How Do I Convince A Company To Start An Affiliate Program?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Art, who needs advice on educating businesses on affiliate programs. How can he educate company owners on the benefit of affiliate programs? Art’s site is http://scapefu.com/. I’ve had experience with this problem with my niche site, Green Exam Academy (http://www.greenexamacademy.com/). For phone tracking, check out Call Rail (http://www.callrail.com/). I also reference episode 41 of the Smart Passive Income Podcast (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/affiliate-marketing-the-smart-way/). Do you have a question about affiliate programs? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPack.
0:04.0	AskPack.com
0:07.0	What up, everybody, Patflin here.
0:12.9	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:14.7	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week, and this is episode 353 of Ask Pat.
0:21.3	I almost forgot to say that today.
0:22.8	That was weird.
0:23.7	All right, here's today's question from Art.
0:26.5	Hi, Pat.
0:27.9	My name is Art Panam, and I'm the founder of SkateFood.com and the SkateFood Podcast.
0:33.6	A blog and podcast dedicated to learning the art and science of beautiful planted aquariums and aquascaping.
0:40.4	The industry I focus on is still very traditional.
0:44.6	Most manufacturers and retailers have no idea what an affiliate program is and why it would be valuable to them.
0:52.5	Do you have any suggestions on how I can educate a business owner
0:56.3	on how to establish an affiliate program
0:59.1	and why this is something they should do?
1:02.3	So far, the emails I have sent asking businesses
1:05.2	to establish an affiliate program have gone unanswered.
1:08.8	Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to ask you this
1:12.0	question. All the best to you and your family. Hey, what's up, Art? Thank you so much for the question,
1:17.6	which I really like because I've had experience trying to do this myself. And I've done it
1:22.1	successfully a couple of times in the past. Once for greenexamacademy.com, I got an affiliate to come
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