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Womensuits.com Fall Super Sale is on!

Nov 14, 2008 Christian Affiliate Programs

My client at www.womensuits.com (program in SAS and CJ) is having their annual Fall Super Sale from now through month’s end.  If you have a Christian audience on your site, if your site appeals strongly to the African American church community, or if you have an apparel site, you should be promoting this.

In the Fall Super Sale, prices on all items are slashed up to 75% off their list price, and free ground shipping is also in play.  This year, we’re also offer a free designer t shirt with every $149 spent.   This all adds up to some motivated shoppers who are looking to buy while supplies last.

Womensuits.com specializes in church suits, and special occassion outfits for women including Mother of the Bride Suits, as well as suits for men and boys.

These prices are hot and we’re also offering a $2 per sale bonus for affiliates in the Month of November.

If you aren’t already in, join the Womensuits.com program on SAS or CJ today.

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Christian Affiliate Program of the Week - Text-A-Day

Nov 14, 2008 Christian Affiliate Programs

I’m excited to announce that the Text-A-Day affiliate program in Shareasale has signed on with my management company GTO Management.

We have re-launched their affiliate program in Shareasale with some definite improvements.

  • The affiliate payout has been increased from $2.00 to 80% of the first sale (which can range from $4.99-$99.00)
  • New products - Text-A-Day works with some top mega-church and TV pastors and plan to add Daily Devotionals from some really well known Ministries including Dr. Creflo Dollar in the very near future.
  • New creatives - we’re working on new banners to help you effectively promote the Text-A-Day products and generate great commissions.

I have worked with some other “Verse of the Day” players in the past and they were tough to get established as they couldn’t afford to payout much commission due to their billing through the wireless companies leaving a low margin for affiliates.   Text-A-Day bills the subscribers credit card - which means higher margins and higher commissions.

I’ll be adding more banners and text links here in the near future to help you promote Text-A-Day as effectively as possible.

To get started with the Text-A-Day Affiliate Program, please sign up at http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=17559

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Free T Shirt Offer at Womensuits.com

Oct 8, 2008 Christian Affiliate Programs

Donna Vinci suit at Womensuits.com

Women's Suit from Donna Vinci

Do women at your church still really dress for Sunday morning?

Do you have wedding-related  traffic on your site?

Have Gospel Music interested traffic on your site?

You should be working with Womensuits.com as an affiliate.

Womensuits.com is a women’s formalwear retailer that specializes in “Church suits” for women as well as other formal wear including “mother of the bride” suits and other formal fashions.  They are celebrating their 10th year of helping their customers be “Well dressed and well blessed.”  They are also a new GTO Management client (my company)

Womensuits.com is entering one of their annual busy seasons (running through November) and they are offering a really fun promotion that is getting some great interest on from site visitors by offering a Free Designer T Shirt from Donna Vinci with any purchase of a Woman’s suit with a value of $149 or more.  No coupon is required - the cart does all the work.

If you’d like to promote this offer, just mention it to your audience.  There are text links announcing the promotion in Shareasale.

If you are not working with Womensuits.com now, you can find their offer in Shareasale or CJ.

The program offers a 10% commission on all sales generated with a 120 day cookie and an average order of $230 for an average commission of $23 per sale.

We’d love to work with you.

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Christian Affiliate Program Directory - Sign up for yours today

Sep 30, 2008 Christian Affiliate Programs

I am stoked to announce that the Christian Affiliate Program Directory ebook is coming together nicely.  We have over 25 submissions from programs that would like to be included and I am in the process of reviewing the applications now.  I’d anticipate that we’ll have the ebook ready to ship in about 7-10 days.  With some help from the man upstairs and some friends, we’ll have it ready to distribute at the Illuminate Conference late next week.

I also plan to add some content on how to get started as an affiliate and some best practices to help you make an impact and avoid the pitfalls that I have encountered.

I wanted to thank all of the people who follow this blog regularly, I wanted to offer you the chance to receive a copy as well.   If you would like a copy of the Christian Affiliate Program Directory, please complete the sign up form at http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2d6sgzwfldwiikw/a0124fm53bx5n/questions

In exchange for what I think will be a helpful resource that will save you time and potential embarassment if you promote some of the bad actors, all I ask is that we can update you by email with news on new Christian programs or promotions from existing merchants from time to time.  I promise you we won’t abuse your permission.

God Bless,

Wade

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Last call for submissions for Christian Affiliate Program Directory eBook

Sep 24, 2008 Site Announcements

Hi,

If you have a Christian affiliate program that you would like to see included in my upcoming Christian Affiliate Program Directory ebook,  and you haven’t submitted your profile, time is running out fast.

I would like to get to the actual data import and formating of the book this weekend, so I will be closing down the submissions Friday night at midnight Pacific.

I want to be listed - please take me to the submission form!

If you have any questions, please email me through the site form, or call me at 360.540.0730

God Bless,

Wade

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C28 Affiliate Program adds new banners

Sep 9, 2008 Christian Affiliate Programs

I just finished uploading 2 sets of banners for the C28 Affiliate Program into AvantLink.

The banners come in a variety of sizes and come with 2 messages as seen below.   The “Wear your Faith” set is intended for general purpose use by secular and Christian affiliates alike.   The “Support this Ministry” themed set is intended for use by non-profit Christian ministries to encourage visitors to support their ministry through commissions from C28 sales referred through their link.   We have some big plans along these lines that we’ll be announcing shortly that I think will be awesome for churches and independant youth ministries.

Support This Ministry Banner from C28.com

Wear Your Faith Banner from C28

As I said, there are a variety of sizes of banners to choose from in each of these themes from 120×60 - 728 x 90.   If you aren’t working with C28.com yet - you should check them out.  If your site is Christian muisic oriented or appeals to Christian youth and young adults C28 should do really well for you.

You can join the C28 program now at https://www.avantlink.com/affiliate_app.php?mi=10265

God Bless,

Wade

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Promote your Christian affiliate program for FREE

Sep 2, 2008 Site Announcements

I mentioned in an earlier post that I am speaking at the GodBlogCon on how Christian bloggers can monetize their blogs in a way that doesn’t threaten their values and integrity.  Affiliate Marketing is a big part of what I want to talk about here and I want to give the Gospel-advancing merchants out there the chance to promote their Christian affiliate program to the audience I am speaking to at GodBlogCon in 3 weeks as well as the Illuminate Conference in October.

As a deliverable to people who attend my sessions, I want to pass on a Christian Affiliate Program Directory in eBook form featuring affiliate programs that these bloggers and other affiliates to consider joining as they get “into the game.”  So here is your chance for some free (and darn near eternal) publicity since eBooks are forever.

If you have a program that appeals to the Christian market, is Christian owned and operated, etc that you would like to have included in the Directory, please complete this form

I will be taking sign ups through next Monday - September 9th, then compiling the Directory, so please act fast to make sure you are included.

God Bless,

Wade

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Christian Bloggers of the World Unite!

Aug 7, 2008 Christian Marketing Events

My next big project after the CAMA Cruise wraps up is a really exciting one: GodBlogCon 2008 and it’s affiliate marketing effort.

What is GodBlogCon?  It is a gathering of Christian new media pioneers: bloggers, podcasters, video casters, social network operators, etc who are all  making a stand for Christ on the web.   GodBlogCon is the event that is looking to pull a large number of these “Godbloggers” together to share fellowship with each other and learn from each other how we can me more effective in our online outreach ministries.

This year’s GodBlogCon is being held in Las Vegas, NV (God Blogging in Sin City?) on September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in conjunction with the BlogWorld New Media Expo.  This gives Christian bloggers a great to both learn from other Christians, but also to be exposed to the secular New Media tools and techniques that we should be putting to work for maximum impact for Him.

I attended last year and loved it.  I met awesome bloggers from a lot of the major Evangelical ministries like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council and I was so impressed with the experience that I am speaking this year and heading up the affiliate marketing effort as well.

Please join me at GodBlogCon 2008 and most importantly, please assist me in getting the word out through the GodBlogCon affiliate program through Shareasale.    We’re sharing 10% of any revenues that you drive our way for either GodBlogCon or BlogWorld packages registered through our tracking links.

Please sign up now to promote GodBlogCon 2008

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Affiliate Network Overview - The Big 3

Aug 1, 2008 Tips for Merchants

I get asked this question from time to time and the answer can really vary depending on the circumstances. I ask the merchant a few questions to help make this decision:

What is your budget for start up?
What is your affiliate recruiting and management effort going to be like?
Are you looking for rapid growth? Or more gradual and controlled growth?
Is your offer a retail or lead offer?

For well funded merchants looking for rapid growth that have money to hire a full time affiliate manager, I still recommend one of the Big 3 Networks: Linkshare, CJ or Google (was Performics) They have the big affiliate counts, and the big affiliates themselves in the networks. They also tend to have bigger price tags for set up (from $1000) and monthly charges (from $500 + a percentage of sales or affiliate payout)

Here are some notes on each solution.

Linkshare - the most expensive solution in terms of set up and monthly cost, when last I checked, they were looking for $5k + on set up and $2k per month or 3% of sales (whichever is bigger) Linkshare is a great network if you are well branded, and if you have decided that you would only like to play with one network. They are really big on merchants being exclusive to their network and their Agreement reinforces this. Their integration is the most challenging technically involving a batch process that reports sales daily as well as a pixel if you want to have “return days” in place for your offers.

Commission Junction - CJ claims to have more of the “Top 500 Internet Retailers” than anyone on their network. They have a lot of affiliates, and a lot of good ones, especially on the high end with loyalty and shopping sites, as well as quite a few of the big paid search affiliates. Their cost runs $3000 ish on set up (+ a $3000 escrow account that goes to affiliate and CJ fee payments) and $500 per month or 30% of affiliate payout. Many affiliates, especially the ABestWeb crowd are not fans and don’t trust CJ much because of past issues with spyware/adware affiliates that CJ/ValueClick is currently in the process of settling. That said, CJ programs with good payouts and good name recognition and conversion can grow really quickly. Several programs we run have seen growth from 0 to 1000+ affiliate applications within a month or so.

My one drawback with CJ is that I love to have ability to contact affiliates directly and CJ doesn’t give it.

Google Affiliate Network- Until last month or so, this was known as Performics. When Google bought the parent company of Performics, they made a big change in strategy. Performics had been known since it’s inception as a bit of a “brand snob” company that really cherry picked the big names and signed them to big monthly deals in the $5k - $10k per month range that included full affiliate management and sometimes paid search management services. Google came in and changed things a lot, deciding to aggressively impact the market by offering the “Affiliate Direct” service that starts at $1000 for set up with a $1000 deposit. They charge $500 or 25% of affiliate payout monthly.

Their new pricing is pretty attractive and their merchant count has been growing rapidly since they did this. I like their tool set as well although their interface is a bit clunky. They have 2 things that I really like about their system. They provide affiliate contact information so you can email your affiliates using external mailing tools (as well as load into your own CRM) and they also have just opened up a “Recruit” function that allows you do some searching among affiliates who have “opted in” for inclusion. It has it’s limitations, but it’s good stuff and the other biggies don’t offer this in their base packages.

The program that I run in Google has seen a number of high quality affiliates come in in the last 2.5 months since launch so I have been impressed there.

Many in the industry have real concerns about Google being involved in the affiliate space, especially the major paid search affiliates (and merchants who aren’t on the Google network) with concerns on whether Google’s natural and paid search divisions will remain neutral in judging the value of affiliate links, and how they will value the rankings of the affiliates of non Google aligned programs since Google controls so much of the web’s traffic. We’ll see.

Tomorrow, we’ll talk about some of the Tier 2 networks that are up and coming - and I consider in many cases to be a great value for Christian merchants launching affiliate programs. Included in the discussion will be Shareasale, AvantLink, Link Connector, BuyAt, and ShareResults.

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CAM Blog Recommends: Piano Wizard Affiliate Program

Jul 15, 2008 Christian Affiliate Programs

I am really excited about this post as I have tried the product involved and I was really impressed with it. Let’s go back in time to Affiliate Summit in Miami last summer. I am a bundle of stress as the day of our Christian Fellowship Brunch is getting ready to kick off… I am tabbed to speak and I have written nothing. Andy Rodriguez, my main sponsor comes up an introduces me to Chris and Vin and Jesse from PianoWizard.com (one of his clients) and asks me for 15 minutes of time. They tell me that they are going to teach me to play Amazing Grace using the Piano Wizard system… in 15 minutes… in front of all 55 attendees. No stress right…. the sweat was pouring off me.

It worked… I played it… and it was fun.

I recorded a podcast with Chris and Vin where we talked for about 20 minutes about Piano Wizard, the Piano Wizard Academy and the Piano Wizard Affiliate Program on Shareasale. Check it out:

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