Question For All My Affiliate Superstars Out There

[AlterJoule]

Hey all,

I'm looking for opinions from those of you who have been involved or are currently still involved in affiliate marketing.

I am looking to hire someone and I am trying to figure out the best way to compensate. I see that a lot of affiliates get paid a single commission but I was thinking about something different.

I sell a monthly subscription and I was thinking about paying out $2.00 per sale every month for each subscriber that they sign up.

So if you sign up 10,000 subscribers, you get 20k a month, every month, for as long as they stay subscribed.

Is something like this appealing? Waste of time? I'm looking for some input as to the attractiveness of this offer. Thoughts?

 

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[MindWarrior]

First off, what is the cost of your monthly subscription?
Honestly, $2 recurring monthly is not that much unless you are working in a large market and offering extreme value. As an affiliate I won't touch a $2 offer unless I feel I can send massive volume with little time/money investment on my end.

 

[AlterJoule]

Mind,

Thanks for the reply. $9.99 a month. I sell to a massive public and business market selling an extremely noble and important service. No reoccurring razors coming from this guy. So because of the massive market, the important issue I fix in people's lives, and the easy to digest price-point, it seemed that $2 reoccurring would be a low-hanging fruit, no-brainier kind of deal.

 

[dario]

I think a 20% revshare is not bad, unless the retention rate is not good and users cancel the subscription very soon

 

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[TheTruth]

You have to keep in mind that the affiliate has to pay for the traffic and lead somehow.

Getting a lead for under $2 at scale on any platform will take some work.

Your price point simply because of math wouldn't be too appealing to an affiliate unless they already know your market and are 100% certain they can get leads for $1.00 at scale.

 

[100k]

100%-200% Commission upfront + 20% recurring commission for each active subscribe might be more appealing.

 

[Phillipbro]

$2 per lead is nothing to an affiliate when there are other advertisers willing to pay affiliates $4-9 for an easy single email optin.

 

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[Gsuz]

I feel like a revshare deal in this case would be better suited for someone with an existing audience, like a Facebook page, blog, website etc. or Youtube channel that can promote it for free or with low costs on an ongoing basis, much like Audible is doing with Youtube. "This video was sponsored by Audible, check them out. Link below: audible.com/Youtubeguy"

For someone like me who is exclusively doing paid traffic, there simply are too many unknown variables when I can get a higher payout from another offer that requires much less preselling, due to brand leverage, ease of conversion and so on.

What I would do is run traffic to it on my own or get an agency to run traffic and then track metrics like average subscription time, earnings per email optin etc. So you know what each step is worth to you and what you are able to pay to an affiliate.