Pretty much every day,
I'm asked to be an affiliate for a program or product.
If you've been around the coaching/personal development world for awhile I'm sure you get a lot of the same requests.
I've been getting very picky about who I'm an affiliate for, because if I accepted every request I'd just be doing affiliate stuff all day long ...
AND more important, it's my name attached to that
person.
So if I recommend someone or something that isn't very good, it reflects poorly on me.
Earlier this year, I started following an affiliate policy. Here's my criteria:
1) I have to know and trust the person/product, and ideally have used it to get a sense of what it's like "under the hood"
2) I refuse to do the boring, bland, copy and paste swipe copy that a lot of
people ask their affiliates to use. Without mentioning names, for some program launches I get the *same* email from four or five different people (does that actually work???)
So if I'm going to send out something as an affiliate, it'll be in my own language, not just a swipe file. It'll at least be from my own mouth and with my own personal opinions.
Speaking of affiliate stuff, I've been using Thinkific as a platform for my online
programs, and I'm a proud affiliate of theirs ...
I'm co-hosting a live training with Sid from Thinkific today at 2 pm EST, for how to create and sell your first online course. Here's the link to register:
If you can't
make the live training, there'll be a replay sent to everyone who registers.
Hope to see you
there,
Marc