So a friend of mine recently told me that he's made easy money selling satellite dishes through some affiliate program. I've heard other people do it before but I've never really considered it. I looked into some of the retailers. The payout for each dish seems to be reasonably good and I figure it can be offered to just about any one. So then is selling satellite the new big thing? Does anyone have any experience selling dishes and have any recommendations or know the conversion rate?
Is Selling Satellite the new big thing?
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I've tried a couple of satellite offers, one of them had a super-high payout ($100 I think), but I haven't been able to sell any. The ones I tried were all of the "$2000 worth of free hardware" variety, in which you had to fill in a form and someone would contact you. I know if I were buying a satellite system, that would turn me off, but I'm a bit of a TV geek.
Perhaps if you have an established satellite-niche site with lots of traffic you might do ok.
Perhaps if you have an established satellite-niche site with lots of traffic you might do ok.
Satellite works well if you get a street team to promote it, i know a few companies offer print media , and also allow you to cater to the latino areas, put those items together and you will watch the sales fall in place, but then you would also have to leave your computer. lol
I used to own one of the largest online satellite retailers in the country. Satellite is not the next big thing. I feel lucky to have sold my dealership and have made some money.
Problems with satellite:
1. Customer must have a credit score over 600-620
2. Customer must have line of site to southern sky
3. Installer must actually show up (much bigger deal than you would think)
4. Customer must be home when Installer shows up
5. Customer might be required to pay extra charges for pole mounts or wall fishes or else have cables running along baseboard.
6. Customer must pay bill for 6-12 months or else you will be charged back.
I could list several dozen other issues with satellite, but for brevity will not. What this really means is that 40% of all customers will not qualify for the program.
Of the 60% that do qualify, only 70% of those will ever be installed.
Of the 42% that both qualify and get installed, another 20% will cancel the service within the chargeback time frame.
This works out to 33.6% of customers that actually try to order your product that you get paid for.
That means that if you blow it out of the water and have a sight that converts at 10% then you will only get full payment on 3.3% of visitors. This degradation of conversion will kill you. You think you convert at a much higher rate, but in actuality you don't.
This means you can spend $50 to drive an order, but you have to spend $150 to drive a sale that pays you!
Problems with satellite:
1. Customer must have a credit score over 600-620
2. Customer must have line of site to southern sky
3. Installer must actually show up (much bigger deal than you would think)
4. Customer must be home when Installer shows up
5. Customer might be required to pay extra charges for pole mounts or wall fishes or else have cables running along baseboard.
6. Customer must pay bill for 6-12 months or else you will be charged back.
I could list several dozen other issues with satellite, but for brevity will not. What this really means is that 40% of all customers will not qualify for the program.
Of the 60% that do qualify, only 70% of those will ever be installed.
Of the 42% that both qualify and get installed, another 20% will cancel the service within the chargeback time frame.
This works out to 33.6% of customers that actually try to order your product that you get paid for.
That means that if you blow it out of the water and have a sight that converts at 10% then you will only get full payment on 3.3% of visitors. This degradation of conversion will kill you. You think you convert at a much higher rate, but in actuality you don't.
This means you can spend $50 to drive an order, but you have to spend $150 to drive a sale that pays you!
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