Monday, September 8, 2008

SourcingMap Launches New Affiliates Program

Refer Buyers and Affiliates, Earn $ Commissions
What is a SourcingMap affiliate?
If you refer someone to SourcingMap online, and that person places an order, you get paid 6% commission on that sale. You just need to put your unique link on your web page or in your email and our system will track the referral. There is no limit to how much you can earn in commissions. If the buyer you refer makes a large purchase, you get more commission.
Examples:
You refer a buyer who orders US$ 300.00 of any product on Sourcingmap.com. You get paid $18. You refer a buyer who orders US$ 5,000.00 - You get paid $300 You refer two customers each day at an average order of US$ 300.00 - In one month you earn $1080 Simply by promoting SourcingMap or SourcingMap products online, you can earn large amounts of money without having to actually sell anything.


Do you have multi-tier affiliates?
Yes, we do! We support two-tier affiliates. You can earn money by promoting the Affiliate Program itself.
If someone follows your affiliate link to SourcingMap, and signs up as an affiliate, you will get commission from THEIR referred sales! You will get paid 1% of the order on any sales that they refer. They will be identified as your 2nd tier Affiliate forever. So whenever they get referred sales commission, so do you!
Refer teams of affiliates and you can just sit back and let the money roll in!

Who can join?
Anyone can sign up right now for free, with no obligations. It's free to be a SourcingMap Affiliate, and you're not obliged to meet any targets. Since there's no risk - sign up now and try it out! Please go here now to sign up Free as a SourcingMap Affiliate: http://www.sourcingmap.com/affiliate_signup.php You need to have a Paypal account to receive commission payments, so find out first if Paypal is available in your country. Click here for a list of countries where Paypal is available.


How does it work? How do you track sales?
Using Cookies in our online shop, our system will track the customers you refer. We give you your own special code to use in web links so that when people are referred by you, we can automatically connect the order to your affiliate ID and pay you commission every month.
Log into your Sourcingmap Affiliates Account here: http://www.sourcingmap.com/affiliate_signup.php
On the page http://www.sourcingmap.com/affiliate_summary.php you can see your Affiliate ID:


See "Join our Affiliate Program" below to find out how to create your affiliate links.
The first time a new user visits our site, the user is given a unique identifying cookie. If their first visit is tracked as being referred by your affiliate ID, this customer will be automatically identified as "your customer" for 180 days. Even when they leave and come back to buy later, we will still know to credit you for referring this customer.

SourcingMap Affiliate Link Building
Affiliate Link to the Main SourcingMap Shop Page:
http://www.sourcingmap.com?ref=101
Affiliate Link to any SourcingMap Category:
http://www.sourcingmap.com/ipod-c-983.html?ref=101
Affiliate Link to a SourcingMap Product:
http://www.sourcingmap.com/pink-cartoon-piggy-pattern-plastic-mobile-cell-phone-hard-case-cover-for-sony-ericsson-k810-p-22078.html?ref=101
As you can see, you just need to add ?ref= and your affiliate ID after any normal SourcingMap URL.
You can also auto-build links to products:
After you are logged in to your SourcingMap Affiliates account, you can then browse back into the SourcingMap shop system. You will now notice that every product has a button saying "Build Link": This way you can create links with product pictures or text. If you know how to edit html you can change the source to link from any picture you choose.


How to promote SourcingMap
We disclaim all liability for the media content created or published by you in the course of your activities promoting SourcingMap's products or services, and for any statements made by you in this regard. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including, and without limitation, attorneys' fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance, and contents of your affiliate promotion activities. The following are examples of ways to promote SourcingMap in an acceptable way provided other standards outlined in this document are adhered to:
  • promoting SourcingMap's products and services through your own dedicated websites or ebooks using your content to which you hold the copyright;
  • promoting SourcingMap's products and services through your own existing websites on related themes such as toys, electronics, gadgets, wholesale and wholesalers, drop-shipping, auctions, gifts, China business, business-to-business, import / export and trade, product reviews, technology, and affiliate programs;
  • promoting SourcingMap's products and services through third party websites such as blogs, newsgroups, forums, online classified advertising sites, and article directories where your involvement is explicitly permitted and invited by the owners of the website, and where your comments or submissions are useful and relevant to that website and its user community;
  • promoting SourcingMap's products and services through emails to people who have explicitly agreed to receive messages from you on SourcingMap-related themes (see example themes above);
  • promoting SourcingMap's products and services through online advertising channels (such as pay-per-click, pay-per-impression, pay-per-(time period) banners, and text links) provided the context is appropriate (see below);
  • promoting SourcingMap's products and services in offline media such as print publications, provided the context is appropriate (see below);

You may NOT promote SourcingMap through the following methods:
  • promotion through any media representing yourself, your company, or the promotional medium as officially representing or being part of SourcingMap Wholesale Ltd., including but not limited to using the name "SourcingMap" in your company name, domain name, or subdomain address, and further including any very similar names that suggest association with SourcingMap or lead to confusion with the name SourcingMap;
  • promotion using false or misleading statements, claims, statistics, prices, or pictures about SourcingMap products and services, including about the SourcingMap Affiliates Program;
  • unsolicited emailing (spam);
  • automated (spam-like) posting on other people's websites including blogs and forums;
  • submission to search engines, web directories, social bookmarking sites, or similar using your affiliate link as the URL;
  • promotion through any media that condones or encourages illegal activities;
  • promotion through any media associated with spamming, viruses, spyware, or adware;
  • promotion through any adult-oriented (sexually explicit) media;
  • promotion through any media that contains or promotes racism, violence, hate, or intolerant discrimination;
  • promotion through any media that includes excessive foul language;
  • promotion through any media that is associated with pyramid schemes or similar;




Calculation of Commissions
The calculation of commissions payable to you is at the sole discretion of SourcingMap and subject to change without prior notice. This is the system by which your affiliate commissions will be calculated:
  • When someone clicks through your affiliate link to sourcingmap.com, AND your affiliate cookie is correctly set on their computer, AND within the cookie period that person places an order and pays for the order, AND the order is successfully delivered, AND a period of 16 days has passed since the delivery of the order, your affiliate account will be credited 6% of the total products value of the order. (The shipping fee of the order is not included in the commission calculation.)
  • At the multi-tier: When someone clicks through your affiliate link to sourcingmap.com, AND your affiliate cookie is correctly set on their computer, AND within the cookie period that person successfully signs up as a SourcingMap Affiliate, AND that 2nd tier affiliate successfully refers a sale (as described above), your affiliate account will be credited 1% of the total products value of the order.
Please note the following important conditions:
  • The cookie duration is 180 days;
  • SourcingMap cannot guarantee that the cookie generated by your affiliate clickthrough will be preserved - users are at liberty to block, delete, or overwrite cookies;
  • Commissions are shown in your Affiliate Account on sourcingmap.com before they are actually credited: if the order that was made by your referred buyer is not paid for and delivered, commission will not be paid;
  • Commissions initially shown as credited to you from delivered orders may be withdrawn if the order in question changes status due to payment issues (such as a credit card chargeback or Paypal reversal) or item returns;
  • Ordering goods for yourself or your dropship customers through your own affiliate link is not allowed. If SourcingMap discovers such activities after the fact, SourcingMap reserves the right to debit any erroneously paid-out amount from any associated affiliate or wholesale buyer account. Such actions are likely to result in an indefinite ban from using Sourcingmap services.

Payment of Commissions
SourcingMap will pay you your affiliate commissions based on the following conditions:
  • Your commission earned up to and including a calendar month is paid within the first 15 days of the succeeding month;
  • All commissions are paid through Paypal ONLY, to the paypal account email address you specified during signup;
  • The minimum commission payout is USD 50.00 (e.g. if you have $51 in commissions you will be paid the full $51 through Paypal on the monthly payout day, but if you only have $49 you will have to wait until you go over $50 before you get paid anything at all);
  • If payments are unclaimed SourcingMap does not undertake responsibility to contact you as Paypal will already send more than one email reminding you to claim / collect the funds; it is your responsibility to keep your contact information up to date;
  • If an unclaimed payment is returned to SourcingMap by Paypal, we will attempt re-payment if you contact us;
  • Unclaimed payments over 90 days old will not be paid. If an affiliate commission is accidentally overpaid by SourcingMap, you agree to promptly remit such excess payment upon notification by us. We may withhold further commission payments until the previous overpayment is resolved.
You are wholly responsible for declaring your income from the SourcingMap Affiliate Program to the taxation and legal authorities in your country. SourcingMap undertakes no responsibility in assisting you with financial or legal paperwork relating to your Affiliate Commissions. SourcingMap reserves the right to charge for services providing formal paperwork or other confirmations of your Affiliate Commissions

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