other than affiliate marketing. Still others are modified versions of what I have seen other affiliate managers using. I hope they will help you manage your own affiliate program. Better Base Conditions for Select Affiliates This was one of the first ideas I had when I started managing affiliate programs: Offer better base conditions for select groups of affiliates. They could be affiliates who belong to a particular forum or an online community. Let's say the base commission of your affiliate program is 10 percent and it has the cookie life set at 90 days. Offer 12 percent instead of 10 percent, or offer 120 days of cookie life to those affiliates who sign up for your program through a specific link, through a specific online forum, or during a set period of time from the official launch date of the program. Not only can you play with the commission rate and the cookie days, but you can also offer par- ticular monetary per-sale bonuses. These bonuses may be lifetime or time restricted. Commission and cookie life increases are always for life. 369 F R E E D O M A I N G I Note: Taking this idea further, you can apply it to private offers you send to those affiliates you know already send traffic to your competition.