What Is The Saturation Point For An Affiliate Program

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Saturation Point For An Online Affiliate

I thank you guys for the reactions given for my last posting re : "breaking even with affiliate programs".

Now here's the stickler for all of us who run or participate in an affiliate program:

When and how can you determine whether or not the program you are running or participating in has reached its "ebb on the web" ?

Every ship has her glory days and runs out of steam someday;
Every cash cow suddenly becomes a dead turkey somehow and affiliate programs are no exception.

There are two groups to be concerned here :
1.) Members involved from the early stages since launch and have promoted this program full strenght using all available media (advertising strategies and approaches) to the population.
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2.) Members recently recruited but may not be aware of exactly how many and how hard "senior members" have sold this program and probably these "senior members" might have had already advertised to the population "junior members" unknowingly may see likely to advertise to.

Will someone be brave enough to highlight the indicators both qualitative and quantative that the "seniors" and "juniors" of an existing affiliate program should look for to determine whether the program involved is destined for the "archives" of internet marketing.
This is where you place an affiliate link on your website and realise your visitors has no interest whatsoever even though the program belong to an "enlightened internet marketing guru".
You would have advertised this program exactly the way they told you to, no deviation.

At what point will the bubble burst for you to discover that this program is now actually a "stinker" ?

[lmims]

I think an affiliate marketer should find products
that are unique enough that the need for them will
continue. If it is a good product you will
probably own it yourself.

As for other affiliates: there is always going to
be an 80/20 rule, only 20% of the affiliates are
going to do 80% of the sales. Most of the people
that sign up as an affiliate will never do
something with the link.

You might check by doing search on Google for the
affiliate link/product title.

Also you have to consider your promotion
strategies; there is more than just putting a
banner or link on your website.

Even so, it is possible to take ubiquitous
affiliate program and make sells.

Let me give you an example, Yanik Silver is one of
the most popular internet marketers on the planet.
He has an army of affiliates in the thousands.

Paul Schlegel found a great way to take advantage
of this. He wrote and recorded a review of one
Yanik’s lesser known (yet great) products,
Instant Internet Products. Then he promoted the
review. Last month, he made over $1000 from sales
from that review.

Here is the review:
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/rlt

This method is far more powerful than just putting
a link on your website. Consider what could happen
if you combined this with other promotion
strategies: emailing the reviews to a marketing
list, advertising the review page in a
pay-per-click search engine, etc.

Yesterday, Paul made over $300 in less than eight
hours from another review:
Here's the picture from his clickbank screen:
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/vlt

The review was for the Search Engine Institute
(aka GoogleProfits). In this case a value added
service was included, a discussion board where he
revealed applications and strategies for owners of
the course.
Here is that review:
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/wlt

Providing a value added service for people that
buy from your affiliate link is a great way to
increase your sales and eliminate link hijacking
(people replacing your affiliate id with theirs to
get the commission).Offer a special bonus for
those that forward their receipt to you. (Report,
ebook, newsletter, etc.)

Training can also make a major difference in
affiliate programs. Sure, some affiliate programs
provide ads, emails, and banners. But to show
people how to actually sell and share ideas from
successful affiliates can make a major difference.
If the affiliate program is multi-tier this is
where the senior affiliate can really shine.

Paul is actually making his reviews available to
others through another internet marketer, Markus
Allen. The program is called affiliate
toll-booth.

You can give this a test spin here:
http://shmyl.com/xlt

Another example of providing intense training is
Stone Evans. Stone invented the Plug-In-Profit
site. Stone gives his affiliates more than just a
couple tools: links, a personally created website,
banners, ads, articles, a forum, pop-ups,
apre-designed ezine with over 6 months of
articles, brandable ebooks, 30+ day training
course, and email support.

Stone has tied together some unique programs with
some very common affiliate programs to become a
super affiliate, making him the top 5 producer in
almost all the programs he promotes.

Plug-in-Profit site: http://tinyurl.com/2btsq

Hope this gives you more to chew on.

Logan Mims
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[pschlegel]

Paul Schlegel found a great way to take advantage
of this. He wrote and recorded a review of one
Yanik’s lesser known (yet great) products,
Instant Internet Products. Then he promoted the
review. Last month, he made over $1000 from sales
from that review.

Here is the review:
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/rlt

Hey Logan, minor correction. It was over
2 months. Exact number is: $1,053.17
I'm not complaining. It keeps growing every
month. :-)

Paul
btw, did you get my email on typosleuth?