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How Should You Treat Your Affiliates?

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 5:54 pm

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As an affiliate you play a very important part because if you do your job well you’re making whoever you’re affiliated to a lot of money. That being the case you would think they would treat you properly wouldn’t you? Generally companies who are looking for affiliates to help sell their products will make sure they offer fair compensation. They may even offer other incentives to entice people to join as an affiliate. After all, the more affiliates you have working for you the more potential for increasing the money in your coffers.

This leads me to the crux of this post. The other day I was approached by someone to design a website for them. Knowing I couldn’t design a professional looking website I convinced them to let me start up a blog for them. It wasn’t too hard to convince them once I explained how easy it was to update a blog as compared to a website.

As these guys belonged to a non profit organization I told them I would do the work for free, thinking that the money I would get from using products I was affiliated with would be enough compensation for my time. The first thing I did was email HostGator as they offered a great product at a great price. I explained the situation and asked if I would still get paid the commission if I licked on my own affiliate link? Their reply.

Hello,

Thank you for your email.

No, you will need to have them setup and pay for their account using their own details simply using your affiliate link in order to receive credit. Thanks again!

Please feel free to let us know if you have any further questions.

Honestly, if someone was paying me to set up a site for them they would expect me to set it all up from start to finish wouldn’t they? So I wrote them back explaining how I was expected to set it all up for them and saying that I had no option other than to source another host to which they replied;

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the consideration, understandable. Unfortunately that policy is in place for numerous reasons and isn’t able to be lifted. We wish you the best of luck and if anything changes we hope you’ll bring them our way! ;)

Thanks again, have a good one!

Please feel free to let us know if you have any further questions.

Sorry people but that makes no sense to me. As far as I’m concerned I can’t see any reason why an affiliate can’t click on their own link. What’s the difference if someone else clicks on that link or I do? They make exactly the same amount of money don’t they? And what’s wrong with giving their affiliates a little discount for buying their product.

Another case in point; you all know about my Lottery site? Well, I wanted to write a post on how easy it was to Buy USA Mega Million Ticket Online and the best way to do that was to actually buy one. I figured why not ask the guys at MyLotto if I would still get my commission if I joined by clicking on my own affiliate link. They said not a problem, and true to their word I got 10% of the sale. You see that is what looking after your affiliate is all about. By letting them join, or buy a product, under their own affiliate link not only are they making money their affiliate get’s a discount. By not allowing them to do so only costs them a sale.

As it is I still needed a host and so I asked the guys at BlueHost if they were OK with it and they said they were which just goes to show there are people out there who know what good business is all about. As for the theme, naturally I’ll be using FlexSqueeze and yes Ryan has given me the approval to click my own link.

All I can say is that when I finally have products for sale online and I’m looking for affiliates I have no problem at all if they click on their own link when buying a product. What about you, are you willing to reward your affiliates buy letting them purchase under their own link?
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Quick Update On People Search Money Opportunity

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

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OK, I didn’t expect to be writing an update on my People Search money making opportunity so soon but I find it necessary because there appears to be some confusion.

What triggered it off was this comment left by Holly, who happens to be a very talented writer, and if you haven’t been over to her It’s All A Matter Of Perspective blog yet you should head on over there first chance you get. Her post Dog’s Cats And Slippery Cats‘ is a real killer .

Anyway Holly left this comment.

Okay, I quit after the first confirmation. Now I have to create a free account at something called “Reunion.com”? And another confirmation? That raises all kinds of red flags for me – that’s where I quit.

When you decide to join the AcmePeopleSearch team you will be taken to a page that has the following three boxes on the top of the page. You can click on the image for a full size shot.

You will notice that there are three steps and that all three are ticked. This shows that I have completed all three of them and I therefore have access to the majority of the income streams. When you first see this page it will be devoid of ticks. As stated in their forum;

1. Step 1 – Build Your Search Engine. This first step is absolutely free and is FREE FOREVER for you to earn commissions. This is where you would affiliatize your APS Engine with the first five (5) of the income streams, namely Clickbank, HDP, MyLife, CJ, Adsense. You must signup as an affiliate of these programs (Note that MyLife is not accepting new affiliate signups). You must enter your affiliate IDs from those programs during the course of your Step 1 completion.

Upon completion of Step 1 and beginning at step 1, the people search engine that you built would have a Display Rate of 100%. This means that you will earn 100% of affiliate commissions from the first 5 income streams. As people search niche engine is huge getting 30% of all the searches done in the internet, you will be able to make a very good income by promoting your newly created Acme People Search (APS) Engine. However, the limitation is that you wouldn’t be able to promote it via Pay Per Click advertising until you brand or host it with your own web hosting (Step 2).

Now you will notice that the free version gives you access to five affiliate streams, Clickbank, HDP, MyLife, CJ and Adsense. Unless you join these affiliates you miss out on those income streams. The one that scared Holly off was MyLife, another aspect of people search and seeing as how people coming to your search engine can be considered targeted traffic, is more likely to convert earning you money.

When you get to step 2, that’s when it starts costing money, remember step 1 is free, and that $10 per month is simply the hosting fee needed to host your site. They use Global Domains which I find to be really cool and they have their own affiliate program. I completed step 2 because, just as it’s best to host your own WordPress blog, I know there would be many advantages to hosting your own people search engine.

Why did I complete step 3? Because I wanted to see the full potential and because they offered a 30 day free trial. The forum describes this step thus.

3. Step 3 – Unlock Residual Income. To make the most out of your APS business, you should unlock GDI, Hostgator, GVO and Referral Income Streams by subscribing either by Paypal or Trialpay. First 30 days is absolutely a free trial. When these income streams are unlock, you’ll be able to promote your APS business to your prospects or potential market. Note however that you should also be an affiliate of these programs and to enter your affiliate IDs in your back office (Add/Edit) in order to make money or residual income from them. When you have brought-in step-3 referrals to your APS business and they have clicked on GDI, Hostgator, GVO income streams’ link (where your affiliate links are integrated) and they have subscribed, you make money. When they have done the same and so by their referrals, you make more money, especially GDI and GVO which let you earn residual income with their tier or multi-level program. But Hostgator offers an awesome one-time huge commission potentially from your step 2 referrals only when they subscribed HG hosting.

If you’re interested you can read the full Beginners Guide at the actual forum.

The following image just shows my earnings so far. As you can see there are none from referrals but there is $125 sitting there and that was the money deposited by Tissa but which I won’t have access to until I get another $75, and he’s virtually promised me that within the month, and he’s even helping me along my adverting my engine on Google.

Honestly, so far I am impressed. It is early days yet and I will keep you updated. You may find this video interesting where he’s willing to prove to you that his system works. You may even find this link of interest, but I think I will leave it there for now as I don’t want to overload you with information.

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How The People Search Craze Could Put Money In Your Pocket

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 3:18 am

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This blog is not all about making money. In my post, The Honest Truth About Making Money, I outlined exactly what I believed you can expect from blogging for money. What I have discovered is that you can utilize the Internet to add to your blogging income stream.

I’ve showed you how you can use Twitter to put money into your PayPal account. My Final Update On Snap Dollars also showed you proof, via a photo of the check I received, how it can be used to bring in a little extra cash. The Honest Truth About The SFI Affiliate showed how although I failed to make it work I believed it was more to do with me being an Aussie than a failure in the program itself.If you wish to view all my money related posts you just need to click on the Making Money Category which has over 50 posts in it.

While most of these schemes only add a little money in your wallet, if you combine enough of them it can add up to quite a bit at the end of the year. One thing that all these money making schemes have in common is that they are all FREE! After being burned once I made a pact to myself that it will not happen again.

In the Twitter post mentioned above I told you how I was trialling a new scheme. That trial has almost ended and I hope to do a post soon. In one of the comments I’ve had with Dennis I mentioned how I have come upon a brand new one and he asked me to shoot him an email which I’ve done. The particular money making opportunity is a little more involved than most and so rather than wait until it’s culmination I thought I would share it with you guys as I go through it on a step by step basis.

When I signed up I didn’t even have access to this ‘Presell Page‘ where Tissa Godavitarne provides a lot of proof, including his IRS Form 1099, to substantiate his claims. He also provides his office address on Herndon Valley so people can call in personally to see him. If any of you guys live near there perhaps you can call in to validate that it does actually exist. It’s a little hard from Australia.

As of yet I have not signed up for the GVO portion of the plan as that costs money but I am seriously considering it. The whole plan revolves around the ACME People Search Engine and while they have a free version I’ve opted to take it further so that I could have one hosted on my own domain, and I called it Sires People Search, as I believe like owning your own blog domain it will have it’s own distinct advantages.

If I was to use the free version Sires People Search would give me access to 5 income streams including ClickBank, Adsense, HD Publishing, MyLife and Commission Junction. So basically when people log onto my search engine, which unlike other sites that charge them, is free for them use, those other links that appear on the page are linked to the above affiliates. As the traffic that come to this site are targeted traffic they are more likely to convert.

I opted for the paid version, just under a $1 a day which gives me access to another four income streams, just to see if it actually does increase my income stream. Naturally I will tell you the results in the next update.

I hope you will subscribe so as to be kept up to date with this, my latest money making project, as I don’t want you to miss out 0n any of the updates.

Honestly I wish there was a search for people option available in Australia as it would have come in really handy the last couple of months. One of my customers defaulted on a $2000 account and I had to resort to debt collecting agency to find where he was so I could take him to court. If we had a service similar to this I could have bypassed all that added expense.

Please leave a comment if you have any questions. Although I am new at this they have a very active forum that I can utilize to try and find any answers. Also, do not be scared to click on the links as they will make things a lot clearer. I noticed by the stats that no-one as even clicked on the search engine? Honestly, it won’t bit and if you don’t check it out how can you possibly know what I am referring to.

Just remember that there is no compulsion for you to buy anything at all.

I know there are some out there who may be a little confused about the whole thing and perhaps this complete Beginners Guide will provide some useful information.

Thesis Theme Is Just Not Flexible Enough

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 1:52 am

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I did a post a little while back called My First Impression Of The Thesis Theme in which I outlined my disappointment in the theme itself. Whilst is was better than the majority of themes around it didn’t live up to expectations for one simple reason, that reason being, as far as I was concerned, it didn’t do what it said it would.

Not a coder? Not a problem. The Thesis option panels allow you to command your site with ease, while Thesis does all of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. You’ve never had this much control over your site before, and this is precisely what makes Thesis indispensable to critical webmasters all over the globe

After reading that I bought the theme thinking that now I would finally have complete control over how my blog would look. Now don’t get me wrong it did give me a lot more control than a lot of other themes, but as far as being a complete ‘plug and play’ package I found it sorely lacking. Naturally if you are a bit of a geek and like playing around with codes and things you can do a lot more with Thesis than other themes, but I, like a lot of other bloggers out there, am completely clueless when it comes to coding and I need a theme that is almost completely mouse driven. I need a truly flexible theme.

Well, I searched far and wide until finally I found what I consider to be the ultimate theme, the FlexSqueeze Theme! Once installed you simply go to the Theme Option page and follow all the instructions. You can change almost every facet of the theme from the width of the theme to the width of your post content to your sidebars. The following is just some of the things that you can do with this theme. Read the rest of this entry

The FlexSqueeze Theme gives my blog that professional look. I loved it so much that I bought the developers license. It's the easiest most customizable theme I've come across. See how easy it is to change your theme's appearance! Compare it to Thesis to see how much better it is! Check out some of the latest Latest Updates

I highly recommend you to get your FlexSqueeze copy today!