Affiliate program

Some of you will remember that I asked many months ago about affiliate programs?

I badly needed to find a new one as my old one was abused by fraudsters about 4 years ago. Took me sometime to realise I really needed to get it happening again.

Well, finally, I bit the bullet and narrowed it down to about three over the Christmas period and have decided upon iDevAffiliate. Turns out to be a great system with videos at every step of set up. Also the support there is great and responsive too – even though I know it was out of hours for the guy at the time. I really do appreciate it.

So, I’m finally set up again and will add to it over time. If you’re looking to earn a little extra by telling people about the VA Network I run, or the hosting I provide, then perhaps signing up as an affiliate is the thing to do. Details can be found here on my site under the About menu titled Affiliates.

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Kathie Thomas

Kathie is the owner of VA Directory and is former past President of the Australian VA Association. She founded the Virtual Assistant industry in Australia in the mid 90s, having already been operating a home-based secretarial service. Today the VA industry covers a multitude of office-based services for clients worldwide.

Virtual Assistants work from home based offices, so it’s natural that the industry would attract those who are keen to work from home, and be present for their family members. Family are the very reason why I work from home. I wanted to be here for my 5 daughters while they were in school. They’re now grown up and have left home but I’m still here and at home. Probably just as well too as my husband had a serious accident just over 3 months ago and he’s needed me to be here for him.

Readers may or may not know that I have an Affliate Program available on my website. This is to promote items on my VA Shop, which include books, webhosting, VA Directory membership, VA Coaching and a few other things mainly related to being a VA. I have a number of Affiliates signed up for the program but very few who actually do anything about it. And then suddenly two weeks ago my booksales started to increase and I contacted a couple of purchasers to find out how they found out about my book, only to find they’d both been directed by the same person – one of my affiliates. I contacted her to find out what she’d been doing, as several sales have been generated, and she informs me she is promoting via Facebook and Twitter.

So, if you’re an affliate for any program, have you been doing the same? This can add some extra income to your VA business and if you get adept at signing up and operating as an Affiliate, you can also teach your clients to do the same. Just one more service you can provide, and benefit from, as a VA.

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