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Happy Holidays! Here's to a great New Year…
FEATURED COMMENTARY
By Colette Marshall
Affiliate Manager
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Happy Holidays to All!
I hope everyone has had much success in their holiday shopping and a successful last quarter of the year. We have accomplished many things over the past year and there are still many great ventures coming up.
We thank you all very much for helping make Worldwide Brands be such a great success this year. Here a just a few of the accomplishments this year:
- Hired on several new members to the Worldwide Brands team including our new affiliate manager
- Started a New Product Sourcing & Affiliate Newsletter
- Successfully upgraded myAffiliateProgram from Version 5 to Version 8
- Upgraded the Worldwide Brands website with video content
- Created a free Product Sourcing Video Course that affiliates can offer
- Setup PayPal Payments (Starting January 2007)
- Created a New Affiliate Center
- Created a New Free Ebook about Product Sourcing
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And so many more....
Next Year (just a few short weeks away), Worldwide
Brands is going take another giant leap in the Product Sourcing Industry. We have been working for a year on a brand new product that is the answer to all our customers' product sourcing and market research needs.
What does this mean for you?
- Higher Payout!
Our new product will be set at a higher price point so your 25% commission will be a higher payout
- Content and Image Updates
Like with the upgrade, we will handle updating banners so you will not need to update images. We will keep the same basic message so that it does not conflict too much with the content on your site. However, many of you have content on your site that will need to be updated. I will send out another newsletter in the New Year detailing the changes you will need to make. We will also make new images available in the Affiliate Center and new videos for you use to promote the new product.
- Minimum Payout will increase
With the new price point, the minimum payout will increase to reflect the new changes.
- Update PPC Campaigns
Worldwide Brands will be offering a very unique product that will aid in creating new fresh PPC campaigns. In the newsletters for the New Year, I will also detail out recommendations for new phrases and keywords that you can use.
So get ready for starting the New Year with Fireworks of all kinds! It's going to be an exciting New Year. January through March is historically the best selling months for informational and new business products. I strongly recommend using all the new creatives and features we have available to take full advantage of the first quarter of the year.
I also invite you to email me with New Year's Wishes for things that you would like to see happen with our affiliate program in the New Year. I will definitely add them to the many projects that I will be conducting to improve the affiliate program even more.
Have a safe and happy holiday season!
As always if there are any questions or concerns regarding the new product or the affiliate program in general, I am always available through email affiliatemgr@worldwidebrands.com or phone 877 637 6774 x 8123
Don't forget to check out the "Did You Know?" Section to the right for important program announcements. |
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Earn an additional 10% on referred affiliate sales through our 2nd tier Program. If you like our program and this newsletter, send this newsletter to a friend with your affiliate ID attached.
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| Market Research and Product Sourcing impact your customers bottom line. Emphasize in your content the importance of the combination of both market research and good product sourcing. You can use the new Product Sourcing Video Course to teach your traffic about proper Product Sourcing techniques. In the tools below, select the "Free Product Sourcing Video Course" destination page to make the image go straight to the video. |
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Did You Know?
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eBay Success Stores
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 Janelle Elms has teamed up with Visual Learning Systems and have just released the
eBay Store Success Video Course.
Many of your affiliate sites have eBay related content and we thought you may be
interested in their affiliate program. Janelle Elms is a well known eBay University instructor and 7 year veteran of eBay.
In this course, she teaches how to become one of the elite 1% who maximize the
potential of an eBay Store. To learn more about the product, visit http://storessuccessvideo.com/learnhow
. For information about VLS's affiliate program, visit
http://www.visuallearningsystems.com/affiliates.htm |
| Special Announcement |
Altered - Another Horror Film by The Blair Witch Project Team
As many of you know our president, Robin Cowie, is also a filmmaker and the producer of The Blair Witch Project. On December 19th Rob’s next movie, Altered, will be available on DVD and he wanted to invite all of you to take a sneak peak. You can watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Ib1F-NT6c. If you like it, please vote! You can also check out the movie website at www.AlteredMovie.com. Thanks for your support!
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| Sign Up for PayPal |
| Starting in January 2007, PayPal payments will be an option for payment method of your commissions. To Signup for PayPal Payments, login to your account in the Affiliate Center and update your Account Profile with your PayPal email address and select yes for PayPal Payments. At the same time, please confirm your Payable To fields and your contact information. | USA Affiliates - Submit W9 Forms |
| A W9 form needs to be completed each year with your latest information. Now that it is December, everyone who is required to have a W9 on file has been emailed. Commission checks will be held until W9s have been received. Please check your email. If you have not already done so, please send your W9 in as soon as possible. You can fax to 407-478-8152. Thank you to everyone who has already submitted your W9. |
International Affiliates - Submit W8 Forms |
| US federal law requires that we have a w8 form on file for all international affiliates earning commissions. International affiliates will not receive their commission checks unless a W8 has been submitted. Emails have already been sent out to individuals who are impacted for this month's commissions. Please make sure to submit these forms as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who already has submitted their W8. If you would like the W8 form again, then please email your affiliate manager. |
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Marketing Quick Tips |
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Tracking the Statistics on Specific Links or Images
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| For the best marketing, it is always good to know what links and images on your site are selling the best. You can then adjust your content and placement of images on your site to increase your conversion rates. With the new version of myAP, you know have the ability to create subid's and track individual links and images all the way from click through to sale. To learn more about subid's and how to use them, login to your Affiliate Account and select the "View Reports" Tab then select the Manage SubIds Link. |
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Affiliate Article Database |
Looking for some content ideas or a source of great content that's continually updating? Take a look through our Article Database. We write many articles a week about a variety of
eBiz and product sourcing related subjects that you can use as content on your site. You can also use the RSS feed that updates automatically. |
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