A two-tier affiliate program is a paid model that allows you to earn affiliate commissions on your direct sales as well as sales generated by people introduced or sponsored into that particular merchant’s program. provides. These people who are “under you” are usually referred to as sub-affiliates.
Why would a businessman do such a program? A merchant would like to add a viral component to the sales force so that it can grow without constantly focusing on recruiting new affiliates. Finally, why not extend your existing sales force by adding powerful incentives for “overrides” or commissions from the work of new affiliates?
A typical structure looks like this:
First level = 40 percent commission on all sales you generate directly.
2nd Tier = 10% commission on referrals or sponsors (your sub-affiliates)
How does this type of structure work? Suppose a product/material costs $50. If, say, you sold eight units directly from your efforts (email marketing, traffic generation, guest blogging, and so on, as we describe in Part 2), you’d earn $160 ($40 of $50). %) will get first level commission. × 8 units).
If you offer an opportunity to sell the same product (to all of your audience) and some take you up on the offer, what happens? Say you emailed 500 people. You ask them to buy the product and you get those eight sales, and then you email those 500 people a second time with the following message:
“What a great product! I love it, you love it … and other people you know will love it too! Make money as an affiliate by helping others get this product too! Why not earn (earn a juicy 40 percent commission!)? To do so, email xxx@xxxxxx.xxx and sign up as an affiliate (easy sign up and no cost!).
Say 25 people sign up to be affiliates through your link, and that group (in total) makes a total of 43 sales. how did you do
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