Your own Affiliate Program

Natalie

You probably noticed the new "Promotion" menu in your admin. 

Many of you have been waiting for this feature and here it is - live and ready for you to use.

The new functionality lets you set up Affiliate Marketing programs and manage affiliate accounts. This lets webmasters, site owners, studios etc. promote you for a share of the income they bring you. As always - you are in full control, so please feel free to set up the programs any way you want them

 

Be sure to set up the page and give affiliates some program options to start bringing in even more joins! 

 

Not sure how Affiliate marketing works? Check out this Q&A.

 

If you need help setting up this page, follow this interactive guide.

 

Please leave comments, share ideas of programs you decided to set up and ask questions in this thread - all feedback is greatly appreciated!!

Angel_long

Hi Natalie, 

This is great. I have various Affiliates from my old ccvill payment processor etc, including Freeones promo. Can I get them to change the affiliate code in the stuff thats already up on the site ?? 

Thanks 

Angel_long

Hi Ya , 

I'm trying to set up an program , it's all set up but unsure how to get the companies to sign up ? As in where do I send them to sign up so they can start promoting me . 

Thanks

Angel_long

lol found it on the outside of the website at the bottom ...so please ignore my 2nd message to you . 

[Deleted User]

Angel, glad you figured it out  FYI, we will be launching a global ModelCentro affiliate program which will encompass all models very soon.

Angel_long

Sounds good ;-)

Natalie

Hey Angel!  
Re: I have various Affiliates from my old ccvill payment processor etc, including Freeones promo. Can I get them to change the affiliate code in the stuff thats already up on the site ?? 

Sure, you can make programs with the % revshare you had before or, in case of tubes, just tracking programs (1%, call it no payouts), and get them to generate these links from the affiliate side. (For tracking, you can make your own affiliate account and generate it for them). Let me know if you need help with that.

Angel_long

Hi Natalie ,

Thanks for your reply . Might well need some help if I'm honest . I got you email earlier but not had chance to message back . Will send u an email over tomorrow . 

Good luck with all your planning you got going 

x

Natalie

I've got some direct contacts with tube sites that have your content I believe, so let's get on skype or ICQ and I'll help you move that along. I already  hit up Stephanie from XVideos and made a tracking program for you. I'll show you how to do that in the future if you'd like. Just let me know when you have 15 minutes and I'll get you up to speed with this.

Angel_long

Hi Natalie,

 Ur a star, thank you . Am about tomorrow from 5pm my time - here's my Skype angellongxxx.

Let me know if thats any good, if to am about Thursday 

;-) 

Natalie

Awesome, added you.

Angel_long

wicked, see us later 

kris ann

On the percentage what does everyone use? I feel the 50% is kinda high.

Cher Azur

I do 50% (remember this is only out of the Members they Refer)

kris ann

Cher that makes sense thank you

Cher Azur

Your Welcome. 

Natalie

Keep in mind that it's not 50% of the entire total - 50% is from your income, so you don't get cut out of so much.

Also, for referred joins - 10% stays a billing fee, MC drops its % to 20 from 25, and the model shares the rest with affiliate. So, from 100% of referred payment it's:

10% billing

18% MC (20 from 90 left after billing)

72% shared between model and affiliate at % you set (usually 50%)

Cher Azur

That makes it Easier to Understand

Natalie

Ok I have an update on % shares as they've been somewhat reworked to be more attractive to affilaites (these are very hard to bring in and keep, especially the ones that make you money).

The percentage shares are:

from total of transactions from 1 affiliate, 10% is billing, 

then from remaining 90%: 50% affiliate, 20% MC, 30% to Model.

To make it clearer, if you get an affiliate who sends you a sale of $100, this would be split into:

$10 for billing, $45 for affiliate, $18 for MC, $27 for the Model.

This is fairly reasonable as there are restrictions as to which sale would be considered an affiliate sale, and affiliates need a reason to promote you over 100s of other programs.

jeny smith

Hi 

so i think its ok 50% to start from for a newbie. But what about next month rebills? i use deffalut 50% but i feel there is a lot of my work to keep the guys with me and affiliates nothing do about it. what percentage do you use and what would be fair for a newbie?

Natalie

jeny Smith well that is a tough question. On one hand, the affiliate has less to do with retention and on the other - it's much easer to "sell" your site for promotion to a big affiliate if you say 50% lifetime as opposed to 50% of join and 30% of all rebills. Besides, might be frowned upon if you have a trial join option, because in this case the join is $2 and the rebill is $20 - makes no sense for them to even bother. So, just something to think about, and it is essentially up to you.

jeny smith

Hey Natalie!

has the split percentages changed? because  my share (50% affiliate split) from 107.97$ is 27$ and for example from 44.99$ my share is only 11.25$ according to profit and loss tab. 

Natalie

Hey Jeny! I'd have to check your account to be sure. Are all your affiliate shares set at standard 50% for joins and rebills? It might be that the rebill gets smaller % (if that's how you set that up), or you might have a 50% and a 20% affiliate campaign offer? Let me look up the details and email you on why the sums are different.

That does sound like being correct though - from $100 of transaction, $10 is a billing fee, then 50% of the rest goes to the affiliate - $45, and then 20% of the 90% to MC - $18 and 30% of the 90% to you - $27.

jeny smith

I have one program 50/50  and another one 60/30. (join/rebill) 

but so far can i see the affiliate share goes before the billing split for now. it shows 107.97$ total , 54$ affiliate share, and 27$ my share. i really dont understand the formula because its cleary 107.97/2=54  

according to your formula my share should be 29.1$ in this case

jeny smith

ok, my husband told me about it before and reported to MC but now i see it by myself - the statistic has huge bag in it. It shows some rates we never ever had. Like join for 17.99$.  Our one month price is 19.99. Some of joins has the right prices and some have lower then they should. 

jeny smith

oh i got it. 17.99$ is 19.99$ minus 10% for billing. Natalie your formula works only if we set model's and MC's shares as 25% for both. 

total income 17.99, affiliate share 9$, my share 4.5$

4.5 is 25% of 17.99

Natalie

Jeny Smith, I'm investigating now, thanks for pointing these things out

Natalie

Jeny Smith, so it looks like the system's right and I was wrong. We discussed giving up 5% of the affiliate joins, yet further calculation proved that the margin became too narrow for us to be able to operate. The affiliate dashboard (before any signups take place, detials the % as 25/25:

jeny smith

Thanks for answer Natalie. I was really confused by that stats. Now i can cleary understand where which amounts come from!

Natalie

Jeny Smith thanks for bringing it up, now it's cleared things up for me too Sorry for whatever confusion my previous posts caused.

Batty

Hey, I was wondering with the affiliate program. If I add a program to intice people to promote me. Say I put it as 70% of the first payment, and 50% of the rebills, but if I had this as a promotion for like the first month. Am I able to delete it, and have place at 50% first payment, 50% rebills. So that the people on the old program get to keep that program, and new people who sign up to the affiliate program, get the new option?