Hello, So I was approached to be a private internet marketer for a relatively big and successful company with very little internet presence and I had a question. The deal is that for every new customer I bring in I will get 3% commissions from this customer for life. I will be selling hard products in the health supplement niche, so I think this is pretty fair... I will also have a beginning budget of about $100,000, so I won't need to spend any of my own money. My main concern is that since I will be working with the company's main site which is not very SEO friendly... And as I improve the SEO of the site I end up competing against my own work translating into a conflict of interest. Anyone have ideas on the best way to handle this? I thought about constructing a completely new site, but this seems like a waste of time and money. I'm thinking more along the lines of requesting a salary on top of the commissions. Thank you in advance for any ideas you might have... DJ
Are you saying that you have got your own website, which target the same niche (health supplement) than the company's website? If this is the case the issue is indeed problematic. I am not an experienced internet marketer, but I feel that you could benefit from asking the following questions from yourself: Are you OK with the fact that some buyers will order their product directly from this company instead of your website? Does the company allow you to keep working on your own site? If the company does not allow you to work with your own site, are ready to sell it or skip the offer? After you have figured out the answers to these questions, you should have some kind ideas, which will help you to answer the questions you raised by writing: If the company allows you to keep your own site on the side, I would probably calculate: How much money I would lose by improving the web presence of the company How much the commissions could be How much money I would be making Then I would compare the last figure to the amount of money I make today and decide, if it would be worth the trouble. This can also help you to figure out, if you should ask salary or perhaps bigger commission.
Then you really have to make a choice. Opt for that one which in the longer run will be of great benefit to you. And I think, it sounds like you do your thing really good so do not hamper yourself if there’s a need to build your own new site.
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I probably phrased my dilemma incorrectly. A company has approached me to do all their internet marketing by myself. I will have some IT guys at my disposal as well as money. And right now the idea is that I work solely on commission (3% for every customer I bring in for life.) The problem is, I will direct all my traffic to the company's site while at the same time improving the SEO of the site to increase conversion rates. But then, all the new free traffic that will result from my work, I will no longer get the commission from these customers, thus setting up my own conflict of interest with myself! I was wondering if anyone had a similar experience and how they handled it. I want to find a way to benefit from the free traffic that I generate too... Make sense? Cheers, DJ