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The Internet is a BIG place - with lots of competition. While there are hundreds of billions of dollars changing
hands, it is hard to cut through the crowd to get your share of the Internet gold rush.
Create it, pop it up there and they will come and see - No Chance, there are 60 Billion pages on the internet now.
No question, the fastest way to profits is to start your own affiliate program. Getting other people to promote
your
business in exchange for a commission on sales - you now have a program - so what can you do with it?
Sounds great in theory, but your affiliate program will fall flat if you don't have a few simple steps in place to
assist your providers. Follow these steps to make your affiliate team a streamlined money- making machine and your
campaign with Beyonet a success.
Linking & Promotion
1. Work hard to get all your affiliates to put your link on their site and/or in their email. This sounds
rudimentary,
but it is by far the most difficult part of getting your affiliate program off the ground - Many affiliates will
subscribe then remain dormant. Please feel free to log into your merchant area, view the site and email the owner. If
they require something specific, try to meet their needs, try to help them.
Despite good intentions, 80 percent of those who sign up for your affiliate program won't get around to putting
your
link on their site.
They are busy people and you will need to politely remind them three, five, even seven times to load your graphics
or links - although we help, we can not watch every program running on Beyonet, therefore we leave encouragement to you.
Send your reminders in the form of a free report showing them how to promote the opportunity, a monthly newsletter,
or
occasionally email updates on how well the affiliate program is progressing and how well other affiliates are doing
(without referring to them directly please).
Ezine & Opt-in Mailings
2. Show your affiliates the magic of good ezine advertising. Pick out a handful of good email newsletters that let
your affiliates place an ad for $15 to $40. Busy affiliates will find this more attractive than spending hours placing
free ads and getting discouraged. Send them to E-zineZ.com, BestEzines.com, and LifeStylesPub.com for
info on ezines.
Sales Letters
3. More applicable for specific products or services rather than e-commerce sites - Write, or have someone write
for
you, several ads and sales letters your affiliates can use. Put them on your website and have them available via
autoresponder. Be sure to remind affiliates that spamming is forbidden. You may need to clarify what spamming is to
new affiliates. Most affiliate spammers do so unintentionally because they are new and simply don't know better.
Banners & Creatives
4. Design some banners your affiliates can place on their sites along with simple instructions for linking them.
You
can get excellent free banners from Zy.com and NetStudio.com. Make sure you utilize the facilities available within
Beyonet. One banner is normally insufficient, every site is laid out different, some sites will simply not have the
room for a 468x60 banner. Therefore it is essential you create a broad range of creatives for affiliates to use.
Scratch Your Own Back
5. Make sure you promote your own program. A web site owner with interests in you category of business will often
surf
relative sites. It is essential you promote your own affiliate scheme. Beyonet can provide a template web page to
allow your affiliates to join and you earn from this. If these affiliates host other merchants offers, you earn 5% of
their residual income. If they earn $50 or more, you receive a $5.00 bonus automatically.
We can transfer this balance and credit your merchant account if you wish, or pay you !
Promote to Promote
6. If your campaign is new to the affiliate world, it is well worthwhile promoting your campaign across the
affiliate
directory sites. These are sites that webmasters use to view and check out new campaigns launched or changed by
affiliate sites. There are many, so please be aware.
By creating your own affiliate program with Beyonet and following these simple steps, you can avoid common
pitfalls and put your affiliate program in high-earnings mode.
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