Marketing Help For Coaches

by: Jason Hulott

I have been asked this question three times already this week by new coaching clients. They want to know where to find Affiliate Programmes that they can join and promote on their websites.

Now this is knowledge that I have assumed people would know up until this point but clearly not. So this brief article will give you some idea where to hunt out those all important relevant Affiliate Programmes.

Affiliate Networks

There are several large Affiliate network companies that manage Affiliate Programmes on behalf of their clients. There are lots of different networks out there but in the main there are probably 10 or so in the UK that are useful to finding Affiliate deals suitable for your business.

Commission Junction (Worldwide) – www.cj.com
Tradedoubler (European) – www.tradedoubler.co.uk
Buy.at (UK) – www.buy.at
AffiliateWindow (UK) – www.affiliatewindow.com
DGM (UK and AUS) – www.dgmpro.com
OMGUK (UK Finance Programmes) – www.omguk.com
Affiliatefuture (UK) – www.affiliatefuture.co.uk
Clickbank (E-Products) – www.clickbank.com
Linkshare (US) – www.linkshare.com
Affiliatefuel (US) – www.affiliatefuel.com
NetClix – www.netclix.com

In House Programmes

You can also look at websites that you would like to work with and see if they have their own Affiliate Programme. Most will have a link somewhere on their site for "Resellers" or "Affiliates". If not, drop them an email to see if they have a Programme you could join. If they don't, move on and find someone else.

You could also try searching in Google or using one of the many Affiliate Programme directory sites such as:

www.associateprograms.com/directory
www.affiliatescout.com
www.top-affiliate.com
www.affiliatefirst.com/uk
www.affiliate-scheme.co.uk

To find out more about a Programme before you signup you may be able to find some comments or ask questions at an Affiliate forum. In the UK there is really only one worth mentioning:

www.affiliates4u.com/forums

Listen to Jason talking about Affiliate Marketing.

Jason Hulott is Director of Speedie Consultants Limited, an Internet Marketing Consultancy who specialises in Search Engine Optimisation 1 to 1 Coaching, Affiliate Program start up Consultancy and offer a range of services.

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