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Set up your own Affiliate Program
Once you have your website purring along, what's next?


Set up your own affiliate program to market your products. Whether it's an ebook, software or a physical product, you should be taking advantage of the world-wide market waiting for you. The best way to do this is with an affiliate program that lets you sign up people with similar site visitors and pay them to sell your products to their visitors.

But you don't want all your affiliate information stored on some other company's website, you don't want to run the risk of their site closing down, or being offline. And you certainly don't want to be paying monthly fees - fees that can be put up at any time.

The answer?

Run your OWN affiliate program!

I've found a program called Ultimate Affiliate that helps you build your own network of affiliates who will promote your products and advertise your website.

You keep your affiliate links on YOUR domain, have control over YOUR own program - and forget about large monthly fees and click traffic fees.

You only have a one-time payment and then it's all yours! So it actually saves you money in the long run!

It's full of all the features you get in other affiliate programs so you can run a simple web-store affiliate program or an advanced multi-level matrix based replicated website affiliate program.

And the after-sales service is great. Steve is a busy man, but he will always answer questions form those of us who are new to the program. I recommend paying a little extra to get Steve to install it if you're not familiar with these scripts, but once it's set up it's dead-easy to find your way around and manage your affiliates.

Some highlights of the Ultimate Affiliate Package:

• Graphical representation of referrals, unique referrals, and commissions.
• Pay affiliates on ANY time schedule.
• Export data into a text file in ANY FORMAT!
• Clear, user-friendly interfaces.
• Concise printable payout reports from your browser.
• Now you can track and reward up to 12 levels of commissions to your affiliates.
• EASY to setup, integrates with a variety of billing systems
• The signup and stats login pages are customizable.
• More customization with headers and footers on ALL stats pages.
• Flexible signup form requirement - you can remove most fields.
• Now automatically builds replicated websites for your affiliates. (This feature requires some knowledge of Perl and HTML to implement)
• Includes script to help build dynamically created order forms to insert the affiliate's code
• Works invisibly to the average customer - they won't know they were tracked!
• Ability to email all your affiliates easily - plus you can customize the emails with their names!
• Search your affiliates - add, edit, or delete them easily from your browser.
• Easily add, edit, and delete commissions as well.
• All of the available fraud prevention techniques are incorporated into the program.
• View GRAPHICAL stats of the referrals, unique referrals, and sales by year, month, or day!
• Easily process commissions for recurring billing for subscription based sites.
• EXPORT your data to all the popular check printing programs.
• Insert the referring affiliate's name into HTML pages.
• MySQL database is extremely simple to set up. ALL DONE IN YOUR BROWSER!
• You can read more about Ultimate Affiliate and view a live demo here