Marketing Affiliate Program
One very effective way to increase the number of visitors to your
site is through the use of an affiliate program. LetMeShop gives you a
very simple to use, effective built in marketing affiliate program
management.
Using the e-commerce affiliate program is easy.
LetMeShop can track sales and customer
registrations by partner code. When you build a link to your site from
anywhere using a Form or a Querystring you can assign a Partner or
Affiliate ID. This Partner or
Affiliate is then saved in a cookie for any visitor coming to your site
through that link. If that customer registers the Partner
or Affiliate is saved in the contact record.
This gives you a lot of flexibility in
tracking the success of any affiliate program or advertising you do.
For example, if you place a banner ad and
use a link including a partner ID. You will easily be able to tell how
many visitors came to your site from the ad and actually became active
customers. This is a much better way of tracking the success of an
advertising campaign than just hits.
The partner / affiliate program set up
also allows you to enter a commission for each partner /
affiliate. This commission is used in the reports to create a
"Commission" based on the total sales within a date range.
This commission does not include canceled orders.
The following is an example of a
Querystring link using a partner ID.
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/_store/default.asp?MPID=exampleid">
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/yourbanner.gif"
border="0"></a>
The following is an example of a form
link to your site using a partner ID.
<form action="http://www.yourdomain.com/_store/default.asp"
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MPID" value="exampleid">
<input type="submit" name="submit"
value="Visit yourdomain.com">
Important Note: Links can go to
any page in the _store folder which means you can link to specific items
or pages as long as you include the MPID=exampleID in the querystring.
Some pages (such as the products page) require passing the link as a
querystring.
The client report generator allows the
partner/affiliate to create their own reports by date range.
Your partners/affiliates can check their
own sales/commissions through the following link. <http://www.yourdomain.com/partner>.
They must enter their partner / affiliate id, password and a date range
to get a list of sales, total sales and their commission.
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