You have been heard of people earning ten of thousands per month from affiliate marketing. One of the top super affiliate is Ewen Chia.
First thing first… There are lots of affiliate program to chose from, which affiliate program you should join? Do a some research about the choices of program that you want to join into. What are the questions that you MUST ask yourselves?
- Will it cost anything to join? Most affiliate programs are absolutely free of charge nowadays. Why bother paying when you can get for free? I bet most of the product owner would promote their product in free affiliate directory to attract more affiliate to promore their product which is a win win situation for both sides.
- What is the frequency they issue the payout? There are programs that are paying once a week, once a month , every quater and etc. There are programs that offer low minimum earned commision payout but pays only ones a month. There are programs that offer high minimum earned commision payout, but they payout weekly basis. Select those which are suitable for you.
- What is the hit per sale ratio? Some of you may ask, what is hit per sale ratio? Hit per sale ratio is the number of hits you send to generate a sale. If the hit per sale ratio is 1: 10. It simple means that on average you need to send 10 people to that website in order to make 1 sale.
- How are the referrals you send to affiliate program being tracked? Do they track by cookies, account or other form of tracking? If they are track by cookies, your referral would get 'over-written' if they clear their internet brower cache. With account type tracking, you will earn commission everytime your referrals buy something from the same merchant.
- How to track your performance? Your choice of affiliate program should provide you with detailed statistics. Knowing how many impression, hits and sales generated from your website. For the newbs, impressions are number of times the affiliate link or banner shows up on your site. Hits simply means the number of clicks click by your visitors.
- Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? 1 tier program only pays you for the sales you generated. 2 tier programs pays you not only from the sales your generated but also for the sales your referral generated.
- How much is the commission? For physical product, you may expect 5% – 20% of the sales. Info product/digital product normally pays more for 50% of the sales. Some of the merchant even offer 75% of the sales as commission.
Ask yourselve the questions above before jumping into affiliate programs blindly. There are pros and cons among the affiliate program available these days. Chose the one which is suitable for you. Stay tune for next post where I'll be revealing how to chose a profitable clickbank product.






