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Pay Per Call Program Updates

I am super excited to announce that we have made some big updates to our Pay Per Call Program on ShareASale.ShareASale Affiliate Pay Per Call

To cut straight to the best part, we have increased our payouts across the board on converting calls to $20.00.

So now every call that lasts 4 minutes or longer pays out at $20.00. And, of course, affiliates that convert at higher than normal rates are eligible for even further increases.

We have also added new campaigns for the following categories as well:

Bass Guitar Spotlight Series
Blues Guitar Spotlight Series
Guitar Set-Up and Maintenance Spotlight Series
All Courses Together
All Home School Courses

I could not wait any longer to send you news of the payout increase and new categories so I literally have not even had time to add creatives to anything except the Blues Guitar campaign, but you can still use the numbers for them. Tomorrow and next week I will finish the campaigns with creatives and, as always, if you need a creative in a specific size, just let me know and I will make it for you.

Now, let’s get some people calling!

Login to the Pay Per Call Center Now

Learn More About Our Pay Per Call Program

Blues Guitar Learning system

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Exciting Pay Per Call Updates!

Some of you already know this because of the automated updates that ShareASale sends when we change things, but the rest of you will have to wait until tomorrow for some exciting news on our Pay Per Call program on ShareASale.

Yep, this is called a teaser and yes you can be mad at me for not telling you more :)

OK, basically it involves more links, additional categories, and more money. Does that work for now?

Stay tuned!

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Bass Guitar, New Banners, Lessons from Eric Nagel and Jason Rubacky, Tennessee Advertising Tax - Legacy Affiliate Podcast Episode Six

Episode Six of the Legacy Learning Systems Affiliate Podcast is ready for your listening pleasure, with intro music by one of my favorite bands, NEEDTOBREATHE.Eric Nagel Jason Rubacky Tennessee Advertising Tax Affiliate Podcast

This weeks topics include the upcoming bass guitar course, new banners, Pay Per Call lessons from Eric Nagel, Jason Rubacky, and the guys from RingRevenue on the Both Sides of the Tracks Podcast, and Tennessee’s joining the Advertising Tax bandwagon.

I talk about some of the different things that we will be testing on Pay Per Call, such as different messages for each course, different voices, etc. as well as thinking about ways that affiliates can utilize hyperlocal marketing. What are your thoughts? Shoot me an email with your ideas and we can implement them to help you!

You can listen or download below and you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

Show Notes:

Bass Guitars LIVE on ShareASale | All of the Banners with affiliate codes

New Banners

ABestWeb Millionth Post Contest

The Thread

Join ABestWeb

Both Sides of the Tracks Podcast on PayPer Call

Jason Rubacky on Twitter

Eric Nagel on Twitter

Jason Spievak on Twitter

Both Sides Podcast

RingRevenue

Tennessee Advertising Tax

Download Legacy Affiliate Podcast Episode One

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Both Sides of the Track Podcast on Pay Per Call

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I really enjoyed my guest appearance last night on the Both Sides of the Tracks Podcast with Jason Rubacky from ShareASale, affiliate Eric Nagel, and Rob Duva and Jason Spievak of RingRevenue.

The major topic of discussion was our Pay Per Call program on ShareASale.

We talk about the success we have had with our program and ways to improve it, as well as ways that affiliates can best use this platform.

As many have pointed out recently, it is the best affiliate podcast out there (even if I am biased towards our own haha).

Give it a listen below:

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More Pay Per Call Stuff, New FeedFront, Review Tips, Bonuses…Legacy Affiliate Podcast Episode Five

The Legacy Learning Systems Affiliate Podcast Episode Five is ready for your listening pleasure. Affiliate Podcast with Matt McWilliams

Below you can stream it or download it and you can also subscribe to our podcast in iTunes so you do not miss a single episode.

This week I talk about more Pay Per Call stuff, the new FeedFront Magazine, Review Tips, April’s Bonuses, and My Good Friday schedule.

43 First Sales in March

New ShareASale Pay Per Call Recording

Affiliate Marketing Insider Podcast Talking about Pay Per Call for Affiliates

Download | Listen

FeedFront Magazine Issue Ten - Of Golf and Affiliate Marketing

Review Site Tips Blog Post

General Web Design Tips

Related Posts

April 2010 ShareASale Bonuses

Good Friday Schedule

Download Legacy Affiliate Podcast Episode One

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Affiliate Marketing Insider Podcast Features RingRevenue Discussing Pay Per Call

From the PartnerCentric Blog:

Join Host Linda Woods at noon Pacific (3 p.m. Eastern) Thursday for another edition of the Affiliate Marketing Insider podcast on WebmasterRadio.fm. This week Linda is joined by Ring Revenue CEO Jason Spievak and EVP of Sales Monty Hudson who will be talking about the success affiliate marketers are having with the Ring Revenue pay-per-call platform.

Ring Revenue’s solution has been licensed by some of the major affiliate networks, including Commission Junction and ShareASale. To cite one success story, ShareASale advertiser Legacy Learning Systems launched pay-per-call services through ShareASale in January 2010. Within the first 30 days, Legacy generated nearly 200 calls. One hundred percent of the calls that qualified for an affiliate commission payout have converted to a sale. Some affiliates have done so well that Legacy increased their commissions by up to 25 percent.

Ring Revenue makes it easy for affiliate networks and advertising agencies to track purchases made by phone. The company’s patent-pending pay-per-call platform makes it easy for online and offline publishers to promote call-based campaigns through the leading affiliate networks, and its proprietary call quality processing engine ensures delivery of the highest-quality callers to advertisers.

In addition to making pay-per-call campaigns available to affiliates to promote, merchants are also using the Ring Revenue platform to track and manage their own direct call-based campaign promotions, where they don’t pay affiliate commissions.

Affiliate Marketing Insider is now in its third year on the air and is broadcast at noon Pacific each Thursday on WebmasterRadio.fm. For an archives of previous shows, visit http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/affiliate-marketing-insider/.

Visit our Pay Per Call section for more information, articles, and updates on our Pay Per Call Program on ShareASale.

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New ShareASale Pay Per Call Recording

Yesterday I was listening to the Affiliate Thing podcast with Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille and Shawn mentioned a new site called Fiverr.com.

I have been wanting a new recording for our Pay Per Call greeting on ShareASale but haven’t been able to find the right person. Fiverr made it very easy and we found a few great voices, from which we picked one, a lady named Geri (her Fiverr profile is here), who recorded our new greeting for all calls that go through our Pay Per Call platform. It is a great greeting, much better than our current one and as Jason Rubacky at ShareASale said, it will definitely increase conversions even more!

For more about our Pay Per Call Program on ShareASale read these posts:

RingRevenue CEO Writes about Legacy’s Pay Per Call

About ShareASale Pay Per Call

Lots of Great Press about our ShareASale Pay Per Call Program

You can listen to it below or download it and listen here.

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Spring, Weddings, Pay Per Call Case Study, and Taxes - Legacy Learning Affiliate Podcast Episode Four

Legacy Learning Affiliate Podcast Episode Four is all recorded and covers some great topics this week.

Spring has sprung (lame cliche) and the time is near for weddings to start. Learn & Master Ballroom Dance is a great gift, as a I talk about in the podcast. You can download or listen to it below. You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

This week’s topics are:

March 2010 Affiliate Insider Newsletter - You can read it here.

Number One Wedding Affiliate Program on ShareASale

Pay Per Call Case Study

New Videos - In the March Newsletter

Big Bonuses This Month

When: March 1-31 What: Sell 20 Painting Courses Amount: $300.00 bonus

When: March 1-31 What: Sell 15 Ballroom Dance Courses Amount: $100.00 bonus

When: Always March 1-31 What: 200 sales in one month Amount: $500.00 bonus $2000.00 bonus

All of our ShareASale Bonuses Can be Found Here

Connecticut Advertising Tax Update - Melanie Seery Contact

You can listen here below and be sure to Subscribe to the Legacy Learning Affiliate Podcast in iTunes

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RingRevenue CEO Writes about Legacy’s Pay Per Call

(Please note this is a duplicate post due to a database error and it was lost)

Jason Spievak, CEO of RingRevenue, wrote an awesome article earlier this week about Pay Per Call.

Here are some highlights, but I highly suggest reading the full article.

One of the easiest ways to boost the performance of an ad is also one of the simplest: include a phone number.

This is absolutely a great way improve the performance of your ads. It literally instantly increases the trust factor.

In an instant, a potential buyer sees that the advertiser is real, tangible, and can be reached if necessary, raising their comfort level with entering into a business transaction.

Jason points out that a phone number is really useful for increasing conversions and sale amounts, especially with higher priced items like ours.

Not surprisingly, calls convert at higher rates — and with higher average ticket prices — than clicks, thanks to the consultative sales skills of a trained agent. Clicks generally convert at 1% to 3%, while calls convert at a much more appealing 30% to 50% rate with 1.5 to 2 times the ticket price on average, thanks to the upsell and cross-sell capabilities of the call center agent.

He shares a well-documented statistic about those people who research online and buy offline. The numbers, even in 2010, are staggering.

More than 60% of shoppers do their research online, but purchase offline.

As for Legacy Learning Systems, how exactly is it working for us so far? Well as Jason says,

Take the guitar lesson example. Legacy Learning Systems provides instructional DVDs for music and the arts. Customers often want to speak with someone about the DVDs and talk through their options. When customers call, those calls convert. In fact, when they come through the company’s affiliate base, all calls that result in a commission are converting to sales.

In short, what are you waiting for? Pay Per Call is, simply put, extra money for you. It will increase clicks and calls, conversions, sale amounts.

You can learn more about our Pay Per Call on ShareASale and read about the first Pay Per Call payout increase we gave and then be sure to sign-up for it today!

To the right is a sample creative…but there are a TON more, including text links. In case you did not know, clicks track to your account as normal

More Information on our Pay Per Call program on ShareASale.

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Lots of Great Press about our ShareASale Pay Per Call Program

Legacy Learning Systems, ShareASale, and RingRevenue have been getting a lot of press lately about the success of our Pay Per Call Program on ShareASale.

Here is some of it.

Shawn Collins

RingRevenue Press Release - ShareASale Pay-Per-Call Exceeds Expectations

Dial R for Revenue

Actual Case Study on the ShareASale Blog - Legacy Learning Finds Calls Convert with ShareASale Pay-Per-Call

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Our First Pay Per Call Commission Increase on ShareASale!

I just got to award our first commission increase on our Pay Per Call program on ShareASale to Marvin in the Bahamas, who is now earning $20.00 on every converting call.

A converting call is any call that presses [2] for information on buying the course and lasts over four minutes. As I mentioned in this post, we chose four minutes because that is under the average time that a buying call takes. Some take as much as twenty minutes while others take only four or five minutes. Most calls that last over four minutes result in a sale though.

After ten converting calls, we consider the number that actually bought and continue to adjust payouts based on the quality of the calls. Marvin’s calls were of an outstanding quality so he earned the increase. I am looking forward to giving him another one after his next ten or twenty calls and to giving increases to all of you who have not yet generated ten calls.

More information on ShareASale Pay Per Call Program

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LEGACY Week 2.0 on ShareASale Recap

WOW! What an awesome LEGACY Week 2.0 we had last week!

We gave away over $1800 in bonuses plus TWO 5% yearlong commission increases that are worth over $7300 to those affiliates, based on previous sales.

L Monday was a very Lucrative day indeed and set the tone for a great LEGACY Week 2.0. All week long, we offered TRIPLE Commissions on sales of Learn & Master Painting. Needless to say this was a very popular bonus! Total bonuses to date: $104.30.
E Tuesday had some Enormous bonuses. Every sale of $100 or more earned a $10.00 bonus and every sale of $200 or more earned a $30.00 bonus. Total bonuses to date: $388.60.
G Wednesday was my favorite day of LEGACY Week 2.0. All affiliates sales on this day earned an additional 50% bonus that was used to send Chris Bischoff in our shipping department to aid in the relief efforts in Haiti. Over $400 was raised for Haiti. Full recap here. Total bonuses to date: $844.05.
A Thursday’s “A” represented the vast Array of new banners we added to our creatives. Using one of the banners on this day earned you a $5.00 bonus instantly. There were other ways to earn this fun bonus as well. You can check out some of the banners here and here. Total bonuses to date: $1277.55.
C Friday was all about the phone Calls, as was this past Monday (hey LEGACY Week is eight days long!). Our newly launched Pay Per Call campaigns paid out a double commission for these two days. Read more about ShareASale Pay Per Call. Total bonuses to date: $1590.45.
LEGACY Week Thermometer
Y The weekend offered two affiliates who made a sale to earn a 5% commission increase. Congratulations to Alan and Jane who earned the increases. The winners were chosen at random from those affiliates who made just one sale. Assuming their sales stay the same (and I know they will increase) the increase is worth $7300 to them! Total bonuses to date: $1277.55.

All in all, this week simply rocked! Thank you for making it so much fun and for helping us to raise a significant amount of money for Haitian relief. And Congratulations again to Jane and Alan for earning those nice yearlong commission increases!

Already looking forward to the next LEGACY Week!

If you got my email recap, don’t forget to look for the Easter Egg!

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Last Day of LEGACY Week 2.0 Today

Apparently we have eight days in our LEGACY Weeks on ShareASale :)

As part of LEGACY Week 2.0 “C”alls Friday, every Pay Per Call conversion on ShareASale gets a DOUBLE commission last Friday and today.

Already since last Monday, we have given out over $1700 in bonuses, including over $400 in donations to Haitian relief.

The bonuses keep rolling in though and later today I will announce the two affiliates who won the 5% yearlong commission increase, so stay tuned!

ShareASale Pay Per Call Commission

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LEGACY Week 2.0 on ShareASale Friday - Double Commissions on Pay Per Call

Day Five of LEGACY Week 2.0 is all about our new ShareASale Pay Per Call campaigns.

Every single qualified Pay Per Call conversion will earn you a DOUBLE COMMISSION!

That’s $30.00 per conversion tomorrow AND Monday! Yes, two days of double commissions for Pay Per Call on ShareASale.

So what do you need to do to earn the double commissions?

First, Learn more about ShareASale Pay Per Call if you haven’t already.

Next, apply to be a part of the Pay Per Call program.

Third, set up your campaigns.

I am currently working with Carolyn Tang at ShareASale to put together a tutorial on Pay Per Call, which should be out next week…not that it helps you now LOL.

Have a great day tomorrow!

ShareASale Pay Per Call Commissions

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About ShareASale Pay Per Call

As I announced yesterday, our Pay Per Call campaigns are LIVE to affiliates on ShareASale!

But what exactly is Pay Per Call and how can you use it as an affiliate?

According to Brian Littleton, founder and CEO of ShareASale:

“Pay Per Call allows you, as an affiliate to advertise unique phone numbers - all of which end up ringing through to various advertisers. So for example, if you were local to Chicago and were advertising for a local hair salon you could advertise that phone number in any offline or online publication. You would then be paid for any phone calls that came through that number to the hair salon. That’s just one example of a myriad of options available”

Pay Per Call allows you to promote us in a great fun new way. As you will see in our sample banners below, the call to action is the toll-free number, which is unique to you. Of course, if a person clicks on the banner, it is still tracked as normal to your account, just as a regular banner, with a LIFETIME cookie!

When the number is called, the caller will be prompted to enter one of three options, from service calls, ordering, or other. If they press the “order” option and remain on the phone for 4 or more minutes, you are credited with a sale, which pays out at $20.00.

Pay Per Call Location The average sales call takes between 7 and 10 minutes, since usually they have some questions, so we timed it at 4 minutes in order to account for those really quick order calls. About half the people who call to order end up ordering, so we put the payout at half of the average commission ($29.80).

Over time, we will adjust each affiliate payout based on the actual percentage of people who purchase on converting calls, so if your calls produce a 75% conversion we will payout $23.00 (or higher based on volume as well) for example.

I hope that this explains what Pay Per Call is and how you can utilize it.

To sign-up for it, simply go to the Pay Per Call Center in your ShareASale account and then look for Legacy Learning Systems and click on “Click to Apply.”

How to Apply for Pay Per Call

Once you are approved, you will be able to access all campaigns and creatives (see examples below) and get your own number.

As soon as possible this week or next (by the way, next week is LEGACY WEEK 2.0 more information here on that) I will add a tutorial video about Pay Per Call to our ShareASale Video Tutorials section.

In the meantime, if you need any help, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am here to help!

I look forward to working with you in this new, exciting way and to continuing to serve you!

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