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Article Overview: Using the Phone to Manage your Downline. Many Marketers and Small or Medium Business Owners are Replacing Phone Calls with Internet Chat Rooms or Online Forms. They are missing valuable opportunities.

Affiliate Management

Affiliate Management begins with a phone call. If you accept everyone into your program, before long, you're going to run afoul of the Nigerian Method, or less than scrupulous locals with drop boxes and fake mailing addresses. If you don't think it's important to screen out your potential affiliates, just ask the users over at WarriorForum they have a whole thread devoted to becoming CPA Affiliate Status with no phone call. So these guys are actively seeking ways to get signed up ( maybe to your website ) by AVOIDING A PHONE CALL, because they know that AFFILIATE SCREENING BY PHONE CALL WEEDS OUT THE CROOKS!!! So if you do not have a plan to screen out potential affiliates, you can lose money. Determining all the ways you can lose money is for another article. You should however, at this point, stop asking why? and just implement your process BEFORE you start any marketing campaign whatsoever. The higher your commission structure, the more vultures you will attract - weed them out, don't let the promise that they are going to deliver big numbers lower your guard. Let them EARN your "Gold" status by proving their worth. Start them out like everyone else, on a Trial Basis, and then Phone them again before you take them to "Gold" or ReSeller.

Talk to your potential affiliates, get to know what they are like: LISTEN. Don't do all the talking. Ask how long they've been on the Internet with this business, what SEO, eMail, Tracking, and Phone Strategies your potential partners have. After all they are YOUR partners, you should be on speaking terms with them.

Does your affiliate marketing and tracking software integrate the phone into what you are doing? Probably not. That's why I am in business. I have shown smart, intelligent and profitable businesses how to increase ROI with the phone, and how to manage the process of integrating the phone into their strategies.

Good Luck, God Bless, and Remember the Phone is your ally, not your enemy.

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TheEntire Series is on Evan Carmichael

1. Affiliate Management: The Approval Call 2. Prospecting Call

3. Sales Call

4. Post Sale Follow Up, Upselling, and "One More Item" or "Last Minute Shopping" Technique

5. Customer Service

6. Refund or Complaint

7. Compliance, The Byzantine World of SSL, and Merchant Accounts

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Article Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Downline, Management, Marketing, Sales, Screening, Small Business, Telephone



Related Forum Posts
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - Carol, Mary and David - thanks for your great input and insight on Affiliate Marketing! This is the kind of discussion I was hoping for in this thread. There are pros and cons to Affiliate Marketing, just as there are to any business. As has been suggested, he best policy is to proceed with caution and do some research before jumping in. As Carol has recommended, this topic thread in the EvanCarmichael.com forum is the ideal place to ask questions and seek further input on available Affiliate Marketing programs. If a person is serious about building an online business and is interested in Affiliate Marketing plans, they should approach the process as they would any other form of business. Research, ask questions, compare opportunities, participate in forums on online business and Affiliate Marketing. GT :-]
No B.S. Time Management - A great book I read on Time Management is No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan Kennedy.
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - You made some very good points here Jeff and I agree with you, Affiliate Marketing should not be something that you concentrate all your efforts into. As i said earlier I have learned a lot with Affiliate Marketing and continue to do so, and it has helped me tremendously to understand what I am going to have to do in my chosen niche(s). I am also being coached by the same group of mentors as GT and we are all moving forward daily to achieve our ultimate goals. Take care, Carol
Re: Affiliate Marketing - Open for Discussion - Hi GT Affiliate Marketing is one of the easier ways to get started making money online, but it does take quite a bit of work before you see any great results as you have to keep promoting constantly. It does teach you one hell of a lot about all aspects of Internet Marketing though as you will need to learn how to write and submit articles, create and maintain a blog, social networking is a great help to affiliates too..the list goes on and on. In fact from what you learn from Affiliate Marketing you can apply to any niche and be sure to succeed, take care, Carol
Which kind of industries are you interested in? - Ecological or E-business or Investment or Finance or Management or Non-Profit or Retailer or others.


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