Friday, October 27, 2006

How to Boost Affiliate Sales

1. Target your traffic:
Match the categories. We have over 3000 celebrity names in our gallery, so you can easily match each particular specific celebrity section with our corresponding page. In a word, if you have a web page dedicated to Adriana Lima, place the links to our site so that it would capture your visitors' attention. Consider this table:

Adriana Lima Section:
WRONG
RIGHT
Buy posters/posters/picturesBuy Adriana Lima Posters - 599 items, buy Adriana Lima photos and Adriana Lima mousepads!

Madonna banner
general banner

Adriana Lima banner
link to our home pagelink to Adriana Lima Posters

2. Give your visitors as much information as possible.
* Our site offers flat rate shipping - so tell your visitors about it:


* We have a great wholesale program, so describe it to your customers. Show them the advantages, the more they buy, the more you earn.

Buy more and save up to 40%

* Use our graphics:
buy this now contact us Thus when they are directed to our pages, they are not confused, as they see familiar design.

Related articles:
How to representing our product on affiliate web pages
IcePoster.com Flash Banners

Flash banners

You can use specific banners, featuring one particular celebrity, and general banners, directing to our home page.

1. Specific banners

120x60


120x600


468x60

2. General banners.
You may also use our general banners directing to the home page.
Overall we have these general banners available:
120x600
125x125
160x600
250x250
300x250
300x600
468x60
728x90

For example:

120x600:


250x250:

Means of representing our product on affiliate web pages.

Under CELEBRITY we mean any specific celebrity whose posters you wish to promote.

1. Text link. Most suitable for fan sites having CELEBRITY resources/links web page:

Buy Jessica Alba Posters - huge collection (2779 items) of Jessica Alba Posters, Photos and Mosepads.

2. Flash Banners. Suitable to all kinds of web sites:
* Fan sites: we have 300 flash banners featuring 100 celebrities. You are free to choosethe one you need if available.
* Celebrity sites: place a banner to the category of the specific celebrity. You will enhance sales if you place a banner featuring one celebrity at the section of the site dedicated to this specific celebrity.

Read our flash banner review here.

3. The example of a few/one posters. Suitable for all types of web sites.
Buy this pretty Jessica Alba poster:


4. Datafeed. You can make the whole section dedicated to posters and use our free datafeed to quickly create content for it.

Affiliate Control Panel

Let's take a tour about our Control Panel, which will let you easily build your affiliate links, upload datafeed, get flash banners and track your clicks and sales.

Here is our demo Cotrol Panel.

It consists of 5 sections:
1. Update your info
;
2. Create your links;
3. In-depth commissions;
4. Top 100 referrers;

5. Overview for the year.

I think it is clear what 1 means, so we will start with the first one:

Create your links:











Here you can learn how to build your affiliate links, get banner and text link code and upload the datafeed.
These are all necessary tools enabling you easily to include our product to your site.

In-depth commissions:











DATE shows when your commissions was earned.
LEVEL indicats the tire (we have 2-tier commissions)
STATUS: not paid (if we haven't yet paid you for the sale) and paid (if you already received money from us). You will receive emails from us each time your earn a commission.
AMOUNT shows how much money you earned on this sale
EXTRA INFO stands for the order number referred by you

Top 100 referrers. This shows the links which referred the largest amont of clicks leading to our site.

Overview for the year.
















Here you can view the whole statistics of unique and raw clicks, sales and commissions earned each month.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

IcePoster.com Affiliate Program Details

Commission structure:
That is what you will earn for each sale

Total Sales/MonthCommission Percentage
Less than $500 25%
$500 to 2000 26%
$2000 to $5000 27%
$5000 to $10,000 28%
$10,000 to $20,000 29%
$20,000 and up 30%


10-day tracking cookie
Once your visitor clicks through your affiliate link, you will earn commission on their sales for ten days - even if they return directly to IcePoster.com!

Commission Fee Payment
That's how we will pay you.

PayPal
Check
Wire transfer
Western Union
Other variants on arrangement

2-Tier commission 5%
You will earn 5% commission on each sale driven by the affiliate you recruited earned.

Payment treshold: $20
It means that you get paid monthly as long as your commission balance is greater than $20.00

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

IcePoster.com Affiliate Program Introduction

This blog is created for IcePoster.com affiliates, our future partners or everybody who is interested in IcePoster.com.

IcePoster.com Affiliate program blog will teach you how to join us, how to navigate control panel, which creative to use and where to place it. I will show you how to boost your commissions and how to promote our product - celebrity posters and photos.

You are welcome to post your comments here and ask questions.

We will start with IcePoster.com Affiliate Program general description. IcePoster.com is the world's largest collection of unique celebrity posters and photos with more than 3500 celebrity names. So if you are a fan site webmaster, you can easily find the celebrity you need and forward the me mebers of your club directly to the categoty. If you own a celebrity site, our posters category will match each category of the site.

Please, contact IcePoster.com Affiliate Manager with all your questions here:

phone 585.643.5085 (Monday-Friday: 3am-11am EST)
email affiliates@iceposter.com | ann@iceposter.com

This blog will be regularly updated to guide you through the whole process of becoming IcePoster.com top affiliate to help you earn huge commissions! So come back or access the blog updates via the RSS feed.