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July 28, 2008

How To Recruit 500 New Affiliates With Very Little Work

How To Recruit 500 New Affiliates With Very Little Work
Copyright 2008 by Willie Crawford

If you run an affiliate program, but are struggling to
get it off the ground, you can change that. You only
really need a few dedicated affiliates to start making
sales, and after that the affiliate program can actually
grow itself automatically.

A little-acknowledged fact is that with many affiliate
programs, the top 5% of affiliates make 95% of the
affiliate sales. Indeed, with many affiliate programs
that I've studied, the top 1% of affiliates make 95%
of affiliate sales.

So, it's not really a numbers game. It's a matter of
recruiting people who will actually promote the product
effectively. The secret there is to make it really,
really easy for them to promote your product.

I said earlier that it's easy to have your affiliate
program grow itself. The "secret" is to recruit your
customers as affiliates. After a customer has used
your product, and fell in love with it, they are ideal
for telling others about it. So, why not send them a
follow-up message (via autoresponder) telling them
about your affiliate program.

What could be simpler?

Here's an easy way to recruit those early affiliates.
It's actually a stealth affiliate recruiting
SYSTEM :-)

1) You create a short ebook related to the problem
that your product solves. You can design this ebook
to be sold, or given away.

2) In your ebook you recommend your product several
times, as the logical solution to the problem that
you're writing about.

3) You turn this ebook into a "rebrandable ebook"
meaning that you set it up so that those who get the
ebook can change the links recommending your product
to THEIR affiliate links.

4) You bundle the ebook in a zip file with a text
file explaining how to rebrand the ebook AND how to
join your affiliate program. In that file, you also
generally include a software rebrander tool such
as Viral Document Toolkit.

5) You join one of the many free giveaway sites
that allow you to not only giveaway your products,
but to grow your email list in the process.

With these giveaways, you typically require a visitor
to the giveaway site to visit your site, and join your list
in order to access your gift. This is how participating
in these free giveaways allows you to grow your list.

6) You tell your list members, friends on sites such
as Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, etc., about the free
giveaway. You do this because the success of these
free list-building giveaways depend upon contributors
all spreading the word.

Contributors are generally rewarded for helping
publicize the event on a point system. You earn points
for recruiting new members (who come for the gifts),
and for recruiting new contributors.

The more points you have, the higher up in the gift
listings your gift appears. This is important because
if a site has a LOT of free gifts, it's very likely
that many visitors are not going to sift through hundreds
of listings. They're going to look at the first few
pages, grab the items that interests them, and perhaps
never come back to download the gifts listed deeper
within the site.

7) Thousands of visitors come to the giveaway site,
and if your description is enticing enough, download
YOUR rebrandable ebook.

They unzip your package, read the easy to follow
instructions, register as your affiliate, rebrand the
ebook with their affiliate links, and then begin
selling or giving away your ebook.

When they begin distributing that ebook, they have
begun actively promoting your product.

Do you see why I called this a "stealth affiliate
recruiting system?"

Since they can earn money from the ebook, and since
you make promoting your affiliate product as easy as
perhaps offering your ebook from their blog or
newsletter, you will have lots of new ACTIVE affiliates.
They'll be active because you made it almost no work.

Select the right free list-building giveaway, and you
could easily recruit 500 new ACTIVE affiliates with very
little work.

There you have it, a simple plan for growing your affiliate
program faster than most people dare imagine is even possible.
Now, if you don't have a rapidly growing affiliate program,
it's because you simply won't even do the EASY things to
make it happen :-)

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Willie Crawford is co-founder of The Viral Rebrandable
Money Machines Giveaway, a free list-building giveaway
that features ONLY rebrandable gifts. Register as a member
or contributor to this free business building giveaway today
at: http://ViralRebrandableMoneyMachines.com/

Posted by Willie Crawford at July 28, 2008 08:53 PM

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