Affiliate Insider : affiliate insider week 5 2012

Digital Business Card Platform Affiliate Program from Fetchly

Michael Garrity — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Fetchly is jumping into the wild world of affiliate marketing by launching its own affiliate marketing program to enable users to promote Fetchly services and earn revenue.

Fetchly provides a service to make it easy to exchange contact information via mobile phones, allowing users to share only the information they deem necessary to the receiving party through a text message. The service is popular among event attendees wanting to share information with other companies, media outlets, potential business partners, etc.

Once users sign up for an account with Fetchly, the also get an affiliate link with an attached unique URL. They can share this link in emails, text messages and on Facebook, Twitter and personal blogs, among other places. Each time the URL is clicked, and each time a new account signup occurs after a click, the affiliate gets credit.

Rewards will be paid out to users who promote and provide a revenue share for the Fetchly Connect platform.

To celebrate the big launch, Fetchly is hosting a Super Bowl pool for new users who sign up right now. So make sure you get there by Sunday!

WebHostingBuzz Now Offering Better Payouts

Michael Garrity — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:13:00 GMT

Web hosting company WebHostingBuzz is sure to have the affiliate market buzzing about the revamp of its affiliate marketing program, which now offers those who refer friends, family and others to the service "handsome commission payouts."

Affiliates who participate in the new referral program will receive a 50 percent reward each time they refer a customer to services offered by WebHostingBuzz, such as Web hosting, business hosting, reseller hosting, VPS or dedicated server offerings.

This revamp is a substantial 20 percent increase from the program's original affiliate offering for shared hosting referrals; moreover, it's significantly higher than the $50 flat fee paid out as a dedicated server-referral bonus and the $20 commission made for referring someone to the VPS service.

LeadsMarket.com Solving Problems with New Widget

Michael Garrity — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:54:00 GMT

Pay-Per-Lead (PPL) affiliate program LeadsMarket.com is officially releasing FORMA, a widget "developed to solve three important problems," to its affiliate partners.

FORMA will help affiliates looking to generate leads from PPL programs in different verticals. To start, it eliminates the time consuming (and often costly) advertiser integration process, as it takes just a few seconds to integrate with FORMA.

It also gives affiliates more flexibility and control to capture leads on their own websites, a big boon to PPC and organic search-based affiliates. This works for PPC affiliates by allowing them to "comply with paid search platform guidlines" that typically prohibit the same websites from bidding on same keywords under different advertiser accounts and generate leads from their own sites. Natural search publishers will have full control over the optimization of their sites without using iframes or implementing code.

Finally, FORMA includes build-in revenue maximizing opportunities to the lead generation funnel for different PPL verticals.

Optimal Payments Wins Big This Awards Season

Michael Garrity — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:22:00 GMT

Online payment provider Optimal Payments took home two major awards from London last week, winning Payment Solutions Provider –Company of the Year at the International Gaming Awards and Best Payment System for Affiliates at the iGB Affiliate Awards.

The International Gaming Awards win honors a company that has shown outstanding performance in the fields of online and/or offline gaming payments; the focus of the award is on value-add, customer service, innovation, ease of use and processing speeds.

Optimal Payments was also recognized for its NETELLER online payment accounts feature as the best system for affiliate marketers at the iGB Affiliate Awards less than a week later.

"These awards recognize the significant efforts of our team to deliver industry-leading solutions to our customers, whether they are gaming customers or affiliates," says President and CEO Joel Leonoff. "Our commitment to bring innovative and differentiated solutions remains, and we will be announcing a number of developments on this front in the very near future."