You probably already know that DAP has an In-built Affiliate Program where all your Members are automatically enrolled as Affiliates.

And as soon as they have an account on your site (free or paid), they get an instant affiliate link that they can immediately start using to promote your membership site.

But what we’ve built here is NOT “Yet Another Affiliate Program” (YAAP) (YAWN!)

Here’s our own, very unique twist which completely turns the concept of an Affiliate Program on it’s HEAD – and your Affiliates are going to LOVE YOU for this…

Scenario #1

A) WEBSITE NOT RUNNING DAP

• Buyer arrives at your site through an affiliate link
• They see that you don’t have Paypal as an option and they will not pay by any other means
• They email you / call you and let you know that they will only pay by Paypal
• Of course you’re not going to say no. So you tell them your Paypal id
• Buyer sends payment offline
• Buyer gets the product, You get the sale, AFFILIATE GETS SCREWED

Now consider the same scenario on a web site using DAP…

B) WEBSITE POWERED BY DAP!

• Buyer arrives at your site through an affiliate link
• They see that you don’t have Paypal as an option and they will not pay by any other means
• They email you / call you and let you know that they will only pay by Paypal
• Of course you’re not going to say no. So you tell them your Paypal id
• Buyer sends payment offline (doesn’t matter if it’s Paypal, sends you a check in the mail, pays you by phone, or heck, let’s say she drives over to your house and hands you CASH!)
• Once you somehow get the payment from the buyer (offline), then you ‘Add’ them manually to your DAP-powered site (through DAP Admin Panel). DAP then creates their account and sends your buyer the welcome email.
• Buyer gets the email. Clicks on the link, arrives at your site, and now LOGS IN.
• Since their browser already has the affiliate cookie set, at that very point when the user is logging in, DAP awards the Affiliate with this purchase, even though the purchase happened offline.
• Buyer gets the product, You get the sale, AFFILIATE GETS HER COMMISSIONS (Yippee!!)

IS THIS COOL OR WHAT?

But Wait, There’s more! (You knew I would say that, didn’t you?

SO YOU ASK: Hey Ravi, so what happens if the buyer uses one computer when clicking on the affiliate link (say, at home), but makes the purchase from another computer (say, at work). Now the affiliate is screwed, right? Hehehe… <insert evil laughter here>

Scenario #2

A) WEBSITE NOT RUNNING DAP

• Buyer arrives at your site through an affiliate link from HOME computer
• Buyer is impressed, joins your list, keeps doing research.
• Days or weeks later, Buyer buys the product from WORK computer (or FRIEND’s computer)
• Buyer gets the product, You get the sale, AFFILIATE GETS SCREWED

Now consider the same scenario on a web site using DAP

B) WEBSITE POWERED BY DAP!

• Buyer arrives at your site through an affiliate link from HOME computer
• Buyer is impressed, joins your email list, keeps doing research.
• Days or weeks later, Buyer buys the product from WORK computer (or FRIEND’s computer)
• Buyer logs in to your membership site and starts browsing around through WORK computer
• Still no Affiliate sale – no worries. Just watch what happens…
• Obviously (or in all probability), Buyer will log into your membership site from HOME computer at SOME point (hey, she can’t download those files at work now, or she can’t always be worried about her bossing catching her red-handed doing OTHER STUFF at work, can she?)
• Doesn’t matter when she again logs in to your site from the original computer (HOME) which has the affiliate cookie – doesn’t matter if it’s after days, weeks or years (yeah, years, really!)
• When Buyer logs in from original computer which has the cookie, DAP correctly awards the sale (better late then never!) to the right Affiliate.
• Buyer gets the product, You get the sale, AFFILIATE GETS HER COMMISSIONS (Yippee!!)

Haha, In Your Face (Ok, that’s what my 10 year old daughter says to me whenever she “gets” me .

Ok, now how about this REALLY crazy scenario:

Scenario #3:Paying A Per-Lead Commission To Your ClickBank Affiliates

WEBSITE POWERED BY DAP (of course, no one else has probably even thought about this!)

You already know that DAP supports ClickBank purchases, and you can turn off the display of your affiliate section if you are using ClickBank’s own affiliate program, instead of DAP.

But wait – that does not mean that you can’t use the two affiliate programs IN TANDEM to pull of something really crazy – like awarding your ClickBank affiliates with a commission just for sending you a lead – meaning, the lead just signs up for your “free” newsletter – and of course, if they go on to purchase something from your web site (assuming you are selling through ClickBank), then they get the usual CB commissions.

So here’s how it works:

• Every member on your DAP-powered site gets their own affiliate link that looks like:
  http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234
• And their CB affiliate link for your product would look like

  http://affnick.merchantnick.hop.clickbank.net

• Now DAP’s affiliate link has the capability of redirecting to any page on your site (or any page on any web site) by adding the destination URL to the affiliate link.
• So, now your affiliate adds their CB affiliate link to the END of their DAP affiliate link, like this:
  http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234&p=http://affnick.merchantnick.hop.clickbank.net
• So when someone clicks on this above link that your affiliate is promoting, then two things happen:
  a) The DAP affiliate cookie is set
  b) The CB cookie is also set
• So within DAP, you can set up just a Per-Lead Affiliate Commission for your Product (which is say, a free newsletter or a free PDF, or whatever)
• So when the referred user signs up at your membership site, they first get paid the Per-Lead Commission
• If they then go on to purchase other products from your web site (which obviously you’re selling through ClickBank, otherwise, this whole section is of no meaning to you), then they get the Per-Sale commission from ClickBank too!

Your head spinning yet?

Of course, then there’s still all the other cool affiliate features in DAP, like…

• Commission Override: Give special treatment to your Top Affiliates and JV partners by giving them higher commissions than the rest of your affiliates.
• Pay affiliates both one-time or monthly recurring commissions for the life of the subscriber.
• Automatic Affiliates: All Users automatically are automatically enrolled as Affiliates
• Pay-Per-Lead and Pay-Per-Sale
• Ready-made Affiliate Links Displayed for Users
• Affiliates can Redirect their Affiliate link to ANY page on your site after setting their affiliate cookie.
• Affiliate-Analytics:
  * Real-time Earnings Reporting
  * Real-time Payment Report
  * Real-time Traffic Stats for both Affiliates and Admin (with referers)
• Paypal Mass-Pay Ready: You get a Paypal Mass-Pay ready, fully formatted affiliate list with all commissions listed.
• Offline Payments: Export Affiliates for payment, pay them using any offline means (eg., checks), and then once the checks have been mailed, you can mark them all as “Paid”.
• Process Refund for Affiliates: When you process a “refund”, DAP will also reverse the affiliate commission. It will not reverse the Pay-per-lead amounts. Only the Pay-per-sale amount is negated.
• Instant Affiliate: Direct 1-click Affiliate Signup

So just thought I would share some details about the cool features of the Affiliate Module that is built right into DigitalAccessPass.com and is available right out of the box, just waiting for you to start signing up an army of affiliates from day 1!

Also check out our documentation to see the other stuff that DAP does.

How to directly sign up Affiliates without them having to buy a product

You can use a feature of DAP called “Instant Affiliate” where you send your affiliates this link:
http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=EMAILID&fn=FIRSTNAME

… and ask them to substitute EMAILID with their email id, and FIRSTNAME with their first name.

And when they visit the modified link, they will automatically be signed up as an affiliate.

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In fact, they can even skip the first name, in which case the link becomes:

http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=EMAILID

NOTE 1: They can use the same link to not only signup as a new affiliate, but also continue to use this as their final affiliate link that they can start promoting right away and start sending you affiliate traffic.

NOTE 2: Also remember that in this case they will be signed up using “NoName” as their first name, which they can always change later on the user profile screen.
When you do #2, they will get an account in DAP but not be associated with any product. So it will be hard to send just the affiliates an email.

NOTE 3: When affiliates sign up directly using this method, they will NOT be associated with any “Product” and will show in your “Manage Users” screen with access to NO product at all.

Of course, they can always go on to purchase a product from your web site, and if they use the same email id, then the product(s) they purchase will be associated with the same email address and will be added to their existing account, and NO new account will be created for them.

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Your affiliates can take this one step further and redirect their visitor to any page on your web site (or any web site, for that matter) after setting the affiliate cookie. Just add the text “&p=URL” at the end of the above affiliate link.

So, the link with redirection will look like this:

http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=EMAILID&p=URL

Replace the text URL with any link (like http://YourSite.com/anypage.php). So it would look like…

http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=affiliate@somesite.com&p=http://YourSite.com/anypage.php

The “Member’s Home Page” (YourSite.com/dap/index.php) has 3 sections.

• Member Links – %%USERLINKS%%
• Affiliate Section – %%AFFDETAILS%%
• Member Profile (username/password) – %%USERPROFILE%%

All three of these can be displayed within your WordPress blog.

Creating a “Member Links” Page within WordPress

Create a WordPress “Page” (not ‘post’) with the text %%USERLINKS%% in the body of the page, and a title of say, Your Links, and save the new page.

If you used the text “Your Links” for the title, then the actual link to this page would be YourSite.com/blog/your-links/

Creating a “Member Profile” Page within WordPress

Create a WordPress “Page” (not ‘post’) with the text %%USERPROFILE%% in the body of the page, and a title of say, User Profile, and save the new page.

If you used the text “User Profile” for the title, then the actual link to this page would be YourSite.com/blog/user-profile/

Creating an “Affiliate” Page within WordPress

Create a WordPress “Page” (not ‘post’) with the text %%AFFDETAILS%% in the body of the page, and a title of say, Affiliate, and save the new page.

If you used the text “Affiliate” for the title, then the actual link to this page would be YourSite.com/blog/affiliate/

That’s it!