Day 26 (Friday) - “Announce” your affiliate program

Lesson Objective:

To let the world know your affiliate program is open for business by listing it in various
places online.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email



Today’s Lesson:

TGIF! We’re still working on your affiliate promotion strategy.

Now, with your tool box in place and a couple successful joint ventures going – it’s time
to let the whole world in on your good thing.

Announcing Your Affiliate Program

You should start is with your existing customer base.


Simply send out an email announcing your program and providing the link where they
can sign up.

Next, you should announce your affiliate program to the different directories of affiliate
programs on the Web.


I announced my new affiliate program to about 20-30 affiliate program directories.


Below is a list of the major Affiliate Program directories you should submit your
information to:

Associate Programs

2-Tier Affiliate Programs

Affiliates Directory

ATL Network

The top directory is Associate Programs, which is run by Allan Gardyne.


He’s somewhere in the sticks of Australia and he has the most comprehensive directory
of affiliate programs.

So when you have your new affiliate program all set up, you go there and announce it and
you should get affiliates.


Your announcement’s listing needs to stress the benefits to affiliates for signing up. Once
again, good copy is important.


The description I used tells affiliates why business owners will be interested in our
product and then I give the specifics on commission structures.




Today’s Assignment:

1. Create several program descriptions for your affiliate program. Each one of the
directories has their own requirements. Just have a ‘long’ and ‘short’ listing ready
to copy and paste.

2. Email your existing customers and let them know about your affiliate program. If
your offer is directly to consumers – let them know they can earn money by
referring their friends.

3. Submit your program to each of the major affiliate directories.

Today’s Resources:

If you don’t want to manually go through the trouble of submitting your program to all
the directories - there is a service at Affiliate Announce that will submit to 40 top
directories (by hand) and save you lots of time.



“Budget Cruncher”!

Submit to the affiliate directories yourself – by cutting and pasting
Program descriptions, sign-up pages, etc.