I pay out thousands of dollars in commissions to my affiliates ever month.

Some affiliates make only a little, but others make thousands of dollars per year from me.

While I was extremely pleased to see these top affiliates do so well, I wanted to know how they were doing it! After all, if I could get 50-100 affiliates doing as well as my top 2-3 affiliates, my income (and theirs) would skyrocket.

So I contacted a few of my top affiliates to see what was going on.

I found out they are doing a few key things that really ramped up their affiliate commissions with me.

Personal Review: Rather than just sending out the usual solo ad to their lists, they were carefully reviewing the product and telling their subscribers how the product would help them.

Bonuses: Some of my top affiliates offered their own bonuses to the offer in addition to the bonuses I was already offering.

Building Me Into Their Back Office: Some of my top affiliates have membership web sites that train members on how to be successful with a step by step program. They built my products right into the step by step program so all their students using the program would join.

Worked With Their Relationship With Their Subscribers: My top affiliates have excellent relationships with their subscribers. This is one of the reasons why their personal product review worked so well. My top affiliates also promoted my products to their members via webinars, interviews (some interviewed me for their group) and even created their own videos on how to succeed with my products.

A lot of work, but it sure paid off for them - and for me!

How do you apply this to your own situation? If you are the owner of products with affiliate programs, encourage and teach your affiliates how to do this. If you are an affiliate, consider how to ramp up your commissions by adopting these techniques.