OMG – this blog post is going to kick ass. I can feel the excitement oozing as I sit here and type the words on the page. I am going to help you setup your own affiliate program then tell you exactly how to implement it with the tools you already have. If you cannot make money with what I am about to tell you its on you. You do not need a list, traffic, or anything to get started.

Have you ever thought about setting up your own affiliate program but found it to be to difficult? Have you ever promoted someone else’s product and wish that you did not have to wait so long to get paid?

A few years back I setup my own affiliate program. The only problem is I did not realize how much of a damn headache it would be. I had to manage returns, people bitching about not getting paid, PayPal was threatening to shut down my account. It was horrible. After about a year of doing this I threw the towel in. I became an Internet Marketer because I was passionate about it, and my new affiliate program was to much like working for someone else. The bottom line is IT SUCKED!

As some of you know I have products in several niche markets. Just recently I was setting up a site for a new market when a friend of mine called and asked me to beta test his new WordPress plugin. He told me it was an affiliate program with all of the bells and whistles and it made operating an affiliate program a cinch. Needless to say he had my attention.

In the old days you had to practically beg people to sell your products. If you did not have a big name, or be someone that they have heard of. If you did not fall into either of those categories you could forget about getting any help. Even if you did have a good reputation it was still damn near impossible to manage your own affiliate program.

Thanks to a few visionaries it has become simple to get others to sell your product. I meant it when I said that people will walk over broken glass to sell your product. Here are three elements that you must have in order to successfully attract affiliates.

Create a product with value that you can sell for at least $37 on the low end.
The higher the commission split the more affiliates want to sign up. I recommend starting at 50%
The faster the affiliate gets paid the happier he or she will be.

Here are 5 common mistakes that people make when running an affiliate program.

They are late on making payments
The do not make payments at all (usually an over sight)
Their sales copy flat out sucks and does not convert well.
They do not provide the affiliate with any tools to help them promote their product.
The affiliate has to wait 30 days before getting paid, because of returns.

Here is exactly what you need to do (if you have a WordPress blog) – let me say this – if you are trying to sell something online via organic traffic, and you are not using a WordPress SHAME ON YOU!!! You are leaving a boat load of cash on the table.

Anyway… For those of you that are using WordPress running your very own affiliate program has become as easy as punching yourself in the face

Checkout some of the features of this plugin:

Pay your affiliates instantly when a sale is made
Create OTO offers build right in to the system
You can setup different affiliate programs for different products
You can offer secure digital product delivery (you can set whether the customer has X amount of times to download, or you can make the download link expire in X amount of days)
You can add an unlimited number of products to the system EASILY!
You can setup Equity Partners i.e. lets say you and I create a product together and you offer me 10% for every sale. You can setup the system to automatically pay me as well as the affiliate.
It has a built in email system/list management
Several templates and build in editor

The tech support is second to none. You also get an unlimited license and can run the program on multiple domains. For right now my friend is selling the plugin for $67. THAT IS WAAAAAYYYYYYY CHEAP. If you go to the site and the price has increased I apologize. However if he was selling it for $1,000 I would still purchase it because I totally understand the potential it has.

Go right now and grab your copy of the plugin before the price does increase.