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promote as a merchant or become an affiliate for the merchant? (4)

08-08-2011 12:56 AM #1 topgun (Member)
promote as a merchant or become an affiliate for the merchant?

Hi all,
I personally know someone who wholesales physical products and wants me to promote his products. At the moment he sells to retailers only but he is looking to build a small ecommerce website shortly. He knows very little about websites and online marketing etc.

My questions are:
1) what are the pros and cons of the following 2 approaches:
---charge him a monthly retainer and promote his products as a merchant
---become an affiliate and charge him only after I make sales

2) if that person likes the idea of affiliate better, what tracking system would you recommend?

any help much appreciated!

08-08-2011 03:21 PM #2 Daksneezian (Member)

3) Charge him an affiliate consulting fee and setup the affiliate program for him + take a percentage of what affiliates make

08-08-2011 08:42 PM #3 topgun (Member)

thanks!

what tracking system would you recommend?

08-09-2011 06:09 PM #4 Daksneezian (Member)

Depends on how complex you want to go. You could always go with something like hasoffers or whatever if you just wanted to start pretty cheap.

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