New affiliate program.

[Graham]

I am considering setting up an affiliate program, because I know it would be beneficial to have a larger sales force.

I am hesitant but thought I would atleast see what people think, whether I could hire affiliates to sell some of my pages.

One big issue is I have no way of determining who is refering a purchaser because I am using google checkout for all sales.

Anyone have things I need to consider before approaching this road?

[Lynn Terry]

I'm not personally familiar with Google Checkout, and which affiliate program managers are compatible with it. You'll have to do some research on that. I know there were some problems a few months ago, but the resolution to those can be found here:

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5star ... ssues.html

[Graham]

I might be more inclined to attempt finding an actual program that can track in 2008, since google is free right now.

What do people usually use - paypal?

[Jim Guinn]

[Graham]

Thank you very much Jim,

It's nice to know that info. I am going to be waiting on my results for a while to see if I need to do this, but I have a million ideas for cheap marketing, and want to see if anything takes off first. I only considered, because I need to consider everything.

Anyone think I should setup an affiliate program?

Another reason I don't really want to set one up is because after the site gets going, I would want to stop the affiliate program, and don't want to screw over the people who were trying to sell pages for me.

[Thomas_gun_21]

On this new site that just launched called
that lets you track your commissions.

Thomas