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Giving Your Affiliates A High Commission Percentage Will Enhance, Not Hinder, Your Ability To Make Large Profits Long-Term
By Admin | December 4, 2008
Employing affiliates to increase the scope of your business message and your product offers throughout the Internet is a great way to quickly boost your profits. However, you need to keep your affiliates happy if you are going to utilize affiliate marketing as part of your business plan in the long-term.
The sales percentage is one of the factors you have to consider. At one time, 50% was a pretty solid percentage to keeping most affiliates happy, but nowadays, 50% is quite common, even considered low by some standards. The commission percentage almost has to be higher nowadays to really stand out.
You may think, “But if I give them more than 50%, they’ll be making more than me, which doesn’t seem fair to me. After all, I created the product, put together the sales page, set up the ordering page, and got everything in order so that I could sell the product. Why should they make more than me?”
The main reason why is because, without those affiliates, it’s likely you wouldn’t have made those sales to begin with, and while only making $4 on a $20 product (presuming an 80% commission rate for your affiliates and 20% profit for you) may not seem like that much, it’s still $4 more than what you would have made if you had not had that affiliate working for you. Plus, consider if you have multiple affiliates selling multiple products for you, with virtually no money or time expended by you to gain those sales. There are internet marketers who are making hundreds, thousands, and even more just from affiliates who are earning over 50% commission rates, so giving up a high commission percentage to your affiliates will not hinder your ability to make large profits, while also keeping your affiliates motivated and eager to send targeted traffic to your site and earning more sales for you that you likely wouldn’t have otherwise made.
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