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 should recruit and gain as many affiliates as possible so that they’ll promote your products to more people than you could ever reach on your own.  Even better, you should add as many super affiliates as you can to your affiliate force, as these affiliates will not only have the resources and knowledge to get the most out of their marketing campaigns, but they’ll also likely have sizable lists to promote your products to, thereby enabling you to gain more sales of your product quickly.

However, finding these super affiliates is not always easy, especially if you are relatively new to the Internet marketing scene.  Fortunately, there are some established ways to help find and recruit super affiliates into your affiliate force.

One way to find super affiliates is by using the search engines.  By inputting keywords that relate to your niche, you can see who has high rankings for those keywords.  It’s likely the owners of those sites will be established marketers and be prime candidates to become great affiliates for your affiliate program.

You can also use the PPC listings on the side of the page to help you find potential super affiliates.  The owners of the sites that have those listings must be earning profitable results from such listings to continue paying for those listings.  As a result, you should also contact them in an effort to have them join your affiliate sales force.

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