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Generate_More_Sales_in_ANY_Affiliate_Program_ _Part_Six
| Generate More Sales in ANY Affiliate Program - Part Six
ACTIVE AFFILIATES are those who sign up under you for free, then
upgrade to being a paid affiliate. Those who sign up but don’t
upgrade within the first 72 hours are called inactive affiliates
and who are unlikely to ever upgrade.
These are people you DON’T invest a lot of time on. You can send
them out your monthly ezine but that’s as far as invested time
should go.
Those who have paid to upgrade from free or just looking stage
are the ones you should have regular contact in.
When I mention contact, I don’t mean contact to sell more things
to them, but to offer support, advise, training etc. because
these are the ones that will follow you to the ends of the earth
if you ask them to, if you treat them right.
Over the past 12 months I have been testing various options and
theories of Affiliates who sign up for free and then become paid
upgrade affiliates.
My findings although not scientific by any means has shown me
that in order for ACTIVE AFFILIATES to create direct sales, they
must have the right affiliate program to promote.
I’ve explained previously that a great affiliate program is one
that is an absolute necessity, a program that will force the
buyer to have to start over again if they left your services
i.e. web hosting, autoresponders.
According to the search engines there are over 2 million
Affiliate Programs for web hosting and over 1 Million for
autoresponder affiliate programs. What about domain name
affiliate programs, can you think of any others…I’m sure you
can! Think necessity.
My findings also identified that a great affiliate program MUST
be free to join. This gives the prospective buyer the
opportunity to test-drive the product before they buy.
OK, now down to the nitty gritty – where and how do you get
ACTIVE AFFILIATES?
There are essentially two ways, they are:
1. Promote, promote, promote – anywhere, everywhere that
affiliates hang out looking for a bargain.
2. Get a professional to do it for you
Options one is the most commonly used way to find and ascertain
ACTIVE AFFILIATES but my findings have shown me that this is not
cost effective and is all time consuming. If you are new to the
Internet, which most people are, trying to find a niche market,
can be very difficult. Then you have to factor the cost of the
promotions, set-up costs and time involved.
In testing this method over a period of 6 months a total of 17
people sign up as affiliate’s and two out of the 17 people then
upgraded to paid members.
Option two and not the most common or conventional way was to
hire someone who could guarantee upgrades. This you might think
is the more expensive option, when in actual fact for the
purpose of my testing actually worked out to be a lot cheaper.
The provider handled all the work and the affiliate had to
qualified twice before actually joining the program all I had to
do was wait.
I brought a package that guaranteed 100 signup in 60 days. I got
174 sign ups in less than 60 days. 81 of these signups upgraded
to paid affiliates that equates to just over 40% conversion rate.
I try to stay neutral in all my endeavours but I believe that
for those who want to Generate More Income in ANY affiliate
program, option two is definitely the way to go. I was so
impressed by this type of service I decided to buy one for
myself.
To your online Success!
About the author:
Gillian Tarawhiti, is Founder and CEO of Community Training
Centre, an Internet Marketing firm providing Online Training and
Support. Gillian is also the author of eBay Billion Dollar
Goldmine and the creator of the Multiple Ripple Effect System, ©
2004 Permission is granted to reprint this article in print or
on your web site so long as the paragraph above is included and
contact information is provided to
http://www.millionairerippleeffect.com
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