[Linda Buquet]

Hi Tim,

We've talked in detail so I know a little more about your program. 1st off recruiting good affiliates is hard no matter how you cut it. The good ones, as I mentioned on the phone, are already partnered with lots of merchant they are already getting checks from. They don't know you or your program.

So lets start with 1st impressions. If you want affiliates you need to learn how they think and talk on their level. You keep talking about placing banners. From your end that may be your job but from an affiliate viewpoint it turns them off.

If an affiliate runs banner ads it normally pays a very low per impression commission. You're offering PER SALE you are not paying for impressions therefore need to careful about talking banners. To affiliates it's like you are saying you want to use them for free for branding when you keep talking about placing banners. (Plus like I said text links convert better, so just don't mention banners.)

Then next most affiliates are into this for the money. Other things come into play but money talks and gets their attention. You offer a VERY healthy $100 commission. But it's not even on your main affiliate page and it's also not mentioned in your sig.

"Click Here To Apply For ABC's Affiliate Program!" Tells affiliates nothing. No reason for them to even want to click through. So put Earn $100 per sale in your sig and put $100 per sale in big red letters on top of all your affiliate pages - at least the 1st one.

So read more, learn to think like an affiliate and package your program in a way that answers the question "what's in it for me?" Even with all that, like I explained by phone, there may be resistance to joining from affiliates who don't trust internally developed tracking scripts - for good reason too.

Hope this helps and best of luck!