Publicly recognize your affiliates.
While it will never replace cold, hard cash, recognition is another great way to keep affiliates active.
RECOGNIZE: Publicly recognize your top affiliates for their sales and profile how they achieved their success. Congratulate and thank them for a job well done for all to see.
REFER: Publicly mention any ideas that your affiliates share with you, mention their newsletters and blogs, point others towards their web sites as examples.
RECIPROCATE: Publicly promote the products and services of your affiliates when relevant. (Ex. If someone needs a transcriptionist, point them to one of your affiliates. They’ll be even more loyal to you for mentioning them!) I discovered by accident how powerful this can be. I once mentioned one of my affiliates as a “perfect example” of a particular marketing strategy ... and then I notified him about this so he could go see what I had written about him.
The result: He was overjoyed ... and he was more active than ever in promoting my products. That wasn’t my original intent, but my gesture was returned ten-
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