[kevin]

Hi

I run a fairly successful UK website selling juicers, blenders, water filters, etc and am considering joining web gains in order to get affiliates to sell my products. I am a bit unsure whether on not this will work for me, so would appreciate some advice from some successful affiliates.

The products I sell range from about £70-£400 and I'm considering offering between 3% and 5% commission. This means that I will be paying affiliates about the same as it currently costs me (3%) to make a sale or a bit more (5%). If I gave 5%, I would need to get quite a lot of extra sales to make up for paying extra for each sale. I would also need to cover my monthly costs to web gains or another company. I estimate this to be in the region of £230/month. I don't want to end up making extra sales but the same net profit, as this will just mean extra work for no reward.

What I would like to know is...
1. Is 3-5% enough for affiliates to be interested and make enough money for themselves?
2. Are there any other companies selling juicers that offer affiliate schemes? There's no point me going ahead with this if the most I can pay is 5% when someone selling the same products is offering 7%.
3. I use google ad words at the moment. If affiliates used this as well, would it just end up pushing my costs up to a point where I wouldn't make a profit? For example, suppose I currently pay £10 to google for each sale. If an affiliate starts advertising against me, I may end up paying £10 to google and £10 to the affiliate because the customer bought from their ad instead of mine.
4. There are advertising methods that I don't use such as email marketing, banner ads, etc. How much use of these do affiliates make? Do you have a rough idea of the breakdown between the different marketing methods that affiliates use.
5. How much increase in sales could I expect if I set up an affiliate scheme?
6. Do affiliates need a minimum number of searches per month for a particular keyword? According to overture, there are about 35,000 searches for 'juicers' each month. Is this enough?
7. Does anyone have any experience of using web gains?
8. How many affiliates are individuals compared to companies? I was just wondering whether companies with large numbers of visitors per month signed up as affiliates and just showed the banners on their sites. If it isn't costing them anything to show the banner, they may as well join an affiliate scheme and advertise their products.

Any other help or advice would be very much appreciated. If I go ahead with this, I need to make sure it works for both myself and the affiliates who join.
thanks
kevin

[jojojosonm]

try google adsense affiliate programme yaar.its very nice and relevant ads of ur products will appear on your website

[ScottHughes]

Affiliates don't just look at the percentage they receive from the sale, but they look at the expected conversion rate. It's no good for an affiliate to get a large percentage of each sale if there are barely any sales for all the work.