Ken, thank you for all the points you've covered. These are productive in helping to see where folks are finding their challenges and where they want to go with it.
It sounds like what you are looking for, Ken, is a way to promote the Affiliate Program, ie, to build your downline. Many of the network marketing (aka mlm) folks on Adlandpro would have similar ideas to what you have presented.
What I was suggesting about using the Adlandpro Custom page to get started is for making money as an affiliate. For affiliate marketing, which is somewhat different from MLM marketing, the custom page is the perfect way to get started.
When you are trying to make money as an affiliate, you want your sales page (the custom page) to be your landing page, because that's what people will be looking for. The custom page is for people who want to advertise or find something. It is what they expect to find when they click on the link that gets them there.
The best way to build an active affiliate downline, in my opinion, is to advertise the product (in this case, the classified ads, your custom page.) You can easily sign up lots of people as affiliates by using an exciting splash page and advertising it as a bizop, but the problem with that is, as I have found by experience, is you get a lot of people signing up who NEVER become active.
There is NO money to be made in an affiliate program, unless you are getting the clicks and sales on the product, itself. There is no money at all in simply signing people up. They need to be active.
Dave |