My partners and I just launched our first affiliate program for our services (multimedia, web design, marketing, graphic design and print)
We have our payout set as the following:
tier 1: 10%
tier 2: 7%
Our products base prices range from
$49 - $999, with add-ons and such going as far as $5000 and more. So our affiliate can make a nice amount depending how they choose to market us. We also allow our affiliates to create their own links using the keywords of their choice. And it comes with an ebook written by Lisa Preston (instant niche emails / secret article converter fame).
One of products we sell is a web site maintenance plan that gives clients either 1 free web page developed, 5 free images created/manipulated, text updates and tech support (@ $35/a month) or 1 free web page developed, 5 free images created/manipulated, text updates, 15% off our regular prices, wholesale printing and tech support (@ $60/a month). Our competition usually offers this for around $75 / hour.
We are debating offering the web site maintenance plan eligible for commissions. or at least what type of limitations we should put on web site maintenance plan commissions. If we did offer this as part of the affiliate program we are considering either a commission pay as follows:
1. If they sell the monthly option: we would pay a recurring commission only for 5 times/ per client (so they would get 5 months worth of commission)
2. If they sell the quarterly option: we would pay a recurring commission only for 4 times 4 per client (so they would get 12 months worth of commission)
3. If they sell the quarterly option: we would pay a commission only for 3 times/ months per client (so they would get 18 months worth of commission)
4. If they sell the quarterly option: we would pay a commission only for 2 times/ months per client (so they would get 24 months worth of commission)
Of course the above is based upon the client resubscribing, otherwise you would only recieve a commission for what the client purchased.
I have 2 questions:
1. with the products we sale, tier 1/2 setup, and the options/materials we give them to help push us, Are we offering a good/attractive affiliate program?
and
2. Would Affiliates be interested in pushing the maintenance programs as part of the affiliate program?
Any input would be helpful since this is new territory for us.
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