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crouton
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:43 pm
Post subject: Can I create an affiliate program for a service business?
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I have a service business and one of my clients has offered to feature me on his list to his clients that may also need my service. We have come to an arrangement regarding payments and knocked around some ideas on the sales page, etc. The only thing holding us back is how to get paid. How does he get his cut and how do I get mine and make sure it's fair and what we agreed upon? He has an affiliate program, but it won't work for our needs. I have to come up with some type of program and have him be the affiliate. Does that make sense?
I have looked at Clickbank but it's for a physical product. Also the cap they have on their products is too low for what I'm thinking for my service.
I cannot afford the other affiliate sites such as Linkshare.
So anyone have any ideas for how this can work? Is there an escrow type company that we could use? Any other ideas on how this can work for a service business and not a physical product?
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If you're going to have only one affiliate for a high priced service, a fairly simple way to do it would be to give your affiliate the code to place a form on his website.
People interested in your services would enter their name and email address in the form. The form would send those details to you. It would also send a copy to your affiliate, so he could see the level of inquiries.
When one of the potential customers buys your services, you'd manually pay your affiliate an agreed percentage.
Some affiliates use a system like this to send leads to real estate agents. It's useful in cases where the price is different for every sale but you still want to pay the affiliate a percentage of the sale, not a just a fixed amount per sale.
You could offer people a useful free report as way to give them an inventive to leave their email address.
By the way, ClickBank isn't for physical products. It's for digital, downloadable products such as ebooks or software.
If you hope to have a number of affiliates, I think you'd need to have a proper affiliate program.
Also, your affiliate might prefer you to have a proper affiliate program so that he could be given an affiliate link he could use in various places on his website and also in his newsletter.
You could investigate PayDotCom, which is a cheap option, similar to ClickBank. I don't think there's a cap there on affiliate payouts. PayDotCom allows you to have multiple product lines.
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crouton
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:05 pm
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The form would still require one of us to receive all funds from a purchase and the other would have to trust that their portion would be paid. That's one reason I want an affiliate program to do the work for me, something like will automatically split the payments or hold the payments until a certain time frame. While I do work for this client, we are both only people who have met online and we both need to be careful.
What I meant by physical products with Clickbank is they are e-books or some type of product. I guess physical was the wrong word. I mean they are products to be downloaded, people are buying something. Clickbank is not used to promote a service. I have looked at Paydotcom as well but I still need to have a product, not a service, so I'm still stuck.
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