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Where do you find affiliates?

With how things are going with Craftsman Creative (http://craftsmancreative.co) the last few months, I'm looking to add to what's already working.

Where do you find great affiliates who have experience getting your products out there to a larger audience? I'm looking to add this to the marketing efforts for the site.

Thanks in advance!

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      awesome! thank you!

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    You can find great affiliates through Affiliate Networks, industry events, referral programs, social Media and outreach.

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    Hey Daren, we're building https://affiliatehunt.io/ in the hope of solving the problem of affiliate recruitment for businesses. We're currently restricted to SAAS, but I've made note of your product and will be sure to include it as we expand.

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      Yeah, we'd be doing a similar deal to what Coursera and CreativeLive have on your site. We already have affiliates set up, so let me know if there's a way to get on the site

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      well that's very cool. thanks for letting me know - my other app, Benchmark, will become a saas app next year, so I'll keep your site bookmarked

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    As was written here, your current customers are probably the best option. Besides that, what really works is to contact top 10 pages in search results for your target keywords or to find relevant directories with a traffic. You create courses for creatives so I would like to get into every possible "resources for creatives" type of article I can find.

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      that's an awesome idea - so just reach out to them and see if I can get on their lists?

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        Yes some of them will be interested to join affiliate program, but prepare yourself that some of them will just want your money for including you. You need to check their organic traffic, organic keywords and other stuff to calculate possibility. I am in positive ROI with this long-term, but obviously some of the investments for placing us to the page didn't pay off. But on the other side, you often get a solid do-follow backlink.

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    Your best affiliates are you current customers, because they can genuinely recommend your product as something they pay for and find valuable.

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      so true. thanks a ton!

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    I asked this question to Gumroad, and they answered — "from your current customers"

    Made a lot of sense.

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      for sure. I've tried that route, my audience is still fairly small and the few people that I've onboarded as affiliates haven't sold anything yet. not saying it can't work, just haven't seen it work yet :)

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      Thanks for the list. Does this apply to digital books as well?

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      Thank you! will check them out

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