Hi to everyone at this Forum, I am running a company that sells services for musicians completely online. The process of a order goes the following way: 1. Client fills out a contact-form on my site 2. I get back to the client as soon as possible, creating an account for him. 3. Client uploads his music to my server 4. I have a listen to the material, and if everything is ok, I send the client an invoice and payment instructions. 5. As soon as the invoice is paid I start the work. Now my problems is, how (or where) can I find an affiliate program that fits these process? I could pay my affiliates per lead, but how could I pay them by sale (because that is a lot more attractive for them regarding that the average ticket is at $200 and guarantees me that I really made a sale compared to a lead only), given that the sale can actually happen days, weeks or months afterwards in the worst case? I didn´t find one system that can do this and I am also a bit out of ideas how such a system could work at all. Thanks for your help in advance. Cheers, Lorenz
Hi Lorenz, I'm pretty sure that MyAp, info.myap.com from Kowabunga, which is the leading affiliate tracking program can do what you need. You should be able to set it up to pay per lead and per sale if you want to. So lets say you pay $3 a lead. Then set the per sale at 10% with one year cookies. A lead comes today, they get paid $3, then in 6 months that lead becomes a customer and the affiliate gets the 10% commission. This type of set up is done very often with financial service type programs. $1 per lead, $3 per approved app and $50 for funded loan for example. Hope this helps and best of luck!
Thanks for the informations, this sounds about right. Would this also work with shareasale.com? And how do I trigger that the sale has been made?
I think SAS would work too. You may have to manually upload sales but it would depend on what provider. Talk to them and see the best option.
Hello again, I hope you all had a great christmas. I´ve talked to shareasale.com and they actually can´t support sales that happen later on and not directly. Only pay per Lead would be possible with them in my case. Can anyone recommend another not to expensive affiliate service provider who might be able to do what I am looking for? Also, is there some kind of Affiliate-only discussion forum that is good and where I might find additional help and recommendations? Thank you very much.
AffiliateBoards.comhttp://affiliateboards.com/messageboard/index.php is great and much busier with more pros than AT, IMHO.