Hi everyone, I think I need some help. I am very new to trying to promote my product through CB and I am not sure that I am doing everything right just yet. The people on this site have been fantastic so far in helping me set it all up but I am not seeing any results yet. When I look at my publisher reports it says we have 378 hops but no sales. Does a hop mean this is how many times someone clicked on the affiliates link and went to my landing page or does it mean that the affiliates have 378 links published. I have no idea what an average amount of hops per day is but this seems low. Besides on this forum is there a way that I can promote my page to potential affiliates that would be interested in my product? We have made the sales price $37.97 and 75% commission and tried to follow the advice of this forums members on page layout. We are open to advice and would really appreciate it.
I would say that you may need to look at revising your sales page. If you're making a sale every 400 hops that's a 0.0025% conversion rate which is very low. And since you haven't made a sale yet that number may go down. Your sales page should start out with a problem and end with your solution. This method has lowered hops per sale on some of my products as low as 40. A hop means that affiliates have sent 378 visits to your page. I would also look into installing google analytics or another tracking software on your website so you can see potential leakage points of your visitors. I would also add a newsletter subscription form with a call to action to it as well. Let me know if you've any more questions.
Thanks for the advice Andrew. I forgot to add the landing page to this post, it is Golf Pro Lessons I will add a news letter feature to it in the morning for sure and the google analytics software as well.
I love golf, used to work at one of the best in Canada before I started business in college and than internet marketing. Sent you a PM.
I love your landing page. Look Very nice! Try to offer some bonus ebook to attract more affiliate since bonus to go together with product always get higher conversion
Thanks for your comments. I will try to add some value added products. We do have a two week 4 newsletter course that we could offer with purchase at no charge.
Take a look at http://www.cb-analytics.com/articles/product-of-the-day.php - it's pretty much promoting to affiliates for free.
Affiliate recruitment is tough gig! There are many manual things you can do aggregate them, i.e. contact them individually and recruit them with your offer/bonus/incentive. * Advertise on CB forums * Try to get prime placement on cb analytical sites * Post a proper callout here on DP and on other forums related to IM. * If it's not hard for you - duplicate your site and put it on paydotcom, click2sell, CPA's etc. don't expect to make six figures on one CB exclusive. * Hire a recruitment agency/consultant * My selfpromo - sorry in advance - we're launching a recruitment software tool that automatically aggregates campaigns and aff emails for CB/CJ/PDC with one click - http://www.thefatrichpig.com - not live yet but mid April'ish you should see a lot of buzz about this - if you want a trial version simply optin. Cheers and best of luck recruiting. NC.
Thanks for all the input. This really helps, very steep learning curve for me, but I am having fun with it.