Affiliates are the real moneymakers of businesses. You’re willingness to share a portion of the profit in exchange for new leads and more sales will improve your business a hundred fold. The first thing to do is to set up your affiliate system. The following are the things you must take note of when you’re managing your own affiliate program.

Price of Products

If you’re going to split the profits with your affiliates, you need to go over the prices of your products. Strike a balance between reasonable pricing and generous incentives. Price becomes a non-issue only if you’re selling virtual (downloadable) items. But if your products have to be delivered and inventorized, you need to make sure the price covers the costs before you think of splitting the profits with affiliates.

Affiliate Incentives

Of course you want to keep as much of that hard-earned money as you can, but you have to remember the target with an affiliate program. Your goal must be to run a program attractive enough that affiliates will be happy and proud to work for you. If your incentives are not exciting enough, affiliates will go to your competitors.

Affiliates will work hard for you if they know they are being rewarded fairly for doing so. Affiliates will keep your incentive program in mind whenever they refer people to your website. The most aggressive ones pour thousands into advertising just so they can sell your product. When deciding on commissions have a look at your competitors to see what is standard in your industry.

Think about your capital and how long before you can break even, even with an affiliate program in place. Digital products (ebooks, mp3s, special reports, etc) will typically have a commission of 40-75%. If your product is a downloadable software, 20% is generous because you may have to pay a full time technician to deal with customer complaints and tech support. For products that have to be delivered, 10% is generous.

Cookie Management

Cookies in internet marketing are very relevant pieces of harmless code that gets uploaded in the browser of the website visitor. A cookie tells you whether an affiliate made a sale or not. Most affiliates look at the cookie duration when choosing an affiliate program to join.

A cookie with an affiliate’s referral code gets uploaded in a potential customer’s browser and stays there for the duration that you set up. If the customer doesn’t buy on the spot, she may return to purchase something in a week or so. If the cookie duration is for a month, the affiliate gets paid as long as the customer buys within 30 days.

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