Once in a while, some eager beaver soul will ask if I have an affiliate program — especially for Email Players or any of my other higher ticket books.
And the answer has always been no.
A few (not all) of the reasons include:
* Physical products are a pain in the arse to sell via affiliates
* FTC rules mean me having to “police” what affiliates say
* I am a awful money manager and don’t want to deal with paying affiliates
* I preach to the already-initiated, and never the uninitiated in my advertising, and my offers are not-at-all unsuitable for anyone not already on my list, sold “on” me, and who does not know me or is at least somewhat familiar with how I operate, think, and do things
So those are a few reasons.
I may license (to qualified businesses) certain of my books out some day.
But I doubt I’ll ever have an actual affiliate program.
That said:
The software company I co-own does have such a program.
One of the offers is BerserkerMail which is a great subscription offer upon which a cunning marketer could back end sell other offers, coaching, services, be a one-man cottage industry leader to. And the other is Learnistic Pro (our mobile app platform) which pays out extremely high commissions to the point where a marketer with his act together could probably turn it into a 6 and maybe even possibly a 7-figure operation over time, especially if one was to approach is shrewdly, and is a good salesman.
Most affiliate marketers don’t think very big though.
So neither of the above will likely appeal to them.
But for the cunning & ambitious business owner?
Maybe one or both offers would be worth looking at selling.
If you are interested in one or the other or both… reply back to this email and tell me why you want to be an affiliate for us. You don’t have to give me your life story or impress me. I just want to see if what you’re doing is compatible or not, to save us both time.
If I think you are compatible?
I’ll forward your request to our COO Nicole English who will further “vet” you.
And then from there we’ll see what happens.
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Ben Settle
