Basic Affiliate Marketing Tips – The Minimum Commission Percentage You Should Accept
Selecting and promoting a good affiliate product is important but you will want to make sure that you are being paid fairly for the effort that you have put in to promote the product. So what is the minimum commission percentage that you should accept before you start promoting the product?
If you are operating a business that sells physical products, you will be getting around 10% to 15% as commission as there are cost involved in the physical products. As it will take the same amount of effort to get a customer to purchase the products, it will be more practical that you promote more information products as you will tend to get higher commission.
For information product that you are promoting, you should expect at least 50% in commission as most of information product on the market will offer at least that amount of commission. Besides taking note of this percentage, you will want to double check on whether you will also be able to earn any commission if the customers that you have referred also purchased the back end product that the merchant is promoting.
This is to ensure that you will be able to get more profits from your customers. If the merchant do value his affiliates, he will most likely also offers commissions to you if your customers also purchased the backend product. You will also want to focus on promoting those membership programs which will provides you with at least 50% commission. This will be good for you as you will be getting recurring commission monthly as long as your referred customers subscribed to the program.
As you can see from above, you will want to focus more of your effort to promote those products that will give you more profits and benefits as you will be putting in your effort to promote the product. Aim for at least 50% in commission or else you will be short changing yourself.
