Comments on: Building Your Army of Affiliates http://whoisandrewwee.com/affiliate-marketing/building-your-army-of-affiliates/ BizExcellerated Internet Marketing: Achieve mastery in blogging, affiliate marketing, social traffic generation at Andrew Wee Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:15:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 By: Andrew Wee http://whoisandrewwee.com/affiliate-marketing/building-your-army-of-affiliates/comment-page-1/#comment-12845 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:15:43 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/204/building-your-army-of-affiliates/#comment-12845 In reply to Rod Beckwith.

Hi Rod,
Thanks for the feedback.

I’ll look at covering that in a later post.

]]> By: Rod Beckwith http://whoisandrewwee.com/affiliate-marketing/building-your-army-of-affiliates/comment-page-1/#comment-12823 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:17:35 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/204/building-your-army-of-affiliates/#comment-12823 Hi Andrew,

Something you don’t cover is what it takes to recruit new affiliates if you don’t spend the time and money to sell your own products.

If you spend time and money on recruiting affiliates, then you are more likely to succeed.

Rod

]]> By: Andrew Wee http://whoisandrewwee.com/affiliate-marketing/building-your-army-of-affiliates/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:36:10 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/204/building-your-army-of-affiliates/#comment-1199 Hi Rick,
I’d suggest working from a master plan/business plan.

You’d probably define how you’d like affiliates to perform.

Are they primarily to:
1) Drive sales
2) Drive your word of mouth campaign
3) Create product awareness?

Depending on how important a role you’d expect them to play, and your available resources on hand, you’d be able to allocate your resources appropriately.

For some of the products I’m currently marketing, I’ve spoken to the product creators and I understand this site is responsible for 40-50% of product sales.

Here’s the bottomline.
If you have one or two super affiliates or huge list owners in mind, you might like to prioritize them. I’d always prioritize these.

If on the other hand, you have an army of newbie affiliates (and no super affiliates in sight – very rare!), you have no choice, but to bring up their proficiency level. It can be quite tough though.

]]> By: Rick http://whoisandrewwee.com/affiliate-marketing/building-your-army-of-affiliates/comment-page-1/#comment-1198 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:10:54 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/204/building-your-army-of-affiliates/#comment-1198 Newbie question.

How does one create effective affiliates? Working from the 20/80 principle, where 20% of the people do 80% of the business and the other 80% does 20% of the business, what is the most efficeint way to improve the marketing skills of the 80%.

What is outlined in the article is good for the individuals that already know how to market a product. How far do you do to improve the skills of those that don’t? Or is it even worth the trouble. Is it better to just focus on those with the can-do abilities?

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