This article will cover the part 4 of “Affiliate 15 Checklists” These are the basics of affiliate marketing that you should know and it will really helps if you have a checklist. This will cover Check # 10 to Check # 12

• Check # 10: Merchant’s Competitiveness

Merchant’s own promotion and product competitiveness. You will want to know the merchant himself is aggressively promoting his own products or not. You will also want to know how competitive to promote this particular affiliate promotes.

• Check # 11: Affiliates Material And Tools

Availability of affiliate marketing weapons you can use. This will really saves you a lot of time and money if the merchant provides you with the newsletter, banner, graphics etc. If you do not have a list yet, you will be able to use all the resources to build a list first. But if you do have your own responsive list, you will be able to just cut and copy the newsletter and add in your own twist and just send it to your list. It will be better to be a affiliate for a program that will provide you with the tools to promote their product.

• Check #12: Affiliate Cookie Setting

How long will your affiliate cookie last? This will be important as it will decide whether the commissions will go to you or not. For example did not want to buy the first time he goes to the website but he decided to buy on the 2^nd time, you will still get paid unless he delete his cookie. Some of the affiliate programs will only allow cookie to last for a few day compared to some that will make the cookie last much longer.

These are the fourth 3 checklist of “Affiliate 15 Checklist” for part 4. I will write the other checklist in the next article so do take note of it and find the “Affiliate 15 Checklist” for part 5