Thanks for the kind words

David

If you’re building the site itself then you have more control over the whole process.

Off the top of my head, I think I’d have the affiliates sign up and put their various affiliate ID (ClickBank, Amazon, etc.) into their profile and then issue each affiliate an affiliate ID for my programs.

Then I’d have them use that when promoting my squeeze pages (and sales pages). I’d put that in affiliate ID in Aweber and on the links in Aweber.

Then, for everything I promoted I’d go through a simple redirect that that pulled the affiliate link from the Web address (URL) and redirected it to the product site with the proper affiliate link (for ClickBank, etc.) attached.

Of course, you wouldn’t get a cut that way but if you’re using a recurring membership model and collecting monthly payments then that might be okay.

If you did want to get a cut then you’d have to do something like I mentioned before and use the affiliate ID you assigned then as a tracking link (for places that allow it) and then pay them their cut after you collected your commission; you’d still probably want to go through the redirect process to be able to track how many people sent you how many leads (and other stuff); to get some analytic data.

It all sounds harder than it is, with the proper software architectural design, a decent programmer could do the whole thing in a day or two; depending upon how how you wanted to do and how flexible you wanted it to be for future enhancements.

You could probably even do it using WordPress and WishList Member (want my affiliate link although if I’m doing heavy customizations I find using something like Butterfly Marketing to be a better long term solution because it’s easier to do exactly what you want than a more controlled environment like WordPress.

It’s actually an interesting idea, let me know if you find there’s a market and do it.

Let me know if I can help any more.

David

P.S. I generally like to keep things on the blog if at all possible so others may benefit too.

Thanks for the quick response.
Your answers is exactly what I thought.
The project I am thinking about is mainly an affiliate product promotion site in the IM Niche and to motivate affiliates to promote to my squeeze page I was thinking of offering life time commissions on any sales that I make through that site (which is mainly affiliate products) To do this I need to tag the contact with the affiliates ID so that I can send them their commissions on future sales. Just trying to figure out the best and easiest way to do this.

I would really appreciate your insight on this if you have any thoughts.

Thanks again.

Mick

PS (you could email me directly if you don’t want to keep posting on your site)

1. When I capture the affiliate ID and save it (in a custom field) within the record of the subscriber in Aweber, I just have Aweber automatically get the affiliate ID out of the custom field and add it to the product links in the subsequent e-mails I send.

Of course, this only works within an affiliate network (like ClickBank) or places where there is a consistent affiliate ID across products.

Then when they click the link in the e-mail and go to, say, ClickBank, and buy your product, since the link they clicked has the ClickBank affiliate ID of the person who originally sent you the lead, they (the person who sent the lead) will get credit for it even though it came from your e-mail.

2. No, the way I use it (as explained above) it all happens automatically via ClickBank or PayDotCom or whomever the affiliate network is so you don’t need to worry about paying your affiliates unless you aren’t using a network and manage the affiliate payments yourself.

3. I don’t see how this would work easily if the products you’re selling aren’t your own.

I guess you might be able to put together a system where each of your affiliate is assigned a tracking ID (which could just be the affiliate ID that is captured and put in Aweber) and then you manually pay them a percentage of the sales you get from affiliate products you sell; you’d need to give yourself a tracking ID as well to make sure you also received your fair share of the sales.

It would take a little thinking and I don’t know how broadly it would work but I think it is doable, however, but using just the method I’ve explained in the blog post, it’s meant only for your own products or rather products where you control the sales process so PLR, MRR, RR products would work as well as products you create yourself.

Hope that helps! Let me know if you need anything else or have additional questions.

Thanks,

David

I have a couple of quick questions about the email with the affiliate ID in it.

1. If someone buys the offer that you send out how does it credit the affiliate?
2. Do you get the affiliate code back to you and then you have to manually send them their cut of the sale at what ever time you agree on or does this happen automatically?
3. How do you get the affiliate ID attached to the sale if you are promoting and affiliate product or does that only work if you are selling your own product?

The reason I ask is because I want to pay out my affiliates on future sales that I make to their prospect on both my own products and affiliate products that I promote to their lead that buy through my affiliate link. (I use Aweber as well)

Thanks dude,

Mick

Sorry for the delay… have been having some problems and got pulled into some other things.

It should work okay as is depending upon what you’re doing.

If you’re capturing someone’s e-mail address from an opt-in page and the Web address has a ClickBank affiliate ID with your opt-in page then just putting that ID on a ClickBank link that someone clicks from an e-mail should work okay, in the same way it works in the post.

If you could provide more specific information I’ll see what I can do.

Thanks,

David

I could really do with your help with this.

I followed what you said but I can’t seem to get it working.

http://gsupremacy.com/free/blake.php?hop=aff123456

I tested the page but it came up with affiliate = none on the CB order page.

How can I contact you?

Craig

Thanks, glad you liked it.

I haven’t tried it but I think if you add this line:

dhUrlToSearch += “?” + dhQueryStringName + “=[*PutDefaultIDHere*]“;

Between the lines:

var dhUrlToSearch = window.location.href;
dhPutQueryStringValueInFormField(dhQueryStringName, dhUrlToSearch, dhFormFieldName);

For example, if you want the default affiliate ID to be DavidHusnian you’d have:

var dhUrlToSearch = window.location.href;
dhUrlToSearch += “?” + dhQueryStringName + “=DavidHusnian”;
dhPutQueryStringValueInFormField(dhQueryStringName, dhUrlToSearch, dhFormFieldName);

That’s works only if you don’t already have a question mark (?) on the Web address. If you do then replace the question mark in my example with an ampersands (&), so it would look like:

var dhUrlToSearch = window.location.href;
dhUrlToSearch += “&” + dhQueryStringName + “=DavidHusnian”;
dhPutQueryStringValueInFormField(dhQueryStringName, dhUrlToSearch, dhFormFieldName);

Try it and let me know if it works, if not I’ll actually sit down and make it work.

Thanks,

David