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Old 07-25-2007, 11:14 AM
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I'm a little confused by your post as well.

But IF you are saying you want to start an affiliate program to sell your OWN products because with Google Adwords "I find the user registration is low and I spend too much money for too little response."

If thats what you mean, you would be making a big mistake.
If your conversions are too low for YOU to make a profit
then it would be a bad move to even THINK about an affiliate program at this stage.

An affiliate program will not cure a business model or site that's not done right to begin with. PPC is the fastest, easiest way to test your conversion rates. If you are not making enough sales then you need to evaluate your offer, cart, site design, prices or copy.

Once you test and tweak and get your conversion rates up to a respectable level, an affiliate program can be your highest ROI sales channel. But if you can't get conversions, how can you expect affiliates to?

Also $100 is NOTHING as far as PPC testing goes. It would cost you FAR more to set up an affiliate program (set up right). And if your conversions are bad you won't get and keep any good affiliates anyway. So fix your site 1st.
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