CB Vendors - Are You Your Best Affiliate?

Hey guys, I'm preparing my own CB product, it's going to be launched soon, and it is going to be a great product, i know all people say that about their products lol but anyway. That's another subject. I want to ask you CB vendors, Are you your best affiliate? I mean, do you promote actively and successfuly your own products? I assume you do. Well I have another question then...

For example if you use articles on sites like EZA, do you Pre-sell your product using a different landing page with a different domain or do you send traffic directly to your site without the use of another account?

Thanks in advance guys!

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Lol, its funny you bought this up because in a way - I'm making a lot of my own sales for my product. I actually have the same gravity as similar products, even though my referral rate is like 40% lower - and its all from just organic traffic.. I wish I could tell that to my affiliates

 

Yes, I am my own best affiliate and I link directly to my CB store.. Although, I only direct link because I already have a heavily targeted traffic site that drives sales, so the people clicking are into that sort of stuff.

If I were bum marketing or submitting articles, I would definitely use a landing page

 

I do direct link to my own product, because my audience base tends to get annoyed very easily (I know this for a fact), and I have had good results.

Yes, I am my own best affiliate, but probably because I know my own niche so well. I have seen results from affiliates promoting my product, and have checked out their pages, but it is obvious right off the bat that they have no expertise in my field, and with my very small niche, time and attention span is of the essence.

Any more info?

 

We bring traffic to our landing page directly.

When your product has a big name, then users will directly visit your site, then big money comes into your account.

You can upload your product to a lot of download sites and articles sites and let more and more people know it.

 

No, if anything, I want to increase my own promotions. Even though I could just rely on affiliates, I believe it is prudent to do some promotions yourself. Plus, on a 75% commission to my affiliates, this means that my own efforts are worth 4 times as much as my affiliates so some minor promotions on my part could possibly double my earnings (less so if you are already super rich and have tons of affiliates).

I started to just direct link, using domain redirects on ezinearticles. This also helps to monitor conversion and do some split testing.

But lately I am testing my dynamic landing pages for conversion. These pages have been given to my affiliates but are not tested yet, if I can give conversion stats then all the better. I do believe that it should give better conversions that going straight to the sales page.

 

Thanks for your input guys, it is definitely a good strategy to push your own products, at the end affiliates 'should' represent an additional income stream, right? thats' great, thanks again. Much appreciated.

 

I only promote my own products during the testing phase, to see if it converts, after that when the product is released, I don't do any active promotion.

I don't want to compete with the affiliates, I concentrate on providing good support for the customers, and taking good care of the affiliates.

 

Also, imagine if something happened to Clickbank overnight. You'd be screwed. I keep an opt-in list of affiliates but not all of them have registered, so even setting up a new affiliate program, you would lose a lot of earnings.

So this is also why it is prudent to make some sales yourself.

 

I'm not actually, but I'm close to it. I have at least one affiliate who makes a few more sales than I do.

 

I do the exact same thing. I promote heavily during testing stage until it will convert well enough to make a profit via ppc. After I announce to affiliates, I stop all promotions.

I believe in the short run it is definitely costing me money but in the long run I feel as if it will allow my affiliates to prosper which will allow me greater success.

Greg

 

Hmm cool guys! so we can see here both sides of the coin, that's great, so:

- There are vendors who choose to become their best affiliates and heavily promote their products because this will definitely increase their earning by 2x ...3x or even 5x

- On the other hand we have vendors who choose to promote heavily their products only during the testing stage, this allows their affiliates to grab better positions/rankings/campaigns

Interesting... what ddo you think?

 

Yes, these seem like contradictions but they don't have to be.

For example, I also don't do PPC once launched. I don't want to compete against affiliates on high traffic keywords when it could cost them like this.

But I do write a few articles (not many) on my website or on a blog to grab organic traffic. I don't see any problems with this, especially as there are so many long tail keywords out there. Plenty of fish in the sea and all that. I see many other vendors doing this too. This is a good way to find new affiliates too.

 

I totally agree and I was speaking specifically about ppc. I don't personally promote my products with organic methods either but that has to do more with me spending my time doing other things. I do write the occasional article or post on the occasional forum that is related to a niche.

 

I'm surprised to see how I make the majority of my sales compared to you other vendors. All mine is from organic traffic which is funny because as I said.. I have more sales then any one affiliate.

 

That's really cool guys! all the different approaches as I said, well I think if you're making organic sales that fine... sales virtually without hard work, right?! Well but what if you promote the product yourself, build a campaign (PPC, BUM, SEO or any other strategy) make some sales, generate income and then share the strategy you used to promote YOUR product with your own affiliates? I'm sure that would increase your profits.

 

Of course it would, but like the other vendors said - I don't want to go against my affiliates. If I make 10 sales on my own great, but those are sales from other affiliates. I'd rather have loyal people who make sales who work hard to make those sales then to fight against them for a few here and there

 

+1. Once testing is done, you're either in it for the long haul doing promo and retention, or focusing on retention and sacrificing/automating your front end. Guess it all depends on how you want your business and longevity structured. You can be your own best promoter and never look at an affiliate once and bank a million, and you can do the same with just recruiting and retaining/supporting, or doing xx% of each. Heck I'll shine shoes for a year flat or teach others how to shine shoes if it's going to make me a million, though solo success doesn't belong in the word 'NETwork' so I'd rather help others 100% with my op and focus on retention...

 

I don't see any conflict between promoting my product and helping affiliates promote it as well.

Promoting my product myself helps me figure out what's working (and I don't think testing is ever really over) and it also helps me to increase my brand awareness which is not only good for me - it's also good for affiliates.