As a successful affiliate you have the ability to promote your site and your merchant partners products off as well as on the Web. One way is as a speaker. Through experience you’ve learned more than you realize about some very specialized techniques that others are anxious to know. And you’ve learned the hard way more than once how to recover from the pitfalls of this ever-changing field.

As a speaker you become regarded as an authority in your field – whether it is the calculations of ROI statistics, as a vigilant watchdog against fraud, or as a negotiator of deals with exclusive partners who’ve never considered affiliate programs before. People are hungry for information, and anxious for shortcuts in their path to success.

Where can you speak? At affiliate business conferences, forums sponsored by affiliate marketplaces, at your customer’s sales conferences, adult education, Chamber of Commerce, sales and marketing conventions. Based on the subject of your site, you can probably think of many more. The important thing is that you get before appropriate business audiences and the press, so they learn that you’re both legitimate and experienced.

What can come of this? You’ll have an easier job of convincing companies who are good partners for your business to join you as merchants. And you’ll increase the visibility of your site among people who are interested in the niche you serve. A number of these people will buy through your site, earning you commissions. And you’ll attract bright people who want to work for you because you are both visible and successful.

Donny Lowy operates the following wholesale sites:
http://www.closeoutexplosion.com
http://www.wholesalequest.com
http://www.wholesalecloseoutforum.com