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An Affiliate Program Will Catapult Your Sales
Creating Your Own Affiliate Program Will Catapult Your Sales Into Orbit
In the publishing world, your goal as a writer who has published a book would be to get as many stores carrying your book as possible — and promoting it at the same time! In the online world, you have a similar way to sell more eBooks, courses, and other products… an affiliate program. Your affiliate program will catapult your sales in an amazing and magical way!
An affiliate is a person who signs up to promote your product for a percentage of the sale. By promote, I mean drive targeted traffic to it. Their responsibility is not to sell for you — that’s what your sales copy does.
The percentage usually paid to affiliates is 50% and up. Some programs even pay a whopping 75% of the sale. Sometimes it depends on the price of the product. If my product is $1,000, then I might be able to offer a 20% ($200) commission to my affiliates, but if it ’s only $19.95, then I’d better be offering a big cut to make it worthwhile to an affiliate.
Some affiliate marketers earn a huge paycheck marketing other people’s products. Some don’t even have their own products — they live solely off of driving traffic to other sites. These people, who make an amazing income, are known as Super…
