An Affiliate Program is a marketing system that allows you to track the sales other people make for you. Our system comes equipped with a built-in Affiliate Program tracking system. A huge plus to our shopping cart system over all the rest.

When an affiliate refers business to you, our system drops a small cookie on the potential customer's computer. When that customer makes a purchase, the person who made the referral receives credit for the sale and a commission from you for helping to make that sale.

Affiliate marketing allows you to reach more potential customers without the "up-front" marketing costs typically associated with traditional marketing, advertising campaigns and the like. This reminds me, I have a slogan ...

Starting your own Affiliate Program is a powerful marketing tactic which can help you gain additional sales at a very reasonable cost. Read on ...

Keep this in mind ... "You only pay commissions to your affiliates WHEN they make a sale and never before!" You only pay for RESULTS! Your affiliates ONLY get paid when they make sales! So, there really isn't any cost to starting your own affiliate program except a little bit of time in the beginning setting up the affiliate program and then making some announcements to your business associates and certain affiliate announcement groups that you have an affiliate program.

For each Affiliate Program you create, you can assign products and media like banners, text ads, and other marketing tools to help your affiliates promote what you have to sell. Keep in mind, you don't have to setup multiple affiliate programs. The default affiliate program will meet most merchants’ affiliate needs.

Additional affiliate programs offer greater flexibility and allow you to set up multiple affiliate programs to accommodate greater commission needs.

When you visit the Manage Programs page, you will see two sections, a menu bar across the top of the page, and a breakdown of the affiliate programs you’ve created with their stats.

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn about the Affiliate Programs section. Here is where you will create your affiliate programs.

6.03 Manage Programs (Section Explained)

In this video tutorial you’re going to get an overview of the Manage Media section. Here is where you add affiliate marketing media such as banners, text ads, audio ads, and the like to affiliate programs you create program.

6.04 Manage Media (Section Explained)

Whenever you need to look up an affiliate or a group of affiliates, mouse over EMAIL & MARKETING; then AFFILIATES; and click on MANAGE AFFILIATES. This is where you’ll search for affiliates who’ve signed up to join your affiliate program.

In this video tutorial you’re going to get an overview of the Manage Affiliates section. It’s in this section where you’ll search through all the affiliates who’ve signed up for your affiliate program.

6.05 Manage Affiliates (Section Explained)

Whenever you need to add an affiliate or a number of affiliates manually, simply mouse over EMAIL & MARKETING; then AFFILIATES; and click on ADD AN AFFILIATE.

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to add an affiliate manually through the Add an Affiliate section.

6.06 Add an Affiliate (Section Explained)

To protect the integrity of your affiliate program, you might choose to manually approve all new affiliates who sign up for your affiliate program.

To do this, simply mouse over Affiliates; then Affiliate Setup; and click on Approval & Notifications. On this page, set the option for Affiliate Approval Required to YES.

In this video tutorial you will learn about the Pending Affiliates section and how to approve, decline, or delete those affiliates waiting to be approved by you to join your affiliate program.

6.07 Pending Affiliates (Section Explained)

Each month, on the day you specified as your Pay Day under AFFILIATES, AFFILIATE SETUP, COMMISSION SETUP, both you and your affiliates will receive a reminder that it's payday. You will need to visit the Pay Commissions page to find out how much you owe your affiliates.

In this video tutorial you’ll learn about the Pay Commissions section and how you can run a quick report to see how much you owe your affiliates.

6.08 Pay Commissions (Section Explained)

Each month, on the day you specified as your Pay Day under AFFILIATES, AFFILIATE SETUP, COMMISSION SETUP, both you and your affiliates will receive a reminder that it's payday. You will need to visit the Pay Commissions page to find out how much you owe your affiliates.

In this video tutorial you’ll learn about the Pay Commissions section and how you can run a quick report to see how much you owe your affiliates.

6.09 Pay Commissions Job Status (Section Explained)

The Affiliate Reports page allows you to search through your affiliate commissions and display different types of reports based on the information you want.

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to generate a number of very useful reports from the Affiliate Reports page using some powerful search criteria.

6.10 Reports (Section Explained)

If you have an existing affiliate list outside your account with us, you can easily import that list in either a tab-delimited or CSV (comma separated values) format.

We recommend using Microsoft Excel to create or save your import files, although any database program should also be able to save files in either of these two formats.

It does not matter in which format you save your file. Using Excel, once the file is created, click File; then Save As; and choose either tab-delimited or CSV from the File Type drop-down box.

The important part of creating your file is ensuring that you have the correct number of columns in your file, and that they are in the correct order.

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to use the Import Affiliate page to import the names of affiliates from your computer into our system!

6.11 Import Affiliates (Section Explained)

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to setup a successful affiliate program to help sell your products and services. But, for the record, here's what you need to do to set up your first affiliate program:

Simply stated, when it comes to setting up your own affiliate program, here’s the list of the steps you need to follow: PRINT THIS LIST

6.12 First steps to Setup a Successful Affiliate Program

NOTE: It is wise to have some HTML programming experience and an FTP program. Speak with your webmaster if you do not possess these things.

With our system and our simple Command Script, your links, ads, and affiliate traffic will all be pointed to your web sites’ domain name, rather than to ours. Just watch this video and follow the easy instructions to make this happen.

In this video tutorial you’re going to get a quick overview of the Domain Masking tool (located in the Setup drop down menu) and how you can use this special function within MyMarketingCart.com in conjunction with our affiliate tracking module to personalize your affiliate links so they link to your web site’s domain name and not ours!

6.10 Domain Masking Script (Section Explained)

NOTE: It is wise to have some HTML programming experience and an FTP program. Speak with your webmaster if you do not possess these things.

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to setup the Affiliate Commission Settings for your main or default affiliate program.

This section is the first page you will see whenever you select Affiliate Setup. This page gives you total control to setup the default commission levels and affiliate cookie settings for the main affiliate program.

Keep in mind, while you can setup other affiliate programs, the settings you specify here will govern them all.

6.13 Customize Your Affiliate Program - Commission Setup

In this video tutorial you will learn how to setup and customize the Approval & Notifications section of your default affiliate program within your account, using MyMarketingCart.com.

6.14 Customize Your Affiliate Program - Approval & Notifications

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to customize the Signup Page for your affiliate program.

6.15 Customize Your Affiliate Program - Signup Page

In this video tutorial you’ll learn how to customize the Support Center (also known as the Affiliate Login page) for your affiliate program.

6.16 Customize Your Affiliate Program - Support Center

In this video tutorial you will learn how to customize the Terms of Service page for your affiliate program.

6.17 Customize Your Affiliate Program - Terms Of Service

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to customize the Welcome Page. This is the page your affiliates see when they log into their affiliate accounts.

6.18 Customize Your Affiliate Program - Welcome Page

Our system allows you to run multiple affiliate campaigns simultaneously through one account. In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to create and manage different/multiple affiliate programs under the Manage Programs section.

6.19 Manage your Affiliate Programs

To add an additional and separate affiliate program to your account, simply mouse over EMAIL & MARKETING; then AFFILIATES; and click MANAGE PROGRAMS. Then, follow the steps outlined in this video tutorial.

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to add an additional affiliate program. This will be separate from your default affiliate program that is initially set up for you inside your eCommerce Control Panel.

6.20 Create An Additional Affiliate Program

Here's where you can upload all kinds of marketing tools, banners, buttons, text ads, sound files and flash ads you'd like your affiliates to have access to when marketing your web site's products and/or services. The more you help them, the more sales they'll make for you! Hire a webmaster, graphic artist or a copywriter to help you create some of these marketing tools if you need any assistance. Your affiliates will thank you (with sales) in the end!

6.21 Manage Media - Ads

In this video tutorial you will learn how to create an Email Ad, and assign it to an affiliate program under the Manage Media section.

To create an Email Ad to which your affiliates can gain access inside their affiliate account to use to promote what you have to sell, simply follow these directions:

6.22 Manage Media - Email

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to create a Banner Ad, and assign it to an affiliate program under the Manage Media section.

To create a Banner Ad to which your affiliates can gain access inside their affiliate account to use to promote what you have to sell, simply follow these directions:

6.23 Manage Media - Text Link Ads

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to create a Banner Ad, and assign it to an affiliate program under the Manage Media section.

To create a Banner Ad to which your affiliates can gain access inside their affiliate account to use to promote what you have to sell, simply follow these directions:

6.24 Manage Media - Banner Ads

In this video tutorial you will learn how to create a Flash Ad, and assign it to an affiliate program under the Manage Media section. To create a Flash File Ad to which your affiliates can gain access inside their affiliate account to use to promote what you have to sell, simply follow these directions:

6.27 Manage Media - Flash Ads

Is your affiliate program set up to approve affiliates before they can start marketing for you? If it is, you can see a list of those affiliates who require your approval before accepting them into your affiliate program.

6.28 Approve & Decline Pending Affiliates

Suppose you received an email from an affiliate asking you, for example, to update their mailing address, PayPal email address, telephone number or even their last name.

In this video tutorial, you’re going to learn how to update an Affiliate’s personal profile inside the affiliate’s details page within the affiliate program module using MyMarketingCart.com.

6.29 Update or Make a Change in an Affiliates Account

In this video tutorial you’ll learn how to resend the Welcome Email to an affiliate. Suppose an affiliate contacted you saying they never received their Welcome Email, the email containing their unique affiliate link and login information.

6.30 Resend Welcome Email to an Affiliate

Suppose you’re working inside the Affiliate module inside the eCommerce Control Panel, and you need to look at the “inside view” of the Affiliate Support Center.

In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to log into an affiliate’s personal account within the affiliate module inside your account with MyMarketingCart.com using the Quick Login link feature located inside an affiliate’s personal details page.

6.31 Quick Login to an Affiliate's Account

Sometime you might need to terminate an affiliate or delete an affiliate’s account. Whatever the reason behind this need, here’s it’s done ... In this video tutorial you’re going to learn how to terminate or delete an affiliate from your database of affiliates.

6.32 Terminate or Delete an Affiliate's Profile

Every affiliate who signs up to become an affiliate for you is assigned their own affiliate account.

In this video tutorial you’re going to get an overview of what the inside of an Affiliate’s Account looks like so you know what they have access to when it comes to promoting your web site; getting links, banners and other marketing media; how to run sales reports and check their earnings; how to update their contact information; find help and log out.

Your knowing this kind of information will help you manage your affiliates better because you know and see what they see when they sign up to become an affiliate for you.

6.37 Tour the Inside of an Affiliate Account

Here's where you can check out the commissions you owe your affiliates; which ones are unpaid and which ones have been checked off as paid. A very important area, indeed.

Commission Reports via eMail — Our system is also designed to automatically eMail you and your affiliates whenever they make a sale for you. This is a great feature. As, it helps motivate the affiliates to "sell more" when they actually see that their efforts are making a difference in your sales and their earnings!

Then, when you finally do pay your affiliates on the date you specified when you set up your affiliate program, the system will also send them an eMail letting them know what a great performance they did as a member of your affiliate team and that you'll be generating payout commissions as of a certain date and how much they've earned. commission total has been calculated at $0.00. and that you'll be sending their payments shortly.

Paying Your Affiliates — Please note, the shopping cart system does not issue actual affiliate commission checks on your behalf. That responsibility is totally under your control. Luckily, our system was designed to give you the tools necessary to quickly and easily calculate your affiliates' monthly commission amounts. Simply print these reports and begin to pay your affiliates either by PayPal, by company check or other payment method of your choice.

Refunds — Yes, refunds do happen and when an order is created with an affiliate marked as the referrer (or when you manually update the commissions for an order), a new record is created for that commission, showing the refund amount. When you mark an order as a refund in your shopping cart account, another commission record is created, with a "negative" commission amount. This negative commission will then be marked paid when you do the affiliate payout; because refunds are often for orders many months previous, you must not use a date-range search to do a full commission payout. Specifying dates when generating a commission report may not be accurate in case of refunds.

6.34 Generate Affiliate Commission Payout Report