“How can I get the highest payouts for my offers? If I could make more money, I’ll be able to do more business altogether.”
-Josh S.,
Grand Rapids, MI
This is a great question.
Keep in mind that everybody and their brother wants higher payouts for the offers they’re running. Your Affiliate Manager is the one to approach with this question, but you want to be careful how you phrase it. Simply asking him “Can I have a higher payout for this Free Credit Report offer?” isn’t going to get you very far. This is what has worked for me in the past:
Affiliate Managers earn commission off of your sales, so they like it when they’re affiliates are driving lots of traffic for these offers, as it only puts money in their pocket. If you play on this idea, and emphasize volume, you’re likely to get a higher payout.
Here is the pitch I give when I need a higher payout on an offer:
“Mr. AM, I’ve been testing this campaign for a week now, and it seems to have potential. I’m driving $XXXX worth of sales to this offer now daily, but I’m just barely above break-even with my costs. If you could give me a payout of an $XXXX% increase, I’ll be able to produce XXXX% more traffic for the offer, and we can work more off of a volume model that way. What do you think?”
Usually, this approach works very well, and they grant me my request. Granted, you now have to follow through somewhat with what you’ve told them, but if you can get the increase, then you’ll be more likely to be successful with the offer.
