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Although... you could take a whiff of opportunity in the air... if they are as "daft" as their problem would describe them then perhaps a little extra time on your part could help them market your site decently while you arrange with them to only pay per 3rd sale...

Or dump em, Idiots never make good sales reps, they are only good for the odd sympathy purchase but i doubt that will apply online.

I can see how that would help you... its a good idea really, you could possibly have a tutorial you send out once a week (progressing from beginner to advanced) - let mull over each one a bit.

Well, yeah,  ask em if they want the tutorial... in small print state that for your time you take a percentage of there sales... easy enough concept to sell simply because they wouldnt be making any money if you weren't telling em how. Think of it as a giant under cover pyramid scheme. 5% from lots of affiliates can possibly add up each month.

Plus i am quite content with the idea of taking money from people who are to lazy to figure out how to do it properly while the $ sign is still blinking under there eyelids... and i dont mind if that sounds mean.

Hmmm... first thing that comes to mind is adwords... direct em to a page selling lots of your/who evers helpful tools, add a bit of adwords in there and hope they dont realize what they are clicking on. Not to say you place your adds in any sneaky way, just that goolge tends to make em look enticing.

I can almost bet these same folks can tell you which color lure to use when the pike are biting in the seaweed bed on a clear summer morning, as compared to which lure works best as the sun goes down the first day of large mouth season with a drizzle. I know the type of people, who want to be your affiliates! I am the same type of person -- starting out with merely a love for a hobby, and now actually studying hard on the history of Teddy Bears to write enough articles to become "an expert" in this field, to get into affiliating myself. It's all about learning more and getting involved more into our hobbies, which, sometimes, gets us into learning something that we never thought we would learn (like web sites!)

Can you set up a two-tiered system, or one of those zoom-thru links (still don't know the right words), on your own site to set it up so these folks, and folks with sites about fishing, can have affiliate links that jump to your site, and immediately jump over to your boss' site? They get a percentage of the sale through you, while you get a bigger percentage of the sale (enough that you can split the money 40/60). In exchange for you getting a good chunk of their earnings, your site teaches the type of folks, who would want to affiliate with your boss' company, how to create a site, good SEO, good marketing blurbs about the products, and articles, as well as, gathering info, so their sites are easy to find, for those looking. I'm picturing a site similar to this site -- with articles to read, the ability to sign-up, for newsletters, and a forum where they can network together, hopefully easing your load on the teaching part.

Instead of paying for the education, a portion of their earnings through that education goes to you. It guarantees that the ones willing to take the effort to learn are the only ones sticking around long enough to make you and them some money.

Since you're dealing with folks, who know fishing, I can see this growing past just making money for your boss, onto using affiliate marketing  to market rods and reels, fish finders, and even fishing boats.

Does this idea sound like something you would enjoy and would work for you? Worse comes to worse, hopefully. it  sparked an idea into your brain, and you run with it, even if it's not like my idea at all.

So matte,

Would you like to give us one of your excellent "six point plans" on being a good affiliate?

Thanks,
Laurie.

Thanks matte.

3. you have to know how to include affiliate links in pages that act as a first step to the ultimate purchase

This is a point that you keep pushing in site reviews and other posts. Difficult to come to terms with for some of us. Partly a personality thing, of course.

Regards,
Laurie.

Thanks, Matte! I just took notes!

Enough to go on?

It's a start. Won't need to know more until step 1 (which also really includes step 2) is done.

I'm a reader. Do you know any books that could help me rise to the top of International Affiliates? Could use detailed directions for 3-6! I've been collecting affiliation links for the big boys (Build-a-Bear and the likes), but didn't even realize we needed a relationship!