Establishing Affiliate Marketing For Client

A product on Amazon has the potential of tens of thousands of Amazon affiliates....

Makes no sense.

You are not aware of the Amazon Affiliate program? Don't mean to be rude but have no idea where you are coming from.

Do you have experience with online affiliate sales through clickbank, JVZoo or similar platform?

Perhaps there are other forms of promotion the seller would hire you to do.

If their product is on Amazon, then you should be promoting it from Amazon's affiliate program.

To me, it sounds like you are trying to start an MLM with someone else's product. To do that, why not create your own product and mark it up 500% so you can afford to pay those below you?

Not bad per se. I'm a little jaded as I believe the MLM industry to be a great concept that works for the few, but not the many. Those are only my personal thoughts.

If that's what you would like to do, then you should either develop and sell your own - or create a joint venture with the owner in which you would sel their product through an mlm.

The only 'bad' part is you have no idea what you are doing.

You are trying to find a way to profit from someone else's product by finding a third person to set it up. Not a good plan.

If you truly believe in this product you would do better perhaps to build a site and run a promotional campaign to SELL this product as an Amazon affiliate yourself.

Ok, then, good luck.

It is and it isn't a good thing. It's just as easy, if not easier long-term, to just put together quality content promoting this product.

There are so many things to promote out there. Is you want to do sales, then I would suggest becoming an independent sales person for them who is allowed to hire/find others below you. It sounds simple until you begin to put it into action.

You're trying to create an affiliate program for a "client" you don't even have, you're brand new to Internet marketing with no knowledge or experience, and you're asking random people (mostly newbies) on a public forum how they would set up the structure so you get paid for managing this system?

OK then.

Why don't you just become an Amazon affiliate, sell the heck out of the product, and prove your worth. Then think about making a proposal once you've shown you know how to market.

Steve

Steve - exactly why I posted "good luck" and let it go.

You could arrange exclusive rights to sell online, or in a specific region. If they begin selling on Amazon themselves then anyone could join the affiliate program of Amazon Associates.

If they don't have an internet presence then perhaps you could try to handle that aspect, and hopefully establish a strong foothold. There are downsides to using Amazon. For example, if they decide to sell their product to resellers then they could begin to lose control over the pricing of their product, especially if distributors get in the middle. I watched it happen when I was a reseller with near exclusive online presence. Once the floodgates opened the retail price dropped like a rock. It went from great margins to virtually nothing in a very short period.

Whatever you do, get it in writing. Convince them that you are their guy.

You are new to IM - but then you aren't. You've decided who the 'pros' are based on what - who agrees with you?

You think anything is possible if you WANT it bad enough - and you've dissed some of the working marketers who tried to answer.

Time for the "you can do it" posts, I guess.

Hi Peter,

You may like to read Jay Abraham's ideas on setting up joint ventures.

You can read his material here:
http://grumomedia.com/files/Jay_Abra...o_Millions.pdf

As far as setting up an affiliate program the "client" obviously has an idea that Amazon has a huge affiliate network with many benefits to both the affiliates and the seller.

If you get agreements in place with the "client" you can always set up a seperate sales system and affiliate program outside of amazon but you would have to make it more rewarding for affiliates and the "client" and that is where you would need to do some work.

You could approach the client to buy product at wholesale and then prove you can move volume of it through your own system. The proof is in the pudding so to speak.

There are many affiliate tracking systems but if you want to use something that is an integrated funnel, sales system and affiliate management then you could look at some of the solutions out there like Clickfunnels or Kartra or a host of other solutions.

I guess the advantage of creating a funnel outside of amazon would be to create sequences of upsells or subscription based supply so there is more than one sale to the customer and more than one commission payment to affiliates.

You can look at things like dollarshave, dollar beard club, zuma juice or the way fiberfix tape is promoted to get ideas about how to build out a sales funnel that maximises returns for the "client" and the affiliates.

It would also pay to go back and read some of the material posted by some of the long term members on your thread. Not just what they have posted here but what they have posted over the years because a lot of the answers you might be seeking will be in content they have contributed towards other people seeking help in this forum.

When you insult people who do provide valuable content you not only insult them but others who they have helped. You also don't come off as professional when you add insults to your replies.

Professionals usually respect the comments of others and try to help others with qualified advice.

Please read and learn more about what you can do to be successful as there is a whole lot of value you can derive when you take your time to get to know people inside this forum.

Best regards,

Ozi

What I'm reading here is that the OP wants to use the common offline model of Product Owner > Sales Manager > Salespeople model, with himself in the role of Sales Manager, collecting overrides on what his 'affiliates' sell.

Since he's written that he's already in negotiations with the product owner, I'll just say this...

I hope you are prepared to work for what you get. Your 'affiliates' will look to you for support, motivation and training. If you're looking for some kind of passive income fantasy where the affiliates do all of the work and you skim a percentage off the top simply for existing, I'd recommend several cups of strong coffee.

Oh, and good luck...

Peter first select your niche and decide what kind of products you want to promote then join any affiliate network such as ShareAsale, Commission Junction, Avangate as an affiliate and once you are approved you are to promote thousands of product.

Hello,

I set up affiliate websites for my customers all the time, but you can only charge for the web design, you can not try to get involved with their affiliate commissions,

How much does their product sell for and what would the commission be on a sale?

Can you get a higher commission on high volume?

Optionally, what is the product out of curiosity?

You could set up a CPA network on a small scale for around $300 per month using one of the top platforms. The product owner would be an advertiser and would pay X per sale. You sign up publishers (affiliates) to promote the product and pay them Y per sale and you keep the difference.

There are cheaper ways to do it, typically by using some inexpensive PHP script that if you want to be able to do on a professional level and scale, they aren't worth messing around with.

I've been promoting affiliate / CPA offers for over 17 years. Personally, I'm not real big on products / straight sales offers. More than not they just don't offer a high enough commission for me to bother with. Which is why I asked the question I did. Many times people let their passion get in the way of real profits.

CJ is the largest affiliate program

Peter,

what type of product is this? Is it physical or is it electronic. If it is physical then you can put it on Amazon. If it is electronic try JVZoo.

Chris

Client have a product on Amazon then you can start with Amazon, They also provide affiliate programs affiliate - program.amazon.in / welcome / getstarted

A much better idea would be to buy traffic and send it directly to his product page on Amazon.

Running an affiliate program would most likely cost more per conversion.