Hello there Sea Changers. Welcome back to my series of program lists to assist those of you looking to fund your sea change with affiliate marketing. Today we are going to see if we can get amongst the big coin with my 10 best high ticket affiliate programs to cash in on in 2021.
One of the advantages of affiliate marketing is that you can essentially market anything you like – including those products, services and items that cost just that little bit more as well. This can either be as a focused campaign or a ‘side hustle’ where you can make a some bonus commissions on top of your general offerings.
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Before we start, the affiliate lists that I look at on this site are usually niche specific – covering everything from travel to fashion to pets – however as we are looking at things from a slightly different angle, I am conscious that there are a number of different areas or sub niches that would could look at.
So how have I picked my best 10? Well… I really just wanted to give you a good cross section of what is out there in terms of popular high ticket affiliate programs so I did some searching around, checked a few out and chose them by looking at:
- What they offer
- Commission rates
- Payment terms
- Cookie duration
- Application processes
- Affiliate/Marketing materials provided
Before we start however, let’s have a look at what I mean by the term ‘British’ when it comes to affiliate programs…
What do we mean by high ticket affiliate programs?
As mentioned above, we are steering away from niche specific programs here by looking at sites that offer high ticket products and therefore, high commissions. This usually means selling items via one of two ways:
- Offering high cost products meaning higher commissions on the total sale – i.e. 5% of $2000 is better than 10% of $100
- Selling products that offer high initial sales commissions and then recurring income over time – as in the same amount is earned as the first option above, however it is done so over a longer period of time.
An interesting point of note here is that in reality, the sale of high ticket items should not be any more difficult than general prices options – especially as most tend to sit within the digital product space however don’t forget those high end designer watches and handbags either. Posts still focus on the benefits and problem solving abilities of the product however the target market you choose may differ – you will just need to do some research before you begin.
So, if you are looking for high ticket affiliate programs, let’s check out some of the more popular ones below:
1. Clickfunnels
Clickfunnels is am extremely well-known digital product for those looking to implement sales funnels. They have built their popularity on the back of Russel Brunson’s books and some solid funnel building software. For affiliates, their sales funnels have been built around making the funnel access almost secondary to the free offerings and upsells on offer including:
- Free books (user pays postage)
- Access to challenges
- Personalised training
As a high ticket program, commissions are paid on a monthly basis for as long as one of your referrals remains a member. Membership options are priced at $97 per month for basic and $297 for Platinum. There are also once off commission available for the mountain of other products that Clickfunnels offers as either percentages or set payments (which can rise into the 1000’s).
As an added advantage, Clickfunnels utilises ‘sticky’ cookies meaning that your affiliate link is added to the site cookies of your member resulting in commissions being earned on all future purchases or upgrades that they make. Their continuous ‘upsell’ model means that members are constantly being sold into new offerings meaning higher commissions for you as their referrer.
Commission Rate: 40% plus upsell commissions on all new products purchased
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: Lifetime ‘Sticky’ cookies
Application required?: Yes, You will need to enter personal information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links, banners, videos, email swipes
Note: The affiliate program is free to join with enough to promote their preset options however to access the full range of customisable links, funnels and management options, a platinum membership is required.
2. Shopify
Shopify is an extremely well-known and popular online commerce platform powering over 1,700,000 businesses worldwide. It assists those looking to setup an online commerce site from startup, to growing and running all aspects of the online sales process. Their full range of services includes:
- Website editor
- Online retail
- Ecommerce website
- Domain names
- Themes
- Shopping cart
- Ecommerce hosting
- Mobile commerce
- Ecommerce software
- Online store builder
- Oberlo
- Dropshipping Business
- Store themes
- Cross-Border Ecommerce
The advantage of offering access to online commerce stores such as this is that you are able to promote to users across all manner of niches and interests.
In terms of high ticket offerings, their commissions are extremely lucrative with the ability to earn up to $600 per referral. Due to their popularity however, they are extremely picky as to whom they allow into the program so make sure you are thorough with your application.
Commission Rate: 200%
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: 30 Days
Application required?: Yes, you will need to enter personal and website information a well as promotional strategies to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links, banners
3. Smartproxy
In a world of internet marketing and relevant access and security requirements, Smartproxy is “the only decentralized data access platform among all major residential proxy networks” providing data access solutions and proxy management tools for all levels of use. Their service range is too large to list here but includes:
- Residential Proxies
- Datecentre Proxies
- Search Engine Proxies
- X-Browsers
- Chrome Proxy Extensions
- Social Media Proxies
- Anonymous Proxies
- Retail Proxies
- Scraping
- Market Research
- and so much more
As with the site above, there is so much here allowing offerings across a large number of niches and needs too.
In terms of high ticket offerings, this site offers the ability to earn up to $1500 per sale should you be selling packages into large scale users and corporations. That said – even a residential package will earn you around $35 per sale.
Commission Rate: Up to 50%
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: 30 Days
Application required?: Yes, the Smartproxy affiliate program is managed by Partnerize. You will be required to apply for an account then for the Smartproxy affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links, banners
4. Kinsta
Kinsta is a “managed WordPress hosting provider that helps take care of all your needs regarding your website” with a good range of functions providing benefits to both single and multi-site users including:
- Dashboard for overview of all sites
- Tracking bandwidth
- Visitor stats
- SSL certificates
- Analytics from website resources to architecture performance
- WordPress hosting tool
- User Management
This is another good site that will work across a number of niches as well as those assisting with web design and online business setup too. They offer both sign up and recurring membership commissions too meaning potentially large earnings.
Commission Rate: $50 – $500 per sign up plus 10% monthly recurring commissions
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: 60 Days
Application required?: Yes, you will need to enter personal and website information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Banners, text links
5. teach:able
teach:able is an online platform allowing users to create and sell their own online courses and/or coaching services in whatever subject they choose. This includes:
- Domain linkage
- Course creator and editor
- Integration tools
- Sales and use tracking
As with most sites above, there are opportunities here across any number of niches as well as those assisting others to create their own courses.
This site is unique in that it is a high ticket options that you could actually build an entire affiliate marketing business around. However, as above, it would also make a great companion/add on to just about any niche as well.
Commission Rates: Up to 50% (plans range from $29 to $249 per month) recurring
Payment Terms: Monthly.
Cookie Duration: 90 days
Application required?: Yes, teach:able’s affiliate program is managed by Impact. You will be required to apply for an account then for the teach:able affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links, banners
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6. Authority Hacker
Our next site, Authority Hacker, was creates “actionable education for website owners” via a range of blog posts, podcasts, interest lists and more importantly, a step by step education program to assist “beginners and pros alike and use to start, grow and supercharge their online business”. These courses are:
- The Authority Site System 3.0 – main starter program where you start building a brand new authority site from scratch.
- Authority Hacker Pro – flagship training program including all our most advanced tactics for high level, experienced marketers.
This make a great option for those working within the Make Money Online niche with good commissions for course referral.
Commission Rate: Up to $990 per sale
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: Lifetime
Application required?: Yes, You will need to enter personal and website information to apply as well as statistics and a commitment to make a sale within the first 3 months.
Marketing material provided: Text links and banners
7. Hubspot
HubSpot is an extremely well-known and popular CRM platform that “makes it easy for your entire company to work together” via a suite of offerings to assist an entire enterprise including:
- Customer Resource Management (CRM)
- Marketing
- Sales
- Customer service
- Content management
- Operations
- Integration
This includes personal and enterprise plans making it a very good option for high ticket commissions.
There is definitely enough on this site to base an entire affiliate marketing site around if you are dealing with corporate assistance or any of the individual aspects above. And as mentioned, enterprise pricing can make for some great earnings here too.
Commission Rate: 100% of first month (up to $4600) or 15% of recurring membership
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: 90 Days
Application required?: Yes, Hubspot’s affiliate program is managed by Impact. You will be required to apply for an account then for the Hubspot affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links, banners
8. Liquid Web
For those of you working within the web design or hosting niche, Liquid Web offers a complete range of hosting tools for all levels of need including:
- Dedicated servers and clusters
- Cloud hosting
- VPS
- CMS and eCommerce – including managed WordPress
- Enterprise hosting
The advantage here for affiliates working within this market is that again there is a good mixture of small business and enterprise options meaning promotional opportunities across all levels.
This site is one that you could definitely build an entire affiliate marketing business around however it would be a great companion/add on to just about any site aimed at webs design or online business operations as well. And in regards to high ticket opportunities, high end price points run at around $5000.
Commission Rate: 150% of sale with minimum cap of $150 (i.e. $150 is paid even if sale is less than $100)
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: 90 Days
Application required?: Yes, You will need to enter personal and website information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links, banners, landing pages
9. Villiers Jets
Let’s now move away from online products and into the travel market (where there are also plenty of high ticket opportunities via exclusive hotels etc.) with Villiers Jets. Villiers Jets offers access to private jets for business, vacation or special occasion use. Bookings are undertaken in the same manner as a commercial airline (airports, date, time etc.) and they provide access to over 9,000 aircraft in 40,000 locations.
There is not enough here to sustain an affiliate marketing site on its own however it is a must have addition to any luxury, business or special event travel site as a complimentary high ticket opportunity. A 365-day cookie also means that if you can build a solid relationship with your frequent luxury travelers, then you can earn commissions from them time and again.
Commission Rate: 30% of profit share
Payment Terms: 14 days after flight lands
Cookie Duration: 365 days
Application required?: Yes, you will need to enter personal and website information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links
10. Oceanscape Yachts
And finally, Oceanscape Yachts follows on from the previous site this time offering access to high end luxury yachts for cruises, charters and so on. All options are fully customized with the ability to be utilised anywhere around the world. This is obviously not a cheap option (ranging from $16,000 per night to $138,000 per week) meaning commissions are also high.
This is another great site for those working within the luxury travel or corporate niches or as a great high ticket add on to any general adventure or special occasion type site as well.
Commission Rate:
- 5% for first booking
- 2% on their future bookings
- $500 for OceanScape Club Premium membership referrals
Payment Terms: Monthly
Cookie Duration: Lifetime
Application required?:Yes, you will need to enter personal, website and social media information to apply.
Marketing material provided: Text links, banners
How to find your own affiliate programs
As stated earlier, by outlining the sites above I have really just tried to give you a good cross section of high ticket affiliate program options. That does not mean that you cannot find affiliate programs that better suit what it is that you are trying to do within this space especially as I could never even begin to cover every requirement or sub niche in the one post. Luckily for us, there is a simple way to find these programs online.
There are high ticket affiliate programs for every niche you may be working in – you will just need to have a look around until you find one or two that suit your site. For example, if you were working with holidays your search would be along the lines of “Affiliate: luxury hotels” etc. as below:
And of course, anything that offers recurring commissions is also well worth a visit too.
Once you have completed your searches, you can look through and find programs that:
- Relate to your niche/problems that you are solving.
- Have quality products – your brand can be severely damaged if you promote poor quality products.
- Have solid payment and customer service arrangement.
- Pay decent commissions.
- Have good testimonials covering commission payouts and quality of product.
In most cases, you will need to apply for the program before you are allowed to promote their products – don’t take this step lightly or you will be rejected. Affiliate programs will generally want to know:
- Your website name.
- Traffic levels.
- Why you want to join – (so I can make money by selling your luxury fashion is unfortunately not generally a good enough answer).
- How you plan to promote their products.
Conclusion
So… There are my 10 best high ticket affiliate programs to cash in on in 2021. I hope it has been helpful for you as you commence your own affiliate marketing business and as usual, please do not hesitate to comment below if you have any questions, need some advice or have any experiences to share. Oh, and especially comment if you have any experience with these, or any other programs as well.
Until next time
Have fun
Paul
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