Hi Folks,

Many of you may have already heard the news, in case you haven’t -

Google has decided to close down their affiliate program network (GAN).

http://googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com/2013/04/an-update-on-google-affiliate-network.html

As you may imagine, this will create a huge workload for merchants and affiliates and leave many with lots of questions …

Merchants currently on GAN will have till the end of July 2013 to move their affiliate program to another network …

Since 2001 we have worked with thousands of merchants and all of the networks in the industry. As the original OPM’s in the industry with over 13 years of experience, we are extending FREE consultation services to merchants on GAN that need answers and would like to explore different options for their affiliate program.

Not only can we help you navigate through these difficult times, but we can offer you advice and help you make the transition quickly while minimizing the revenue loss on your current affiliate program. You are invited to contact us and take advantage of our knowledge  and experience to help guide you during the next few weeks as you make the transition to a new affiliate network.

You may contact us and request your free program evaluation by phone 888-931-ANDY (2639) or by email.

We look forward to hearing from you and helping you in this transition,

To your success!

Hi Team,

We have a HUGE promotion that just got approved. I’ll make it short and sweet.

We just got authorization to offer our affiliates a very special offer, something we have never offered to you before – ever.

We now have a 30% OFF coupon for your site visitors.

As you may know, our best affiliate offer has been 10% – for the next 2 weeks, you have the ability to offer 30% OFF to all your site visitors. Use it on your site, drop it in an email offer, go wild and make some money. If this works for you and us, we may have the ability to extend.

Here is the 30% code: <a href=”http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?m=8684&u=UserID&d=97814″>Checks Unlimited – 30% OFF on online check orders</a>

** Please replace the UserID in the code above with your own ShareASale affiliate ID if you are an approved Checks Unliited affiliate. If you are not already on our program,  you will need to sign up and get approved before the code will work on your site. We will be approving new applications as quickly as they come in. You can apply to the Checks Unlimited program here.

We are also working on a little something extra for those of you that post this deal, it’s not approved yet but if you send us an email with the location of this special deal, I will let you know once it gets approved.

Have a great weekend and a very profitable rest of June !!

Hello team,

Many of you asked, we got it approved!

Your April is about to get even better … we just got approved to run the “Five Dollar Days” promotion for the entire month of April. The promotion will run on both affiliate programs, the Checks Unlimited affiliate program on ShareASale and the 4Checks affiliate program on GAN.

The Five Dollar Days Promotion started on April 1, 2012!

During April 1 – April 30, 2012 you will earn an additional $5.00 per sale on top of your regular affiliate commissions for every sale you make over your March 1 – March 31, 2012 sales on the Checks Unlimited program on ShareASale and on the 4Checks program on GAN.

Here is an example so you understand how it works:

1) You generated 1,000 sales during the period of March 1 - March 31, 2012.
2) During the promotion period of April 1 – April 30, 2012, you generate 2,000 sales.
3) You will earn an additional $5.00 per sale for the additional 1,000 sales generated during the qualifying promotional period, April 1 – April 30, 2012.
4) You make an extra $5000.00, (1,000 sales x $5.00) in commissions for the period of April 1 – April 30, 2012 – this is in addition to your regular commissions.

The more sales you generate, the more you can earn. You will get $5.00 for each sale, the amount of the sale or number of sales doesn’t matter! This applies individually, to both the Checks Unlimited affiliate program on ShareASale and the 4Checks affiliate program on GAN. Individual program sales cannot be combined.

Unlimited Earning Potential!

This is the opportunity you have been waiting for, summer is here, our check programs combined can pay for your summer vacation this year. Are you ready to take advantage of this opportunity? This is big folks, really big! If you are in one program and not the other, we encourage you to sign up for both programs, combined we have the largest selection of checks in the industry with over 2,000 check designs.

You can sign up for the Checks Unlimited affiliate program on ShareASale using this link and for the 4Checks.com affiliate program on GAN by following this link. If you have any questions on either program, please do not hesitate to ask.

We do ask that you respect our TM policy, anyone caught bidding on our TM terms will forfeit their commissions, bonuses and may be terminated from the program. We want to give everyone a fair opportunity to earn as much as possible as we enter the summer months. We will be running this promotion again during the next few months, if you don’t have our links set up yet, now would be a great time so set them up. You don’t want to miss out on future massive earning opportunities do you?

If you have any questions on the program, need links, help with your account or just want to say “hello”, feel free to contact me at 888-931-2639 or reply to this email. I will be glad to help you start generating sales.

To your success,

Andy Rodriguez
Andy Rodriguez Consulting Inc.
Affiliate Program Management and
Internet Marketing Consultants
P:  888-931-2639
C:  305-785-4524
E:  andy@andyrodriguez.com
W: www.andyrodriguez.com
AIM: AffiliateDoctor
Skype: AffiliateDoctor

Follow me on Twitter: @AffiliateDoctor

Hello Team,

We are pleased to announce that the 4Checks.com affiliate program is now under ARC management, effective immediately.

The 4Checks.com affiliate program will be following the lead of the successful, industry leader, ChecksUnlimited.com program. The ChecksUnlimited.com program has been managed by ARC since 2005, has occupied the #1 position on ShareASales’s Top 100 PowerRank list for the last 5 years and is considered to be the highest performing affiliate program in the industry by affiliates from around the world.

The official announcement will be released soon but we wanted to give our partners a quick heads up, provide new contact information and a summary of some of the changes coming to the program.

One of the most important changes is that we are now first point of contact for our affiliates, not the GAN network like it has been in the past. If you have questions regarding the links, orders or anything having to do with the 4Checks affilaite program, feel free to reach us directly using the contact info below.

Contact info for the 4Checks program:

Email: 4checks / @ / andyrodriguez.com  (remove the spaces)
Phone: 888-931-ANDY (2639)
Skype: AffiliateDoctor
Twitter: @CheckAffiliates / @AffiliateDoctor

There will be other changes as well and these will be communicated via email over the next few months. If we haven’t already,  we will be reaching out to you individually in an effort to start working closer together with you, assisting you with any issues you may have had on the program and just to say hello. There are many of you that are already working with me on the Checks Unlimited program and some that are not. If you are reading this post, I want to invite you to join and work with both of our programs and experience the wide selection and diversity of over 2,000 check designs among both programs.

You can join the ChecksUnlimited.com affiliate program by clicking here.

You can join the 4Checks.com affiliate program by clicking here.

If you have any questions or need anything from either program, please do not hesitate to ask. We are here to ensure your success and help you with anything you may need.

To your success!

Andy Rodriguez
Andy Rodriguez Consulting Inc.
Affiliate Program Management and
Online Marketing Consultants, Since 2001
P: 888-931-ANDY (2639)
E:  andy@andyrodriguez.com
W: www.andyrodriguez.com
AIM: AffiliateDoctor
Skype: AffiliateDoctor

was earned by our affiliates during the last 5 days on our program …

Happy Friday !!

Just a quick post in response to several emails we have received asking about the potential of the check vertical. Few people (except for the affiliates earning the commissions), know the potential and the volume of the online check market. The amount or daily orders is staggering and the earnings are huge.

Here are the stats for the last 5 days (3/18 – 3/22) on the program so you can see the actual earnings:

We wanted to show actual commission numbers so that you can see the potential. It’s hard to believe I know, but they are real. The online check vertical is one of those hidden secrets of affiliate marketing that has yet to be discovered by many affiliates. Don’t get me wrong, many seasoned affiliates have already discovered it and are secretly earning tons of daily commissions. Now you can too : -)

Did you know that our program has been the #1 Top 100 PowerRank Program on the ShareAsale network for over 5 years now? ShareASale has over 3,500 merchants on their network and we are proud to say that we have occupied the #1 slot, year after year. That alone speaks volumes about the Checks Unlimited program.

If you are not a Checks Unlimited affiliate, I invite you to join us and let’s start working together. I can walk you through the steps to set up the links and start earning revenue with Checks Unlimited.

Join our affiliate program today!

Thank you in advance and I look forward to working with you. If you have any questions or need advice, post below or send me an email.

Affiliate Doctor

Hello partners,

Hope you are having a great week. As we wrap up the first quarter, we are bringing back our popular “Five Dollar Days” promotion.

The Five Dollar Days Promotion starts on March 15, 2012!

Starting tomorrow, March 15 – March 31, 2012 you will earn an additional $5.00 per sale on top of your regular affiliate commissions for every sale you make over your February 15 – February 29, 2012 sales. We want to make this promotion simple and profitable for you.

Here is an example so you understand how it works:

1) You generated 1,000 sales during the period of February 15 – February 29, 2012.

2) During the promotion period of March 15 – March 31, 2012, you generate 1,500 sales.

3) You will earn an additional $5.00 per sale for the additional 500 sales generated during the qualifying promotional period, March 15 – March 31, 2012.

4) You make an extra $2,500.00, (500 sales x $5.00) in commissions for the period of March 15 – March 31, 2012 – this is in addition to your regular commissions.

The more sales you generate, the more you can earn. You will get $5.00 for each sale, the amount of the sale or number of sales doesn’t matter!

Unlimited Earning Potential!

The question is, are you willing, able and ready to take advantage of this exciting promotion? This can be HUGE for you ..

Not a Checks Unlimited affiliate? No worries, you can join us now and start earning commissions !

Here are a few links pre-coded with your affiliate id. You can load these to your website right now and be ready to earn, just copy and paste the code. There are plenty more links on ShareASale, feel free to browse and use what you like.

<a target=”_new” href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=48071&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“><img src=”http://www.shareasale.com/image/10_business_468x60.gif“  border=”0″></a>

Special Edition Personal Checks, Free Custom Lettering, Free Upgrade, Free 4th Box – <a href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=48083&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“>Click Here!</a>

<a target=”_new” href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=87116&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“><img src=”http://www.shareasale.com/image/checks-88×31.gif“  border=”0″></a>

<a target=”_new” href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=47296&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“><img src=”http://www.shareasale.com/image/Affiliate-468×60.gif“  border=”0″></a>

<a target=”_new” href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=201936&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“><img src=”http://www.shareasale.com/image/8684/Classics.gif“  border=”0″></a>

<a target=”_new” href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=201938&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“><img src=”http://www.shareasale.com/image/8684/HomeGarden.gif“  border=”0″></a>

<a target=”_new” href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=201941&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“><img src=”http://www.shareasale.com/image/8684/SideTear.gif“  border=”0″></a>

It’s a new year. Start it off with new checks from ChecksUnlimited.com – <a href=”http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=147202&u=UserID&m=8684&urllink=&afftrack=“> CLICK HERE! </a>

*** On all the links above, please make sure you replace the “UserID” in the code with your own ShareASale affiliate ID. If you don’t remember your affiliate ID or need to get a ShareaSale account, drop me an email and I will guide you through it.

This promotion has no earning limits, you can basically write your own paycheck if you want to. We ask though that you respect our TM policy, anyone caught bidding on our TM terms will forfeit their commissions, bonuses and may be terminated from the program. We want to give everyone a fair opportunity to earn as much as possible as we enter the summer months. We will be running this promotion often during the next few months, if you don’t have our links set up yet, now would be a great time so set them up. You don’t want to miss out on future massive earning opportunities do you?

If you have any questions on the program, the promotion or just want to say “hello”, feel free to contact me at 888-931-2639. I will be glad to help you start generating sales.

To your success,

Andy Rodriguez
Andy Rodriguez Consulting Inc.
Affiliate Program Management and
Internet Marketing Consultants
P:  888-931-2639
C:  305-785-4524
E:  andy@andyrodriguez.com
W: www.andyrodriguez.com
AIM: AffiliateDoctor
Skype: AffiliateDoctor

has been earned by Checks Unlimited affiliates during the last 4 days …

On September 1st, I wrote a post and documented what our top affiliates earned in August, you can read the post here, many of you commented and the buzz has intensified. Many new affiliates have joined and others have started to load their links. As of today, we have had 11 new affiliates generate their first Checks Unlimited sale.

We are officially entering the high season for check sales and we are already starting to see the increase in traffic and sales. Take a quick look at the screenshot from ShareASale for the last 4 days. Sensitive information has been removed to protect the identity of those making the big bucks : -)

If you are reading this post and you still haven’t joined Checks Unlimited, I want to personally invite you to join our team and experience the feeling of earning massive commissions by promoting the #1 Program in the ShareASale network for the last 6 years and counting.

If you are not promoting Checks Unlimited on your site, you are not taking your share of those $20,000 that have been earned during the last 4 days.

Why not?

Contact me today and let’s work together so I can show you how to earn affiliate commissions with Checks Unlimited. If you are a self starter or have just been too busy, the time is now. The sales are picking up and this is the season. Join Checks Unlimited today and start earning massive revenue selling checks … yes, checks.

While you are here, be sure to check out a few of our other merchants that are building and growing their affiliate channel, there’s tons of opportunity here as well.

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To your success !!

Hello Team,

Join me in welcoming our newest client to the ARC family of merchants – imPowerThemes.com. imPower Themes is the brainchild of Ash Goodman, a professional WordPress developer and founder of the amazing and feature packed imPower Themes. I have been working with imPower Themes now for a while, setting up the program on ShareASale and getting everything ready for the launch. I can honestly say it’s been a pleasure working with Ash and we are excited to be a part of his dream and grow their affiliate channel.  The program is amazingly simple, the themes are beautiful and point – click simple.

Take a quick look at these WordPress stats and you can quickly see the incredible opportunity and why you need to join imPowerThemes.com today :

- WordPress runs almost 60 million websites (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/)
- The top 14% of Alexa’s top 1 million websites are running WordPress.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress)
- In 2011 every single day over 100,000 new WordPress websites are being created  (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/)

We asked Ash what sets imPower Themes apart and why choose imPower Themes and this is what he had to say:

imPower Themes grew out of actual – real world – live tested and time tested – business needs. I have been building business websites for private clients with WordPress since 2005. As I noticed more and more clients asking for the same things I started building them into a “toolkit” of powerful features I could add to any WordPress project.

The tools had to be incredibly easy to use because my clients weren’t programmers, they were everyday people already busy enough running their own businesses. They needed it point-and-click simple. Period. It wasn’t optional; it was a requirement. So it had to be incredibly powerful, incredibly easy to use and it had to totally satisfy a growing list of real world demands.

Today every imPower theme comes with point-and-click, built-in features like: video, photo galleries, SEO, support for Google analytics, conversion tracking, email capture, layout options, facebook, quality typography, killer designs and so much more. All of it fully supported with built-in documentation and access to support forums where I and my staff personally answer every question.

I work hard to provide high quality, easy-to-use solutions to real world problems and I back it up with passionate support and a money back guarantee. My customers have rewarded me with 28% purchasing at least once more within 4 months, a low refund rate of less than 3% and heart-felt testimonials as wonderful as any man could every hope to see for his products.

Folks, imPower Themes is a great product that you can promote in a fast growing daily market. imPower Themes solves real world needs, allowing people to develop killer Word Press sites that stand out and are point-click easy to develop.

Here are a few of the imPowerThemes.com program terms:

- 35% comissions
- Average order is $60.00
- Exceptional products and exceptionally responsive customer support
- High repeat buyer rate – more than 28%+
- 90 day return cookies
- Cash performance incentives and promotions
- Parasite Free on the ShareASale network
- Unique coupon codes available
- No PPC restrictions
- Two product lines, one for traditional business websites and one for online marketers

We invite you to join imPower Themes today and start helping others develop awesome, point-click simple Word Press sites that impress and stand out from the rest. If you have any questions, need assistance or ideas on how to promote imPower Themes, please drop me an email and we can show you how to “power-up” your commissions with imPower Themes.

We get asked many times by affiliates that are enrolled in the Checks Unlimited program what do the top affiliates generate and what they earn. While we will never reveal the name, websites or any identifiying information from our affiliates, we will share some numbers. We have found that in many cases, affiliates that have asked and are given the stats, often start getting active, add additional links, start using our datafeed and actually climb the charts and start earning much more revenue after they know it is actually possible to earn that kind of money with our program.

We have found that many times the reason they haven’t produced in the past is due to the fact that they have told us “we had no clue” of the volume of the market or the earning possibilities. Many people (including myself) before I started working with the check vertical, really had no idea what this channel could deliver in terms of volume, revenue and commissions. This is the main reason for this post, it’s an effort to show affiliates that may not be giving this program it’s full attention and may be leaving money on the table by not fully promoting Checks Unlimited on their websites. For those of you already earning the thousands of dollars, month after month on our program, this information may not be earth shattering news as you and your bank account already know.

The proof is in the reporting

Here is the August sales report from ShareASale. Sensitive information has been removed to protect the identity of the top 10 affiliates in the program. There are a few key points I wanted to point out on this report.

1) The top 2 sites are popular coupon sites. They are not the most popular or the highest ranked coupon sites according to Google, but they do have traffic. I say this becuase if you have a high traffic coupon site and if you place our links on your home page, there is no reason why you shouldn’t achieve similar results. Of course there are lots of variables but looking at the potential, shouldn’t you at least give it a shot and have us featured on your home page?

2) We convert. Let me say that again, we convert very well. Look at the conversions from our top 10 affiliates. Tell me, honestly, what merchant do you have on your site that converts as well than Checks Unlimited? Checks Unlimited spends a ton of money in off line and print marketing, The brand has become a houselhold name, that helps drive the incredible conversions on the program. I invite you to experience the conversions for yourself on your website. If you don’t have us front and center on the home page so your site visitors can see us, you are not fully capitalizing on our branding and probably not earning all that you can be with our program.

Some affiliate secrets you may not know …

1) Top earning affiliates tend to work with and promote the top merchants on most of the affiliate networks, they know the top merchants are doing things right and if they are top merchants on the network, there are lots of affiliates making money with them. Checks Unlimited has been ShareASale’s #1 merchant on their Top 100 PowerRank program for over 5 years now.  As an affiliate, shouldn’t you be working with and promoting the top ShareaSale merchant program on the network?

2) Top earning affiliates will not only look at the commision that the merchant is paying but at the convversions. If a merchant doesn’t convert, they can pay you 50% commission but your traffic will earn you more revenue on a lower commission merchant if that merchant converts at a higher rate. The check space has been getting very crowded lately, while many “merchants” have built check websites overnight, they can’t buy the name, branding or customer loyalty associated with thousands of satisfied customers since Checks Unlimited entered the space in 1986. Take advantage of the ongoing off line and direct mail branding and use that to your advantage by making sure you have links loaded on your high traffic pages on your website.

3) Top earning affiliates know that September is the beginning of our “high season” for check sales. Check sales start ramping up now, peak in Novemeber and December and start to level off in February. Our top affiliates know this and now you do as well. There is no better time than the present to start focusing on Checks Unlimited and getting your links loaded in the right places.

If you are a current Checks Unlimited affiliate, I invite you to contact me so we can evaluate your site, look over your link placement and see where we can tweak and maximize our relationship so you can earn the most revenue from our relationship. The call is free, 888-931-2639 and it can make a huge difference as we go into the 4th quarter and the holiday season.

If you have never considered selling checks or have a high traffic site and never had a clue of the massive revenue to be earned, I invite you to sign up today and get in touch with me, we will work together with you, get you up to speed fast and make sure you start generating revenue with Checks Unlimited quickly. As you can see from the chart above, it can be done.

Join Checks Unlimited today and start making a difference in your affiliate income. If you need assistance, feel free to contact me by phone, email or Skype.

** Feel free to share the knowledge with your friends or fellow affiliates if you want to help them out, use the links below and share : -)

As an affiliate, you should know when opportunity knocks …

You know that if you are first to market a new, hot product with lots of consumer demand, you will quickly start earning commissions with little or no competition from other affiliates … after you read this, I know you will agree that you need to load the SecureMyID product links to your website today.

Your credit cards are vulnerable to theft every time you take them out of your home and use them at a store, restaurant or other business.  But there is a new type of credit card and identity theft that a large portion of the population is unaware of.   It is called electronic pick pocketing and current statistics estimate nearly 140 million consumers are at risk. Read on so you can see how you can help prevent the theft and profit as an affiliate at the same time.

Credit card issuers have been installing radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in credit cards for years.  This chip is basically an electronic tag embedded in the card that carries all the card’s information.  If your credit or debit card has a radio wave symbol on it then you are at risk.  This same technology is also found in drivers licenses and passports, and there’s even a version of it in your pet’s ear.  In fact, every U.S. passport issued since 2006 has a RFID chip in it.   This has put a whole new spin on identity theft.

Although this technology is convenient if you’re paying for gas, the tiny RFID chip can be read remotely without the need to physically swipe the card.  This means anyone with a skimmer (available for less than $100 on EBay) can also get your information just by walking by you.  It doesn’t matter if your cards are in a wallet or purse because the skimmers can read through them.  Thousands of travelers and consumers can fall victim to this new form of theft without even knowing it.  It’s not just travelers and consumers who are at risk, but anyone with government, military or even port of entry ID’s.  This is definitely a threat and because the chips are cheap (about $1.50 each), this technology is going to be become more and more commonplace. As an affiliate, you are being introduced to a new niche market that can be very profitable …

So how can you help protect credit card information and earn commissions as an affiliate?

Checks Unlimited has come out with a line of wallets and accessories that feature specialized RFID blocking materials.  The new SecureMyID products from Checks Unlimited will help stop scanners from accessing credit card information.

Landing Page link: http://www.checksunlimited.com/Campaignlanding2.aspx

Product Page link: http://www.checksunlimited.com/Category.aspx?catid=304

If you are already a Checks Unlimited affiliate, you know what you need to do. Please log into ShareASale and load the links to your site. If you have any questions, please contact me. We encourage you to use social media to promote this as this is already getting wide coverage in the news media everyday.

If you are not an affiliate, we invite you to sign up to the Checks Unlimited program today and start generating commissions with one of the hottest products to come out in the affiliate marketing industry to date. Credit card and and identity theft are very real, the demand and the opportunity is here right now.

You now have the products and the ability to help protect people from this form of theft … you are now able to make a difference, help your site visitors prevent thieves from taking their identity and their credit card info and make amazing commissions in the process with Checks Unlimited and SecureMyID products.

Sign up to the Checks Unlimited program here.