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Bay Studios Affiliate Program: Frequently Asked Questions
1. How do I fit the Rules of the Road Affiliate Program into my web site? You have complete control over how you integrate the program into you site. You can have one of our banners on your site as a link to the Rules of the Road DVD web site OR you can just have a text link to us directly from your main page, your "other links" page, or anywhere else on your site you deem appropriate. We recommend that you link to us on your main page to get more exposure. The more exposure the affiliate program gets, the more visitors should click through and purchase the Rules of the Road DVD, and the more money you make. Placing banner(s) on your site: The most common, and easiest, way to earn referral fees is to place a Rules of the Road DVD banner on high traffic parts of your site for visitors to click on. Banners are supplied on our Affiliate Resources page of our website. You can find this easily after logging in with your supplied username and password. 2. How will my visitors order? You link to the Rules of the Road web site. From there, we will handle recording, processing and fulfilling your customers' orders. Your visitors will visit your web site and link to the Rules of the Road DVD web site that you present to them. The entire process is "hands free" for you. We do all the work and you receive a referral check every month for linking to the Rules of the Road DVD. Your customers will browse your web site and find a description of the Rules of the Road DVD that you have included. If it catches their interest, they will follow the link you provide to the Rules of the Road DVD web site. We will then display our main page, which describes the DVD program as well as having many free tips and ideas for teen drivers and their parents. If the visitor decides to order the program, our ordering software takes over. We use secure servers to process credit card orders, as well as offering alternative payment options such as check and money order. We will handle all financial transactions as well as shipping the product to the customer via USPS. Our customer service department will answer any requests or questions they have about their orders, including cancellations and refunds if necessary. 3. Will the Rules of the Road DVD supply me with product descriptions, reviews or scans of cover art? Yes. All those resources are available on the special affiliate's section of our website. 4. Can we take the order on our web site instead, and just send you the customer information afterwards? No. We are solely responsible for developing and presenting our product's descriptions, stats, new versions and updates, tech support, pricing changes, order processing, etc. Rules of the Road DVD cannot be responsible for any errors in your descriptions of our product by not updating your site as often as we do. We also offer a secure web site that is critical for collecting online orders. 5. How do you calculate referral fees? Every order placed through your sponsoring web site with the Rules of the Road DVD online order system, by faxing in the order, or by mailing a check or money order for the Rules of the Road DVD will be eligible for a $10.00 referral fee. Visitors from your site will always pay the same price as visitors who came directly to our site. Any discount offered to our customers will also apply to customer who follows special links from your sponsoring web site. 6. How will you keep track of orders coming from my site? We will provide you with a specially formatted URL that you will use to link to our site. These URL's will identify a particular "Affiliate ID" that we use to track your referral fees as they are earned. This "Affiliate ID" is assigned to you after you apply for the Affiliates Program. We use cookies to store your affiliate number in the appropriate web pages for order tracking. So if someone visits the Rules of the Road DVD website through your link to our site and does not purchase the DVD right away, but instead waits up to 6 months to make a purchase, you will still get credit for the sale. This is a huge advantage to you as you will get paid referral fees for future purchases. 7. How do I create links to The Rules of the Road DVD web site? When you receive the email with your "Affiliate ID", you will receive detailed instructions on how to begin promoting on your web site. 8. How will I know how many sales I get credit for? When you join, we will give you a special URL where you can login and view how many DVDs where sold on a daily basis. You will receive your referral checks monthly. They are mailed on the first business day of each month. 9. What kind of income will I earn? It depends. For low traffic sites, the amounts could be from $50-$200 per month. For higher traffic sites that actively promote the DVD, incomes from $500-$2000 per month are possible. The more traffic you have to your site and the more exposure you give to the Rules of the Road DVD link(s), the more income you can expect. The above numbers are rough guidelines and ranges and are not a guarantee. 10. How are monthly sales tracked? When does a "month" begin and end? We calculate sales from the 1st of one month to midnight of the last day of the same month. All referral checks are mailed to your address of record, which you can change or update at anytime by logging into your affiliate account at https://www.vat19.com/gooddriverdvd/affiliate/webpages/affiliate.asp. 11. Do you offer affiliate status for any of your other programs such as Good Golf is Easy? No, we are currently only offering affiliate status for the The Rules of the Road DVD.
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