Friday, August 22, 2008

5 Factors In Affiliate Marketing That Affect Your Commissions

By Xcelln


If you hate statistics and are involved in affiliate marketing, you will probably be disappointed to know that it is a very essential component to your success. For one, you will have to understand statistics in order to determine the viability of a program. You'll also need it to find out whether or not you can be hopeful regarding the financial side of your business.

Winning in affiliate marketing and your commissions will become deficient and your work ineffectual, without the aid of statistics. In order to have an adequate balance of the elements that can be an asset or liability will largely depend on how well you learn to understand the numbers and how it will affect your commissions.

Can your Affiliate marketing commissions be increased?

Commissions are paid to the salesmen based on the generation of sales. Affiliate marketers are also commission based salesmen, as there pay is directly connected to the amount of referrals that they generate by his leads that become sales.

The following items can have a very important influence how much you generate in commissions, in any given affiliate marketing program. Such as:

The selection of an affiliate marketing program

There are wide differences, in affiliate marketing, in regards to the payout of commissions to their sales reps. In your search, you will find hundreds of affiliate marketing programs that pay from a low of 10 - 15 percent per client or product sold and 70-75 percent depending upon the business offering or services provided.

The business that you choose, everything being the same, greater commission creates greater sales.

Affiliate marketing is often not obvious. It does not require a genius to choose an affiliate marketing program that generates a greater commission when you have a niche or decent following in your market. There are going to be times when there will be no program that speaks directly to your niche, then you must a select various programs to generate your projected revenue

Buy increasing your quality to perform and your chances of favorable circumstances and your high esteem in your niche, your influence on the marketplace and your financial gain will increase exponentially.

The various earning opportunities which an affiliate program allows effects the increase or decrease in the pay for your efforts. An additional program, which is called two-tier provides two separate revenues. You receive one income from the earned income from the sales or services you generated, called commissions and the second from the recruitment of a new affiliate. This revenue can be just one time (flat rate) or generated overtime as long a new recruit stays a revenue producing member.

Not all, but some affiliate marketing programs offer recurring commissions where their recruit generates a commission to the affiliate when they renew their team affiliation. This kind of program allows you to receive a stream of income as long as the recruit still uses the product or service.

Your choice of an affiliate marketing program must take into consideration the potential future income that can be generated from the commissions that you produce. It would not be prudent to make a decision without careful consideration of the different rates of commission.

The Product

The type of product or services that your offer in affiliate marketing will directly effect your commissions. If, unfortunately, your services or product is in a category that is already very popular, then your ability to penetrate that market will not be easy... But on the other side... the popularity of your item can produce a lot of sales when you have a consistent and hungry market .

Each program, in affiliate marketing, generates performance based statistics which can indicate your performance when you become an affiliate. There is an opportunity to view the past performance of an affiliate program at a website called ClickBank.

The market

Affiliate marketing commissions are a direct function of the affiliates skill in the area of sales and marketing strategy. There is a also the significant influence how favorable favorable the affiliate is regarded and who he has chosen to capture.

The conversion period

After your choice of the best and most income producing affiliate marketing program in terms of commissions, your following priority is shortening the conversion period of your buyers.

The time between a obtaining a viable buyer and their performing a given result or action is called the conversion period. A quality lead has the option of various actions like acquiring a service, obtaining a product, online surveys or polls or becoming a recruit. The initiating cause that compels the lead to take a compelled action can expand the conversion period from 24hrs to 30 or 60 days.

Your efforts an an affiliate is to compel your buyer, within a reasonable amount of time, to shorten the conversion period and thus increase your affiliate marketing commissions...

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