Hello,
in this post we will give you ideas how to promote your affiliate program. We will try to update it regularly.
Invite your clients to become your affiliates
Use Affiliatly’s popup at checkout to invite your clients to join your affiliate program after they make a purchase from your store. Read more about this feature here.
Alternatively, you can send an invitation email to your customers using the option “Invitation mail for your store’s customers” in the Settings. The email will be sent only once per customer. (This feature is available for Shopify and BigCommerce only.)
Add your program on our site
Now, you can add your program to our site’s directory (https://www.affiliatly.com/affiliate-programs.html), to do this just go to your Affiliatly’s admin panel > Settings > General > option “Promote your program on our site”. Add info about your program like name, category, average sale price and in few hours it will be listed for everyone to see.
Tell everyone
The best and fastest way to gather some affiliates and feedback! Talk with your friends and family members about your affiliate program, this way even if they are not interested in becoming partners, they will know somebody who will. Also you will gather feedback and opinions.
Share online
Add a page with information about your affiliate program on your website, longtime clients or maybe just passing visitors will be interested and may join. Post links to this page in all of your social accounts.
Register in online directories
One of the best ways for promoting your affiliate program is to add it to affiliate directories. Here is a list with working directories (at the time of writing) we prepared for you.
Free directories
- http://www.affiliateseeking.com/
- http://www.top-affiliate.com/listings
- http://www.homebizjour.com/dir/
- http://www.affiliateranker.com/
- http://www.bestaffiliateprogramreviews.com/db/
- http://www.affiliateguide.com/
Update February 2015
- http://atlnetwork.interlinker.net/register.shtml
- http://www.globalaffiliateprograms.co.uk/addnewprogram.shtml
Update September 2019
Call out for affiliates in forums
There are few forums specialized in affiliate marketing, where you can promote your affiliate program.
Hello, how can people access my affiliate pages and information text that are considering joining my affiliate program?
Thanks,
Chris
Hi Christopher.
When you joined Affiliatly, you now have unique URL, you can see it in your Affiliatly’s admin panel, page “Account”, option “Your affiliate program link”. Use this link to point to your affiliate program.
If you are logged into your account, and you attempt to view your affiliate link it takes you to a page within your dashboard… thats confusing. I want to see what my affiliates are going to view when signing up.
Hi Tyler.
To see what your affiliates are seeing, just register a fake affiliate account. After viewing the affiliate panel, you can always delete that account.
When I click on the app from teh apps section in shopify it wants me to register and pay again but I’ve already done this. What’ s up with that?
Hi Kathleen, please use the link provided in the welcome email.
The prices in my shopify account is calculated in HKD (Hong Kong Dollars), if I set the affiliate flat rate as $40 in affiliatly ( $40HKD for each sale), will the system recognize the default currency and ‘become’ $40HKD automatically? Or is it going to be in USD? Thanks.
Hi Jonny, the currency in Affiliatly must be the same as the currency in your Shopify’s store.
Can you please elaborate the advantage of your product and other similar products. thanks – jj
Hi
we offer almost the same features like the other affiliate programs services, but on a better price. if you need more info, please contact us via email.
Hi do you have a work around for the Wix.com platform? Integration does not seem to work with them. Another program was able to provide a way directly from the affiliate’s link some how.
Hi Pamela, yes, sadly we can not integrate with Wix, they do not allow the tracking of referred purchases.
Try the ECWID cart app for your store at $20/mo. It will work with this program.
Hey overcoder, i’ve tested my purchase through the test affialiate link.
However, the commission is wrong. I’ve set it at 15% for a 12.50 purchase. yet, my affiliate only recived $0.34 of earnings.
Could you help me out with that?
Thank you!
Hi Lucas, I think when you did the test purchase, the affiliate’s commission was still set at 3%, can you try again ?
Hi everyone, I’m fairly new to Internet Marketing
please i need someone to help me i have a problem in my affiliate link, i don’t know what’s happen , when i copy my affiliate link and i paste it in a navigator to test it , This message appears: This site is no longer in service or has been disconnected as a result of violation of the terms of service.
Hi, can you tell me the ID/URL of the affiliate program for which you are affiliate ? As I don’t find your email in our database.
Our company is using Instagram to find influencers (affiliates) to promote our product these days – also, reaching out to bloggers in our niche.
Hi Michael,
yes, this is great way to find quality affiliates. I will add this in the post.
How can I see my own banner as a viewer?
Hi David, you need to login as an affiliate, get the HTML code of your banner and paste it on some page of your website.
Is it possible for the affiliate to have a pic of themselves or some other identifier so that they people using their link knows that they are on the correct site?
Hi Wendy, no, sorry this is not possible. By clicking on the affiliate’s link, the visits will land on your site i.e. the affiliate links are pointing directly to your site.
Is it possible to customize my link to my site. I remember doing it long time ago but couldn’t find it now or may be I am mistaken. Let me know if it’s possible
Are you trying to customize an affiliate link?
These options are really practical and super helpful, especially for the affiliate newbies! 🙂
Hi.
How can I arrange different commisions (both in % and flat) for differnert affiliates??
If you wish to change the commission for specific affiliate only, you can do that from Setting > Tracking > button “Link tracking settings” > and look for the table with your affiliates.
Hello, is there a way to have the order page read the affiliatly cookie and add a tag or a note to the order for specific affiliates?
Hi Daniel,
sorry, but we do not have such functionality. I believe that this is not possible and if you made a code which reads the cookie from your end, but I can not fully confirm this.
Is there a way to make a different affiliate registration page for your store’s customers (a referral/ambassador campaign) or is this one standard page for all audiences?
You can display the registration form by adding the following code snippets to a page of your choice:
For the form only
For the whole page with banner and text
You can also find the code snippets in your Affiliatly admin panel (Setup > 5. Registration and login pages).
Please note that af-10XXX needs to be replaced by your actual Affiliatly Account ID, found in the tab Account.