My new HDTV affiliate project

Today I’m launching a new project to build a web site to generate sales of satellite television services. I thought I’d write about it here on my blog so you guys can see the process that someone goes through to develop a successful affiliate web site.

I’ve been involved in my Cognigen network marketing business for a couple of years now. Cognigen is like an affiliate program because it is free to join and I get to sell products from a bunch of different vendors. The cool part about Cognigen is I get paid multiple levels deep. Anyway, enough about that. The point is that Cognigen has a partnership where I can sell Dish Networks satellite systems. I’ve sold quite a bunch of them through Cognigen and even won a contest for selling the most Dish systems in one month.

Our Dish affiliate is cool because I get paid $50 per sale. PLUS they have telephone orders. That way I don’t loose any important sales. Dish is also cool because they recently obtained rights to the old VOOM HDTV programming. So now Dish has more HDTV channels than anyone else. So it makes sense to sell Dish Network satellite on an HDTV based web site right?

I know what I want to sell. I have my unique marketing ploy (the more HDTV content than anyone else.) Now I’m ready to build a site.

I fell in love with this domain name awhile back. The dot.com version was taken so I came up with this idea. I’d buy the .tv version. The domain I came up with is: GetHD.tv. Normally I wouldn’t buy a .tv domain but this one was kinda cool and if I am only marketing it online I don’t have to worry too much about people typing in the dot.com version instead of .tv. They should usually be coming to my site via a search engine or a web link from another site. You have to admit GetHD.tv makes for a cool brand name right?

So now I’m ready to start building my site. I’ve got a product I want to market, I’ve got a topic to cover on my sales pages, an affiliate program to sell, and a domain name.

I can do web designs but it takes me days to put together anything decent. Why not simply BUY templates cheaply. This was about the time I discovered Template Monster.

For my new HDTV web site I just discovered a $14 web template. It isn’t the greatest but it is pretty professional looking and will save me hours (probably a day’s) worth of time. Now all I have to do is start editing the template and make it look good.

So far I’ve invested $14 for a template and $34.95 for a domain. I have my own dedicated web server so there is no additional cost for me to add this new site to it. So my total so far is $48.95. I can make that much back in just one sale.