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			| Affiliate Program Checklist 
 Affiliate and other cooperative programs are announced almost
 daily. Website owners are flocking to these programs. Enthusiasm
 is high. But.........why not compare and evaluate first?
 
 The following checklist was prepared from the point of view of one
 seeking a program to affiliatae with. But it can also help a program
 initiator compare current programs in order to make his better.
 
 A. Does the Program Offer a Strategic Fit to Your Business?
 
 1. PROGRAM PURPOSE - Define in broad terms
 2. COMPLEMENTS YOUR PURPOSE - Does it help you better
 realize your website long-range goals?
 3. VISITOR LEARNING - Are your visitors interested and will
 the
 program help them learn?
 
 B. Do You Trust the Business Initiating the Program?
 
 4. SUCCESS - Does the business have a history of successes?
 5. BELIEVABLE ADVERTISING - Does it promise impossible
 rewards: get-rich-quick and MLM schemes? Or is it honest and
 realistic?
 6. REPUTATION - What does the business literature tell you about
 their past operations?
 7. WHAT CLIENTS SAY - Contact current clients and ask for
 their opinions. Would they recommend this business
 organization? Are they benefiting from it?
 
 C. Is the Program Well Designed?
 
 8. AFFILIATE QUALIFICATIONS - Are they signing up
 everyone? Or are they being picky? Picky is better.
 9. AFFILIATE RESPONSIBILITIES - Better, too, if there are
 specific responsibilities. Are affiliates asked to do
 promotion, communication with customers, sales?
 10. INITIATOR RESPONSIBILITIES - Does the outfit offer help
 in promotion, sales and after-sales support?
 11. PAYMENT & TERMS - Is there a fee or commission
 structure? How frequently are payments made? Does affiliate
 get credit for future sales?
 12. TRANSACTION TRANSPARENCY - How frequently are
 
 
				
 
 transaction reports made? Are transactions independently
 checkable by the affiliate? Is there a third-party audit?
 13. CONFLICT RESOLUTION - Is there a SIMPLE method for
 resolving conflicts?
 14. RETURN TO SITE - Is there a simple way for a website
 visitor to return to the site of the affiliate after a
 transaction is executed?
 
 D. Will You be Part of a Community?
 
 15. COMMUNICATION MEDIUM - Does the program have a
 newsletter, a mailing list, a forum, or some other means of
 communicating among all affiliates?
 16. AFFILIATE DECISION-MAKING - Does each affiliate have
 a voice in making decisions that affect all affiliates?
 17. MUTUAL PROBLEM SOLVING - Is there a method whereby
 affiliates can pose problems and have them solved by the
 affiliate community?- - - - - - - - - - - -
 
 Be extremely careful when evaluating an affiliate program. Most
 people dwell on the financial arrangements. These are important, of
 course. But more important, I believe, are efforts made to achieve
 community. These efforts may bolster your ability to achieve
 greater financial goals.
 
 Spend time in evaluation. It will pay off in the long run.
 
 -------------------------------
 
 Paul -the soarING- Siegel is the founder of the Learning Fountain
 Network (* Excellence * Honesty * Ethics), at
 http://www.learningfountain.com; and editor of LearningFOUNT, a
 newsletter focusing on Helpfulness Marketing. To subscribe, send
 email to: mailto:LearningFOUNT-subscribe@topica.com.
 
 Live your vision
 
  About the Author 
 Paul "the soarING" Siegel, mailto:paul@learningfountain.com Join LearningFOUNT: a FREE Business Newsletter,
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