How do you launch an Affiliate Program for Your Member Site
If you haven't considered rolling out an affiliate program on your membership site You should.
Affiliate programs can bring your product significantly greater interest and revenue than other methods of marketing. When done properly, they will allow you to establish relationships with bloggers, site owners and other people to increase awareness of your membership website and grow your profits by as much as 30%.
Why is this important?
Yes, Easy Affiliate works with several different membership and payment system (including some of our competitors). However, we've got a more thorough and in-depth integration between Easy Affiliate and the other systems - a connection that allows us to accomplish things other platforms can't.
The Basics
Naturally, every affiliate program of any kind needs to manage affiliates (including the sign-up procedure) as well as provide affiliates with banners and links, and the most important thing is to track sales and commissions. When you install Easy Affiliate all of these functions, they start to function without complicated integration processes. It's extremely simple.
Your Affiliate Program on Auto-Pilot
In addition to these fundamental features that you can avail when using Easy Affiliate, your affiliate commissions will stay on track with any changes to the transactions . That includes refunds and cancellations.
In this case, for example, Sally suggested Bob to your website for members. As soon as an order is processed for Bob's new membership, Easy Affiliate will automatically calculate and calculate the appropriate commission for the sale.
However, now Bob requires a refund therefore you decide to issue the refund through your account. Easy Affiliate will automatically re-calculate and record the correct commission for Sally making sure that she is able to recover the initial commission that she earned.
This automated process alone will make you more money, save time, and trouble. That's because, unlike with other membership plugins and affiliate software, you'll never have to remember to manually back out commissions.
Commission Groups
This Commission Groupsfeature works solely with Easy Affiliate's integration. This feature helps owners of membership websites incentivize affiliates based on levels of membership.
Commission Groups enable you to enable your members to be qualified for higher commissions based on what membership products they're currently enrolled in.
For example, say you own three different products: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Set a default commission of 10% to be paid out on each sale, but then you add a custom commission group. Bronze for 20 percent, Silver at 30%, and Gold for 40 40%.
Now, say Sally (our affiliate from the previous example) can be considered an affiliate who is also a Silver member on your membership site. Yet, Jay also has an affiliation who isn't a member of your site at this point.
If, for example, Jay recommends Andrea and she signs up for a membership Jay will receive a 10% commission when the transaction is completed. If, however, Sally recommends Bob and he decides to sign up for a membership, Sally will receive a 30 percent commission after his transaction completes, because she's part of your Silver products commission group.
It is evident from this instance that commission groups will help to not only incentivize users to upgrade, but create more quality affiliates users who use your site for membership and who are able to better assist other members in making the decision to sign up.
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