There are many different ways to promote your affiliate program, however, it depends upon what type of program it is, Your Turnkey Program or Affiliate Linked-Program for selling a product. Hmm-mm, interesting. What works, what doesnt?
GET OUT THE WORD
Bulk Emailing Bulk emailing use to be the craze. Did you notice the word use to be the craze. That has changed with the stricter spam rules and penalties all to protect us. But bulk emailing can be done, if you have an opt-in list people who have opted-in to gladly receive your emails such as, through a newsletter.
Classified Ads With free classified ads can definitely get hits and possibly some sales. But dont choose this as your only way of getting sales.
There are drawbacks. You ask, What drawbacks. From my own experience, Ive encountered individuals requesting information about my program as a ploy to getting me to listen to their sales pitch. SPAM? Maybe. Annoying? Definitely. The height of annoyance is when they ask me to call them long distance, so that I can speak with them only to have them give me a sales pitch on their program.
However, if you have a classified...