It's a simple strategy, but one that SO MANY affiliates just tend to ignore. I'm not sure if it's because they can't afford/don't want to spend money for aWeber or another autoresponder, but by far most of the affiliates that are succeeding for our products build their own list, and follow up with them.

Sure, some affiliates get lots of sales without building a list around my product, but many have built a list and are getting traffic from ANOTHER RELATED product, built that relationship, and then also promote my product.

Quote Originally Posted by David Carreno
Great advice, specially when it comes to affiliate partners.

Question, how do you get your aff partners? do you go the traditional Clickbank marketplace?

Thanks
Honestly it took a while for our affiliate program to get some traction. When we jacked our commission up to 75%, that definitely helped get eyes on it in the CB Marketplace. We completely overhauled our affiliate tools and provided alot of tools and support, and make sure we were very responsive to any affiliates that emailed us for help or advice. Once your 'gravity' starts to go up, that will get you more affiliates, which in turn will further increase your gravity, etc etc...it will start to build on itself. While I personally think the 'gravity' has nothing to do with the product quality or conversion rate, many affiliates browsing the marketplace use that as one their main determining factors.