QA50 – How do I set up affiliate programs for my digital products

In today's Q&A, we are talking about how to set up and run a successful affiliate program for you online businesses digital products. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode Ejunkie Clickbank Gumroad Jocelyn's website Elementary Librarian Shane's website CoachXO Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey ya'll! You're listening to a Q&A with S&J. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome to today's Q&A with S&J where we have a question today from Valerio. We're not sure how to say that. SHANE: V-A-L-E-R-I-O Valerio. JOCELYN: I think people put crazy names in here just so we can – SHANE: I think you guys are using fake names. Jocelyn is right; you guys are putting in fake names just to hear us stumble across them. So, Valerio. JOCELYN: Yeah, it's going to get worse now. Okay it says, "I know that Shane has a friend who also sells e-books for football coaches and they are both affiliates for each other's products. How do you set up these affiliate programs? How do you generate the code, that then you would get to your affiliate person so that he/she can promote your product to his/her audience. Do you do it with E-junkie or ClickBank and are there other methods you recommend?" SHANE: All right, this is a great question and this is another one we get all the time and basically what an affiliate program is, is if I have a friend who is in a similar niche to me, like my buddy sells football playbooks just like I do; well, he might not want to write the same playbook that I do. So I'll just say, 'Hey here's my playbook, you sell it for a hundred dollars and I'll give you forty percent of it.' He's my affiliate. So he's gonna go out and find new people that might not be in my audience, they are going to buy the product, he get's forty bucks, and I get sixty bucks but I make a sale. I don't get the whole hundred dollars but I do get to make a sale that I might not have made if I was not using an affiliate program. You do do this with E-junkie or ClickBank and really all that happens is, you basically upload your digital product and the service that you use, whether it's a shopping cart, E-junkie, ClickBank or something else, just gives you a link and you give that link to your affiliate partner. This can also be automated like you can put some code on your page and people can sign up for your affiliate program and it will automatically generate them a link that they can use to sell your product and all the link does is it sends them to a landing page and it tracks the customer from their website. So, if they buy, in your data and in your sales reports it'll say, 'Oh, by the way, these ten were sold by your friend as an affiliate so you owe them x percentage or whatever it is.' So any shopping cart you use, anything online you are using like E-junkie, ClickBank, Gumroad probably does this; whatever you are using to take payments for your digital product is probably going to be able to set up an affiliate program where you can go out and find people to sell your products for you. ClickBank is a great one to use starting out no matter what you are using because you can go and set that up and there's like a marketplace on ClickBank.com where people can look for affiliate products. So, if I am a football coach and I am like, I want to see if there's any football playbooks out there, oh look, there's five guys out there that have uploaded these playbooks, they fit my product line, I'll just sell theirs as an affiliate too to kind of bulk up my catalogue of information.