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…
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 #1
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!!)
Ok, now how about this REALLY crazy scenario:
Scenario #2: 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.
27 comments ↓
Ravi, I always knew that this was going to be a great product when I purchased it. It is so refreshing to see a product that has developed from it’s initial state to one that has achieved so much in such a short time.
Your commitment to this supurb software is only one of the reasons why I treasure this addition to my online marketing tools.
This Addition to the affiliate program shows phenomenal potential to increase sales. No longer can affiliates claim that they are being ripped off for all their hard work.
This is a great selling point to affiliates which will give them the incentive to promote my products over that of any rivals.
Ravi, You have produced a winner product here and one that keeps impressing those of us who own it.
I can’t wait to see what next innovative development you will think of next.
Nigel
Nigel,
If anyone looked at your comment, they would think that I must’ve paid you some money for saying such nice things about me and DAP. Wow, you blew me away with your generously kind, un-solicited testimonial
Thanks much!
- Ravi
Ravi,
DAP is fantastic. Easy to use yet very powerful. I’ve been searching high and low for the right membership site software. Every other title had its pluses and minuses. DAP is the 1st complete system that has it all.
Also, you are accessible to your clients. Thats’s what makes this thing a complete steal.
Cheers,
Barry
Barry,
Thank you for your kind words. I try
I have many incredible features lined up, so stay tuned.
Thanks!
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi,
For the pay per lead to work, we use the “direct signup” link?
If we want to pay for optins, user will have to create account and receive password via email, right?
Thanks
Emily,
>>For the pay per lead to work, we use the “direct signup” link?
Yes. You can also do a pay-per-lead with paid products, where buyer directly purchases your product.
>>If we want to pay for optins, user will have to create account and receive password via email, right?
Correct. Make it a double-optin if you’re paying for leads, so that the email will have to be real, and they would have to activate the account by clicking on a link.
Ravi Jayagopal
[...] in place allowing the sales to be properly matched to a user no matter the scenario (check it out on their site, it is quite powerful). I have detailed reporting on what is happening with my account as soon as I [...]
Hi Ravi,
DAP rocks !
I’m planning to use the “project launch formula” method where i’m creating an opt-in list, give away preview videos and free stuff. And then only open the gates of my membership sites for a limited time only.
In this case my affiliates will be rewarded not per lead but per sale (recuring).
Is there a way for DAP to track and reward affiliates in this situation ? (using paypal)
Of course. If someone who signs up as a lead (“Free” member) goes on to purchase something from you later, the original affiliate will get credited for the sale.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi, 2 quick questions:
1)Lets say the visitor before buying clicks on 2 different affiliate links. The visitor clicks on the first link but he doesn’t buy, then he clicks on the 2 affiliate link and he buys.
In this situation which affiliate is rewarded?
The first one or the last one who closed the sale?
2)I have 2 products, product A and product B.
Both are free with an OTO after the signup.
If an user buys product A in the download area he’ll find an offer for the product B at a discounted price.
If the buyer of product A bought throught an affiliate link and he will buy the product B at a discounted price i would like to give the credit to the affiliate also for this sale.
How can i do that?
it will work if i put %%AFF_LINK%%&p=http//mysite.com/product-b?
What if the affiliate has only the link to promote product A and not product B? He will get credited also for the sale of product B?
Thanks
First, I am impressed with DAP and look forward to using it as I am just getting started. I am wondering if you have givenaAny thought to adding a multi-tiered affiliate plan to DAP? (I’m also using PostAffiliatePro’s new system w/multi-tiered options)… even considering using DAP in conjunction with PAP as you described in an earlier post. What do you think?
Ravi
Your product puts the old imagination to work
you inspired me to possibly do a free down load of my novel – chapter by chapter, on a daily schedule. Then making the e-version available three days in.
Q. does it make sense to do an affiliate program?
the price point would be small
Thanks Guys
Wes,
>>Q. does it make sense to do an affiliate program?
the price point would be small<<
You should definitely start an affiliate program (which is included when you use DAP) and give a percentage of the sale – no matter how small it is – to the referring affiliate.
Share the bounty, and give others an incentive to promote your products.
That is the only way to get traffic and subscribers and sales that you otherwise may never have seen.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi – Your feature page shows two-tier affiliate function as “coming soon”, do you have any idea how far away this is? DAP looks fantastic (switching from Wishlist), but I need two-tier affiliate function.
Thanks
Bill & Elsom,
We are hoping 2-tier affiliate program support by the next release – which is out before the end of April 2010.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi,
If I am offering affiliates recurring commission, and I have a product, Reminsicing Workshop-1, which is a subscription for one assisted living facility priced at $87 per month, and later that facility would like to switch to Reminsicing Workshop-5 which is priced at $385 per month, and which I would switch them to manually via the DAP dashboard, how would the original affiliate be assured of their commission structure migrating to the newly switched manual upgrade? What steps does the admin have to take to see that this affiliate’s commission stays attached to wherever I upgrade their original referral?
Forgot to give the link which outlines the way I have my payment structue set up, which obviously has different paymen buttons for each level, and so I’m guessing must also be set up as separate products/levels in DAP:
http://elderforestpublishing.com/LSW/REM/reminiscing-workshop-broadcast.html#Subscribe
Hi,
If a user signs up to membership and doesn’t have the recurring setting on (they can basically access it forever), what happens if the affiliate link goes to the sales page and refers someone that signs up for a recurring fee?
Does it register?
Do they get 50% of every monthly recurring payment?
Hey Ravi.
I haven’t even purchased DAP yet but having spent 10 hrs daily on the Internet for the last 2 years, I have never spent as much time on a sales page like I have today… wait, it’s not the sales page that kept me here, it’s the awesome tutorial videos and documentation that I’ve been watching and reading for the last 3 hrs.
I feel that I already know how to use DAP even though 3 hrs ago, I had never heard of it. I did a search on Google for “build membership site” (just so you know your magical keyword)… I clicked on the first thing I saw and here I am.
And lest I forget to ask, “what’s the catch?.. seriously, how can you cram that many unbelievable features in one piece of software and not sell it for 2K or more?
You’re restored my faith in humanity, especially on the Internet where I’ve been doing business for 2 years. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on crap and s#!t but I’m really looking forward to building my new membership site… and on my favorite platform on earth.. WordPress!! (what a dream).
Now, let me go watch more of your videos.
Thanks
Anthony
Hi Ravi,
I affirm what others have said: “Bravo!” for conceiving and developing DAP. Not only is it well thought out with the customer (the internet marketer) in mind, but it’s obvious that you will continue to add features as our profession necessitates and your client base requests.
OK, my question: I have not gone over every square inch of your site and watched every video, but I’ve done a decent job, but I am not clear whether the affiliate part of DAP software covers every type of product sale we might have on our WordPress website. Yes, when people buy memberships that’s more than coverd, and I also see (by your answers above) how it can be tied into Clickbank, but what about info and hard goods products we sell directly off our site? Will it track those for our affiliates too?
I don’t expect DAP to be the only thing I need to run my online marketing business, but it seems you are developing it to be such.
So…is DAP the only affiliate software I will need to run a vibrant affiliate program with all our products, or are you not quite there yet? If you are a complete solution, then may I suggest you write some clearer copy about it on your sales page (of if it’s there already, that you make it easier to find)? But, if I currently require third-party software to fill in the gaps, might you suggest one or two that “plays nice” with DAP?
Thanks again. The night I found you I was somewhat freaked-out and was Googling to see if there really was an out-of-the-box app out there to meet the needs of our fledgling WP site in a comprehensive and affordable way. And there you were…
-Chaim
PS: I’m sure you are busy running DAP, but (after you answer my inquiry) I’d love to see your answers to Fred’s and Mark’s questions above.
Chaim,
DAP will track affiliate commissions for any product sold through DAP. Will work for both hard goods and digital products.
>>is DAP the only affiliate software I will need to run a vibrant affiliate program< <
Again, depends on how you define "vibrant". DAP's affiliate program does everything an affiliate program should do - give out custom affiliate links, track per-lead and per-sale commissions, etc. So not sure what other feature you have in mind. If you can be more specific, we can let you know if DAP does it.
Go to http://digitalaccesspass.com/features.php and scroll down to the affiliate section. That tells you all about your affiliate module features.
Hope this helps.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Anthony,
Thank you so much for your kind words
>>seriously, how can you cram that many unbelievable features in one piece of software and not sell it for 2K or more< <
DAP will surely go up in price at some point in the future, but definitely not to 2K. We want every single WordPress blogger and WP user in the world to be able to afford it, so we won’t be pricing it that high any time soon
- Ravi Jayagopal
Max,
>>If a user signs up to membership and doesn’t have the recurring setting on (they can basically access it forever), what happens if the affiliate link goes to the sales page and refers someone that signs up for a recurring fee?<<
The affiliate commission will be paid only on the first purchase, not on any of the recurring payments.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Heya, Ravi
The “Affiliate Features” section of the salespage says that the affiliate prog can be switched ON/OFF.
Question #1: Can I launch a site with the affiliate prog switched OFF and then later switch it ON?
Question #2: Is there a way to run the affiliate module but NOT have every member automatically become an affiliate (i.e. make it “invitation only” via an application form of some sort, where I manually create each affiliate account after approval)?
Thanks very much!
P.S. I know that Q#1 might seem an odd thing to do, but there is method to my madness. Basically, the idea is to do a beta-run of a Training Course, get feedback, make modifications, and then open the affiliate prog to those existing members who’ve been through the course (and who will therefore make good, honest reviewers).
Hello. Does Dap now have 2 tier Affiliate? I need that very much and read before that it would be available soon. Is it now available?
Tyler,
Sorry, we don’t have the 2-tier yet. Hopefully, it’s coming within a month.
Hi Ravi,
We were really hoping for the second tier affiliate program in April like you said above. But we have decided that we need to use another Affiliate program software and try to get it to work with DAP, not just for the second tier reason.
The main reason is because (we have been told by you guys) that either ALL your site members are affiliates or NONE of them are. That is, that the DAP Affiliate program feature is global, and cannot be turned on for some and not for others. That is crazy, and very disappointing! Why did you code it like this?
We have very compelling reasons why we don’t want most of our members to be affiliates, but we MUST have some JVs. So, because of this, we have spent extra money buying other software, and are spending a lot of time (and delaying our launch) in order to integrate it with DAP. Not cool!
We really hope you change this in your next release, and make it that the Affiliate feature is not just ON or OFF. I don’t know if we will ever end up using the DAP Affiliate system, since we have been forced to go with a 3rd party software, but your other clients should be allowed to do this, along with having two or more tiers.
Until then, you should make it clear in your sales info that your Affiliate module is an all or nothing feature.
Thanks,
Chaim
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