Questions to Ask Your Affiliate Manager #13: Can I Design My Own Creatives?

In Wednesday’s installment of the Questions to Ask Your Affiliate Manager Series, I wrote about asking your affiliate manager for the sales numbers by country of their products/courses. Yesterday I wrote about asking your affiliate manager about the eligible countries for shipping.

Question Number Thirteen is to ask, “Can I design my own creatives?”

Ask your affiliate manager if you can design your own banner ads, do your own videos, or use their product shots in your own creatives.

Many programs do not allow these things and unfortunately many affiliates never ask if they can.

The answer for our program is “Yes!”

Very few affiliates have ever asked me if they can, but the ones who have ended up doing some awesome creatives. Some of the best banners and videos out there were done by affiliates on their own.

When you ask, make sure to ask for things like PSD files of product shots and pictures in a high-resolution format. You are much better off working with the high-resolution PSDs or PNGs at worst and then compressing them than working with low-resolution images and trying to make them work in a large banner or header graphic.

So, this is a question that you don’t have to ask me since you now know the answer, but I encourage you to ask your other affiliate managers.