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ABOUT
YOUR EARNINGS (COMMISSION)
- How
do I earn income?
- What
if I send a visitor to your site and they don't buy straight
away, but come back to you later direct and buy?
- What
is the minimum amount I have to reach before you pay me?
- How
will my commission be paid?
- But
you said you paid monthly. This says 60 days?
1.
How do I earn income?
We
will pay you 15% of the income received from each application
generated via a link from your website. Compare that to the
rates offered by other online programs!
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2.
What if I send a visitor to your site and they don't buy straight
away, but come back to you later direct and buy?
When
a visitor comes on to our site we load a 30-day cookie onto
their computer. We then use this cookie to track customers
who return to our site to buy a policy without again following
the link from your site. When a sale made on a return visit
within this period of 30-day period we will be able to allocate
the sale to you, and you will earn commission on it.
Three
caveats on cookies. The following are rare, but we would like
to draw them to your attention:
- Although
approximately 99% of systems and users accept cookies, some
systems and some internet users do not. We will not be able
to track (and therefore pay commission) on a visitor who
does not buy when transferred from your site, chooses not
to accept our cookie and then buys on a subsequent visit.
- We
will also not be able to allocate the sale to you if a visitor
makes a return visit from a different computer.
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Finally, if a customer follows a link from your site to
our site and subsequently follows a link from another affiliate's
site to our site, the affiliate whose link has most recently
been followed will earn the commission.
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3.
What is the minimum amount I have to reach before you pay
me?
We
will pay you commission each month that the amount you earn
is above £50. If it is below £50 we roll this
over to the next month, and pay you in the month that it reaches
£50.
Given
that you earn at least £1.50 for each sale (and around
£2 in practice) we don't think this will be a problem!
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4.
How will my commission be paid?
We
calculate your total commissions due for a calendar month.
Commission is paid on 'net' sales (new sales less cancellations).
If this exceeds £50 we will pay you by bank transfer
within 60 days of the month end, and we will e-mail you a
confirmation of the amount and how it is made up.
In
other words we will pay commission for December by the end
of February. And as we collect income as part of the process,
there is no 'we'll pay you when we get paid' delay that you'll
often see in other affiliate programs.
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5.
But you said you paid monthly. This says 60 days?
We
do pay on a monthly basis. Once you are through the initial
60-day wait, you will receive a payment on a monthly basis.
So you will receive payment for your December commission in
February, January in March, etc., etc.
We
have to allow for refunds to policyholders who take advantage
of the 28-day 'no-questions-asked' cancellation period, and
this is the simplest way.
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6.
Why is your commission rate higher than that rate on other
travel based programs?
Our
view is that affiliates are our partners, and should be paid
as much as possible (with enough left over for us to run a
successful, long term business!). The affiliate programs of
many of the holiday and flight based companies offer really
low commission rates - £2.50 a sale from thomascook.com,
for example, would amount to 0.5% of a £500 sale (even
a bargain holiday for 2 is usually £500, and a on family
holiday this represents…….).
We've
set our commission rate to ensure that you make a good return
per sale (averaging around £2). And our low cost means
that you make more sales of TravellersSOS than of higher
cost goods. So your cheques will be bigger.
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7.
Isn't it better to be an affiliate for a merchant offering
expensive products?
It
would be IF (that's a big 'if'!):
-
it was as easy to sell an expensive product (a £500
holiday) as to sell a cheaper product (like TravellersSOS);
and
- the
'expensive product company' offered a comparable commission
rate - 15% of £500 is £75 not £2.50.
But
it isn't and they don't!
If
the commission paid per sale (in £s) is similar (with
TravellersSOS it is) you will be better off selling
a lower priced product, as the number of sales you make (and
therefore your total commission in £s) will be much
higher.
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8.
Do I get paid commission if I persuade other websites to sign
up (to sell TravellersSOS)?
Some
affiliate programs offer a 'two-tier' structure, where companies
introducing further affiliates get a share of the commission
generated by the affiliates they introduce. We prefer to pay
you top rates of commission so that you will focus on selling
the product, rather than selling the idea of selling the product!
If
you want to recommend us to your friends, please feel free.
But do so because you are making lots of money by introducing
your customers to us - because you can honestly recommend
us - not in the vague hope of a contingent financial benefit.
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