Marketing your own information product and offering an affiliate program go together better than jam and peanut butter!Â
Seriously, you are absolutely insane if you are offering an ebook, report, audio, video, software product, membership site or any other paid product and are NOT offering an affiliate program so that others can promote your product.
Case in point – I was helping a friend put together a wedding related site and came across an intriguing press release for an ebook that lays out a system for planning the perfect wedding for just $2,000 saving up to $20,000 with insider tips on everything from photography to music.Â
Here’s the wedding ebook, not a bad sales letter – not great – but not bad either.Â
Ok, this looks like something my friend could promote, wait a minute…
Where’s the affiliate program? He wants to send traffic and sales to this relatively new website, but he can’t?
I have many infoproducts on the market and most have close to 50% of the sales come in through affiliates.Â
Perhaps you don’t know how? Well that could be, but its critical that you solve that problem fast! Each day your website and infoproduct exist online you are losing opportunities where people want to promote your product for you.
You have options – you can use Clickbank as both your payment processor and built-in affiliate manager, you can choose an all-in-one front-end shopping cart, autoresponder and affiliate management solution such as 1AutomationWiz or you can use a 3rd party script such as Ultimate Affiliate Software – even have it installed on your server for you.
Most of these solutions give you a free trial period of at least 10-30 days to give them a try.Â
We’re all after leverage in this business, what better way to put your infoproduct marketing business on autopilot than to have an army of affiliates sending you quality traffic day-in and day-out.
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