How to successfully find a potential affiliate?

Here's a great tip from a successful affiliate manager, Garrett Robins, with over seven years experience in sales.

When researching for potential affiliates here are few tools that can help you find potential affiliates. There are free tools and there are some that you need to take out some money out of your pocket, but they can definitely help you and will cut your research time by about 90 percent

The Alexa Tool bar
http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi

This nifty little tool lets you see information related to the site you are looking at including:
• Name of the Owner
• Email Address
• Physical Address
• Phone Number
• Other Sites Created by the Owner
• Other Site Related to that Site

The Google Toolbar
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html

This toolbar will show the PR (page Rank) of the site. If you can get higher ranked sites to promote for you that is great but it is best to focus on the threes, fours and fives.

So why would you want all this information? Well, you can’t build a relationship with anyone if you don’t communicate with them. By using this tool you can visit a site in your niche or a site that would be a good fit for your product and “mine” out the useful information. Then you can throw it on a excel sheet so it’s ready for you when you move on to the recruiting stage.

SEO Elite
http://www.dotcomsecrets.com/reviews/seoelite

This is a paid software. This tool will cut your research time by about 90 percent. If used the right way, it will pull out sites related to the keywords you type in and export the list to an Excel sheet for you. At that point you can sort through the list of what is most relevant to you and get ready to make the phone calls.

Here's how to use it:
Step #1 Search for the Keyword
Step # 2 Click ok and let it pull up hundreds of related sites in seconds.
Step #3 Export them to an Excel file and sort them using **** + + + or what ever
symbols you want to sort the best to contact.

Seo Elite pulls up Page Rank, Alexa info and much more in a matter of seconds. It can also pull up hundreds of sites for your keyword.

Using all these tools, you now have all the information that you need in your next step, and that is recruiting your affiliates.

Get to know more about Garrett Robins and his marketing experiences.
Linked Profile: Garrett Robins