We all make mistakes, it’s a fact of life. It’s no big deal in the whole scheme of things as long as we learn from our mistakes and move forward. The same goes with affiliate marketing since everyone will probably make mistakes at first, but as long as you fix them, it’s no big deal.
However, some mistakes are much more costly than others and we are not just talking monetary costs. These mistakes are the ones we only discover years down the road after we have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and more importantly, wasted valuable time doing something that was totally the wrong way to do things.
Recently, one of my biggest mistakes in affiliate marketing hit me front and center. Although I make a very comfortable living as a full-time affiliate marketer, this mistake has cost me significantly over the years.
Perhaps a brief rundown of the common mistakes many affiliate marketers make would prove helpful.
Some of these mistakes are:
- you forget to build a list
- you fail to track your affiliate links/traffic
- you don’t develop your own unique selling position
- you link directly to your affiliate link instead of going thru an interior keyworded page
- you ignore MSN and Yahoo
- you forget to diversify your affiliate products/networks
Plus, the one major mistake many beginning affiliate marketers make: they try to sell products directly to potential customers.
This is not the way to proceed on the Internet. You must try to solve a problem first and then sell later. Most people using the web want to solve a problem, anything from how to lose 50 pounds to finding the right student laptop for a son or daughter. They want help solving a problem first and foremost. Your goal as an effective affiliate marketer is to solve their problem for them… selling should always come second or as a by-product of this whole interaction.Help first – sell later.
By giving advice and help, you establish your credibility and trust-worthiness with your potential prospect. It is a win-win situation, they get valuable helpful information to solve their problem and you end up with a sale or a friend.
This whole idea of pre-selling is a very effective method for affiliate marketing but is a common mistake many beginners make or rather fail to do. So if you’re just starting affiliate marketing make sure it is not a mistake you’re making.
But my biggest mistake had nothing to do with those discussed above; from the get-go I was building my lists, linking to keyworded interior pages, optimizing for all the search engines, diversifying my affiliate products/networks. Most importantly of all, I was “pre-selling” by helping my potential customers with online guides, e-courses, advice… and only selling as a fall-out from all this online trust building. All these steps worked wonders for my online marketing and my bank account…
However, I missed one key factor or element in my affiliate marketing. I didn’t “leverage my returns” or rather I didn’t max out what I could get from my affiliate marketing efforts. I settled for what the affiliate networks were offering… this ranged from 2-3% up to 50-70% commission on a sale. All good money, considering all you had to do was find the customer for the client/company and they would handle all the rest such as order taking, delivery, customer service… all you had to do was deliver the potential customer to their affiliate link.
Let me explain further, for years I was satisfied with this arrangement because it suited me to a “T”. It gave me an easy lifestyle anyone would envy: own boss, work at home, automatic income while I slept. All you had to do was deliver traffic to your affiliate links to earn a comfortable income online – no headaches, no hassles – just receive your countless checks each month. But there was one problem, these were only one-time sales, i.e. most affiliate sales thru the major affiliate networks like Commission Junction, Linkshare, Shareasale… only paid you commission once and that’s it.
Now, why was that a problem? Well, in one of my niches I was selling/promoting a service where I knew the customers I were delivering would be long-term paying customers earning those companies money for years to come… I was only getting a one time sale and perhaps a bonus incentive if I worked really hard.My Biggest Affiliate Mistake
This was my biggest mistake: not going after long-term residual affiliate income from the start. Like most affiliate marketers, I concentrated all my marketing on getting that one-time sale. I eventually realized my mistake and approached the companies involved, a few even gave me private deals with “residual income” for the life of the client. Now, which companies do you think I will be concentrating most of my marketing efforts on in the future?But why stop there?
I could further leverage my affiliate income even more by offering a “white label” or a co-branded service thru my own website. It would greatly increase my share of the sale and give me long-term revenue. I believe, this is where many affiliate marketers drop the ball, they don’t fully explore “white label”, “co-branded products”, “full resell rights”, “back-end profits” and “residual income” when they think of affiliate marketing.
Now some may argue this is more of a “hands-on” arrangement and may involve more work on your part but the rewards will be well worth it; for instead of getting a one time sale you could be building long-term residual income for years to come.
Likewise, you should try to “leverage your returns” when picking affiliate products or programs to promote; if possible, always go for those with residual income. Don’t make the mistake of settling for less, always check out the maximum return you can get on your affiliate marketing. Investigate special private deals or arrangements with your affiliate partners and bargain for a bigger share of the pie. Like me, you may be pleasantly surprised at the results.

Today, merchants of products and and marketing pros are mostly lookout for the right affiliate marketing services to generate revenues. World Wide Web houses flooding number of affiliate program networks catering to product vendors and marketers with the right affiliate solutions to help them finding what they want – merchants want proficient marketers and marketers want genuine merchants to pay high commissions. These networking enterprises bridge relations between merchants and marketers well as both the parties remain entangled in performing their tasks and generating own side of incomes. However, these affiliate network companies have shown enormous variations in term sof offering services and also differences in genuine and fraudulent companies. Therefore, no matter from which side of the business you hail from – as an affiliate or an advertiser – be knowledgeable about what kind of services are offered by these companies before you select one of them. 1. An affiliate marketing network acts on behalf of both merchant for taking care of their needs to find the right affiliates and guiding them how to launch an affiliate program that would attract qualified affiliates. These affiliate marketing services providers help merchants by defining the right commission model and commission payment tasks to reduce pressures from merchants’ shoulders. 2. These online entities offering affiliate marketing services include state-of-the-art tracker solutions to monitor clicks, leads, sales generated by affiliate sites and ad campaigns. These help affilites too in checking out their regular participation in pre-selling affiliate programs. 3. Many of the companies include offering content services and marketing strategies in their affiliate marketing services. These companies are also likely to prepare promotional campaigns for affiliates who are new and look out for the right marketing materials that are quick to generate traffic for their websites. With these services being available to affiliates, they only need to embed those promotional materials such as email messages, banners, blogs, articles, viral reports, classified ads, etc, at their sites. Such affiliate marketing services also include the right software support, free consultancies, innovative marketing tips and help in finding packages helpful for both merchants and marketers.

It is proving to be more profitable for companies to use affiliates to attract customers than using the older, less targeted methods of advertising. It works by letting ordinary people do the advertising to earn commissions. As a way of making money, it is great but it takes patience and work to get the commissions as promised. What you need to know is what affiliate marketing is, how is it used and is it a worthwhile method of making money. After getting these answers, you will want to learn to effectively do it.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
The concept of affiliate marketing is simple; you advertise the product or service of the company you have joined as an affiliate, customers click on your ad, make a purchase and you get a commission. Ads can take many forms. They can range from text ads to colorful banner ads on your website that lead directly to the company’s site.
How does affiliate marketing work?
Customers use the advertising put in place through affiliate marketing when they are searching for products and services. Though they are often looking for a particular product or service, sometimes they are looking for a review of the item and sometimes even come across it when searching for something else.
How can I make a profit with affiliate marketing?
Marketing of this kind has several methods of working. With some companies, you make have a direct affiliation and be paid through the options they offer. One good example is Amazon. They pay through various means such as PayPal payments, gift cards and credit in their online store. Many companies offer such payment methods as direct deposit to your checking account, paper checks mailed to your home as well as PayPal payments.
Is it worth the effort?
There are people who know little or nothing about affiliate marketing who will insist that the effort put into it is not worth it. This is because they are only seeing the work you do right now compared to the equivalent in hourly pay on a job. What they don’t realize that others do is that, if your advertising is done efficiently, you will keep getting paid even after you are not working on it anymore and are working on a different campaign for a different product.
Is affiliate marketing for everyone?
Not everyone has what it takes to be successful in affiliate marketing. There are certain skills involved. Some have these skills instinctively and others learn them. But the bottom line is the hard work and perseverance required to see success. Too many set themselves up for failure by spending the time to set up a website based around their chosen affiliate marketing plan and expect too much to happen too soon. They get frustrated and quit.
You and affiliate marketing.
The future of advertising has changed because of affiliate marketing. You can be a part of this by bringing in new customers to companies whose products and services you advertise as an affiliate. The work is hard but if you are willing to learn and research, be dedicated and patient, you will see the profits you seek. Making money from affiliate marketing is something you can do. So, don’t delay another day! Get a start now in learning how it is done just as I did and before you know it, you will be working for yourself and not someone else.

Affiliate marketing can be an extremely profitable business provided you know how to stay ahead in the competition. The key to success is to learn from the mistakes other marketers have made before you and never repeat them again. Here are the top 8 mistakes most affiliate marketers make:
1. Not selecting the right merchant
It is important that you select the right kind of products for your affiliate marketing program but what is more important is to select the right merchant as well. If you have a merchant who is non-responsive or treats affiliates more as annoyances instead of business partners then you should not do business with such a merchant. Try looking for merchants who have an affiliate marketer protection policy, have good commission rates and have a good customer support system. This way, you can easily contact your merchant when you have doubts or clarifications. You can easily find out if a merchant is reliable – just ask him some questions, ask to provide some more information about the affiliate program, promotional tools. If merchant looks helpful then you can do business.
2. Laziness of trying out new promotional campaigns and products
Most affiliate marketers get so caught up in one particular segment that they fail to experiment with other niches. It is always in your best interests as an affiliate marketer to try selling and propagating products that belong to diverse verticals. This helps you expand your horizons and also get more exposure in the domains you are working in. Plus, you will be more likely to be perceived as an affiliate marketer of choice for future merchant programs.
3. Not having your own home page
Most affiliate marketers have gone on by directing their customers to the merchant site directly. However, today that does not work so good anymore as customers have become smarter. Instead, you need to direct your customers to your own home page of the affiliate site – landing page – and pre-sell the product yourself. You do not need to have a very complex looking site but definitely one that is clean and concise in its messaging. This gives you much more flexibility in tweaking your landing page’s text, so you can easily increase sales.
4. Not following up with customers
Customers have so many options to choose from so why would they purchase from your affiliate site? This is why you need a good follow-up system in place. Make sure to send a reminder email or just pick up the phone and speak to your customers. This helps garner trust and credibility and customers will be likely to purchase from your site once they know you are taking the extra effort to persuade them. Make sure you have an e-mail list of your customers. This way you can keep in contact with all of them and when you release your new product – you can easily blast an e-mail to your list and make sales instantly.
5. Not having other income earning avenues
As an affiliate marketer you always need to have options around as far as income earning is concerned. Therefore, try and look for sources like article marketing, ebooks, viral marketing techniques, forum marketing, blogging, having your own website etc. These sources of referrals will go a long way in keeping you protected during especially lean periods as they will continue to garner customer interest and money for you. Cultivate each of your selected traffic sources. However, make sure to stay with your strategy for some time and don’t just jump from one to another.
6. Signing up for too many affiliate programs
Many affiliate marketers get extremely tempted to sign up for as many affiliate programs as possible. However, this will most likely do more harm than good. When you select too many products to promote you lose focus and direction. Then, it can be difficult to direct your attention to a winning marketing strategy which in turn will hamper profits. Select only a few good looking affiliate programs and work on them and stay focused. This will bring you much more profits.
7. Not having patience
Affiliate marketing is like any other business and requires patience to succeed. You need to wait it out before you start breaking even. Don’t believe these ‘overnight rich’ promises, they are complete nonsense. Affiliate marketing requires efforts and patience to succeed… It takes learning, testing and trying until you succeed. But when you achieve the success, believe me – it’s really worth all those efforts.
8. Not selecting the right affiliate network
There are many affiliate networks, however only a small number provides affiliate marketers with all tools required to succeed. You need to have a good affiliate link protection, commission payment system working like a clock-work, you need to be protected so your affiliate commissions could not be stolen. You can definitely try out Click2Sell.EU (http://www.click2sell.eu). It is an affiliate marketing network that was designed with an affiliate in mind. It protects your affiliate commissions, allows you to track all your advertising campaigns and keywords, websites that bring sales. It was designed to help affiliate marketers succeed, so if you are not doing affiliate marketing yet, you can easily start it today.

So you have been wanting to get into affiliate marketing, and want to know the rules. You have your website and or blog all set up and ready to go. You have chosen your niche and market that you want to promote and make money off of. You just need links to start making money.
Promoting others services and products is not something that is difficult to do. However, you will find that with all of the many companies that offer affiliate programs, and referral options, they all have their own rules that you must follow.
Affiliate marketing is pretty easy to follow, that is unless you have many different programs that you are a part of. When you start getting so many that you cannot remember the rules, or the guidelines that you have to follow, you might have a problem.
This is because the rules for affiliate programs are as different as the companies. Each company is allowed to make their own rules. However, you might see many similarities. That does not mean that they are copying one another, or cloning their affiliate program so to speak, but yet it means that they have the same rules.
Affiliate marketing rules can be so very different. They can range from not mentioning the brand names that they sell anywhere on your website, to not have that particular market in your website URL. Because they are so different for each program and company that you promote, you are going to have to be sure that you read each one well and make sure that you understand it fully. If you all ready have your URL for your website, you may not be able to participate in some of the affiliate programs. This is because you will not meet the requirements for the rules.
Another rule that you are going to see often when you are into affiliate marketing is the page rank rule. Some of the companies that will allow you to promote their services or products will not want you to have a higher page rank than they do. Nor will they allow you to have a website that is higher in the search engine rankings. For example, if you were promoting coffee, and you wanted to become an affiliate for Folgers coffee.
Your website would not be able to come up above the official Folgers coffee website in the search engine results when coffee, or Folgers coffee is used as the search term. The companies that have this rule in place for their affiliate marketing programs feel as if your website were higher than theirs for the product that they are selling, that it would hurt their business tremendously. And, it just might. They would rather have the straight sales any day, than the commissioned sales. Who would not?
Keeping a spreadsheet of the affiliate marketing programs that you are a part of and their rules is a great idea. This way you are never confused and know just where you need to stand to be a part of that program. This is the best thing that you can do for your affiliate marketing business. Not only that, you will also find that some of the sites that have broken rules and have been caught have resulted in law suits. Cover your tracks and make sure that you are following the rules that are set by that company for the best results.
You will also find that there is a thing that is called affiliate marketing software. If you can find a program that fits your needs and will help you keep everything straight, you may not have to worry about keeping track of them yourself.
Use your software to keep track and make sure that you are doing your affiliate marketing the right way. Your efforts will pay off eventually, and you will be glad that you went by the book and followed the necessary affiliate marketing rules.

Affiliate marketing is one of the hottest ways to sell products on the internet. The way it works is an “affiliate” is rewarded for every visitor, customer, and subscriber that it provides to another online business, the “merchant”. It’s the internet’s version of the time honored tradition of paying finder’s-fees for the introduction of new customers to a business, except it’s much easier, or more detail www.success-affiliate-marketing.com,less expensive and ultimately more successful if implemented correctly.Compensation can be made in the following ways:

• Pay per Click – Based on a certain value for each visit• Pay per Lead – Based a certain value for each registrant• Pay per Sale – Based on a commission for each customer or sale

The best thing about this system from the merchant’s viewpoint is that No payment is due to an affiliate until there are results.

The perfect profile for an affiliate would be a website with lots of traffic, and customers who are in the target market of the merchants’ products. The affiliate can generate traffic in the following ways:

• Pay per Click search traffic• Their own organic website traffic• Natural search traffic• Links to other sites• General advertising

An Integral part of the online marketing mix for many companies

Many companies are running affiliate programs and finding that it’s a great resource of web traffic. In fact, they are finding that it accounts for a higher percentage of online sales every year. In many studies, it is being shown that the increase in business seems to be approximately 15-20% of total online revenue on an annual basis.

So what are the options for a company that wants to jump in the affiliate marketing game? Essentially, there are two ways to do it:

• Private affiliate system – the merchant company would handle its affiliate system and would need to sign up for affiliates individually at the respective sites.

• The affiliate company joins an affiliate network – all tracking and payment of commissions is handled by the network.

Most affiliate programs have a one-tier set up. However, multi-tier, network affiliate programs are also an interesting dynamic. This is a program that distributes commissions into a hierarchical referral network of sign-ups and sub-affiliates. Here is an example:

• Publisher signs up for the affiliate program with an advertiser and gets rewarded for the agreed activity conducted by a referred visitor.

• If publisher attracts other publishers to sign up for the same affiliate program using their code, all future sales by the joining publishers will result in additional, lower commission for publisher.

As you would expect, this system rewards a chain of hierarchical publishers who may not even know about the others, and can be very successful if implemented correctly.

In addition to the third party affiliate networks explained earlier, there are other automated solutions for merchants who want to implement a program. These include:

• Standalone software• Hosted services• Shopping carts with affiliate features

Affiliate marketing sometimes had a negative reputation in its early days. Affiliates had the tendency to use spam to promote the programs in which they were enrolled. As affiliate marketing has evolved, or more detailwww.affiliate-directories-online.com. The terms and conditions of affiliate merchants have prohibited this practice. However, spamdexing became a little more complex when they started sending out volumes of auto generated web pages, each devoted to different niche keywords as a way of optimizing their sites with the search engines. Fortunately, Google has removed a lot of this mostly computer generated duplicate content from its index.

Affiliate Marketing Rules

So you have been wanting to get into affiliate marketing, and want to know the rules. You have your website and or blog all set up and ready to go. You have chosen your niche and market that you want to promote and make money off of. You just need links to start making money. Promoting other’s services and products is not something that is difficult to do. However, you will find that with all of the many companies that offer affiliate programs, and referral options, they all have their own rules that you must follow.

Affiliate marketing is pretty easy to follow, that is unless you have many different programs that you are a part of. When you start getting so many that you cannot remember the rules, or the guidelines that you have to follow, you might have a problem. This is because the rules for affiliate programs are as different as the companies. Each company is allowed to make their own rules. However, you might see many similarities. That does not mean that they are copying one another, or cloning their affiliate program so to speak, but yet it means that they have the same rules.

Affiliate marketing rules can be so very different. They can range from not mentioning the brand names that they sell anywhere on your website, to not have that particular market in your website URL. Because they are so different for each program and company that you promote, you are going to have to be sure that you read each one well and make sure that you understand it fully. If you all ready have your URL for your website, you may not be able to participate in some of the affiliate programs. This is because you will not meet the requirements for the rules.

Another rule that you are going to see often when you are into affiliate marketing is the page rank rule. Some of the companies that will allow you to promote their services or products will not want you to have a higher page rank than they do. Nor will they allow you to have a website that is higher in the search engine rankings. For example, if you were promoting coffee, and you wanted to become an affiliate for Folgers coffee. Your website would not be able to come up above the official Folgers coffee website in the search engine results when coffee, or Folgers coffee is used as the search term. The companies that have this rule in place for their affiliate marketing programs feel  as if your website were higher than theirs for the product that they are selling, that it would hurt their business tremendously. And, it just might. They would rather have the straight sales any day, than the commissioned sales. Who wouldn’t?

Keeping a spreadsheet of the affiliate marketing programs that you are a part of and their rules is a great idea. This way you are never confused and know just where you need to stand to be a part of that program. This is the best thing that you can do for your affiliate marketing business. Not only that, you will also find that some of the sites that have broken rules and have been caught have resulted in law suits. Cover your tracks and make sure that you are following the rules that are set by that company for the best results.

You will also find that there is a thing that is called affiliate marketing software. If you can find a program that fits your needs and will help you keep everything straight, you may not have to worry about keeping track of them yourself. Use your software to keep track and make sure that you are doing your affiliate marketing the right way. Your efforts will pay off eventually, and you will be glad that you went by the book and followed the necessary affiliate marketing rules.

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If you’re thinking of starting up an affiliate program for your company, or perhaps you’re just getting into affiliate marketing as a publisher; the points for consideration below may be of value to you. In most affiliate programs, the top few percent of affiliates generate the vast majority of sales; so you want as many qualities, for more details visit to www.money-secret-exposed.com or “super” affiliates participating in your program as possible.So what do these super affiliates want? The following are some of the features that quality affiliates look for when deciding on programs to participate in.Recommended affiliate management software Solid product and merchant siteBefore you contemplate implementing an affiliate program, ensure that your product is rock solid and your site is presentable. Affiliates (aka publishers) don’t want to send valuable traffic to pages that won’t convert or to products that don’t work. Learn more about creating effective landing pages.Trustworthy companyTake the position of the affiliate for a moment and visit your site’s company profile pages. Do these pages provide enough information to instill confidence in a potential affiliate that your company is trustworthy? Good affiliates really check over a company before joining a program; especially if they are going to be giving you broad coverage on their site, for more details visit to www.affiliate-manager-pro.com which is what you’ll want. Particularly in regards to your affiliate program, put a face to the name of whomever will be managing it. Many of the principles of reassuring customers apply to reassuring affiliates.CommunicationIt’s a good idea to have a dedicated point of contact for your affiliate program and that person is prompt in responding to affiliate inquiries. Affiliates shouldn’t be viewed as annoying, they are important partners in your business. If you should strike problems in your program, be up front about it rather than defensive. Most quality publishers are quite forgiving when it comes to glitches as long as you’re honest about it and resolve the issue.A regular newsletter can help remind affiliates of your existence – many affiliates sign up to programs and then get side-tracked; never actually getting around to publishing up promo material. A newsletter also helps instill more confidence in your affiliate network that you’re proactive and the program is evolving. If you decide to offer an affiliate newsletter, flaunt this on your program details page.High one-time payouts can be a good way of attracting attention, but if you can; offer a residual commission option too; i.e. a percentage of the customers payments paid to the affiliate on an ongoing basis. Avoid the MLM stigma2nd tier commissions, i.e. commissions paid on sales made by an affiliate who was referred by another publisher, are a great option to include in your program; but offering 3rd tier and beyond commission levels may give the impression that your program is MLM (multi-level marketing); aka network marketing. In essence, it would be. There have been so many scam MLM schemes both on and off the web in recent years that these types of commission structures can really scare off potential affiliates. Some affiliate program directories refuse to list programs with commission levels beyond the second tier and if you’re using PayPal to pay commissions, you may find they close your account. PayPal is particularly sensitive to merchants who run multiple level commission programs due to the MLM stigma. Learn more about MLM.Promotional materialQuality affiliates are very busy people – the more brain strain you can take out of the development of promotional material, the better. Further to banners and links, many affiliates find promo page content such as as paragraphs or full articles very useful. Often, they’ll edit the text to suit their own purposes, but by providing these materials to them greatly decreases the amount of time they spend in developing pages.Top affiliates know that most purchases don’t occur on the first click. In fact, many people purchase products days, weeks or even months later after being exposed to them. For this reason, if you’re using cookies for tracking referrals, the cookie should be set to expire in a minimum of 90 days. If you set cookies to expire within a week, I can guarantee you’ll miss out on recruiting top performing affiliates.Payment thresholdsMost affiliate marketers are able to receive payments via PayPal these days – especially those based in Western countries such as the UK, USA, Australia and Canada. If you intend on using PayPal, make arrangements to upload commissions in a batch file and fund your account via eCheck. This will minimize the amount the affiliate needs to pay in PayPal fees when transferring the funds to their own bank accounts. I love using PayPal, but the slice they can take out of commissions paid via normal means can be rather huge.

If you’re thinking of starting up an affiliate program for your company, or perhaps you’re just getting into affiliate marketing as a publisher; the points for consideration below may be of value to you. In most affiliate programs, the top few percent of affiliates generate the vast majority of sales; so you want as many qualities, for more details visit to www.money-secret-exposed.com or “super” affiliates participating in your program as possible.So what do these super affiliates want? The following are some of the features that quality affiliates look for when deciding on programs to participate in.Recommended affiliate management software Solid product and merchant siteBefore you contemplate implementing an affiliate program, ensure that your product is rock solid and your site is presentable. Affiliates (aka publishers) don’t want to send valuable traffic to pages that won’t convert or to products that don’t work. Learn more about creating effective landing pages.Trustworthy companyTake the position of the affiliate for a moment and visit your site’s company profile pages. Do these pages provide enough information to instill confidence in a potential affiliate that your company is trustworthy? Good affiliates really check over a company before joining a program; especially if they are going to be giving you broad coverage on their site, for more details visit to www.affiliate-manager-pro.com which is what you’ll want. Particularly in regards to your affiliate program, put a face to the name of whomever will be managing it. Many of the principles of reassuring customers apply to reassuring affiliates.CommunicationIt’s a good idea to have a dedicated point of contact for your affiliate program and that person is prompt in responding to affiliate inquiries. Affiliates shouldn’t be viewed as annoying, they are important partners in your business. If you should strike problems in your program, be up front about it rather than defensive. Most quality publishers are quite forgiving when it comes to glitches as long as you’re honest about it and resolve the issue.A regular newsletter can help remind affiliates of your existence – many affiliates sign up to programs and then get side-tracked; never actually getting around to publishing up promo material. A newsletter also helps instill more confidence in your affiliate network that you’re proactive and the program is evolving. If you decide to offer an affiliate newsletter, flaunt this on your program details page.High one-time payouts can be a good way of attracting attention, but if you can; offer a residual commission option too; i.e. a percentage of the customers payments paid to the affiliate on an ongoing basis. Avoid the MLM stigma2nd tier commissions, i.e. commissions paid on sales made by an affiliate who was referred by another publisher, are a great option to include in your program; but offering 3rd tier and beyond commission levels may give the impression that your program is MLM (multi-level marketing); aka network marketing. In essence, it would be. There have been so many scam MLM schemes both on and off the web in recent years that these types of commission structures can really scare off potential affiliates. Some affiliate program directories refuse to list programs with commission levels beyond the second tier and if you’re using PayPal to pay commissions, you may find they close your account. PayPal is particularly sensitive to merchants who run multiple level commission programs due to the MLM stigma. Learn more about MLM.Promotional materialQuality affiliates are very busy people – the more brain strain you can take out of the development of promotional material, the better. Further to banners and links, many affiliates find promo page content such as as paragraphs or full articles very useful. Often, they’ll edit the text to suit their own purposes, but by providing these materials to them greatly decreases the amount of time they spend in developing pages.Top affiliates know that most purchases don’t occur on the first click. In fact, many people purchase products days, weeks or even months later after being exposed to them. For this reason, if you’re using cookies for tracking referrals, the cookie should be set to expire in a minimum of 90 days. If you set cookies to expire within a week, I can guarantee you’ll miss out on recruiting top performing affiliates.Payment thresholdsMost affiliate marketers are able to receive payments via PayPal these days – especially those based in Western countries such as the UK, USA, Australia and Canada. If you intend on using PayPal, make arrangements to upload commissions in a batch file and fund your account via eCheck. This will minimize the amount the affiliate needs to pay in PayPal fees when transferring the funds to their own bank accounts. I love using PayPal, but the slice they can take out of commissions paid via normal means can be rather huge.