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 connects merchants with affiliate marketers
providing the perfect platform on which to sell
products.
This
type of program is exclusive to the Internet and
requires a basic reassessment of typical selling
strategies. In the offline world, merchants are
used to having the overhead of marketing built
into the product costs as a 'fixed' or sometimes
variable cost. In the world of Affiliate
Marketing, the fixed cost is also built in as a
percentage of the product cost, but the cost is
only incurred when the sale is made.
Think
of it another way, as a merchant, you are
recruiting an online sales force who only get paid
once a sale is made. They are not your 'employees'
so you don't have to worry about the usual costs
associated with maintaining a sales force.
Furthermore, since the sales force is paid
directly by , you don't even have to worry
about 1099 or other tax issues concerning direct
or contract labor.
- As a Merchant, simply
signup today and following approval we will
have you in our system in 24 hours.
- This is an exclusive
program and we are very selective about who we
accept as merchants. Other Affiliate Program
websites will auto-approve all applications
and place virtually no restriction on what
type of merchant can be involved in the
program. This is not good for merchants as
affiliates will be given way too many choices
of programs to promote, many of which may not
really be suited to this type of marketing
resource. We look carefully at your products,
assess the commission structure that you are
offering, and decide on an individual basis if
your company will be a good fit into our
network.
- After approval, you
send us the banners that you want used, or,
for a mall fee, we can create banners for you.
- We will work with you
on integrating the tracking code into your
shopping cart order confirmation page. This is
usually a very simple process.
- Once tested, we finish
your account setup and enter your commission
rates - You set the amount that you want to
pay affiliates for each sale they bring you.
For example, 20% of the sale is common, but
the better the commission, the more attractive
your program will look to our affiliates.
- Affiliate partners who
are part of our network, will see your program
and subscribe to your program. In addition, we
send a weekly email blast to all our
affiliates, notifying them of new merchant
sign-ups.
- Our Affiliate partners
then put your banners on their websites, and
the traffic will be directed to the webpage of
your choosing. (www.yoursite.com/specific-webpage.htm)
- When a sale is made it
is registered in our console and we run
monthly reports to show all sales activity.
Commission payments are deducted form your
account balance and your credit card is
automatically re-charged to refill your
account to the minimum balance required. We
will send you the sale activity report and you
can correlate orders seen by our system with
your own shopping cart program.
- After the first week
of activity we assess your account to see if
the minimum balance is set at the right level,
and we may need to assess this with you if the
commissions generated are greater than the
funds you have in your account.
- At the end of the
month we mail checks to our Affiliate partners
for each sale made in the program.
| Service |
Fees |
Notes |
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Account
setup and integration fees - one time. |
$250 |
This
includes instruction on integrating our
affiliate code with your shopping cart,
testing, hosting and all initial setup
requirements. We will refund your money
if we can't get the software to work
with your shopping cart within 5
business days. There will not be any
disruption to your normal order-taking
service. |
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Banner
Creation Fee(if required) |
$45 |
We
can design banners for your program
for a one-time flat fee per banner. |
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Minimum
Deposit Amount |
$250 |
This
balance is added to your account and
is used to pay affiliates for
commission sales generated for you. |
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Transaction
fees |
15% |
Our
transaction fees are based on the
payout percentage that you award to
affiliates. For example, if we pay
your affiliates $500 in a month for
commissions, we charge your account
$75 for a transaction fee. |
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Monthly
Minimum |
$0 |
There
are no monthly minimum fees. |
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Hosting
Fees |
$20 |
We
charge an account hosting fee of only
$20 per month to maintain your account
on our database. |
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Check
Processing
for
Affiliate payment. |
Included |
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