A major key for many Internet marketers to make large online profits today is to have large numbers of dedicated affiliates promoting their products, and specifically, to have dedicated super affiliates promoting their products.  This way, their product offers are being circulated online to people who have little to no connection and/or relationship to the online marketer (such as being on his/her opt-in list, etc.).

Therefore, you should really try to recruit as many super affiliates into your affiliate sales force as you can.  The first step in recruiting them is to find them online.

One way you can find super affiliates is to go to ClickBank.com and see what products are selling well there.  You can set the order of products displayed in the ClickBank Marketplace on “popularity” in descending order.  In other words, the products at the top of the MarketPlace are the ones that have the best combination of such factors as percentage of total sales referred by affiliates and the number of affiliates who created sales for that product.  

The higher those numbers are, the higher the popularity often is, and as a result, are product sites you should visit and attempt to determine what makes their affiliate programs so enticing for people to promote those products (whether it would be the quality of the product offer, the commission that is offered, the support the product owner gives his/her affiliates, etc.)

Not only should you attempt to contact the owners of these sites, but it’s also good to know what factors make up a successful affiliate program so you can add those elements and enhance upon them when you are ready to begin promoting your affiliate program.

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To increase the profits you gain from your product offers, it’s important to recruit top affiliates who have and/or are willing to learn and apply the best affiliate marketing techniques in their marketing campaigns.  You should keep in mind though that not all top affiliates are very experienced in affiliate marketing tactics.  

Like any Internet marketer, top affiliates also started out not knowing much, but were willing to learn and apply the information they learned to become a better affiliate marketer.  Eventually, they became so effective at affiliate marketing tactics that they were regarded as “top” or “super” affiliates and were recruited by every Internet marketer for virtually every product launch.  

This means that there may be some affiliates who have the potential to become top affiliates, but need guidance in getting there.

By providing top-notch tools, training, and support, you could help uncover new top affiliates, ones that would likely be loyal to you for helping them reach that “top” status.  The key is being able to provide them with the tools, training, and resources they need to improve their affiliate marketing techniques.  Of course, you’ll benefit from their improvement because the number of sales of your product offers will likely increase over time, and thereby, your profits.

Therefore, you should keep in mind that you should not just recruit known “top” affiliates, but also recruit affiliates who are not currently “top” affiliates, but who could reach that status one day with help and patience by you.  You need to look for affiliates who show an eagerness to learn and who can adapt their strategies based on what they have learned.

You can monitor their progress by reviewing their monthly sales and conversion ratios, along with staying in contact with them throughout to make sure they have everything they need to promote your product offers effectively.

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In recruiting top affiliates for your affiliate program, one thing you need to keep in mind is that many of these top affiliates have their own customer lists they promote to.  As a result, they too want to provide value to their customer lists whenever possible.

Therefore, if you can provide special benefits or perks to that top affiliate’s list, you’ll increase your chances of successfully recruiting him/her into your affiliate sales force.

For instance, if you provide a special price for just the top affiliate’s buyers (i.e. those who buy through the affiliate’s link), the affiliate will receive good publicity from his/her list because he/she provided the list with a special, exclusive offer that only a small group can take advantage of.  Likewise, if you provide that affiliate with special bonuses that only his/her customers can access, that again will make the affiliate look good in the eyes of his/her list, and will likely increase your chances of the affiliate joining your affiliate sales force.  This is because the affiliate, like any Internet marketer, wants to show that he/she can provide exclusive offers for his/her list, which will boost his/her reputation and increase his/her profits, both in the short-term and in the long-term.

Therefore, by enabling the affiliate to do this more easily, he/she will be much more receptive to your affiliate program proposal, and will likely join it.

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There are many ways to help motivate and encourage your top affiliates once you have recruited them into your affiliate sales force.  Giving them special benefits, such as giving them a bonus for reaching a specific number of sales per month, can really go a long way to encouraging your top affiliates to continue promoting your product offers well past their official launch date.  This can lead to you gaining more profit from those product offers weeks and even months after they were first launched.

Top affiliates will know how to effectively promote your product offers long after the initial fanfare of these product offers has died out.  This is another reason why gaining top affiliates into your affiliate program is so highly coveted by Internet marketers.  Your product offers can bring in much more income if you have top affiliates in your affiliate sales force, rather than just affiliates who can make a few sales, but are not that experienced or dedicated to affiliate marketing tactics.  

The longer your affiliates can keep sales of a product offer flowing, the higher your profits will increase and the more publicity and advertising you will receive on the Internet (due to people talking about how good your product offer is long after the initial buzz has died down), thereby reducing the amount of time and money you’ll need to advertise and sell new products.  By getting more sales and exposure from each product offer you present, you’ll gain more profit and spend less money and time on production costs.

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Gaining top affiliates into your sales force is key to exploding your online profits to levels never reached before.  However, to attract these top affiliates to your affiliate program, you need to promise them specific benefits that they will receive upon joining your affiliate program and promoting your product offers.

Most top affiliates are not going to be impressed enough to promote your product offer if you offer a high percentage commission or have an impressive conversion ratio.  It’s going to take a combination of valuable benefits in order for them to join your affiliate sales force.  

Other benefits besides high commission rates and high conversion ratios top affiliate would be interested in include the following:

- Getting a higher commission rate than most affiliates – the top affiliate is established in the industry and will expect to be treated as such in return for using his/her extensive knowledge and contacts to promote your product offer.  Otherwise, the top affiliate will look elsewhere and consider other proposals.
- Getting exclusive bonuses, such as Private Label Rights or access to an exclusive membership site or forum that you will have others pay for.  By offering exclusive products or membership sites, you’ll be more likely to draw interest from the top affiliate in your affiliate marketing proposal.
- Making that top affiliate an exclusive joint venture partner in an upcoming marketing promotion that will enable him/her to make sizable profits fairly easily (just by promoting your product to their lists without any extra advertising).
- Giving that top affiliate top-notch tools, marketing promotions, and easy contact access to help make it easier for them to promote your product offers.

These are just some ideas to consider in order to gain top affiliates in your affiliate sales force.

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To succeed at making large online profits, you need to have a dedicated affiliate force that will actively promote your product offers for you to people you normally would not reach or have a connection with.  This is why it’s important to gain affiliates who are experienced and dedicated to learning and doing well at affiliate marketing.

However, even after you have found these top affiliates and enlisted them into your affiliate program, this doesn’t mean the work for you is done.  On the contrary, your work becomes even more important.  You have to convince them that they should stay in your affiliate program and continue to promote your product offers.  Just because they’ve signed up to your affiliate program doesn’t guarantee they’re going to make a high number of sales or that they’re going to even stay with your affiliate program longer.

The only way you can come close to guaranteeing those conditions is to continually work on providing your affiliates with the tools and resources they need to succeed at marketing your product offers.  Additionally, you need to encourage them and show them that you care and are ready and willing to help whenever they need it.

Many inexperienced Internet marketers think that once they’ve acquired the top affiliates, the work is all done and the money will continuously flow in, but this is definitely not the case.  Just like anything worthwhile, you have to continuously work at keeping your top affiliates motivated and committed to selling your product offers in order for them to help you make the profits you are expecting.

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When you are building your affiliate sales force, you should keep in mind the “80/20″ rule – “20% of your affiliates will make 80% of your affiliate marketing profits.”

This isn’t always the case, but is often close enough, which is why you need to really focus on the quality of your affiliates rather than the quantity of affiliates you have in your affiliate program.

Virtually every affiliate program online today will have people who will sign up for the program, but won’t produce many, if any, sales.  Sometimes, the fault lies with the affiliate, as he/she may not be motivated enough to learn the skills necessary to be successful at affiliate marketing.

Obviously, you’ll want to have more affiliates who are dedicated to affiliate marketing and learning and applying the techniques necessary to be successful at affiliate marketing.  While many sign up, fewer people will truly be dedicated and able to do well at affiliate marketing.

Fortunately, there are tried and true methods that will enable you to find and enlist those dedicated affiliates into your affiliate program.  There are also tried and true methods that will enable you to encourage and motivate those affiliates to continue to perform well for your affiliate program – after all, just because you recruit top affiliates into your program doesn’t mean that they’ll just continue to promote endlessly for you unless you give them reason to.

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Finding and successfully recruiting well-respected, experienced affiliates into your affiliate sales force is a major key in being able to increase your online profits by a significant margin.  But, do you know how to recruit them into your affiliate sales force?

Well-respected, experienced affiliates are not just going to take any Internet marketer’s offer to join their affiliate program just because the marketer asks him/her to join.  The fact is, these affiliate marketers have many Internet marketers who come to them with affiliate program and joint venture proposals.  As a result, they can be choosy over whose products they want to promote.  Therefore, you really need to consider several factors before asking them to join your affiliate program and promote your product offers.

One factor is that you shouldn’t just “come out of the blue” and ask them to join your affiliate program.  Like you would with your opt-in list, you should build a relationship with the affiliate marketer first.  This can include buying their products, conversing with them in forums and on blogs, assisting them when possible, etc.  By establishing a relationship with them beforehand, they’ll be much more receptive to joining your affiliate sales force and promoting your product offers.

Another factor you should consider is how high a commission rate you should offer them.  Because they have so many affiliate program and joint venture proposals to consider, don’t expect a 50% commission rate is going to entice them to join – that’s more likely to get your proposal overlooked and disposed of.  The fact is, 50% commission rates are not as enticing nowadays because everyone is proposing at least that.  For your proposal to be seriously considered, the commission rate will have to be higher than 50%.

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To increase your online profits, you want to find as many of the “super,” or top-performing, affiliates as you can find.  However, without knowing where to look, finding a needle in a haystack may be easier.  Fortunately, there are some places online you can go to to increase your chances of finding and recruiting these top affiliates.

One place to find these super affiliates is to find newsletters, blogs, forums, and other such sites.  The owners of these sites are likely top-performing affiliates, as running such informative sites like newsletters and blogs show a level of dedication that goes above and beyond what most affiliates are either doing or willing to do.  In addition, running a newsletter, blog, or both can be a good way to promote products via free advertising, just by posting relevant information about that topic and then including a link to the product’s web page.

In addition, running a newsletter, blog, or forum can enable the owners of these sites to stay updated on the latest developments in the industry easily and for free.  That can give them a distinct advantage in knowing what products to promote and where to promote them, as well as having a reputation for running a specific site, which will likely encourage people to trust him/her and purchase the product offer he/she is recommending.

And this is just one place to find super affiliates for your affiliate sales force.

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To achieve the level of profits that will make you financially independent and reliant on only your online income, it is virtually impossible for you yourself to sell the number of products it would take to reach those levels of profits.  Therefore, you need to have other people selling your product offers, or affiliates.

Like Internet marketers, there are different levels or qualities of affiliates.  Some are experienced affiliates who promote products of many top Internet marketers, while others are relatively inexperienced at promoting other people’s products, and are mostly promoting products of Internet marketers who are not as highly regarded as the top Internet marketers are.

Obviously, you’d like more affiliates from that former group than the latter.  The question is, how do you go about finding these high-ranking, experienced affiliate marketers so that they will join your affiliate sales force?  After all, if you can’t find these knowledgeable affiliate marketers, you’ll have to resort to going with other affiliate marketers who aren’t as skilled as the more experienced ones, and that will likely lead to fewer sales, and consequently, lower profits for you.

Fortunately, there are places online where you can find these experienced, well-performing affiliate marketers.  Via the search engines and ClickBank are just two of the places online where you can find these highly-regarded affiliate marketers.

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