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Affiliate Program

by Michael Bluejay, Cedar's webmaster

Make money by promoting Natural Magick Shop.

 

What's the summary?

  • Link to us and we'll pay you 10 to 13% of the sales from customers that click over to us.
  • You get credit on all future sales for customers you send our way, not just their first sale.
  • Our linking code is super-simple: http://NaturalMagickShop.com?YourCode
  • You can deep-link to any individual page the same way, e.g. http://NaturalMagickShop.com/magicoils.html?YourCode
  • Our cookies don't expire for 30 years, so you'll get credit for sales even if visitors you refer don't buy right away.
  • We have a two-tier program: Refer new affiliates and we'll pay you 2.5% of whatever sales they generate.

 

How do I get paid?

We pay by your choice of:
  • PayPal
  • Check
  • Store Credit

We pay monthly. For PayPal or check payments, your earnings must be at least $25 (which is $250 in sales), otherwise we'll hold your earnings until they reach that level. You can certainly select a higher threshold if you like, but $25 is the minimum.

That's just for PayPal and check payments -- there's no minimum on store credit. You can use your earnings as store credit no matter how small the amount. Did you make a $6 sale and earn sixty cents? Great, you can use that sixty cents as store credit. Go you!

 

What's better about your affiliate program vs. the others?

I'm so glad you asked. I've been an affiliate myself on a bunch of different programs so I know about all the things they do which are anti-affiliate. I swore that if I ever ran an affiliate program I'd do things differently. That's one reason I was interested in setting up Cedar's website when she approached me about the idea. Here's what you get with us:
  • Generous commissions. Amazon pays 4 to 8.5%, Tower Records pays 4%, and in the pagan market, two of our big competitors pay only 8% and 10% respectively. By contrast, we start out by paying you 10%, and go as high as 13%. Plus, we use pagan-friendly numbers (13% on sales of $1313 or higher). We might not pay the most out of anybody, but our payout is definitely generous.

  • Two-tier program. So far as I know, we have the only two-tier program on the net for pagan supplies. If someone clicks your affiliate link and signs up for our affiliate program, you'll get 2.5% of whatever sales they generate. And you don't have to use some separate screwy url to promote the second tier. The same affiliate link works for both referring customers as well as new affiliates.

  • We have good customer conversion. Some affiliates compare programs by looking only at their payout percentages. But what's more important is how many sales you'll make when you refer visitors to them. What good is a high payout if the merchant site is lame and can't actually close the sale? By contrast, when you refer visitors to us, it's super-easy for them to find what they want and actually check out. I personally designed our site from the ground-up to be as customer-focused as possible. I aggressively minimized the number of clicks required to find products, add them to the cart, and check out. And since we use PayPal checkout, anyone who already has a PayPal account won't have to waste time typing in their name, address, and credit card number. (The ordering system still works even if they don't have a PayPal account, of course, though such customers will need to type in their billing info.) Next, we provide excellent descriptions of each of our products. Many of the other pagan websites don't tell you squat about the product other than the name or the price. What's up with that? Finally, our products are made by a bona-fide witch with years of experience, and we make that clear from page one. In short, visitors like shopping here because they have an easy experience, can get all the information they need, and because they know the quality of the products is first-rate.

  • Deep-link your heart out. You can link to any page on our site, not just the home page, and get credit for the referral, by simply adding ?YourCode to the end of the url. For example: http://NaturalMagickShop.com/magicoils.html?YourCode.

  • Our cookies last. If you send a visitor to a site but they don't get around to making a purchase until four months later, will you get credit for the sale? With us, you will. At just about every other site, you won't. It's a dirty little secret that most other affiliate programs set their referrer cookies to expire soon; more than half expire in 30 days or less! But when you refer a visitor to us, we set your referrer cookie for 30 years. If your visitor comes back later, even much later, and their cookie is still there, you still get credit for the sale.

    We can't control whether visitors delete their cookies or not, but we can set them to last, and unlike the other guys, we do.

  • You get credit even if return customers delete their cookies. When you refer someone to us who makes a purchase we tag them in our database with your affiliate code, permanently. Whenever we make a sale and there's no affiliate cookie, we'll search for the customer in our database by various combinations of name, email address, city, state, and zip code. If we find that customer has made a previous purchase, and your affiliate code was attached to that previous purchase, you'll still get credit for the sale.

  • You can be a customer under your own affiliate link. Lots of other programs won't pay you a commission on your own purchases. But we do. Have a website, or even a MySpace page? Then get a 10% discount on anything you buy. The only catch is that you have to refer at least one paying customer to us before you can get a commission on your own purchases. We do this to ensure that you're serious about being an affiliate and aren't just signing up for the program to get your own personal discount. But hey, we set the bar pretty low: Just one customer referred.

  • Our affiliate login page is easy to find. I don't know how many affiliate programs I've joined where the signup for the program is super-easy to find, but once I've signed up and want to check how much traffic and sales I've referred, where the hell do they hide the login?! Seems like they were only interested in me when they wanted me to sign up, and now that I'm signed up, they don't give a damn. (Here's Half.com's affiliate page. Where the heck is the login?!) Well, our signup is right there at the top of this page. We don't even make you click over from this page to a login page, it's right here on this main affiliate page. We can't make it any easier.

  • We show you explicitly that you're getting credit for referrals. Here's how to check: Click on your own affiliate link to us, then add something to the shopping cart. At the very bottom right of the page you'll see "Recommended by ___" with the name of your website. How cool is that?! Don't you wish all your other affiliate programs did that for you? Heck, don't you wish any of your other affiliate programs did that for you?

  • We're up front about everything. Our affiliate program page explains everything you'd want to know, in explicit detail, and without any ambiguity. We tell you up front how long your cookie lasts, whether you get credit for repeat sales, that you get credit for repeat sales even if the original cookie is gone, and a bunch of other stuff. Other affiliate programs typically don't share all this info with you, so you're left in the dark. (Well, you could ask them about this stuff, but why should you have to?)

  • You can call us. If you have questions or problems, feel free to call me directly at 512-322-0638. Please let me know right away that you're calling about the Natural Magick Shop affiliate program. I manage lots of different websites, so if you say, "I'm calling about your site," then the first thing I'm going to ask is, "And which one is that?" :) Anyway, do your other affiliate programs let you call them with questions or problems? Not-uh. It's because they don't love you like we do.

    Of course, if you prefer email, just send to affiliates(at)NaturalMagickShop.com.

    Ask your other affiliate programs:

    • Does your site really make it easy for visitors to become customers?
    • Can I deep-link to any page and still get credit?
    • Do you set a referral cookie that's good for at least a year?
    • Do I get credit for repeat purchases, even if the customer has deleted their cookie?
    • Am I automatically enrolled in a two-tier program?
    • Can I earn commissions my own purchases?
    • Do you show me exactly how to verify that my cookies are being set properly?
    • Does the affiliate FAQ explicitly tell me everything I want to know, without any ambiguity at all?

    Didn't think so. :)

     

How is it you can do things so much better than the other guys?

We're just bad-ass like that.

 

What's the full commission structure?

Sales you refer
per month
Your
commission
< $250
10%
$250 - 499
11%
$500 - $1312
12%
$1313+
13%
Sales by other
Affiliates you referred
Your
commission
Any amount
2.5%

 

Can I see how much traffic and sales I've referred to you?

Sure, why not? There's a login at the top of this page. Once you've signed up for the program, you can log in and check your stats whenever you like, 24/7.

 

Who gets credit for a sale, the first affiliate or the last affiliate?

Let's say Merlin refers a visitor to us, but that visitor doesn't buy anything. A week later, that same visitor clicks a link to us from Morgana's site and does make a purchase. Who gets credit for the sale?

With most programs, it's the last (most recent) affiliate who gets credit for the sale. The thinking is that whoever "closes the sale" should get the credit. But in our mind, that doesn't appreciate the value that the first affiliate provided. It's the first affiliate who got the customer acquainted with us and established the brand recognition. When the customer later clicked on the second affiliate's banner, it's likely because the first affiliate had already introduced her to us. So how did we solve this problem?

As is our custom, we invented a brand-new solution: We split the rewards 50-50 between both affiliates. We don't split the commission on each individual sale 50-50, because that would be a programming and accounting nightmare. Instead, whenever we get a referral from a second affiliate, we flip a virtual coin to see which affiliate gets that customer. Half the time the first affiliate will "own" that visitor, and half the time it will go to the second affiliate. We can't be any fairer than that.

Does any other affiliate program on the face of the Planet go this far to ensure fairness? Didn't think so. :)

Heck, if you ask how another affiliate program handles this, you might not even get an answer! On Skype's official affiliate forum, two different moderators failed to understand the perfectly-worded question from the affiliate about this, instead giving him useless "answers" like, "Just link to Skype and whenever someone from your site buys or subscribes ... you will earn a commission." (groan)

Note that our 50-50 deal above is only for visitors referred by multiple affiliates who haven't bought anything yet. Once you refer someone and they make a purchase, you "own" that customer, for life. Even if they click on other affiliate links after that.

 

Do I earn a commission on shipping or sales tax?

No, of course not. What, are you nuts?

 

How do I promote Natural Magick Shop?

Just link to us from anywhere on your website using your code:
http://NaturalMagickShop.com?YourCode

Don't forget to replace "YourCode" with your actual referrer code, which you specify when you sign up with us.

If you need the complete HTML code, this is it:

<a href=http://NaturalMagickShop.com?YourCode>Hand-crafted pagan products</a>

Your link can be a banner ad, or a text link inside an article. We find that "editorial" links work best -- the kind inside an article, where you talk about our shop and/or its products.

Remember that you can deep-link to any individual page. So if you're writing about magick oils, you can link directly to our magic oils page like this: http://NaturalMagickShop.com/magicoils.html?YourCode   You could link directly to the "How I Quit Smoking" article a similar way.

You can also set up a "mini-store" if you like, listing various products with pictures and linking directly to the product pages. Just make sure it's clear to visitors that you're listing our products, and that you're not selling the items yourself. (Identifying them as "from Natural Magick Shop" is usually sufficient, provided the page itself doesn't appear to be a Natural Magick Shop page.)

Although editorial links work best, below we have some banners in a variety of sizes you can use if you like. There's an example at right.

 

What's not allowed in how I promote Natural Magick Shop?

You can link to us from your own website, and that's it. You cannot promote us in any other way, including web forum posts. You extra cannot promote us by any kind of email. We have a strict anti-spam policy. Anyone who promotes us through spam will not only get kicked out of the program, they'll forfeit any accumulated earnings, too. (Can we really do that? We checked with lawyers. Yes, we can.)

We also disallow any kind of cookie-stuffing, including but not limited to popups, redirects, or embedding urls that cause a request to our sever without an actual human visit. This program is only for real clicks from real people on a bona fide link on your actual website, and that's it. Abusers get treated the same way as spammers, above.

We're really nice people. Play nice with us, and we'll play nice back, and everyone will be happy. But if you try to abuse us then we'll simply find other friends.

 

I'm so excited I could wet myself. How do I sign up?

Just fill out our form at the top of the page. We're excited along with you!


Affiliate Agreement

This agreement is between "you" (the affiliate webmaster) and "us" (Natural Magick Shop, Inc.).

No spam or cookie-stuffing. You will promote us on your website only, and not through any other method or medium, but especially not web forum posts, spam, or cookie stuffing (including but not limited to popups, redirects, or embedding urls that cause a request to our sever without an actual human visit). This program is only for real clicks from real people on a bona fide link on your actual website, and that's it. Affiliates who violate these rules will be removed from the program and will forfeit any accumulated earnings.

No extra representation of our products, prices, or policies. When describing our products on your site, you may not make any claims that we do not make ourselves. For example, you cannot claim our products have any quality or powers beyond what we ourselves say on our site. You may also not make any claims about our policies (shipping, returns, etc.) contrary to what we ourselves say. Any price you list must be our actual price. If we change our descriptions, policies, or prices and yours become outdated, if you notice the new information on our site you will update your site without our asking. If we notice the outdated info on your site and inform you, you will update your site within a reasonable period of time.

Sales you refer
per month
Your
commission
< $250
10%
$250 - 499
11%
$500 - $1312
12%
$1313+
13%
Sales by other
Affiliates you referred
Your
commission
Any amount
2.5%
Commissions. You earn commissions:

  • on sales of new customers you refer to us
  • according to the schedule at right
  • on repeat sales (not just the initial sale)
  • on sales generated by other affiliates you refer to us.

You do not earn commissions on:

  • Existing customers. (If someone was our customer before they ever clicked your affiliate link and then they click your link later and buy again, you don't get credit for that.)
  • Sales tax or shipping charges.
  • Amounts paid for with store credit. (If someone pays for a $20 order with $15 in cash and $5 in store credit, you get credit for the $15.)
  • Failed Payments & Chargebacks. (If we never receive the customer's money or they take it back, then there is no profit to share with you.)
  • Returned products. (If a customer returns product and we refund their money, there is no profit to share with you.)
  • Clicks generated in non-approved mediums, such as spam or forum posts.
  • Sales resulting from anything other than a real human click on an ad, banner, picture, or editorial on your site directly to our site, where the link contains your affiliate code, in the proper format.
  • Sales from a customer you referred where we have no easy way of identifying you as the referrer.

How we track. When you send a visitor our way we set a 30-year cookie in their browser. Our ability to tie them to you on their first purchase rests on that cookie being there. If the customer deletes their cookies before they buy then we can't identify them as coming from you, and we can't credit you, and that's not our fault. But if a customer makes an initial purchase with their cookie intact, we'll tag them as your customer in our database, so if they make subsequent purchases even after deleting their cookies, we can try to match them to you through various combinations of via their name, email address, city, state, and zip code.

We are SO not responsible. We will never be liable to you for any special, incidental, or consequential damages. You also agree to indemnify and hold us harmless for any damages or costs incurred as a result of your violation of any law, regardless of whether they are actual, incidental, consequential, or punitive.

Termination of your account. We can terminate your account if you violate this agreement, or subject us to legal threats, abusive language, harassment, or other antisocial behavior, or if we determine that your site has inappropriate content.

Jurisdiction. This agreement is governed by Texas law, and any claim or suit arising out of or related to this agreement must be brought exclusively in courts located in Austin, Texas. You consent to exclusive jurisdiction of such courts.

General. By becoming an affiliate in our program, you agree to all the terms of this agreement. This is the full and complete agreement. We reserve the right to modify the terms of this agreement at any time, though if we do so we must notify you in writing. We are under no obligation to accept you into our program. Dude. Use of the word "Dude" in this agreement does not invalidate it.

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