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The best way to recruit affiliates is to make sure that your website has good bonuses, money back guarantee, lots of benefits of your product and good catchy headline.    

after you have setup everything. List down the affiliates that you want included in your product. Then send them an email with access to your product free of charge (good faith). Explain how good your product is and that their own product increase the potential of their own product. At the same time as permission if you can mention or use any material in their site. After you got your reply. Then its time to break the ice. You can now prent your offer to them. Ofcourse monetary wise should be discuss. :) Most people will agree specially if your product is good the free advertisement itself is already good to this people but a good monetary package will make it sweeter.

Take part in webmaster-related forums. There always part of the forum where you can announce your affiliate program.

Speak to the affiliate network you are with - if you have launched, or abouot to launch an affiliate program, think about running an introductory offer to incentivise new affiliates to join up to your program. Your network should be able to offer you advice on affiliates to target. I'm assuming you've researched the affiliate program you've opted to go with as they have a credible background with your industry Utilise your SEM activity - the keywords you use should provide you with a wealth of opporutnities to target other websites working in the same sector Competitors - Always one of the first places to target Affiliate link on your site - always worth having a link on your homepage to your program. Using a third party to handle your affiliate tracking and payment may help. The 3rd party networks already have a host of affiliates, there is also an increased level of trust because a third party is handling all the tracking and payment.

On my point of view. first off all you have to make sure, that the one you are about to affiliate has a very nice reputation, is bad on your business if it still new or nor records of accomplishment.phanio has a very beautiful idea. You can try it.

The best advice is to join a network. You'll have to pay a fee but affiliates may not trust you if you are new. If you are going through a network, the affiliates know that the network will handle the billing aspect of things.     coupons online  

There are several ways. If you are tech savvy - then create your own program and contact other companies that you think would make great partners and let them know about your program. There are also numerous software programs out there that automate a lot of the back end to these programs - allowing you to still keep a majority of control. Then, there are thousands of affiliate programs - commission junction, clickbank, google even has an affiliate program in addition to their adwords program (something you might also look into to). These organizations can handle all the back end and the marketing of your program as well as counsel you on how to motivate your affiliates.

As i see it you got 2 options: 1. Promote by yourself your product - Which will take time and can be very hard but you will take all of the profits. 2. Join an affiliate program - In that way you sign up to an affiliate program and they reach all the affiliates for you. The advantages are that they are very quick and reach many afiiliates but the disadvantage is that you need to share your profits. Clickbank and Comission Junction are the biggest affiliates programs. Of course you can combine these two methods and work on both of them.