Affiliate Program Management Training Guide

This straightforward, step by step, downloadable Training Guide takes you through the process and planning of:

- What Exactly An Affiliate Program Is And Why You Need One: Find out why an affiliate program can be more powerful than ANY form of advertising that you can buy.

- What Types of Affiliate Programs You Can Run: And which types of programs or combinations inspire the greatest loyalty from your affiliates.

- Paying Your Affiliates: Maximizing your profit, offering competitive commissions and other important things to consider.

- How to Pay Your Affiliates: There are a number of ways to ensure your affiliates get paid, but this guide gives you a clear recommendation for the best way. It's cost-effective and your affiliates will appreciate it. You'll also find out why some of the gurus are totally WRONG about the presumptions on how affiliates like to get paid.

- How You Can Start a Profitable Affiliate Program, Even if You Don't Have a Product: Yes, it's absolutely true. You don't have to sell your own products to benefit from your own affiliate program.

- Must-Have Features in Your Affiliate Program: Affiliate systems are not created equal. Find out exactly what you need included in your top-notch affiliate program.

- Two-Tier Affiliate Programs: Why they're not all they're cracked up to be, but an IMPORTANT reason why you may want this feature available in your affiliate system.

- Why So Many Affiliate Programs are Doomed to Failure: I reveal one of the biggest mistakes affiliate program managers make and how you can avoid it.

- Training Affiliates: Even if it sounds daunting to train affiliates, there's good news. This package includes access to a fully-customizable affiliate training manual. Just fill in the blanks and you're ready to go.

- Keeping Your Affiliates Happy: Incorporate these best practices to help ensure your affiliates promote your product, instead of your competitors.

- Creating the Affiliate Promotional Tools Your Affiliates Are Craving: Website owners have basic needs... and you can fulfill them with your affiliate program. It's a win-win situation. They'll make more commissions and you'll sell more products.

- Finding Potential Affiliates: 8 sure-fire methods to finding plenty of highly-targeted affiliates that will love your product.

- How to Contact Your Potential Affiliates: Avoid the common mistakes so many product-sellers make when contacting affiliates and get more "yes's" from your potential affiliate partners.

- Effective Follow-Up: Strategies to encourage your potential affiliates to accept your offer, without shoving it down their throats and sending them running the other way.

- Getting Affiliates to Take Action: Your work isn't quite done once they say, "Yes". Use these easy-to-follow steps to motivate them into taking action and start promoting your product.

- Dealing with the Bumps in the Road: If it's not always smooth sailing, this section will help you deal with spammers, other unscrupulous affiliates and the unexpected.

- Choosing the Right Affiliate Manager Software System for Your Business: Learn what you need to know to make the best decision for an affiliate program that will serve you long into the future.