The Perfect Affiliate Program:

Rich Sage Review of the Maxsimo Network which has 11 Elements of the Perfect Affiliate Program

Affiliate programs are the rage of the Internet. Everyone seems to have one out.

However, the traditional Affiliate Programs have a rather expensive flaw when it comes to working with for Affiliates. The flaw is that once an Affiliate earns commissions from the program, the most of the future commissions generated by that customer are lost.

Affiliates simple drive traffic to the merchant and get peanuts from that merchant for delivering GOLD!

Does that seem like a scenario that you want to spend most of your time chasing? Does this seem like a good business model to put food on the table or feed your family?  I doubt many of you do… What then is the solution?

As an Affiliate, who wants to monetize a business online and/or generate the revenue for a full-time business, you need to look for these vital elements to success:

1. How often I can earn while promoting one business unit? Often, the Affiliate programs allow you to earn one commission from one sale. IF you are lucky, the referral period for that customer is around 90 days. Often it’s only 30. I’ve setup the referral period to be unlimited when a potential customer joins any part of the network for free. Anytime that customer upgrades, the commissions are earned. What’s interesting about the Maxsimo Ad & Membership Network is that you may sign-up and sell one product for $20 and earn commissions. Later, when the same customer buys a $200 product through the network, you earn commissions again!
2. Am I earning residual commissions? Many of the Affiliate program pay commissions for one sale. Often the charges to customers are recurring, much like hosting sales, but commissions are paid only once in most instances. In my network, the commissions are paid over and over by the various merchants. In my own properties the commissions are paid over and over. Take for example the advertising on the Rich Sage –as long as an advertiser renews their purchase, you get paid. My assumption is that we’ll have some membership programs that will bill for decades, and by selling those memberships you can earn for as long as the customer is active.
3. Am I getting the benefit of some form of leverage? This is often not the case. If you are seller for most affiliate programs, you make the sale and that’s it. You are paid a flat commission. In my Affiliate program, you may make just one sale of a membership or product, and many benefits start.  For example, through your efforts you may have referred 10 other Affiliates who also start selling the network. You earn from all those sales. Soon you’ll be highly leveraged!
   
   
4. How long can commissions from one sale last? Simply said “For the Life of the Customer!” I am sure their will be membership programs that are like the utility bill that you get every month –these membership programs will bill month after month for decades. I’ve got such a product in the Maxsimo Network Tools Membership, which helps small businesses worldwide advertise. The release of these tools will act like a long-term billing membership that delivers value month after month to small business online.
5. Are the products beneficial to the Customers? This is a vital element, after all the Customer is KING! He or she will be the one to enter a credit card and make a monthly, quarterly or annual payment. However, the value that the customer receives has to be outstanding. Month after month, year after year, the customer has to get more and more value for each dollar that is spent.  To ensure this, I’ve got radical enhancement to my product series just to make sure that we stay at the for-front of development!
6. What is the stability and financial strength of the company? The cost of starting an online membership program or affiliate program is less than $250.00. About ten years ago, the same process was $25,000 or even 10 times that amount. Not only has Maxsimo been operational as a development company for 7 years, we are now growing very rapidly with our latest marketing initiative –The release of the Maxsimo Network.  If you notice, biig.com, maxsimo.com and many other domains in the network are nearly a decade old.  Now beings our final phase: The marketing phase.
7. What Affiliate programs promotional methods are there? The ADMIN area for the Maxsimo Network contains all the graphic, text and advertising copy that you’ll need to promote the network. That’s just the beginning –we’ve just gotten started. A lot of third party support is building as the network grows. Along with the leadership of the Rich Sage, this is a network that you don’t want to miss working with as you look for monetizing ideas for your online business.
8. Will there be real-world products that also generate commissions? Yes, this is an often overlooked element (or one that simply cannot be accommodated by online affiliate programs) where commissions are generated by the use of real-world, bricks ‘n mortar stores. My mission is to have such a product in the Maxsimo Global Discount Card(TM)  which is already growing in the Maxsimo Network. It allows the Affiliates to earn from off-line sales –THROUGH a FREE PRODUCT!
9. How easy is it to promote? Most people getting started online have problems promoting a business. Often they look for a cookie cutter approach that will work for a few hundred or a thousand or two. Sure, that’s fine if you want a network to last a year or two. However, if you want to build a multi-billion dollar company as I envision, then the approach has to be different. My approach is to teach people how to use free programs such as WordPress and work on a theme or subject of their interest, in their own language, while promoting the Maxsimo Network as another monetizing unit. That works. Sure they don’t have to do all that. Any Affiliate can put our ad material at their place of choice and not bother any more. However, the best return on investment (ROI) is with following a plan with some work and making a best of your own website.
10. What is the growth and future benefits of the Industry? Advertising and Memberships are just at their infancy online. Advertising alone will be a $100 Billion Dollar online industry by 2010.  The number of “players” in the industry grow daily.  However, the effective, price conscious methods that can be used by small business to build their own businesses online are very few.  Then take the complexities of many countries and nationalities and languages and just the shear trouble of address spam –no one business can manage such issues –Unless it is a network that works with the Affiliates to deliver the best consumer and small business product.  That is how I’ve designed and modeled the Maxsimo Ad & Membership Network.  With the help of Affiliates, who have the most to gain, the network is up and running and will incorporate such management features as we ramp up our growth.
11. Lastly, how much can I realistically earn?  This is the first question that many Affiliate will ask, and in my case, I never give a definite answer. In business, there is always “risk and return” –My objective is to always minimize the risk, which I have done by following #1 to #10 above.  As for the return, take a look at the business model and the future of the industry and you’ll quickly get a very good idea of what you can earn from the Maxsimo Ad & Membership Network.

All of the above questions are what you should ask before joining an Affiliate Program. I’ve designed the Maxsimo Ad & Membership network with those answers in mind. The Maxsimo Network is a serious effort to give the average web Entrepreneur a good shot at online success.

I committed myself so much to that cause, I’ve developed a comprehensive training area with Rich Sage Lessons –a Free Membership area that you can join to learn what to do to build online success.

Given all the resources, trends, my leadership and the momentum behind the network, the Maxsimo Ad & Membership Network >> is something you should consider joining right away.

Rich Sage.