Help me to recruit more affiliates

[Stephen]

Hi,
I'm Stephen. I have started an affiliate program. I want to recruit more affiliates.I need your valuable suggestion in making my

affiliate program a profitable one.Below this I have given my affiliate program details.

* Commission : 20% on all our packages to individual icons
* Cookie Duration : Lifetime
* Benefits : Join our single program and earn commissions for selling products from our other 3 websites.
* Promotion Tools offered : Cool Banners, Text Links, Reprint Articles and more.
* Performance Incentives : As high as 40% per sale
* Bonuses, Promotions, Coupons : TBA


We also have schemes in place for awarding well-performing super affiliates with special incentives and higher commissions.

I want you guys to help me more to improve my program apart form the strategies that I'm using so far.

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Warm Regards,
Stephen-Affiliate Manager
Icongalore.com

[Andy]

It seems that you already know what you are doing to incentivise affiliates.

You just need to advertise your program more effectively if you are having problems.

Examples of how to monetize a site in the most effective way by promoting your product and what types of sites work best with your program would help.

If you have some star performer affiliates, then share their methods of promotion as case studies in a training manual for example. This should recommend Ad placement strategies, traffic generation techniques and info on which creatives generate the best conversions.

Also, please mention your target audience. Is it Adults only?

[Stephen]

Hi Andy,
   Thanks for your valuable tips.
I want to recruit more affiliates but I'm not able to reach the right sites. So please tell me which are the related sites to be approached. Our site http://www.icongalore.com is No. 1 Icon selling company. Icongalore.com offers quality Vista Icons and XP Style Icons that are designed by industry professionals.

Cheers,
Stephen

[SensoVision]

If you have some star performer affiliates, then share their methods of promotion as case studies in a training manual for example. This should recommend Ad placement strategies, traffic generation techniques and info on which creatives generate the best conversions.

very good advice, IMHO! I would definitely try this.

I want to recruit more affiliates but I'm not able to reach the right sites. So please tell me which are the related sites to be approached. Our site http://www.icongalore.com is No. 1 Icon selling company.

To sell products directly I would probably try to target design related sites like designer forums, article sites, etc. through some banner network like AdSence or directly setting deal with webmasters. For affiliate your main audience are bloggers and webmasters so you should accordingly may target them either by communities where they met, or buying keywords which are related to your affiliate program.
BTW you may wish to check this site as it have a lot of info about affiliate programs: http://www.affiliate-review.com/

[Andy]

Posting your offer on large Internet Marketing Forums would seem a good strategy.

Advertising on Adwords with words like "Icon Affiliate Program" would be a quick and direct way to attract affiliates.

p.s. I joined your affiliate program! I wrote some Windows software before and appreciate the difficulty in producing Icons, especially for Vista where the Icons are high resolution and need to look professionally designed. Icons are what readers of one of my Blogs need: http://www.sitesugu.com/geekzone/ I need to post some new content there, so an article on Icons would be a good idea.