What is a “two-tiered” affiliate program?
With AssocTRAC, you can put the power of a two-tiered affiliate program to work for you. A two-tiered affiliate program is one where your affiliates work to recruit even MORE affiliates for you. These new affiliates become the “sub-affiliates” of your existing affiliates. Let’s look at an example of how this works: Say your site sells model cars for $100 each. You have just purchased AssocTRAC, and your first affiliate has just signed up. (Let’s call him Joe.) Joe earns a 20% commission on each sale he refers, so each time he successfully refers a buying customer to your site, Joe gets $20 and you get $80. Impressed by Joe’s success, you encourage Joe to tell his customers, subscribers, friends, and family about the easy money he is making just by sending traffic to your model car web site. Anyone that he refers will become one of his sub-affiliates, and he will earn an additional commission on every sale THEY refer. Let’s say you set the sub-affiliate commission amount to 5%. Joe tell