Affiliate Commissions Hijacking
To build on Andrew Wee’s post on Product Owners Hijacking Affiliate Commissions, I would like to say that there are still many products which have a sales page instead of an optin page. For affiliate marketers like us, we can just easily jump boat and promote another product if we don’t want to help the product owner to build their own list.
I guess there are still many affiliates who actually don’t mind as long as they make money from their efforts. I learnt from Ewen that conversion do improve when he helps to follow up with his sequence of autoresponder messages if the prospects optin to his list. If the prospect do buy his product, the affiliate still get his commission as long as the tracking cookie is still intact. Along the way, the prospect may get redirected by another affiliate. So from this point onwards, the previous affiliate may not get his commission even though the follow up messages are still being sent. We can’t actually stop this from happening. So the only way to reduce the possibility of this happening is to promote a product with less competition. It is all about the handling of competition and the tweaking of the campaign.
For product owners, you can actually combine the optin form with the sales page. In this way, you can build your list while still getting your affiliates to send traffic to you. You can see an example here by Ewen on his Autopilot profits sales page.
By the way, you can see an example of my optin page in Squidoo.
Tags: Ewen Chia, Affliliate marketing, Autopilot profits
