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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 30years. 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.
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.