Some frequently asked questions about becoming an affiliate
Wonder if you could become an affiliate ?
The short answer is - yes, of course you can.
What is an affiliate ?
One
who promotes and encourages their site's visitors to visit and purchase
products from a merchant's site enabling themselves to earn a growing
income from commission on sales and/or leads.
Nothing! - It's entirely free (see note)
Will I have to set up great technical connections etc?
Absolutely not. Just express your interest and we show you how to get on with it and offer the tools and content to operate a profitable referral process from your site.
Some Q+A on becoming an affiliate
How labour intensive is it?
As with any venture - the more you put in the more you get out.
We
offer a constant stream of promotional ideas and means to encourage
your site visitors to visit and shop at Yoga-ez. It can be as simple as
placing banners, text links or other in-context content into your
pages. We know however that content is king and is a proven way of not
only turning a cold call into a 'warm-to-buy prospect'. We are keen to
offer content rich promotional material for you to feature in context
on your site. This has the added benefit of being very attractive to
the search engines that are after all the major reason for creating any
web site's traffic numbers.
Do I have to have a web site to enrol?
It is the most profitable avenue to follow but not neccessarily the only one.
If
you have an e-mail address and wish to place a link within your
signature or even just rave about Yoga-ez with one of our supplied text
links in your copy you are able to benefit from all subsequent sales.
It
does however increase your business opportunities if you have a web
site. The more related the site or contextual copy is to our products
the more the 'open to buy' customer is ready to spend their money
through your recommendation. There is nothing as powerful as pre-selling.
Niche markets are proving to be the success stories of web marketing.
It is only limited by your creative imagination as to how to develop
the traffic flow to our site.
Do I get paid regularly for sales attributed to my leads?
Yes
- the affiliate program automatically registers your unique referral
link and knows that it is your sales lead. Once the sale has completed
and after a 30 day period to allow for returns or other sale refund
reasons, your specified account will be credited with the amount due to
you.
You
are paid one month in arrears and all sales and pending sales are in
real time. You can see what you have earned and when. We send affiliate
cheques out on the 15th of every month.
The quicker you build sales the quicker you get paid for your partnership efforts.
There is also the opportunity to recruit your own affiliates to the program and earn commission from that stream.
Is there a minimum traffic level to join?
We
do not require minimum traffic levels for affiliates to join our
program. We are fully aware that the low traffic website of today might
grow to become what we call a premier partner of tomorrow. Even if you
only have a few hits per day, you are welcome to join our program as an
affiliate.
Why does my partnership with your site need to be approved?
We like to be able to review each site as we are aware that there are certain standards that we would like our partners to meet so that the quality and integrity of our service is reflected in all our partner referrals. This helps all affiliates as the power of ethical and quality trading is upheld and spread. When we visit your website we will determine if your website adheres to those standards that we have set. If so, we will approve you as an affiliate in our program. If not, we will decline your application. On your application you will be sent an email with guidelines your website has to adhere to.
What link types are available?
Our software currently supports 4 types of links. However, it is at our discretion and from time to time to decide which of these types we make available to our affiliates. The following linking types will become available:
- html This group can contain any kind of HTML link. It can vary from a short, simple link to a complete (and more complex) page.
- dynamic
This group will contain HTML links that we can change at any moment in
time. Some interesting examples of this kind of link are:
Promotional text links for a set period of time.
Top 10 lists of, for instance, the best selling products.
And many more...
- rich
This group will contain interactive banners. For example a banner or
microsite (small window) that containing drop down box/audio or video.
- graphics This
group will contain one or more banners. If the group contains more than
one banner, the banners will automatically rotate (meaning every time a
different banner from the group is displayed).
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