If you’re launching a product, then it is very important to ensure that you make the biggest splash possible when you first go live. This will help you to build massive momentum for your product and will encourage more and more sales as you go forward. One way to do this is to find affiliates: marketers who will promote your product in exchange for a commission. The more marketers you get behind you, the more you can multiply your sales and eventually, the more profit you will make. So how do you get them to come on board?
Offer a High Commission
One of the most obvious ways to get more people to sign up to help promote your product is to offer them more money. That means offering a larger commission and it’s actually not unusual to find product creators offering as much as 70% commission to their marketers. That feels like a lot to give away but remember: these are all sales on top of what you would have been getting anyway. And the more affiliates you attract, the more you can increase your units sold. It’s better to have 30% of a thousand sales than 100% of 20 sales!
Provide Free Materials
Another tip is to provide free materials. This might mean offering a free sales page that they can use, email swipes, banners or free reports. This way, you can provide your marketers with the tools they need to successfully promote your product and in doing so, you help them do their job and keep more control over the way your brand is being represented.
Make a Contest
It’s common to see contests for affiliates. These can involve a cash prize or another kind of prize but either way, it will essentially encourage your affiliates to work harder to be the best seller and you can even update them with regular leaderboards. This has the added advantage of providing an additional incentive for your product, on top of the commission.
Make a Brilliant Product!
Most importantly of all though: you need to make a brilliant product. If your product is low quality, then affiliates will know it is going to be hard to sell. If it is high quality on the other hand, then they’ll be able to think of all the ways they could promote it – which will encourage them to get involved!
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