Exotissimo Travel is a leading Inbound Tour Operator in Southeast Asia with 15 offices throughout Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Exotissimo offers package and tailor-made travel arrangements for travelers including tours, excursions, hotel and flight bookings, cruises, jet charters and much more.

Exotissimo Travel Affiliate Program Video Presentation:

Exotissimo’s affiliate program has the highest Pay Per Lead commission in the Travel niche and runs on the Shareasale affiliate network. From $6.50 to $14 commission per each Online Inquiry sent on www.exotissimo.com. 90 days cookie lifetime, +80 banners, widgets, data-feed and coupons.

If you’d prefer to download the presentation in the PDF format: Exotissimo Affiliate Program PDF Presentation

If you have a website or blog about Travel, Hotel booking, South-east Asia destinations, Exotissimo welcomes you to join the affiliate program. Michel Gerard, myself, is your dedicated affiliate manager from AMWSO.

Link to the Video Presentation on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5gmuj_ZcB8

Sign up for the program here: http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=22113

Contact the Exotissimo Affiliate Manager: gmichel {AT} Exotissimo {DOT} com

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TrendToGo.com is a jewelry merchant featuring a vast selection of sterling silver jewelry, stainless steel jewelry, authentic designer watches, authentic fragrances, designer handbags and apparel at 30-50% discount on retail prices.

TrendToGo Affiliate Program Video Presentation:

The Trend To Go Affiliate Program runs on the ShareAsale network and pays a starting commission of 10% on products sold when placing text links, banners, search forms, widgets, or products from the data feed on your site. Cookie tracking is 120 days, which is excellent.

If you’d prefer to download the presentation in the PDF format: TrendToGo Affiliate Program PDF Presentation

If you have a website or blog about jewelry, fashion, celebrities or other complementary products, TrendToGo welcomes you to join the affiliate program. Michel Gerard, myself, is your dedicated affiliate manager from AMWSO.

Link to the Video Presentation on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8cLm0kO5Us

Sign up for the program here:
http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=23874

Contact the TrendToGo Affiliate Manager: affiliates {AT} TrendToGo {DOT} com

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In addition to banners and text links, using a data-feed is a great way to promote an affiliate program. Data-feeds are very intimidating for most affiliates, but learning how to use them is worth, considering the increase in revenue and time saved they can provide.

A data-feed is a list of products with all the needed details. It contains information like a name, short and long description, brand, retail price, price, category, cross-sell, SKU and any other information that the merchant wants to give for the product.

There are also links, the most important being the link with your affiliate ID to the product’s landing page, links for the product’s picture, one for the thumbnail image and another one for a real size image. All these info are saved in a CSV tab, pipe or comma delimited text file. CSV files can be opened in Excel, Calc or Numbers to show a spreadsheet with one product on each row.

A data feed can contain anywhere from a few products to 40,000 products to replicate the merchant’s inventory in an affiliate website. All the records may be used, just a category or a selection of products. The affiliate would have to modify to his needs the feed that is provided directly by the merchant, but most of the time by the Network.

The Networks usually have tools to use the raw data-feed. In ShareAsale there is a category for product links, where the list of products can be seen and the content of the feed for each product viewed. An HTML code can be copied and pasted in your website, which is easy when you only want to promote a few products.

Another way in ShareAsale is to use the “Make a page” tool. There are different options that can be selected, only products in one category can be selected, or only products with a keyword like “silver ring”, with the result being displayed in a preview. An Html code can be used then to add ten or a hundred products.

In order to use thousands of products from the feed, you will need special software and this may be the subject of a new post.

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Applications to affiliate programs are sometimes approved automaticaly but most of the time they are reviewed manually. This may take from a few hours to 3 days depending on the number of applications a program receives per day.

Some of you may have received this email when applying to an affiliate program: “Your Affiliate Program Application was Declined!”. The affiliate manager and the merchant are the persons who decide what the criteria are to accept or decline an application.

Common criteria set by merchants for declined applications are:

1. your main listed website does not show or is an under construction page
2. your website is not in English
3. your website contains malicious scripts
4. your country is not accepted in the program

These are the most common reasons but some affiliate managers or merchants have other conditions that seems to be not very well thought, knocking down affiliates’ motivation and slowing down the growth of their program:

• The website is in English but the affiliate is located in another country. Some merchants think that the affiliate has to be in the USA to generate USA traffic. This is a misconception as many foreign affiliates have 80% of their traffic in the USA and make sales. It is also a fact that many super affiliates are non US based.

• The website does not match the merchant’s products. Some affiliates do not type enough details in their affiliate profile where the main website should be listed as well as a few secondary websites if any. At the time of application, there is a box to write how it is planned to promote the program and with what website. Some affiliate managers also do not look at all the details and see only the main website that may be a mismatch.

• The affiliate details do not match the WHOIS information of the website or the WHOIS information is protected. The information that an affiliate set in his profile has to be real in order to receive payment and should be the reference. If the WHOIS info is different, a communication may be necessary between the affiliate manager and the affiliate to clear things up.

• The affiliate is a PPC affiliate and there is no particular website except maybe their corporate website. It is normal that the affiliate manager checks with the PPC affiliate that the bidding rules will be respected. Another reason is that the affiliate uses a free hosting service or free blog. Some of these may have the potential to produce a few sales while others are complete junk.

• The website appears to have low traffic and the affiliate manager thinks that it is not worth it. Well, a website may have low traffic but high targeted traffic with specific keywords. Also, the website may not exist yet and will be made with the merchant’s data-feed. Niche or micro-niche websites have low traffic but make sales, smart niche affiliates know this.

If unfortunately you have been declined, it is always possible to inquire for the reason and see what to do to be finally accepted. I have been declined in programs before and most of the time an email to the manager is what it takes to be approved. For those merchants who just do not want you in their program, let it be. There are many others in the same vertical who will be happy to have your traffic and revenue.

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Building a coupon site is certainly another good option to make money online. Contrary to banners or product links that present to the potential buyer a product or a store in the form of an ad, coupon sites offer a wide range of discount offers.

There are many smart buyers that search coupon sites before making any purchase with their favorite stores, and that is an opportunity for us to make affiliate commissions. Everyone loves to buy at a discount and people who look at coupon sites are hot online shoppers.

How to make a coupon site? I advise that you start slowly with only one affiliate network to make it easier and grow your earning from only one place. If you have a website or a blog in any vertical, you may want to make a section with related coupons to boost affiliate revenue. Conversion is better than banners, so it is worth adding these offers.

Making a real coupon site with a minimum of 1,000 coupon codes is more challenging as you can imagine. Some affiliates will add coupons manually one by one, track their expiration dates and remove them one by one, or just keep them expired. There must be a better way you think. Hopefully, there is, with the use of coupon scripts and data-feeds.

A lot of coupon sites are scripts developed by in-house programmers and not for sell anywhere, they are usually very successful with their unique designs and features. I can only see 2 other affordable options, which are couponpress.com and couponscript.org. The first one is a WordPress plugin, which make it easy to use if you know the platform and the second one is a completely independent system.

I invite you to comment on these 2 scripts or suggest others.

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