ling easybiztools.com

6.The CAS eBook is a real eye-opener! Your eBook could turn a newbie affiliate into a pro within a few hours itself. I’ve been a ClickBank affiliate for over an year now, and most of the commissions I’ve made are really trial and error ones. When I heard about your eBook, I first thought it would have the same old tips of cloaking your affiliate links n stuff, but boy was I wrong. You have mentioned solutions for problems that I wouldn’t have discovered on my own. I followed your tips and found at least 2 sites where I could be losing my affiliate commissions. I can’t imagine how many commissions I would have lost if I kept on promoting the programs without following your advice. Thanks again! Pooja Srinivas coursesuseek.com

7.Having all of Harvey’s great books is a must if you plan on doing any business with ClickBank! I totally absorbed the “ClickBank Affiliate SuperTips” before I started my online affiliate career with ClickBank products and boy am I glad I did.There is so much to absorb when first dealing with ClickBank and Harvey makes it all so neat and organized that you cannot help but be successful if you follow his methods.I did not hesitate to get my copy of “ClickBank Vendor SuperTips” when it came time for me to put my first product up for sale on ClickBank. I knew that Harvey would answer all my questions as a vendor just like he did when I was an affiliate. I simply cannot recommend enough these great resources for doing business with ClickBank! They are a MUST read if you want to truly get all the essential information you need to conduct your business properly. Denice Anderson NicheVaultKey.com

8.I just started reading and got to page 14 (CAS book). That tip on beating your PPC competitors is excellent! It was such an obvious way to do it, but I had never thought of it before and don’t know anyone else who had, so when I saw it on the page it leaped right out at me. Amin Motin sublime-products.com

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If you want to become a successful ClickBank affiliate who better to learn from than this man -

Harvey Segal (Mr SuperTips)

He’s the world’s top ClickBank expert.

A participant in ClickBank’s European Advisory Board meetings in 2007 and 2008

He owns:

1.The Complete Guide to ClickBank - the only site devoted completely to ClickBank

2.The ClickBank Success Forum - the only forum devoted completely to ClickBank: even ClickBank themselves come here to answer questions !

Contents include:

 

Where To Find A Product To Promote

1.The ClickBank Marketplace: where to find extra search facilities

2.How to find ClickBank products that are not in the Marketplace

 

Is The Product Worth Promoting ?

1.How to check a product’s history

2.Don’t be fooled by the Marketplace rankings - how a product can be top without ever having a sale !

3.When the commission shown at the Marketplace is not the real commission

Be an early bird - how to find new products which have just been released

 

Join The Affiliate Program:

1.Don’t use the hoplink until you make this check

2.The most common mistake made with your affiliate URL - it means you won’t get commission

3.What is the commission on a sale, the VAT, the transaction fee ? Let the ClickBankcalculator show you

 

How To Promote The Product:

1.The fastest way To ClickBank profits

2.The number one method of promotion

3.How to beat your PPC competitors

4.The last ClickBank affiliate gets the commission. How to make sure it’s you

5.Once your visitor clicks on your affiliate link don’t lose him: how to follow up

6.Why you should not link directly to your affiliate site (5 good reasons)

7.Why customers might remove your affiliate link - and how to stop them

 

Testing and Tracking

1.How many visitors click on your links ? Where do they come from ? ClickBank provides some stats - but there are better tools

2.Why You Are Losing Commissions

3.Affiliate link theft - what you can do about it

4.Sale page leaks - five ways that you are losing out on commission

5.When you should bypass the vendor’s sales page - and how to do it

6.The reason why a sales page shows multiple ClickBank products - and how you can promote them individually

7.A clever case of vendor fraud and no commission for you - here’s how to check

8.Refunds - how to get your vendor to minimize them

9.Downtime at ClickBank means lost sales. Here’s what you tell your vendor

 

Special Affiliate Programs

1.How to get paid for introducing others to ClickBank

2.ClickBank storefronts - the right way to use them

3.How to get commissions for ClickBank products you don’t promote ! It takes one line of code - and it’s free

4.How to avoid dead ClickBank links in rebranded books

5.Why use Google AdSense ? Try a ClickBank version

6.The ideal ClickBank affiliate program

 

PLUS - Bonus book

Affiliate Marketing Success Road Map

The ideal companion book for ClickBank Affiliate SuperTips. It provides a planned strategy for promoting any affiliate program covering web hosting and domain names, site creation, blogging, niche selection, obtaining content, search engine optimization, traffic generation via forums and press releases, and more.

You can read about Affiliate Marketing Success Road Map here

Value $47

* Resale rights included

P.S: All future updates to this book will be sent to you for free.

P.P.S: After purchase you can become an affiliate earning 70% commission for selling this book.

 

Read what other people are saying:

What they’re saying about ‘ClickBank Affiliate SuperTips’ and ClickBank Vendor SuperTips’

 

1.If you are at all serious about building a successful online business you will, at some point, realise the value of promoting other peoples products as an affiliate and you will also realise the importance of having affiliates promote your products.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Clickbank provide the most effective ways of promoting your own or other people’s products.

Now, if you want legal advice you should hire a lawyer, if you want medical advice you should see your doctor. If you want to know anything about Clickbank - ask Harvey Segal!

But, to save both you and Harvey a lot of time, just buy his two newest books: “Clickbank Vendor Supertips” and “Clickbank Affiliate Supertips”. Whatever you need to know about Clickbank, I can virtually guarantee you will find an easy to understand step by step explanation in Harvey’s Books.

John Taylor

Test-and-Track.com

 

2.I’ve been reading both books, and am incredibly impressed.

Harvey has packed so much information that you NEED into ebooks that are amazingly readable. There is no waffle, no ‘business speak’ just EVERYTHING you need to know in plain English.

So much so that I can hand on heart make this statement:

‘If you want to sell your own product or make money selling someone else’s online, one or both of Harvey’s books are vital to your success.’

Martin Avis

kickstartdaily.com

 

3.Harvey,

I’m envious!

You’ve produced not one, but two great new ebooks for the ClickBank marketer.

Every previous ClickBank resource has been multi-purpose, but you’ve gone one step better and produced separate tactical manuals for ClickBank vendors and affiliates.

You have crammed in dozens of the most powerful tips and, in your usual style, every one of them gets straight to the point. Any ClickBank marketer who doesn’t earn more after reading your ebooks is simply not trying.

Tim Coulter

ClickBank Definitive Guide

 

4.I just finished looking over your ‘ClickBank Affiliate Supertips’ and ‘ClickBank Vendor Supertips’ ebooks and found them both to be loaded with valuable information. Your ebooks will provide anyone interested in either selling their products through ClickBank or marketing ClickBank products with the exact information they’ll need to succeed!

Congratulations on a job well done — you are no doubt the ‘ClickBank King.’

Shelley Lowery

Web-Source.net

 

5.As usual, Harvey writes a superb, concise guide for Clickbank affiliates wishing to maximize their affiliate commissions. His tips on linking (Chap 6.6) are worth their weight in gold.

If you’re not satisfied with your current affiliate commission, I’d recommend you pick up a copy of this excellent book - it’ll show you a bonanza of tips and tricks that will increase your profits.

Adrian Ling

easybiztools.com

 

6.The CAS eBook is a real eye-opener! Your eBook could turn a newbie affiliate into a pro within a few hours itself.

I’ve been a ClickBank affiliate for over an year now, and most of the commissions I’ve made are really trial and error ones. When I heard about your eBook, I first thought it would have the same old tips of cloaking your affiliate links n stuff, but boy was I wrong. You have mentioned solutions for problems that I wouldn’t have discovered on my own.

I followed your tips and found at least 2 sites where I could be losing my affiliate commissions. I can’t imagine how many commissions I would have lost if I kept on promoting the programs without following your advice. Thanks again!

Pooja Srinivas

coursesuseek.com

 

7.Having all of Harvey’s great books is a must if you plan on doing any business with ClickBank! I totally absorbed the “ClickBank Affiliate SuperTips” before I started my online affiliate career with ClickBank products and boy am I glad I did.There is so much to absorb when first dealing with ClickBank and Harvey makes it all so neat and organized that you cannot help but be successful if you follow his methods.I did not hesitate to get my copy of “ClickBank Vendor SuperTips” when it came time for me to put my first product up for sale on ClickBank. I knew that Harvey would answer all my questions as a vendor just like he did when I was an affiliate.

I simply cannot recommend enough these great resources for doing business with ClickBank! They are a MUST read if you want to truly get all the essential information you need to conduct your business properly.

Denice Anderson

NicheVaultKey.com

 

8.I just started reading and got to page 14 (CAS book). That tip on beating your PPC competitors is excellent!

It was such an obvious way to do it, but I had never thought of it before and don’t know anyone else who had, so when I saw it on the page it leaped right out at me.

Amin Motin

sublime-products.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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