10 Hot Tips To Increase Your Affiliate Commissions and Sales With Incentives & Bonuses

Want to know the best way to increase your affiliate commissions? The number 1 answer is to offer your prospects a bonus or incentive for buying the product through your affiliate link. Using this method can be an excellent way to increase your income! You simply offer them something for free in addition to thier purchase.

Here are 10 hot ideas for the many different types of bonuses you can offer. Each will entice your potential customer to purchase the product from you. And the best thing is
that some of these affiliate bonuses you won't even have to create yourself.

1. Include An Additional Product As A Bonus: Give your prospects one of your own products as a bonus for ordering through your affiliate link. This could be a product that you have bought and don't want, a product that you have resell rights to or a product you created yourself. Try to make this a unique offer, something no one else is including.

2. Add Other Products From The Developer: Add a bonus from the product owner himself. You could contact the product owner and ask if you could use one of their other products as an affiliate bonus. They will probably say yes, since they will make money from your promotions.

3. Offer A Discount: Issue your own subscribers or visitors a discount on the product you are promoting. Ask the product creator to set up a special subscriber only discount page for you. The owner will likely do it if you are known to create a lot of affiliate sales.

4. Add Expert Interviews: Include an expert interview for ordering through your affiliate link. You could interview the owner to include as added value. Another idea would be to interview a whole group of experts on many related topics.

5. Offer Higher Commissions: Reward your prospects with higher affiliate commissions. Some people will buy a product so they can review it and promote it to their own lists. Ask the product owner to give your customers higher commissions for the product's affiliate program when purchased through your link.

6. Include Different Rights: Furnish your prospects with additional rights on the product you're promoting. You could ask the product owner to give your buyers extra rights to the product as a bonus from buying through your affiliate link. This could be resell rights, master resell rights, branding rights, private label rights, etc

7. Offer Free Promotions: Give your prospects a reciprocal promotion to your list for one of their own web sites or products for buying through your affiliate link. You could also offer them free ads on your, blog, forum, web site, autoresponder, articles, etc.

8. Product Workshop: Present your prospects with a product workshop in exchange for spending their money through your affiliate link. The workshop could be live, over the phone or via a webinar.You could show them how to get the full benefits from the product they are buying from you.

9. Gift Certificates: Present your prospects with a gift certificate to be used on any of your current or upcoming products. For example give them a $50 gift certificate for ordering through your affiliate link and let them pick a product of thier choice.

10. Free One-Time-Offers: Issue your prospects a chance to get the one-time-offer for no cost. You would make a commission on the front end offer and give them the one-time offer for free. You would create the OTO yourself or ask the product owner for this special request.

Since affiliate marketing can be very competitive, you will need to find a way to stand out from the crowd. Including bonuses and incentives will give you the advantage you need. Think about it...why would a person buy from your competitor when they could get something extra by ordering through your affiliate link?

All you need to do now is implement some of the above ideas or add some of your own and you will see an increase in your affiliate sales!