"Affiliates - Net's No 1 Losers"

How Affiliates Are Being Ripped-Off Big-Time
And How You Can Claw Back The $10000s Of Dollars
The Merchants Are Stealing From You

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My name is Alan Brown, BSc, C.Eng, MIMech E, MCIBSE
CEO of The Affiliate Website Company
Founder and creator of the Affiliate Website Company,
the Affiliate Website Company affiliate program,
designer and publisher of over 70 websites
Author and Publisher of On-Track Newsletter.

"Affiliates Are The Internet's No 1 Losers!"
 

The "Amazing Formula" Report I mention is so revealing it *forced* me to write this article!

The Report turns e-Profiting into a no-brainer!

It's truly an amazing piece of work. I'll explain why a little later. . . I'll also show you how to stop the Affiliate rip-off and how Affiliates can easily increase their profits by 3,000% or more!

Meanwhile back to the story - I was reading the Amazing Formula Report when I came across Affiliate programs described as:

"Loser Strategy No 1"

It hit me hard, like a strike on the back of the neck with a steel rod.
I can still remember feeling dizzy as the truth hit home, hard:
 

"Affiliates Are The Internet's No 1 losers!"

 
You see, I promote the Affiliate cause strongly on this website. I was shocked to see my entire strategy for my website apparently blasted out of the water by this Millionaire.

In fact this whole website is about Affiliate programs, but now here was an Internet Millionaire telling me that Affiliates are on a losing strategy!

Let me tell you that as soon as I had recovered from being totally stunned, I leaped into action. I started to research the Net in a frenzy to see if I could find out why this guru should so blatantly slate Affiliate programs. I just had to find out! And I did.

What I discovered, simply confirmed the bad news. I found out that most of the top marketers all carried the same message. . .

Most merchants who operate Affiliate programs report that only around 5% of Affiliates ever make any decent money!

This is what Jimmy D. Brown of profitsvaultsmonthly.com says:

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"Let me give you some startling facts about my own affiliate program and the resellers who promote it...

5% of my affiliates earn about 80% of the commissions paid.

10% of my affiliates earn commissions every pay period.

20% of my affiliates earn commissions at some point.

80% of my affiliates either earn *very* little commissions or no commissions at all."

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That is a typical statement regarding how poorly most Affiliates are rewarded for their effort.

Here is another one:-

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"Hi there,

I thought these stats might interest you. I recently spoke
with a handful of high profile affiliate managers and they
were kind enough to share this information with me. It is
quite revealing. The affiliate managers I spoke with all
noticed the same things about their programs...

o For every 100 affiliates in their program, less than half
  ever get a SINGLE visitor to their affiliate website.

o For every 100 affiliates in their program, only 4-5
  affiliates make a sale in any given month.

o Of all the affiliate checks mailed every month, 75% of
  the total income goes to a group consisting of less than
  20 affiliates.

Yet, with all these things that seem to be working    against affiliates, one thing surprised me...

o These affiliate managers were getting HUNDREDS of sales
  each month from their affiliates. A few affiliate managers
  actually reported that 50% of all sales at their sites
  were made by affiliates.

So SOME affiliates are doing it right. And those
"super-affiliates" all have something in common...
They all own a website of their own where they feature their
best affiliate products and services. They also promote
their affiliate links via opt-in email marketing."

Ken McArthur

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As I researched, I began to find the reasons why. The answers are right here, in this article.

Read on and I will tell you some of the reasons why so many Affiliates lose-out, and what you can do to make sure you're in the top 5% of money earning Affiliates. And the top 5% make a *lot* of money!

What I discovered was that most Affiliates are being cheated out of $1000s of dollars extra profit that are rightfully theirs - by the Merchants whose products they are promoting!
 

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Affiliates Are Used As Traffic-Fodder By Merchants!

(I use the term "Merchants" in this article to refer to the company owning the product that the Affiliates are promoting)

Affiliates spend their time - their money - fishing for customers. Occasionally they catch one and are (sometimes) paid a "well-done" commission.

But who keeps the fish?

The Merchant!

They keep all these fish in their own pond and feed tid-bits to them until they are worth 50 times the original sale.

Who cashes in on the big fat fish?

The Merchant - again!

The Affiliate does the hard work - catching the little fish. The Merchant does the easy bit and makes a whale of a profit!

So how are the Merchants stealing the profit from the hard-working Affiliate?
Well, I will tell you that later. . . First - you may not have fully grasped the 'parable of the fishes.'

Let me explain in cold, hard, but clear words that may hurt - How Affiliates are being Ripped-Off by the Merchants.

It's what smart marketers and companies have realized all the time - long before the Internet was invented. The piece of advice that follows is priceless - if you grasp it's implication and take action to implement it, it could make you a fortune.

This is information you could pay $100s for by buying "marketing courses" or "how-to" eBooks. Here it's FREE.

How Many Affiliates Operate - and why this is Totally Dumb!

I will now tell you how so many Affiliates operate and why it is so, so dumb!

And if you do this then please don't take it personally. This is a hard-hitting report and gets down to the dirty truth many people don't want to hear.

But for those who take note and follow the advice, they could walk away with gold.

This is what many Affiliates do:

Many Affiliates post a teaser ad, in a newsletter or ezine, promoting the product with an affiliate link to the Merchant's website.

Sounds familiar? Well that's not surprising because it's what most Affiliates do. Why it's so dumb, I explain below.

First look at an example of their dumb 'profit model':

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This Is Where The Good Stuff Starts

The Key To *Outrageous* Profits Is:
** The Lifetime Value Of A Customer **
 

The process is simple (but few Affiliates follow it!):

Grasp this simple concept; it could make you a fortune:

Do not use Affiliate programs for your bread and butter - your mainstream income.
Instead, use Affiliate programs as bait to catch a lifetime customer. Someone you can sell products to over and over again - so that YOU reap the lifetime value of the customer, not the Merchant!

Here is the process in outline:

So how is the Affiliate being Ripped-Off?

No 1

In Step 2 above " Acquire a customer at a low $ acquisition cost", the Affiliate is doing the Merchant's work in acquiring the customer.

In fact, instead of the Merchant paying $100 to acquire the customer, they are often paying nothing - or even make money on the first sale - even after allowing for the Affiliate's commission, if he gets one at all!

No 2

Thereafter the customer belongs to the Merchant. It's the Merchant who gets the customer's email address to mail out offers to over and over again - not the Affiliate!

It has been said many times "The money is in the List".

It is the (email) list that is the most important part of any (online) business.

These are qualified prospects and trusting customers. People who have bought once and are ready to buy again and again. Pure gold-dust.

And who has the list? The Merchant - the Winner.
Who found the customer? The Affiliate - the Loser.

And don't forget, the Merchant is selling his own products at 3 to 8 times cost.
That's 300 to 800% profit, compared to the Affiliate who only makes 20 to 30% on any sales.

Who is the Winner? The Merchant.
Who is the Loser? The Affiliate.

So how can the Affiliate make sure he receives the lifetime value of his customer? I will tell you later, but first . . .

It gets worse!

Yes, as if all that bad news wasn't enough to scare you off becoming an Affiliate for life, there is even more bad news!

Here is another way the Merchants are stripping their Affiliates naked!

No 3

Already robbed of the $1000s from backend sales through the lifetime value of the customer, some Merchants are playing another dirty trick and even stealing the once-off commission payment!

They sell products through online checks, Pay-Pal or other non-credit card payment methods. Nothing wrong with that - except it by-passes the tracking system and the Affiliate never gets a cent.

and worse . . .

No 4

The 'average' surfer, if there is such a thing, may well make the occasional purchase online, a book for example through an Amazon affiliate.

No problems here, the Affiliate gets the commission.

But if the product is more sophisticated, such as software or an expensive marketing course then we are looking at a much more sophisticated customer.

He will often override the normal 'must buy now' impulse and think to himself - "I want this, but can I join the Affiliate program and save myself the 30% (or whatever) Affiliate commission?"

There in nothing to stop him joining the Affiliate program then buying the product through his own Affiliate membership.

He doesn't even need a website. Just join the program, copy the affiliate link into the browser, click and he's done!

It happens all the time!

That customer then gets the commission - not the Affiliate who found the customer.

(In some cases the customer simply deletes the Affiliate ID code from the end of the Affiliate link to go directly to the home page of the Merchant site. Maybe they think the Affiliate shouldn't profit from them. Anyway it's done!)

still worse . . .

Here are some more ways the Merchants steal the commission from their Affiliates:

No 5

The Merchant holds on to commissions for 3 months, or until a certain level is reached. e.g. $100. Often the Affiliate never makes the $100 threshold and never gets paid.

No 6

They don't set cookies. If cookies are not set then the next time the prospect - that the Affiliate introduced to the site - makes a purchase, the Affiliate gets nothing.

(If cookies are set then the next time an Affiliate's prospect visits the Merchant's site and makes a purchase the Affiliate is credited with the sale and gets the commission.)

The poor Affiliate who did all the hard work of bringing the prospect to the point of making a purchase loses his commission.

He spends all his time and money on generating leads, creating sales messages, posting ads, follow-up emails and on and on - for nothing.

Summary of the Affiliate Rip-off

Do the Merchants care? Why would they care who received a commission?
Think about it. These are practices that have being going on long enough, you would think not. After all, the Merchant made the sale and made the profit.

This is borne out by the fact that many Merchants do nothing to protect the Affiliate from some of these practices.

(Now don't get me wrong! Not all Merchants are the bad guys. After all I am a Merchant running an Affiliate program myself! I do take steps to eliminate these practices.)

Through all his hard work, time and commitment the Affiliate eventually draws a prospect to buy. A customer!

And what does the Affiliate get in many cases? Nothing! Not a cent. Zilch. Zero.

• Is that fair? No.
  
  
• Is it moral? No.
  
  
• Does it happen? Yes.
  
  

Is there a solution? Yes, if you follow my advice!
 

What Are The Solutions To All The Above Problems?
How Can The Affiliate Claw Back His Rightful Rewards?

Let us see why it happens and what the solutions are.

First let's re-cap on what these major problems are:

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Here Are The Solutions You Need

There are several ways around these problems - allowing the Affiliates to keep more of the dollars that would otherwise be stolen from them.

Some of the solutions depend upon choosing the right affiliate company in the first place.

The other essential is to make sure that you, the Affiliate, has a suitable website that can catch visitor's email addresses.

To make sure you have a good chance of being paid for your efforts the potential Affiliate should consider the following factors before deciding to sign up for that particular program.

Some Key Factors You should consider before joining an Affiliate scheme:

• The most powerful protection is where the Merchant requires the prospect to make the purchase before they are allowed to become an affiliate.
  
  (This is very protective to existing affiliates but has a big downside for the merchant. You see, once a prospect joins a company as an affiliate, even though he hasn't bought a product, he immediately becomes a hot prospect for all the products the Merchant has. Now or in future.)
  
  The Merchant wants that hot prospect on his list.
  
  That's why not many Merchants impose this rule.

• Another way the Affiliate can protect himself from these rip-offs is to only join two (or three)-tier programs.
  
  In these programs the Affiliate receives a commission on all the sales made by sub-affiliates. So that if his prospect decides to become an affiliate mainly to save the commission for himself, at least the referring Affiliate still receives something for his efforts.
  
  If fact it's a good deal all round. The Affiliate receives the reduced commission (say 10%), but also has a sub-affiliate who may bring in more sales, with more commissions for the original Affiliate.
  
  Another very good reason only to join two (or three) - tier Affiliate programs

Conclusions on how to make sure you get your rightful commissions:

Only ever join an Affiliate program if:

• The products are everyday and unlikely to push the prospective customer into becoming an Affiliate to earn the commission for themselves.
  
  
• Or, the program requires the prospect to buy the product before they are allowed to become an Affiliate.
  
  
• Or, it is a two (or three) - tier program
  

So that is one problem solved - how to retain your sales commission.

“Loser Strategy No 1”

Well, you can imagine this realization, that hit me like a ram-rod, is actually the exact thing I have long been preaching on this website.

The shock was to see my very own thoughts endorsed by Internet millionaire Marlon Sanders, author of "The Amazing Formula that Sells Products Like Crazy" - that Report I had been reading - the one that sparked off this article.

Most Affiliates are Missing a Vital Step in their business-building process.

To put this right, to make sure the Affiliate - and not the Merchant - receives the lifetime value of his customer and to stop this Affiliate Rip-Off, Affiliates MUST catch the email address of all prospects before they send them to the Merchant’s selling page. Let me say this again:

Affiliates MUST catch the email address of all prospects before they send them to the Merchant’s selling page.

The key words are:

• Affiliates
  
  
• MUST
  
  
• catch the email address
  
  
• of all prospects
  

This is quite easy IF THE AFFILIATE HAS HIS OWN CREDIBLE WEB SITE.
But how many Affiliates do this? Very, very few!

Why? Is it because they don't understand the importance of this, or because they don't have the right website?

This is how most Affiliates are giving their Merchants 3000% of additional profits that rightfully belong to the Affiliate.

Do you remember above, I explained that the way a “normal” Affiliate works is to write a small article or ad and post it on an ads site or in an ezine.

Let's review this simple, but dumb, process step-by-step so that the vital missing step can be exposed.

The normal dumb process used by 95% of Affiliates is this:

• The Affiliate writes, or more likely copies, a small article or ad and posts it on an advertising site or in an ezine.
  
  Other methods include posting banners - the result is always the same.
  
  
• The ad, article or banner contains a link to the Merchant's sales page. The link has the Affiliate's link code embedded.
  
  (Something like this:
    http://www.ecovergenerator.com/x.cgi?adminid=814&id=23443
  - 23443 is the Affiliate's link code)
  
  

• The prospect clicks on the link and is taken to the Merchant’s selling page.
  
  
• The Affiliate's link code is passed to the Merchant so that the Affiliate can be credited if the customer makes a purchase.
  

This is where the Affiliate is literally giving $1000s of hard-earned dollars to the Merchant - for FREE!

But most Affiliates do just this!

How dumb can you get!

Whether the prospect then makes a purchase OR NOT, once on the Merchant's site, the Merchant usually manages to get the prospect’s email address by some kind of free offer. The Affiliate never gets a look-in.

For the Affiliate, it's goodbye to all those lifetime backend profits - forever!

But not for the Merchants - they will keep raking in the profits time and time again! All because the Affiliate was so dumb to hand over the prospect's email address on a plate!

Now what if the process was changed so that when the prospect clicked the link, the prospect was taken to a sales page ON THE AFFILIATE’S website? Then the AFFILIATE could obtain the email address. A further link would then send the prospect to the Merchant's sales site.

At last the Affiliate can start to build his own customer list and make a fortune on repeat sales throughout the lifetime of the customer.
 

Here Is The Step-by-Step Method To Earn Lifetime Riches

Make sure that you:

• Own your own website
  
  
• Bring the prospect to Your website first
  
  
• Obtain the prospect's email address
  
  
• Only then, send the prospect to the Merchant's site
  
  
• Nurture and grow your email list
  
  
• Keep in contact with your list and educate your prospects to build credibility and trust
  
  
• Supply your prospect list over time with a series of good-value products that the prospects want

Here is the smart Affiliate's profit model:

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Check List for Affiliates

I've covered quite a few ideas and written many words to bring you this far. Perhaps you have forgotten some of the vital steps and checks you must make if you want to keep all your Affiliate profits.

To help you remember these, here is short checklist:

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All the Affiliate's problems solved . . . except . . .

Of course, the Affiliate would need a suitable website and a way to harvest prospect's email addresses. He would also need special training and perhaps some special tools to run a newsletter and email to his list.

Putting all this together is not an easy task and this is why many Affiliates fail at the first hurdle.

The work and skill involved in creating a professionally looking website with good content, installing the code to capture visitor's email addresses, building and managing a list, writing and publishing a newsletter and then finally finding the traffic is just overwhelming for many people and not to be taken lightly.

Some Affiliates try to operate without a suitable website. Either without a website at all or with a 'free' website that destroys any level of credibility they may otherwise have in the eyes of the visitor.

Can I Offer A Solution To You?

How would you like a website professionally designed specifically for Affiliates?

If you could obtain a superb website, that was a delight to own, was complete with blistering content and was already charged-up with Affiliate programs and the special scripts that catch email addresses, would you be interested?

A website linked to affiliate programs that pass all the 5 tests already set out for you.

A complete backend sales system that put products the consumer needs and wants right under his mouse button every single day! A system that will generate a lifetime of backend and repeat sales finally assuming that the affiliate reaps the rewards of the lifetime value of the customer.

If so, you may be interested in owning your own customized version of this website.

The site incorporates virtually every worthwhile and top-quality Affiliate program, every list-building, traffic-generating, profit-making tool, tip and product we can think of!

It is specially designed to take Affiliates into Profit at the speed of lightning.
Newsletters, training and on-line personal support are all there to help you with your business.

It is more than a website. It is a virtual *clone* of my own very successful business.

I will let you into a little secret. I make an income many Affiliates can only dream of from this website. It's not millions (yet), but it is $1,000s a month and often $1,000s a week. I can't tell you exactly, because every month it increases! (In fact, I had to instruct ClickBank not to send me any checks less than $1,000, because I was spending too much time filling in check deposit slips!)

And you can own a copy of this business!

If you decide to take me up on this, you will have a real website, like this one, that is customized with your name, and all your details.

All you have to do is change the affiliate link codes to your own codes and promote your site to start earning Affiliate profits.


(We show you exactly how to change your affiliate links in one of our online movie tutorials)

You don't even have to worry about managing your opt-in email list and writing Newsletters. (Remember the money is in the list)

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We build your opt-in newsletter subscriber list and issue the On-Track Newsletter customized and delivered with your website details included, just as though you had issued it yourself!

As soon as someone subscribes to the On-Track Newsletter on your Affiliate Website Company website we automatically deliver the latest newsletter with your site URL right at the top. Your subscriber’s name and email is also added to your opt-in email list.

When a new issue of the newsletter is published it is sent out with your website URL, as though it had been sent from you, and also with your affiliate links included for the featured products!

No other site that you can buy or rent on the Internet offers you this terrific service. And It’s FREE to Affiliate Website Company SiteOwners.

This is a killer. Imagine this. The newsletter sent out with your own affiliate links in all the right places.

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Don't Leave Until You Have Read This!

That's almost the end of this little article, but I do want to share something more with you.

Because you have read this far it's clear you're interested in finding out how to make more profits as an Affiliate. Well here is something that helps me make the money I do and I would like to share it with you:

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Many thanks for reading this article

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I think now you can see how I was *forced* to write it because I can see many Affiliate's efforts being wasted. I hate to see all that backend profit going to the Merchants who are just laughing at the poor Affiliate who is spending his own time and money making them rich!

It's time to put this right. Now have the information and the means to get even - to make sure your keep those profits for yourself.

Please take some action from reading this article, even if it is only to pass it on to your friends.

Please feel free to distribute the article in it's entirety. Give it away to as many people as you wish. Give it away on your site in return for the visitor's email address.

If they are thinking of becoming an Affiliate they will thank you forever.

Yours sincerely



Alan Brown
CEO The Affiliate Website Company
Publisher of On-Track Newsletter

I haven't forgotten that I promised to tell you about the Amazing Report
that literally *forced* me to write the article:

This Report absolutely stunned me. It is simply the:

• hardest-hitting,
  
• no-holds barred,
  
• clearest,
  
• and most informative . . .

. . . report explaining a fool-proof method, step-by-step how to sell products to anyone.

The Report is written by Marlon Sanders around a mathematical formula that describes the product research, development, marketing and sales process. It is ideal for building a web-based business. In fact, if that's what you intend, you simply can't do without it.

I have spent $1000s on reports, tapes, seminars and marketing courses.
I have products from Corey Rudl, Michael E Enlow, Ted Nicholas, Jay Abraham, Robert G Allen, Napoleon Hill, Brian Tracey, Zig Ziglar, Stephen R Covey, Denis Waitley, Ron Holland, Tony Robbins, Declan Dunn . . . and more.

But this Amazing Report is the best. The others are great. But this is the best. It is quite small (if 150 pages is 'small') but it gets right to the point, telling you what to do step-by-step.

I don't apologize for going on about this. Marlon Sanders has over 100 pages of testimonials for this Report. I am simply adding my own.

What's more Marlon Sanders lets you into the secret Players Club and provides you with 10 super products you can sell.

I can't recommend this report highly enough. Please, I implore you, if you do nothing else on the Internet, just invest a little of your time to see what it covers.

Warm Regards



Alan Brown
CEO The Affiliate Website Company
Publisher of On-Track Newsletter

Don't Miss the Updates

This report only scratches the surface of why Affiliates aren't making the commissions they should. This only just the beginning of the story, not the end!

The report is followed by updates issued at bi-weekly intervals.

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