In addition to your direct sales, many affiliate programs allow you to recruit other affiliates. These affiliates become your “downline.” You can develop a large downline and increase your sales potential with each person who joins under you!

Compensation plans for programs with downline structures vary. Most programs generally pay a percentage of your downline’s sales to you in addition to your own sales earnings. Sometimes you might earn a greater percentage based on the number of people in your downline.

Having a large and motivated downline can be a great advantage. Large affiliate programs may be international, and you may recruit affiliates for your downline from all over the world.

Additionally, each person in your downline can develop their own downline. As each downline grows, your income grows. It is like having free employees and a staff that works around the clock for the affiliate marketer.

Forums and discussion groups are good places for you to help your downline learn to be effective affiliate marketers. You might find material to help motivate your downline or tips on how to build downlines.

The more you can do to help your downline be successful, the more successful you will be. When you learn something helpful, contact them and let them know too. Know how your affiliate program compensation plan works, so you can target your effort in the places it will make you and your downline the most money.

There is at least one affiliate program that pays you monthly a small percentage of all affiliate sales worldwide. This is in addition to your own sales and those of your downline. The more affiliates in this program, the more you can earn every month, whether they are in your direct downline or not!

When you join an affiliate program, you become part of another affiliate marketer’s downline. The affiliates in place before you are known as your “upline.”

People in your uplines are already successful marketers. They know the more successful their downline, the more their income improves. Ask them to help you become a more successful marketer.

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