Starting your own affiliate program
| by David Callan
Simply put, affiliate programs are one of the few things in life that can make you get rich quick. Affiliate programs are the ultimate online joint venture. You joint venture with other webmasters and only pay them when you make a profit so you never have to pay for advertising that doesn't work and you never have to pay anything up front.
If your product has a medium to high profit margin then you can be assured starting an affiliate program for it will make it much more successful and will in turn make you much more profit.
The beauty behind affiliate programs is that they allow you to build an army of sales reps, all these sales reps have their own websites, visitors and opt-in lists. These sales reps are your affiliates and they use their visitors and opt-in lists to advertise your product. You don't have to pay them a penny until they make a profit for you.
Imagine having 250+ high traffic sites all advertising your product via banners, text links, recommendations in their Ezine and on their website, through ebooks they write and freely distribute and all of the other available methods. If your product is good and you have decent sales copy your sales are going to go through the roof, you could be making $30,000+ a month within six or seven months with your own affiliate program.
It's easy to recruit new affiliates, especially if you run an affiliate program that operates on two-tiers. A two-tier program is a program whereby affiliates earn commission when someone they referred to the program makes a sale. This encourages webmasters to find other people to join your affiliate program so your affiliate base quickly multiplies itself and continues to grow all the time.
I know of an affiliate program which uses a two-tier system that has 50,000+ affiliates all promoting the programs products. You can imagine the profits that 50,000 affiliates can make you, can't you? To be honest it's very rare any program will ever get as big as to have 50,000 affiliates but 5,000 is much more achievable, after that the quality of your program will determine it's growth.
Here's a few numbers to get your temperatures rising. First imagine you've loads of affiliates, now say that after you give your affiliates their commission you make $20 a sale, the below figures are what you could earn. The more affiliates that join the more money you make, it's generally as simple as that.
Orders Each Day
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Monthly Income
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Yearly Income
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3
|
$1,800
|
$21,600
|
5
|
$3,000
|
$36,000
|
10
|
$6,000
|
$72,000
|
20
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$12,000
|
$144,000
|
30
|
$18,000
|
$216,000
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