TOPIC: EXACTLY How to Make Money Selling Happy Hippo Kratom

Good Looking Loser wrote:

JayBizzle wrote: Hey Chris. Awesome you are doing this. Been waiting to promote HH for awhile now, think I even emailed asking about an affiliate program several times over the past few months...

Anyways, getting down to numbers, this is what I need to know:

• Avg. Cart Value for a new customer? (on avg how much is first order placed by a new customer)
• Avg. Customer LIfetime Value? (on avg how much does a customer spend over their lifetime)
• What affiliate network/software/cart are you using to track affiliate sales?
• -- Can people be sent directly to your blog/site/forum thru my affiliate link and I get credited with the sale eventually when they buy? Or does each purchase have to be made by clicking on a buy-link with my affid on the actual buy link?
• Each new customer is permanently assigned to their 1st referring affilaite then?

I'm aware of the 80/20 "some people order way more than others"-effect, but I just need to know averages based on all data you have up to this point.

Feel free to PM if you prefer

huge thanks and congratulations

Hey Jay

1) The average first order is now $52, the newbie starter pack + shipping. But sometimes people just buy HH1 1oz, $14.

2) I have no idea.

3) We our own software - OpenCart. But are upgrading it.

4) I don't understand what you mean here... if they link your Happy Hippo Affiliate link (which takes them to Hippo), you'll get 20% of their sales for 30days. If you send them to Good Looking Loser to look at my Kratom guide (and they don't click your Happy Hippo affiliate link, you won't get the sale). That's why I encourage people to make their own Kratom guide, and put their own links it in.

5) I think so. This 'lifetime' commission isn't as easy to implement as people think. I want to give affiliates 5% on EVERY lifetime sale their referral makes, but I can't have people signing (purposely or inadvertently) signing up existing customers to a lifetime commission. So the lifetime commission won't be a "native cookie" that can be cleared from the cache. It will be permanent thing so no one and steal/add existing customers as their lifetime affiliates.

Revolution wrote:

Good Looking Loser wrote:

JayBizzle wrote: Hey Chris. Awesome you are doing this. Been waiting to promote HH for awhile now, think I even emailed asking about an affiliate program several times over the past few months...

Anyways, getting down to numbers , this is what I need to know:

• Avg. Cart Value for a new customer? (on avg how much is first order placed by a new customer)
• Avg. Customer LIfetime Value? (on avg how much does a customer spend over their lifetime)
• What affiliate network/software/cart are you using to track affiliate sales?
• -- Can people be sent directly to your blog/site/forum thru my affiliate link and I get credited with the sale eventually when they buy? Or does each purchase have to be made by clicking on a buy-link with my affid on the actual buy link?
• Each new customer is permanently assigned to their 1st referring affilaite then?

I'm aware of the 80/20 "some people order way more than others"-effect, but I just need to know averages based on all data you have up to this point.

Feel free to PM if you prefer

huge thanks and congratulations

Hey Jay

1) The average first order is now $52, the newbie starter pack + shipping. But sometimes people just buy HH1 1oz, $14.

2) I have no idea.

3) We our own software - OpenCart. But are upgrading it.

4) I don't understand what you mean here... if they link your Happy Hippo Affiliate link (which takes them to Hippo), you'll get 20% of their sales for 30days. If you send them to Good Looking Loser to look at my Kratom guide (and they don't click your Happy Hippo affiliate link, you won't get the sale). That's why I encourage people to make their own Kratom guide, and put their own links it in.

5) I think so. This 'lifetime' commission isn't as easy to implement as people think. I want to give affiliates 5% on EVERY lifetime sale their referral makes, but I can't have people signing (purposely or inadvertently) signing up existing customers to a lifetime commission. So the lifetime commission won't be a "native cookie" that can be cleared from the cache. It will be permanent thing so no one and steal/add existing customers as their lifetime affiliates.

Chris, this isnt too complex a task, it would probably take 2-3 hours to code (unless opencart is hard to modify). Dont know how youre doing it at the moment but on submission of the registration page you should get the affiliate id from the cookie (if one exists) and store that in the user data in the database under a field called referrer. When crediting the affiliate you just need to check if theres a referrer for that user in the db and if so credit them. Even if the cookie has been replaced by another affiliate the correct one will be credited.

Not sure if that sounds foreign to you but show your web developer this post and he'll understand. I know this is how it works cause ive done some web development projects with referral programs multiple levels deep.

SKJ2003 wrote: Started just now, waiting currently for webhostinghub to approve my CC info.
Gonna hit this hard when I can, the whole 9 yards... Been telling myself to learn wordpress and to step towards online marketing / passive income / running my own business, kept making excuses.. Dropped the money on it, now I'm locked in.
Questions:
1. Is a theme essential? Noticed even the basic DIYtheme you linked is about 90$, would like to see *SOME* returns before I go balls deep invested into it. 90 wouldn't be killing my wallet but at the same time it's a steep price to pay when i'm primarily looking for the experience. Anyone know of some good free themes?
2. Have you heard anything about the 5% lifetime commission?

SKJ2003 wrote: Meh, yeah maybe won't be anything I really profit from monetarily. However, wordpress and such is something i've been meaning to learn for a while and this is more of a "reason" to. I'm not necessarily at a point where I want to start my own blog or affiliate marketing venture quite yet, but when I do I don't want to crawl through it. So for me, the experience is what i'm after.

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You right about the experience being valuable. I tried several web sites that didn't exactly take off but I picked up pretty good skills that helped me in other contract jobs. I was developing with Flash which has been mostly replaced by newer technologies that are easier and more powerful.

If you're looking for a good tech resource for getting started I would recommend "Nettuts" which i've been using for years.
Pretty good short and practical useful samples and articles written by many different contributors. It helps you get up and running.

Lots of the resources out there are confusing or dull dull dull.

http://code.tutsplus.com/categories/wordpress

Most of the sample articles are free. Some of them you have to pay but those are usually more advanced topics.

Here's a good sample article : ( they have well over a hundred articles on wordpress )

Guide to managing a wordpress project.
http://code.tutsplus.com/series/guide-to-managing-premium-wordpress-projects--wp-33862

If you signed up for Victor's website hosting, he will provide you with a Wordpress plugin so there's no nasty numbers (52b034b6cff65...) in the link. That will help sales too.

theDon wrote: From the blog post:

If you signed up for Victor's website hosting, he will provide you with a Wordpress plugin so there's no nasty numbers (52b034b6cff65...) in the link. That will help sales too.

Has anyone figured out how to get this working?

Benjyboi wrote:

theDon wrote: From the blog post:

If you signed up for Victor's website hosting, he will provide you with a Wordpress plugin so there's no nasty numbers (52b034b6cff65...) in the link. That will help sales too.

Has anyone figured out how to get this working?

You sign up here and they're pretty quick about setting it up for you.

boldanddetermined.com/free-wordpress-setup-form/