Starting your own affiliate program

When nothing is prohibited — everything is implicitly allowed. Are you positive that you do not want to prohibit certain affiliate activity or promotional tactics? You may find an affiliate program agreement template here. Finally, to start an affiliate program, you need to implement the tracking component.

Starting an affiliate program is not hard. As any serious marketing campaign, every affiliate program must be managed.

See my other videos on what affiliate program management entails, and — whether you manage it yourself or work with a specialist such as an OPM agency like mine — if you want grow it, do devote the time to it.

Remember the name ShopSafeMall? That's what AShopping Guide used to be called a few months ago. You've probably seen the name popping up in LinkExchange Digest, I-Sales, and all sorts of other places around the Internet. It's that clever combination of paid advertising and cunning free marketing which makes AShoppingGuide well worth considering for a merchant. However, like most associate programs, this one doesn't reward you for signing up new associates and — unlike my Favourite Web Cards — it doesn't give you permission to use your special URL in newsletters or articles.

At first glance, I didn't like some of the banners provided, because they emphasize how great the associate program is, instead of persuading merchants to list — which is how you will earn your commissions.

On second thoughts, though, they are eye-catching ads, well designed to generate high click-throughs. And it's getting people to click which is often the hardest part.

I haven't received a reply — probably because my web host is up to his favourite trick, installing new equipment, and some of my e-mail has been bouncing. For merchants wanting to start their own associate program, there's a new option, Affiliate Link software from AffiliateZone.

Craig Belcher owns BelHal — Triguide. Affiliate Link software is a series of cgi scripts that allows a webmaster to start and maintain his own affiliate program for goods or services. The merchant can choose to pay a fixed amount for click-throughs or set the program to pay a percentage of the goods sold, or a mixture of the two. If you choose to use that option, the affiliate won't be able to market your goods or services via newsletters, mailing lists, newsgroups, or articles on other web sites.

It sounds unnecessarily restrictive to me, but the good thing is that it's just an available option. It may suit some merchants who want tight control over how the marketing is done. Real-time stats are provided so the merchant always knows who is selling what and how much, and the the affiliates have peace of mind that they are not being cheated.

If you're too busy to start and run an associate program you can choose a Pay Affiliate option. You can expect to see some big changes at the site — but more about that when it happens. Oh yes, I nearly forgot. I think it's an ideal one for my site.

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