SHOP.COM and Market America have always been committed to developing and implementing cutting edge technology to provide the very best online shopping experience for our customers. You don’t lead the online shopping revolution by relying on the old ways of doing business – you lead by pushing the envelope and leveraging new tools to connect people with products like never before. In the digital age, this is a critical task for online retailers, but with innovative new programs like the SHOP.COM Affiliate Publisher Network I’m confident we’ll be leading the parade for a long time to come.
First of all, let’s explain a little more about what the SHOP.COM Affiliate Publisher Network is and how it can help your business. The SHOP.COM APN is a program which allows people with online networks, such as bloggers, to turn their digital properties into a SHOP.COM marketing channel (using SHOP.COM’s APIs) which pays them commissions for referring shoppers to SHOP! The system makes it simple to integrate customized SHOP.COM product information with your website so you can start earning fast! With this new program, UnFranchise Owners who operate websites for their businesses now have some dynamic new options to help promote SHOP.COM from their sites.
What makes this program really awesome is that it gives people an easy road to entrepreneurism that allows them to leverage their online presence to promote products from SHOP.COM. We understand most bloggers, while they obviously have a passion for something (be it Fashion, Sports, Politics, you name it), aren’t necessarily tech gurus. That’s why we’ve crafted a 2 phase system that’s intuitive and easy to work with, and allows anyone with a website to become an entrepreneur with SHOP.COM! The first phase is ready for use and offers APIs that developers can use to access SHOP.COM product details and present them on any site. The second phase (coming soon) will offer plugins and widgets that help non-developers do the same thing. No matter what your interests are, you can now leverage those interests and your audience to earn commissions with SHOP.COM!
Let’s say you’re an UnFranchise Owner with a friend who’s a popular beauty blogger – the new SHOP.COM APN program may be just what is needed to compel them to join the business as a UFO. Then, by helping connect them with the SHOP.COM APN you’ll now earn BV and IBV from the SHOP.COM sales referred from their website while also helping them turn their passion and interests into an opportunity to make money! Your friend earns the normal UFO commissions for referring shoppers to SHOP.COM, and you accumulate BV and IBV from those sales. Your friend does the work of marketing their site and SHOP.COM products, and your business gets BV and IBV! It’s a win-win!
One great part about our system is that you don’t have to constantly make changes to keep up with SHOP.COM. Because of the way our APIs are designed, you won’t have to update the SHOP.COM product info that’s being displayed on your digital properties – that’s all done for you automatically. So if we change a price or change something else about a product listing, you’ll never have to worry about updating it yourself!
Here’s an example of a local business in North Carolina that’s currently using our SHOP.COM Affiliate Publisher Network to earn with SHOP.COM. As you can see this particular website is for a Cupcake business, so naturally offering cupcake and cooking-related items from SHOP.COM is a great way to provide an innovative shopping experience for their readers and customers. This is just one example of a business utilizing the new SHOP.COM APN to offer dynamic shopping solutions for their customers without breaking the bank or even breaking a sweat! Even if you don’t currently sell anything – NOW YOU CAN with the SHOP.COM Affiliate Publishing Network.
If you do some research you’ll quickly learn there are a few other companies out there offering similar services, but as you can see below nothing compares with the new SHOP.COM Affiliate Publisher Network…
Soon, we will offer the opportunity for UFOs to sponsor affiliates that choose not to be UFOs. Let’s talk about the revenue share available to these affiliates in the APN program. Most of our competitors offer decent commissions that range from anywhere between 1.25% and 10%. We wanted to be sure there was no room for comparison, so we decided to blow the competition out of the water with up to 15% in commissions on Market America’s exclusive products, and 3% commission on all products from our One Cart stores. These are really staggering numbers when you compare them against the competition, but that’s not the only area where the SHOP.COM APN offers a distinct advantage…
Referral Windows are a big deal in this industry. To put it plainly, a referral window is the amount of time you have between clicking on an affiliate link and actually making a purchase which helps earn you commissions. With some of our competitors, if you click on one of their links, then just wait 1 day to make your purchase – they don’t have to pay out any commissions. Some places give you 3 whole days but even still that allows a lot of business to slip between your fingers (and right into competitors’ pockets). When we crafted the SHOP.COM Affiliate Publisher Network, we wanted this system to provide a referral window that really works for today’s shoppers and gives you (bloggers, developers, UFOs) the best possible chance to earn commissions – by offering a spectacular 45 DAY REFERRAL WINDOW. Amazon gives you a one day window to make a purchase for the commission to kick in with their affiliate program. Best Buy and Walmart give you 3 days. We give you 45 days. Enough said.
For all UFOs that use the APN to promote SHOP.COM products on their personally owned sites, when a shopper is referred from their site to SHOP.COM and places an order, they get ALL the same benefits and earnings they would for any shopper they bring to SHOP.COM. Coming soon, UFOs will be able to sponsor affiliates even if that affiliate decides not to be a UFO. For these affiliates, they will simply earn the revenue share commissions (up to 15%), while the sponsoring UFO gets the BV and IBV. When it comes time for your recruited affiliates to actually collect their revenue share commissions, the SHOP.COM Affiliate Publisher Network stands tall yet again by offering FREE weekly Direct Deposits with absolutely no minimum amount – unlike some of our competitors who want affiliates to PAY them (a fee) so they can PAY AFFILIATES. How dumb is that? With the SHOP.COM APN, we offer the best payment options that allow affiliates to earn on their own terms.
Ultimately this program drives more customers to SHOP.COM, which means a stronger bargaining position and better prices for everyone in the end. It’s about leveraging our people power to the fullest, and this new Affiliate Publishing Program helps spread this initiative to the masses. This program is a pipeline that helps introduce new customers and new prospective UnFranchise Owners to SHOP.COM. It’s a great way to help spread SHOP.COM to the masses while also empowering bloggers, developers, and budding entrepreneurs. It helps connect people with products, and helps build your business at the same time.
We’ve put together a program that not only runs circles around the competition, it forces them to go back to the drawing board. Today, you can promote SHOP.COM products through APN and refer shoppers to SHOP.COM, but coming soon, you will be able to provide the full shopping experience with checkout services, right on your site! The SHOP.COM Affiliate Publisher Program – just one more way SHOP.COM is leading the parade and providing innovating new solutions for shoppers in an ever-changing digital landscape. You can learn more now by visiting finding the APN program on UnFranchise.com under “My Account/My Services,” or by finding the APN Overview in the Support Materials are under “Sales” – and be sure to stay tuned for more updates about this awesome new program from SHOP.COM!
Keep Growing!
-JR Ridinger