I've been reading WickedFire for three days trying to get a particular set of questions answered, and while I have learned HOLY FUCK a lot, I haven't gotten these particular questions answered so I figured I'd go ahead and ask, and just hope the flaming is kept to a minimum because I have nice tits and this seems to be a boob-happy place.
I make coffee. I decided to try to make more cash with my coffee by selling it with fun pirate labels, because I can kind of draw and my husband is a ninja, so we are always smack talking pirates vs. ninjas. I made a little website, www.coffeeforpirates.com, and I wanted to set it up on some affiliate networks so that other people who are better at marketing than I am can go ahead and start getting people to buy my delicious pirate coffee. As soon as that breaks even I'm going to make ninja coffee and if the pirate coffee sells more, that will prove that pirates are better than ninjas and my husband will do the dishes for a week. If Ninja coffee does better I'll do the dishes, but I am completely unafraid of this outcome.
In no particular order, here is what I am trying to figure out:
1. What affiliate networks/programs are best for someone selling real goods (instead of the clickbank/e books/virtual goods)?
2. Should I give a percentage of sale to the affiliates or a flat amount per reffered customer?
3. What's a good percentage or amount? Most the coffee sells for about $10-12 a bag, I want to give enough that my affiliate marketers are very happy but not so much that I don't make money. What would you consider a very good payout?
4. Is affiliate marketing a good way to go for real goods like this? Is there another direction I should look as well/instead of affilliates?
5. Is there anything I should change about my webpage that's super obvious to anyone who isn't a total newb? I'm changing it every day on advice from people who Know Their Shit (tm).
6. Is there anything else I should be smart enough to ask, but being the Queen of Nebular Newbs, don't know that I should ask?
I make coffee. I decided to try to make more cash with my coffee by selling it with fun pirate labels, because I can kind of draw and my husband is a ninja, so we are always smack talking pirates vs. ninjas. I made a little website, www.coffeeforpirates.com, and I wanted to set it up on some affiliate networks so that other people who are better at marketing than I am can go ahead and start getting people to buy my delicious pirate coffee. As soon as that breaks even I'm going to make ninja coffee and if the pirate coffee sells more, that will prove that pirates are better than ninjas and my husband will do the dishes for a week. If Ninja coffee does better I'll do the dishes, but I am completely unafraid of this outcome.

In no particular order, here is what I am trying to figure out:
1. What affiliate networks/programs are best for someone selling real goods (instead of the clickbank/e books/virtual goods)?
2. Should I give a percentage of sale to the affiliates or a flat amount per reffered customer?
3. What's a good percentage or amount? Most the coffee sells for about $10-12 a bag, I want to give enough that my affiliate marketers are very happy but not so much that I don't make money. What would you consider a very good payout?
4. Is affiliate marketing a good way to go for real goods like this? Is there another direction I should look as well/instead of affilliates?
5. Is there anything I should change about my webpage that's super obvious to anyone who isn't a total newb? I'm changing it every day on advice from people who Know Their Shit (tm).
6. Is there anything else I should be smart enough to ask, but being the Queen of Nebular Newbs, don't know that I should ask?