Sharing affiliate profit with the customer

[roxyruby]

I had an idea...

That is......If I am an affiliate for a product...

If the product sells for $50 for example

I might receive $25 in income when someone buys...

Then as an incentive for them to buy through my link I could payback them $10 or something.....

So they'd only be spending $40 instead of $50, and I'd receive $15 for that sale instead of $25

It's a win for me and a win for them cause people might like that I care about sharing money with them so people might buy the product more

The question is how do I do this?

There might be a feature on clickbank where you can pay back a customer a certain amount of money?

[hawkal]

This has been done a lot by other affiliates and the way to do it securely is to get the buyer to send you a copy of their confirmation of purchase email.

While it won't do any harm to offer it I don't believe it is a very compelling incentive. A much much better idea that I know is used a lot by affiliates is to offer your own bonuses e.g an ebook, video, podcast etc that will complement the product they're buying if they buy via your affiliate link.

[roxyruby]

Originally Posted by hawkal

This has been done a lot by other affiliates and the way to do it securely is to get the buyer to send you a copy of their confirmation of purchase email.

While it won't do any harm to offer it I don't believe it is a very compelling incentive. A much much better idea that I know is used a lot by affiliates is to offer your own bonuses e.g an ebook, video, podcast etc that will complement the product they're buying if they buy via your affiliate link.

oh yeah I did that, I made a bonus & am doing that.

Thanks

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by roxyruby

I had an idea...

That is......If I am an affiliate for a product...

If the product sells for $50 for example

I might receive $25 in income when someone buys...

Then as an incentive for them to buy through my link I could payback them $10 or something.....

So they'd only be spending $40 instead of $50, and I'd receive $15 for that sale instead of $25

It's a win for me and a win for them cause people might like that I care about sharing money with them so people might buy the product more

The question is how do I do this?

There might be a feature on clickbank where you can pay back a customer a certain amount of money?

That seems awfully complicated when you could probably find a way to just offer the product for a lower price to begin with.

For instance, contact the person who owns the product for sale and tell him that you want to sell it at a special discount to your list of emails, or on your blog etc, and that the discount will be taken out of YOUR affiliate commission. That way, you can offer the discounted product as a special bonus the same way Steve offered a 10% discount on the David DeAngelo thing he recommended, only in your case the original creators would still make the same profits anyways.

[CatP]

This is called incentivizing an offer, and it's widely practiced among affiliate marketers. Some merchants allow an affiliate to incentivize and offer, and others discourage it (some merchants even provide separate offers for incentivized and non-incentivized items).

As you may have guessed, returns/cancellations/etc., may be slightly higher for people who were motivated by a bonus.

There are various ways to incentivize an offer -- for example, you can provide an ebook or access to exclusive content. There are tools for doing this. I know quite a lot about this, as I have run incentivized offers in the past.