Best Ideas for Recruiting Affiliates

[ScottyG7]

I'm very curious how others go about recruiting Affiliates. We have a pretty slick process where we make personalized approaches to hand selected sites and do a total of 3 follow-ups before putting them on a nuture track. We used a customized GoldMine contact manager to manage this.

For a number of our "Piggy Bank Websites" we've recruited a healthy Affiliate team and they account for anywhere from 10% to 50% of our traffic and sales. I think part of the recruiting process is having a product that they can easily sell and offering a healthy commission.

While our approach works very well for us, it's not very "average joe" friendly.

What's working for everyone else?

[mfazio]

My new site was just approached by an international training material site after 2 weeks of operation and no advertising.... They wish to cross promote and that was sheer luck :|

So yeah, luck has been working for me lol

[Cobrainside]

im scared about the usana