Hello!

This is my first post, so I would like to introduce myself before getting to my question.

My name is Charles Kassotis, been marketing online in one form or another for about 6 years.

During that time I have had alot of success as an affiliate marketer and did well during the adsense boom, I have also experienced a fair share of failures as well and I have spent considerable time in SEO and Web Development.

I Have finally graduated to product creation!

Which brings me to this forum

I have designed a very unique link building membership site and I am getting ready for a beta test around the end of this month followed by a launch shortly after.

We are in the process of building the inhouse affiliate program for it and I am not 100% sure what to set affiliate commission rates at.

I would like the comm. to be recurring for the life of the customer.

We will test different price points so I cannot say exactly what the pricing structure will be at this time, but for the sake of example let's say:

Basic Membership: $47/month
Advanced : $77/month
Pro : $147/month

If you can give me an idea of what percentage of the membership fee or flat rate would be attractive to affiliates in a longterm commission structure, that would be great. The retention rate should be very high so the commision will definitely be over many months/years.

We are designing a simple two tier affiliate program using iDev software.

Thanks so much for your help!

Charles