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| How
to Use Online Two Tier Affiliate Programs to Your Advantage |
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© Jamie Snodgrasss
To those who are not familiar with affiliate marketing, two-tier could
be a new term to you but to those who are involved in this kind of
money-making experience; it could mean a stream of income. Two-tier is
an enticing feature of a particular affiliate program wherein,
affiliates are allowed to sign-up additional affiliates below them. So
that when the sub-affiliates otherwise known as second tier affiliates,
earns a commission, the affiliate above receives a commission too.
In two-tier system, the first tier of commission is just like in the
usual affiliate program. The sole difference is that it has an
additional tier/s or sub-affiliates, whereby marketers also gain a
commission once the people that the additional tiers referred to the
program generate sales. Theoretically, affiliate programs can have
multi-tier program with infinite number of tiers, however, there are
practical limitations. As tiers increase, the affiliate program draws
more webmasters who are mostly interested in gaining profit from
other's work and effort.
Two-Tier affiliate program is also recognized as Multi-Level Marketing.
When you sign-up for an affiliate program, you are identified as the
first tier and the person that you have recruited or encouraged to sign
up is the second tier. If there are additional tiers, then the system
can now be regarded as multi-level marketing (MLM). But today, MLM
isn't as effective and successful as it was several years ago. It is
because at present, affiliates can freely select from thousands of
affiliate programs and they can quickly switch from one program to
another.
You could probably go wrong if you're thinking that you can depend on
your second tier to do the job for you. So if you want to use two-tier
affiliate program to your advantage and generate more income by
encouraging sub-affiliates to sign-up below you, make sure that you
carefully choose your affiliate merchant. Pick those merchants who
generate stable stream of high quality products, give high or just
commissions, offers real time tracking, furnishes you with a proven and
tested advertising arsenal and treat their affiliates very well. You
can also sign-up for the merchant who gives high visitors-to-sales
conversion rate.
It is also advisable if you engage yourself with a web merchant that
has a user-friendly website which you can access anytime so that you
can monitor your statistics including visits and sales. And if
possible, choose the one with powerful marketing tools which you can
use in promoting their products.
You're just wasting much of your time and effort and worse, damaging
your integrity once you promote poor affiliate program because your
visitor will surely presume that the product or service you are
reselling must be dreadful too. That's the reason why it is important
to pick first-rate affiliate programs. Through these, you can not only
build up a good relationship with your visitor, but also, you can
easily get more tiers to sign-up under you. You should also be cautious
of some affiliate programs that give more importance on the profits to
be earned in taking on other affiliates than on the income from sales,
because you'll just eventually find out that someone has already close
those sales without informing you. Usually, this kind of affiliate
program offers a very low first-tier payment but a sky-scraping
second-tier commission.
If you want to start an affiliate program of your own, you surely have
to decide whether it will be a single tier or two-tier affiliate
program. Who am I to say which of these two programs are better? But
let me tell you the benefits you could get out of two-tier affiliate
program.
First, your profit will increase due to increased sales from the
customers that your second tier has referred. Second, you have a much
broader customer base to which you can sell your products and services.
Then, you gain more and stable income because the customers referred by
your affiliate and sub-affiliates could probably develop a lifetime
loyalty on your site and your products. Plus, you have an army of
sub-affiliates who will promote and resell your products and services
to their visitors and subscribers.
Two-tier program has been a proven winner and should be the number one
choice for the budding affiliates as well as for the affiliate program
managers. When you start gaining profits from your site as well as your
tiers, this is now the right time to say that you have used two-tier
affiliate program to your advantage.
Author is writter for sites such as Information Today
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