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This is part 5 of the 6-part series on creating your own affiliate program. If you missed a previous segment, see the links at the bottom of today’s lesson.

Getting your affiliates is one thing – getting them to promote your products and services is a different story. We’ll talk about motivating them in the final part of this series.

But today, let me share with you the biggest tip about getting people to promote:

You have to make it super easy for someone to promote your products.

This is accomplished primarily by having a suite of promo tools available to your affiliates. When you give an affiliate promo tools, you save them a lot of time. You also demonstrate how serious you are about making them money.

Ideally, you should have 10-15 types of promo tools, and each of those types should have a couple of variations. This way, not everyone’s promotion will look exactly the same.

Your promo tools should also encourage people to use them right away, but also implement them in a “set and forget” manner.

Here are my 3 favorite promo tools that I typically provide to my affiliates, and that I always enjoy using as an affiliate myself.

• Autoresponder mailing
• Fast Action Bonus Box
• Viral Video

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Most of the time, you hear about affiliate marketing in regards to selling other people’s stuff. But this week, I want to teach you why you need your own affiliate program.

First, let me share the results of the poll I gave out the other day.

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Today’s lesson is about growing your list of subscribers and customers without spending huge amounts of money on advertising.

The way I’ve grown my business is by letting my current clients recommend my sites to other people, and then rewarding them for doing so. In fact, I estimate that 80% of my subscribers and customers came to me at some point from someone else’s recommendation (which is over 16,000 people!).

Of course, we’d all like to think that when you make something great, others will want to tell people about it just because.

And that does happen.

But a little incentive can go a long way! Let me explain…

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