Affiliate Marketing Tycoon

**andrewjgitt** · 06-22-2008, 05:19 AM

Hey guys, I want your honest opinion on an affiliate I'm thinking about starting, and would really appreciate your tthoughts.

My company sells high dollar retail real estate investments, like Walgreens, AutoZone, Home Depot... in $1-5 million range on average. I want to offer an affiliate program on real estate sites to provide information on such investments and pay affliates not based on per lead, rather 10% commission of commission. Our average commission is $40,000, so we are talking $4,000 per day on average.

I know 99.9% programs are not like this, but if you had a real estate website and had an audience that might invest in such investments, what questions would you have for me? what doubts or concerns, I want to be sure to address all problems before I launch. I know people will wonder, "how can I be sure they won't make a deal and screw me?" I'm sure software can help track all this and we would update affliates weekly for all their leads what stage their lead is in. Keep in mind deals like this don't happen overnight, could take 2-4 months, but once they have pipeline built things will happen, and again, the size of commissions is much more. 1 deal could easier = all their small affiliate programs

Would love to hear thoughts, critical or not.
thanks

**tobias** · 06-22-2008, 05:30 PM

It may be hard to find the reliable partners for your project - when reading your post and seeing your offer, I would be willing to create a real estate website of my own ;-)

So the chance is high to "attract" people just seeing their commission - this finally brings you not much money.

On the other side I don't know the real estate investment market very well of my own. So how about looking for websites you would like to partner with and send a personal letter to them ? Then you could work out something specific to this partner, which I think is worth the efforts.