If you are a business owner, especially one that plans on using an affiliate program to generate sales for your business, there are a number of important factors that you should examine. Those factors should include the cost of starting an affiliate program, if you havent already. In most cases, an affiliate program will end up paying for itself, due to the increase in sales that it creates; however, many business owners are still interested in learning where their money will be going.
One of the first things that you should examine includes the amount of money you plan on paying to your affiliates. Affiliates are the individuals or businesses that you partner with. Most of these individuals and companies have their own websites, which will be used to promote the services or products you are selling. To properly award an outstanding affiliate, one that helps to increase your sales, you will want to financially compensate them. This compensation can either be a flat rate fee or a commission percentage, the decision is yours to make.
To properly compensate a well performing affiliate, you must be able to determine if and when they helped you generate a sale. This...