Create Your Affiliate Program

I’m back with my monthly “Favorite Things” post to share with you for September. If you’re new around here, I also want to say a big WELCOME! And secondly, know that this post is a monthly glimpse into what I’m doing and buying for my own business.

As always, I hope you’ll enjoy reading through this post, and will take time to check out all the resources available to you! 

Favorite Business Resources

Create a $9 product this week – it’s easy and this strategy will show you how.

One of my favorite things I’ve ever created in my business is this: a little extra moolah.

Set up a tripwire to start earning when people opt in for your email list.  Here’s a template for a tripwire page I love.

Need to set a budget for yourself so you can keep more of the moolah you earn? Access this template.

Have you checked out The Productive Entrepreneurs Club?  Lucy is one of my favorite online entrepreneurs and I know her membership is so needed!

Get Ready for Black Friday

Recently on the blog I shared the 4 Steps to Skyrocket Your Black Friday Sale with Affiliates.  This post is a must-read if you want to increase your sales during Black Friday.

Speaking of Black Friday…. Head over here to learn How to Actually Get Your Affiliates to Promote Your Black Friday Sale.

Want to know how to pitch potential affiliate partners? Grab this template.

If you’re unsure of what emails to send to your affiliates about your Black Friday Sale, or when to send them, sign up for the Prep Your Affiliates for Your Black Friday Sale Template Pack.  This template pack gives you the exact emails you will take and customize and then send your affiliates for your Black Friday Sale so that you will be ready to hit the ground running with affiliates to sell more of your courses or products this holiday season!

** Please note – this post contains affiliate links, but I only recommend products and resources I use and love myself!

If you are running a Black Friday Sale this November, and plan to have your affiliates promote your sale for you, running an affiliate contest is one of the best ways to incentivize your affiliates to actually promote for you.

And I’m not talking about a big complicated affiliate contest.

Keep it super simple!

I would give out four different prizes. 

The first two prizes I would give out to the top two affiliates:

Most Clicks Award ? – give this prize to the affiliate who gets the most clicks on their affiliate link during your Black Friday promotion period.  Your affiliate tracking tool will tell you who wins this prize. 

Most Sales Award ? – give this prize to the affiliate who referred the most sales to you during your BFCM Sale. Your affiliate tracking tool will tell you who wins this prize. 

Since not all of your affiliates have the same audience size, some of your affiliates might not even try to promote if they think there’s no way they have a chance of winning because they have a small audience.  

However, there are two prizes you can give out where your affiliates will have a chance of winning regardless of their audience size:

Most Promo Award ? ~ give this prize to the affiliate who emails their audience the most or shares your Black Friday Sale on social media the most.  To track, simply make sure your affiliate forwards you the emails they send out or tags you in the post.  You’ll have to do a little manual work to see who does the most, but it will be worth it! {If you have a lot of affiliates, create a form where they can submit their promo’s too and calculate it that way.}

Most Original Promo Award ? ~ give this prize to the affiliate who does the most creative promo for your Black Friday Sale! Did they make a creative reel or send a fantastically original email about your sale? The ideas are endless so this is a fun prize anyone can have a chance to win! Again, you’ll have to do a little manual work to see who does the most creative posting. If you have a lot of affiliates, create a form where they can submit their promo’s too and you can pick a winner that way.

What should the prizes be?

Totally up to you!

During my last launch, I gave out gift cards to Wondermint Goods and Everything Done to a T to my top affiliates because I love supporting small businesses.

Your prizes can be items from your favorite shops, credit to your business, a one-on-one session with you, or even cash {because everybody loves making a little extra cash.}

Want some support with your Black Friday Sale?

Grab the ? Prep Your Affiliates for Your Black Friday Sale Template Pack ?  that gives you the exact emails you need to send to your affiliates to invite them and excite them to be a part of your Black Friday Sale!  

With this template pack, you will take and customize the emails and then send your affiliates for your Black Friday Sale so that you will be ready to hit the ground running with affiliates to sell more of your courses or products this holiday season!

Grab the ? Prep Your Affiliates for Your Black Friday Sale Template Pack ? today!

Are you running a Black Friday Sale or a Cyber Monday Sale?

One of the fastest ways to skyrocket your sales this November will be by having your affiliate partners promote your BFCM Sale for you! 

But you cannot wait until November to tell your affiliates about your BFCM Sale…chance are if you do, they will have already decided to promote something else, be too busy with all the holiday things to pay your affiliate emails any attention, or they won’t want to spend the time throwing together promo emails for your BFCM sale last minute.

So while it might seem a tad early to be talking about Black Friday in September, what you do this month can help your BFCM Sale be extra profitable come November.

Let’s take a quick look at what you need to do to make sure everything is in place for your affiliates to promote your BFCM offer:

? Step 1: Decide on your BFCM Offer

What will you ask your affiliates to promote for you this BFCM?  Decide not only on the sale you are running, but also what the dates are that your affiliates should promote the sale for you so that you can clearly share this information with your affiliates in advance.  

? Step 2:  Make sure your affiliate tracking is set up

Once you know what your affiliates will be promoting for you, make sure that the affiliate tracking is set up so that any sales made during your BFCM Sale are appropriately attributed back to your affiliates correctly.

{Don’t have your tech set up? I’ve got you covered here.}

? Step 3:  Create your affiliate promo materials

Make it easy-peasy for your affiliates to share about your holiday sale by giving them exactly what they need to promote.  Provide them with social media graphics, email swipe copy, and social media swipe copy that they can take, copy and paste, while the commissions roll in!

 Step 4: Email Your Affiliates + Get Them Excited to Promote!

In October {yes, October}, you need to email your affiliates to let them know the details about your upcoming BFCM Sale.  However, it’s not enough to just email your affiliates one time about your BFCM Sale and hope they’ll promote for you.  Instead, you need to email your affiliates multiple times, and do so in a way that gets them excited to promote for you.  {And they should be excited, because they are going to earn some nice commissions for promoting for you!}

If you’re unsure of what emails to send to your affiliates about your Black Friday Sale, or when to send them, I can help.  I’ve put together the  ? Prep Your Affiliates for Your Black Friday Sale Template Pack ?  that gives you the exact emails you will take and customize and then send your affiliates for your Black Friday Sale so that you will be ready to hit the ground running with affiliates to sell more of your courses or products this holiday season! 

> > > Check out the Black Friday Template Pack Here.

There are five Friday’s in September… What if you spent each Friday working on your affiliate materials for your BFCM Sale so that by the end of September, you are ready to onboard your affiliates and make bank this Black Friday?  

Or choose one Friday and knock out all your prep in one fell swoop?  

Either way, just make sure you take the time to prepare for your Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale in advance and that you take care of your affiliates!