help these individuals out by teaching them, but they shouldn t be the only 

focus in your affiliate program. 

Affiliate programs really prosper by concentrating your attention on the 5% 

or less who are the real go getters and achievers. You need to pay extra 

attention to them, give freely of your time, and often offer them a higher 

level of commission payouts. 

You also shouldn t concentrate on just signing up numbers into your 

program. Who cares if you have 10,000 affiliates if only one of them is 

making any significant sales. You would have been better off to actively 

recruit more super affiliates like your one really successful one instead of 

trying to just recruit thousands of members. 

This is the 

hidden secret

 of successful affiliate programs. They don t just 

put a net out there and hope to have good affiliate members sign up. The 

majority of people who sign up this way are not very effective at promoting 

the program. 

The most successful affiliate programs find out who the most well trafficked 

sites in a market are, and they actively and aggressively try to recruit them 

into the program. 

Find Out Where the Buyers Are

You want people to buy your products and services. These future customers 

of yours are already online and visiting web sites. Why not just go to the 

owners of these popular web sites and make deals with them to offer your 

products to the market? 

Sounds easy doesn t it? 

Well, it is easy if you have followed the steps leading up to this point. The 

only reason everyone isn t already doing it is they are too scared of rejection! 

They are afraid someone will tell them NO.  

You will get more No s than Yes  following the system laid out to you 

below, but this doesn t matter. You don t need 1,000 affiliates to promote 

your program for you. You don t even need 100. If you have 10 high traffic 

web sites working in partnership with you, then you can virtually guarantee 

success for your project if there is a good sales system in place at your site. 

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