I've been an affiliate for 3 years making a full time income as an affiliate marketer but I've always wanted to create my own product. I'm finally doing it now with the help of my fiancee (and I'm actually putting it in her name.) I don't want to say what the niche is or anything just yet as it's still in the early stages of development. Anyway I'm creating this thread to keep people updated on how well it goes. I am really excited about offering a lot of tools for affiliates to promote this product. As someone who has made his living as an affiliate marketer for 3 years, I think I'll be able to do a better job with this than I see many CB products doing. I want to do some "out of the box" things to entice affiliates into promoting my product. One of my ideas that I'd like some feedback on is that I am planning on asking for volunteers who are interested in having their CB affiliate ID placed into some of my ads so that they can earn a commission without even doing anything. The idea is that I prove to affiliates that my product converts without them even having to run an ad for it. (Please don't send my your CB ID just yet! This is just in planning stages now) I would of course prefer to receive CB IDs from successful CB affiliates and not just people looking for a free $30. My deadline is to have this product for sale by June 1. I am hopeful it may actually be quite a bit earlier than that, but that's my deadline. We are creating this product from scratch so there is a lot of work involved. Part of my plan is to create a truly superior product in this niche (sounds crazy eh?) so that we can charge more (and attract more affiliates with a higher payout) and have lower refund rates. If other CB vendors want to offer any hints - Leave 'em here! I'd love to see 'em.
Hey Zibblu, My father and I are creating a new product as well. This will be our second and I'll probably enlist the help of DP when we're ready. As for hints... I don't really have any that aren't common sense. Do a lot of marketing beforehand and build a list, get DP members involved, find affiliates etc. etc. I may steal your idea about having affiliates make a commission through you with no work. That's really thinking out of the box, and you gain a new affiliate. Kudos on the idea. I'll definitely keep myself updated on your progress and will help if you have any questions.
I still remember my first product launch on CB that brought me $2k .....I know what you feel mate good luck
Great. Successful affiliates always want to try a publisher's role, and Zibblu is not an exception Good luck on your new product development. Just interesting to know. At the moment what do you do as an affiliate?