Before we go further, we need to define what is meant by “satisfactory" affiliate sales. What maybe satisfactory to one affiliate marketer, may actually be mediocre to another. Whilst attaining one sale per week would be more than reaching cloud nine for a struggling affiliate. Agree?

As such, a proposed way to measure your level of sales satisfaction would be to take into consideration the following factors:

a)Amount of time spent creating your affiliate campaigns (this includes either setting up squeeze pages, or mini-sites to promote your intended affiliate product);

b)Amount of time spent driving traffic to your affiliate site (this can take a whole lot of time if not done correctly);

c)Amount of money invested in your affiliate marketing exercise (this could be driving traffic with Google Adwords or some third party pay-per-click search engines, or purchasing advertising credits from third party sites, etc.); and,

d)The ROI achieved as compared to the amount of commission you can possibly make with a particular affiliate product

As a smart affiliate marketer, it would be prudent to invest more of your time in sourcing for the right affiliate product and once found, driving traffic to this particular affiliate site. And once traffic has been attained, you’ll obviously need a convincing sales page to convert these visitors to REAL buyers. Again, here’s where lots of affiliate marketers get stuck with: CONVERSION.

As far as some of us are concerned (and I believe you’d agree too after considering all these factors), the rate of conversion is what typically determines whether you have actually achieved satisfactory affiliate sales results.

We have all heard of the many familiar stories where affiliate marketers have fallen into the pits of overspending on advertisement campaigns via Google Adwords. These earnest affiliates have merely followed the product owners’ advice to the ‘T’ but have failed to realize that all they’ve actually succeeded in, is actually driving traffic to these product sites, but not making a single sale for themselves! While there’s no denial that driving traffic to these sites is paramount to a successful affiliate sale, what would be more important is how your visitors are actually convinced to make that important purchase (again, conversion rate).

We believe that many potential affiliate sales can be made if more proven tools are provided for these affiliate marketers. Only then, will the whole affiliate marketing exercise be a fruitful campaign. While there are many tools out there which would easily cost a bomb to enhance your conversion rates, there are a rare (proven) few that comes absolutely at no cost to the determined affiliate marketer.