subject: How To Build An Affiliate Program With Your Membership Site [print this page] Creating an effective and successful affiliate program will take some work on your part. You want your affiliate to want to promote for you and be excited for the next promotion. The key discussed in this article will teach you one aspect to being able to do this. Combining it with others will help improve your affiliate program ten fold.
Always look to build relationships. Thing to remember, your affiliates are an extension of you. Everything that you can do in your business to promote your products and services, your affiliates can also do the exact same thing. Affiliates are an extension of you and your products. They are your virtual sales force. So knowing that, you want to build relationships with those people.
Key number four stated to focus your energies on those that are generating the most. That by all means does not suggest ignoring all of the other affiliates. All I am saying is focus your energies on those that are generating the most but you still want to communicate with all of your affiliates. You still want to provide all of them tools and resources.
It is just not as much on a personal one-on-one basis as it would be with that small group of affiliates but likewise, you still want to try to build relationships with all of your affiliates because they are a natural extension of you.
Your affiliate program should work and act like a team - you want as many people to be talking about your products and services and by working as a team your promotions will be much more successful.
To build relationships with affiliates, share information with them about your products, services, promotions, tips, training, etc. Be aware if conversions are increasing because certain affiliates are using a piece of content or because of a particular promotion and share that information.
Your affiliates should always be informed about whats going on. It is important that you look to them as part of your team, as part of your sales force and communicate and share information with the openly because that is going to help them with their promotions and is going to increase the likelihood that they will continue to promote you every single month.
Other elements that need to be focused on as well are; Communication, giving your affiliates a reason to promote your product, providing tools and training materials, remember the 80-20 rule and of course, build relationships.
