Hey, welcome to the 100 R. B. A Show and today is a Q&A weekend's episode where we answer your question right here on the show.

If you have a question you want to ask, just email us over at support at business republic dot net we would love to answer your

question right here on Q&A weekends as always I'm your host your coach your teacher

Omar is at home I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

If you've been trying to nail your business idea, head on over to 100MBA.net, we have a free seven-part video course on idea validation. This course comes with an

interactive workbook that you can use to make sure that whatever idea you're

trying to validate is easy and is actually quite fun. Best of all it's

completely free. Just head on over to our website 100 MBA.net and just click on the

link that says free course up on top. Today's question comes from Pat and Pat asks, do I need

affiliates for my next product launch? Good question Pat. For those are not

familiar with affiliates, basically an affiliate is a partner that will promote or market your product for a percentage of commission.

In the online business world, many people give commissions up to 50%.

So this partner can email their email list, let their community know about your product, and when they

purchase with his special link, his affiliate link, you'll know about it and you'll be able to pay them

an affiliate commission for referring

that sale.

Now, Pat's question is pertaining to product launches, and affiliates or having affiliates during

a product launch is very common, because you want to make a lot of buzz

for your actual new product and you want to get as many people talking about it

endorsing it. But to answer Pat's question and I will go into detail in this episode, you don't need to have

affiliates for a product launch.

I'll launch for products without affiliates all the time.

...