Actually, expanding your business in a totally new and unknown market is not an easy task to do because you need to know the market well in order to attract clients to your business and increase sales. How to increase sales, this is the number one questions of exporters, manufacturers and wholesalers. Through affiliate marketing you can promote your business in a new market, with the knowledge of the affiliates, helping you to raise the awareness of your business and brand in a new and unknown market.
To return the favor, the merchant will give a fair share of their sales or any tangible reward to their affiliates. This kind of marketing strategy can offer wide range of advantages to both parties. All business will have the opportunity to increase their sales for a very cheap price with zero risk. Online merchants will not lose anything because they only pay the affiliate for every sale and it comes from the indirect sale volume. As an affiliate you will earn without the need to think about customer service, shipping, inventory and products.
Actually, there are four vital players in affiliate marketing and these are the affiliate, the merchant, the customer, and the network (or agency). The merchant is the seller (or a brand); the affiliate is the merchant’s partner in promoting his or her brands and to sell products or services. The network serves as the medium where the whole advertising is done.
You can create and run your own affiliate program as part of your business on your website, but if you want to increase your affiliates instantly to promote your business. You should look for help with affiliate agency.
If you are looking for the best network in affiliate marketing to promote your business in the USA, you may likes to try this agency - Shareasale.com where you can sign up a merchant account with a reasonable of $550 one time setup fee for your new account and let thousand over of affiliates promote your business.
Shareasale.com accept merchants worldwide, as their affiliates mostly from USA, if you are selling tangible (physical) product, it is most suitable for you to target at US market. The agency also accept merchant who sell digital products or downloads.
There is a $25 of monthly minimum charges only after 120 days of activation of your account. It is free for the first 60 days after activation of your merchant account, as from the startup, you have to grow your affiliate for sales. From 60 to 120 days of activation, the monthly minimum is only $10.
On each sale where referred by your affiliate, there is a 20% transaction fees. There are exceptional for some business types, where fees are lower.
So, if you have a quality product or service for this market, you have no reason you cannot make more than $25 profits per month from your affiliates, after the 20% deduction. Info on pricing can be found here.
Become a merchant in shareasale.com network, you have the rights to accept or decline any affiliate apply to your program. You have the rights to choose only the affiliate with highly targeted website or blog close to your business theme. So, it will make your affiliate program more efficient with highly targeted customers refer from your affiliates.
By using the shareasale.com merchant account, you can create promotional or keyword texts links, banners in various sizes, widget that can be inserted to affiliate website or blog, or even a video that contain a link to your business site. For affiliate who participate with your program to pick up and place on their website or blog, or even insert in the email to promote your business.
You have a list of coupons or deal, no problem, there are tools for upload. If you have thousand of products for affiliate, you can find other advance tools in the network, to help you do your job easier, as well for your affiliates.
The commission is the most important for your affiliates, so you need to decide in which percentage or a flat fee you would likes to share to your affiliates when they refer a sale to you. You can also set up a small fee for a lead generated by your affiliate.
Tracking of the affiliate is also one of the important tool you need to know, where the agency help you track the sale is came from which affiliate, you can decide the length of the tracking period, eg.14 days, 30 days, 60 days or 1 year. Product or service which is not easy selling, should extend the tracking period longer or given a higher commission as a reward, so your affiliates will be happy to help you.
How you pay to your affiliates? It is easy, shareasale.com will handle for you, you just deposit a minimum of $100 in your account, and if you got sale from your affiliate referral, the commission will be deducted from this account.
Remember to read the merchant account terms of use on the bottom of the site, before you start your works.
Shareasale.com is a private company in USA since year of 2000, located at:
15 W. Hubbard St., STE 500
Chicago, IL 60654
USA
Follow this link to sign up and open a merchant account.
If you are interested to promote business for other merchants, you can sign up as an affiliate here.
