Tue, 2006 Jun 20
Calling Card Affiliate
As most of the people who I expect to read this blog know (although I
am getting hits from IPs I don’t recognize), a few months ago, I signed
up as an affiliate for SpeedyPin,
an online calling card store. I did this for a couple of
reasons: it seemed like a good way to–maybe–make some extra money,
and I wanted to use it to try out Yahoo and Google search marketing.
In contrast to my plan, the recommended approach seems to be
to add links to emails, banners to websites (see the top of this page),
etc. Using Yahoo search marketing (I haven’t yet tried
Google’s adwords) has been so far dissappointing. Although I
am generated sales from it, the revenue does not exceed the marketing
costs. No doubt this has at least some to do with my
inexperience.
In any event, I decided to sign up also as an affiliate for CallingCards.com
using the banner and link method (not to mention they have a signup,
get $25 promotion (assuming you eventually make another $25).
I’ve added banners to this site and Mythify. I
have also set up morganphonecards.com
(redirects to CallingCards.com) and morganphonecards.net
(SpeedyPin) [I should probably check to make sure this doesn’t violate
anything in affiliate agreements, though I can’t think why it would].
I am interested to compare effectiveness of the two methods.
Affiliates for both sites get 10% of most sales that they produce, and
customers are “for life”. Both offer quite a bit of
advertising tools (e.g. banners, etc.) They also get 2% (I think) of
sales from sub-affiliates, so if this has spiked your interest, sign up
as a sub-affiliate under me, using the following links!
Sign up as
callingcards.com affiliate
Sign up as
SpeedyPin affiliate – Link to Join is at the bottom right of
the page
(Get it, all a cheap ad to get me some sub-affiliates! Great!)
