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SWeCS NEWSLETTER - 26 July 2004
- SWeCS Affiliate Program Launched
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South West eCommerce Strategies has launched it's Affiliate program, where you can now start earning money simply by placing our logo or link on your website. The process is simple. First, you sign up for the Affiliate program for free. You are then provided with a unique tracking code that gets added to your website. Then, when someone visits your site, then clicks on the link to visit our site, and then subsequently purchases something from us, you get a percentage of the sale. It's that easy! And the sale doesn't have to be immediate. Using cookies technology, if the visitor leaves our site but then returns within the following 30 days and purchases something, you'll still get the commission. So how much do we pay? Because our Affiliate program is run worldwide, and we need to operate in one currency, the commission structure is offered in US dollars. If you're in Australia, don't worry, you can still participate. In fact, you can participate regardless of where you live. You'll simply be sent a cheque in US dollars that you can deposit straight into your account. Here's what we are currently offering: Not only that, but if you refer other affiliates to us, you will also receive 10% of all their sales! That is, if someone visits your site, then clicks on our link to visit our site, then signs up to be an affiliate, you'll get 10% of all their future commissions too. Our Affiliate program is run through Shareasale.com. To sign up for free to be a SWeCS Affiliate, simply visit www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=5693. The only conditions are:
Remember, it is absolutely free to join. If you've already got a website or perhaps an email newsletter, why not use that traffic you get to make some extra money?
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How often should you back up your data? Well, it depends how valuable your data is, but we recommend every day. That means that even if your system was lost you would only lose up to one day of data. How do you back up? In most cases the size of your data you need to back up will be greater than what can fit on a standard floppy disk. This means you need to invest in a device to store larger amounts of data. The two most common devices for this are a Zip Disk or a rewriteable CD-ROM. It's not inconvenient or hard to back up data. Zip Disks and CD-ROMs usually come with software that enables you to set up what you want stored, and then after that a simple click of the mouse will do the job each time you want to back up. Some programs even let you schedule backup automatically, so you don't even have to remember to do it! Another important point, whether you are using Zip Disks or CD-ROMs, is that it is important to save your data on a different disk each day and rotate the disks every few days. For example, you could have a disk for Mondays, Tuesdays, etc through to Fridays. That way, even if your computer and your disk both failed (extremely unlikely) then you will have data safely backed up from the day before.
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As a business with a website, do you need to advertise in it? Well, they are offering free inclusion at the moment at www.sensis.com.au/contact_us_submitSite.do?method=doDisplaySubmitSite, plus it seems that in the near future they may be offering higher paid positioning. But it's probably too early to tell whether the paid advertising will be worth it. It's fine for there to be a huge marketing campaign for the new search engine, but the important test is whether anyone will use it. If it doesn't get large amounts of searches, then it may not be cost effective to go to the trouble of the paid advertising. Time will tell how it is received. What will determine it's popularity? Relevant results. If people can go to it and find what they want, and quickly, then they'll come back. But Sensis may have a little while to go before they get there yet. On some searches the results are OK, but we just tried to find ourselves by searching for "website design" in Bunbury. The top 2 results were for an interior ceiling designer and an aerial photography business. Only 1 out of the first 10 results were actually anything to do with website design.
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I do not want your worthless spam. Spam I Am: You are really full of bunk. Spam I Am: How stupid do you think I am? Spam I Am: I went to your site; it really sucks! Don't pretend your ads are new.
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Browse through the SWeCS Ecommerce Library, full of FREE information about getting more out of the Internet. Sections include Web Site Development, Web Site Promotion & Internet Marketing, Online Commerce, Computer & Technical Issues, and Miscellaneous.
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