Ask Your Affiliate Manager

A while back I made a post about how great it is to have friends who are running the same offers as you. When they run the same offers, you can help push each other up to higher levels.

A lot of people messaged me asking how to make such friends and what methods they should use to start these type of relationships.

Recently I have been finding just how far you can “push” your affiliate manager for information. You really can get a ton of information if you build your relationships up. You don’t need to be a super affiliate before they give you a ton of information so dont let that stop you.

The reason I bring these two subjects up is because a lot of times you can ask your affiliate manager what the top publishers are doing in terms of leads for a particular offer. They generally wont tell you any sort of exact numbers but even knowing a general figure is good enough to set a goal.

For example, recently I have been promoting this offer which I get anywhere from 35-40 leads per day. I don’t have any friends running this offer so I didn’t really know how well I was doing in terms of lead volume and lead potential except I knew I had not worked a TON on the offer.

Payout is around $18 bucks. After talking with my affiliate manager I found out that top publishers are pushing 400+ leads per day from this offer alone. CA-CHING. That’s a great sign! Now you know that there is a possibility to hit that level. I’ve made it my goal to not stop working on this offer until I’m hitting at least 250+ leads per day now. At that sort of volume you should be getting roughly (this is a total estimation) $20 per lead. 250 leads * $20 = $5000 per day. Not too shabby.

Most people would be content with the $600-$700 per day I’m making with that campaign, but that is not the attitude we affiliates should ever get into. I’ve left this campaign generating the $200-300 profit it’s been making me for a couple weeks but I needed that goal in my horizon to really make me want to ramp up my efforts.

I really think that this is one of the most important mindsets to have while working on campaigns. You cant ever be lazy, complacent, or “satisfied” with your current campaigns. I never stop tweaking my campaigns because you never know what small changes could bring in that extra money.