Are You Tracking Your Affiliate Sales or Just Guessing?
If youre going to be serious about affiliate sales, you have to get serious about tracking them. If youre still just guessing, then you are missing a lot of opportunities to tweak your marketing and bring in more sales. If you are surprised at the amount of every check, then you need to find a way to track your sales instead of allowing them to surprise you month after month.
Many sites offer affiliate tracking so that the affiliates are aware at any time how much they are making in commissions. If you are missing this step, you will not know when a change you have made has helped or hurt sales. Sales can be affected by ad copy, website placement, fluctuations in the market, the competition, and any number of things that can change your numbers a little bit or drastically. If you want to stay on top of how the changes that you make are affecting the results, you need real time numbers, or as close to them as you can get.
If your products are not offered by someone who allows tracking, it might be time for new products if they are not selling well. Tweaking the marketing without tracking means you...