The best way to propel your business, is to use an affiliate program. With an affiliate program you have a lot of other people promoting and selling your product. One of the big advantages of this is that you only pay for the promotion after a sale has been made.
Because you have a lot of people promoting your product, it will now also be seen as a popularproduct. This also adds to your sales. It is a sort of viral effect. You may have to share 50% of the sales with your affiliates, but you will still end up making good money.
Let’s say you didn’t want to share with your affiliates, and you are just going to promote it yourself. Could you do as well by yourself as opposed to using affiliates? Well let’s have a look at it. You have a list of 100,000 subscribers. You advertise to your list and get to a 0.04% conversion rate. This means that you would sell 400 copies of your product and get to keep 100% of the income.
Now we will carry us a little bit further. You decided you also wanted to use affiliates to promote this product. With 100 affiliates selling 10 products each, you have just sold a further 1000 copies of your product. Even though you now share 50% of the profit with your affiliates. You still end up making far more money with far less effort.
If you own a product, you really need to use an affiliate program. How can you set up an affiliate program? There are two ways and both of them a good. You could buy software to run on your server. I’ve personally had experience with a software program called Jam Affiliates from Jrox.com. It is powerful and easy to use and administer.
There is another way in which you don’t need to buy software or install a script and that is by using ClickBank. For many affiliates this is the preferred way. To join ClickBank as an affiliate is free of charge. To become a seller on ClickBank costs very little.
Personally I love ClickBank. For one thing, ClickBank recruits the affiliates. It also handles all the administration duties, which makes my life much easier. You don’t have to worry about paying your affiliates, it’s all done by ClickBank. So when you get your check from ClickBank, it is all yours. And your affiliates love it as they feel more secure with ClickBank.
The option of running your own affiliate program or running with ClickBank both viable and good options. It’s obvious, that to really be successful online. You must use affiliates and an affiliate program. The easiest way to go, is to use ClickBank as all the administration problems are handled by them. So even though they take a small commission, it is well worth it.

