New tool for you GeneTree.com affiliates to use!  Often times your traffic will find it very difficult to do reserach, getting lost in terms of what steps they should take to answer some of those questions about their family’s past.  What can you do with a DNA testing kit? And how do you interpret results? GeneTree.com now offers consultations for people to learn and disect the information they have to take the next steps to find an answer.  GeneTree.com’s experts can help find the answers that many need to learn more. Don’t let your traffic get stumped! Provide them with GeneTree.com as the best solution for answers.

Check into CJ to find more helpful text links and banners to promote these wonderful new services, and if you need more banners or have any questions, please contact me for more details.

If you’re not a GeneTree affiliate, there’s no better time to sign up than right now! Click here for more info!

We all hope that the summer has treated everyone well! We are very pleased with everyone’s efforts in our affiliate program, and hope that we can see more progress over these last few months. The fourth quarter is rapidly approaching, and there are going to be plenty of reasons for people to be excited about ISeeMe.com, so be sure that you are beginning to optimize your efforts and definitely keep up to date with all the exciting news surrounding our terrific affiliate program.

Promotions and Coupons

There will be many promotions in the next few months, all intended to help out all the affiliates generate sales and traffic. Please be sure to stay up to date with expiration and new additions as there will likely be many useful promotions for you to use. If you have a question about any of the promotions, please feel free to contact us.

We are currently the free sticker promotion. Starting September 8, and ending September 14, there will also be free shipping on all orders with coupon code FSW635. This means the customer will receive free shipping AND free personalized stickers with a book order when they use the code!

Conversion Tips

I’ve given many clues in the past as to what works best for turning those clicks into sales, and it’s nice to see conversion rates jumping over the past few months. Unique content is always helpful, but I’ve noticed the best success has been in people linking to the virtual tour pages. Consider this as one of the best ways to sell your traffic on our great products. I See Me! has found that a significant number of conversions come from these pages, so please consider taking our knowledge and using it to your advantage!

And as always, we want to thank you for all your efforts and hope that we can all benefit with all the great promotions in the next few months. Please stay up to date with us and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any concerns with our affiliate program.

Not in the ISeeMe.com Affiliate Program? Join on CJ or contact Nick for more details!

Barefoot Tess has a new coupon available to affiliates. The coupon is for 10% off orders of $150 and up with the code FALL9. The code will be valid through November 30th. We’ve also created a custom banner and a text link to go with the coupon so logon to your CJ account and post your links and banners now.
We’ve also updated all of our banners. Log on to your Commission Junction account and check out the new fall banners we have for our affiliates. These banners are not only fall themed but they match the Barefoot Tess site.

Also, Barefoot Tess has a Labor Day promotion going on!

If you’re not a BareFootTess affiliate, now is the time to join. Please contact Jen Kiernan with questions or concerns for this program.

Starting today at 3:00 PM ET Soccer.com is launching their Friends and Family Sale. The sale is coupon based so sale prices will not show up on the website. However, the coupon code gives shoppers 15% off their entire order! There’s no threshold and it only lasts through Monday, September 7th so be sure to post it as soon as it goes live to get the most out of this event! Full details are below:

Offer: Friends and Family Sale at Soccer.com! 15% off Entire Order. Use Code: 1FF15

Code: 1FF15

Dates: September 4 (at 3:00 PM ET) – September 7th

Restrictions: Online exclusive Friends & Family promotion featuring 15% off everything on Soccer.com from 3 pm Friday, September 4 to 11:59 pm Monday, September 7. 15% off is in addition to Goal Club pricing. This offer is source-code driven (1FF15), but does not require a dollar threshold. This offer cannot be combined with other offers.

Not an affiliate? Become one quick to promote this offer! Click here for info!

We’re happy to announce that iContact has made the Inc. 500 list for the second year in a row! This year, coming in at #189, iContact has continued to show their ability to be a top player in the advertising industry and the business world in general. Part of their inclusion in the list can be attributed to a growth rate of over 1000%, exceeding the 3 year benchmark for growth in the Advertising and Marketing industry. Our congratulations go out to Ryan and the whole iContact team, as well as to you, our affiliates, as you played a role in the growth that the company has seen over the past year.

Thank you for all your hard work and continued efforts. If you have questions, need anything from us, or have suggestions on how to take the affiliate program to an even higher level, never hesitate to contact us. We appreciate the feedback and input of our affiliates as you are the ones on the front lines of this advertising channels.

If you’re not an iContact affiliate, you should be! Join now and be a part of securing iContact’s place in the Inc. 500 again next year!

Yesterday was the US Open Cup final between the Seattle Sounders FC and DC United. The US Open Cup is an open tournament in which all US Soccer Federation associated teams are able to compete. This includes adult amateur teams up to MLS clubs. The opportunity for such mixed competitions always leads to some exciting soccer matches.

After playing through qualification rounds and winning 4 in tournament games, the Sounders cinched their first US Open Cup title with a score of 2 to 1 over United. The Sounders became only the second MLS expansion team to ever win the title in doing so.

Our congratulations go out to the sounders, and as affiliates, it’s a great time to grab some Sounders related product links to update your site, blog posts, etc. Check out all of Soccer.com’s Sounders gear and then head to CJ or Pepperjam to get product links via the product data feed.

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact me, and if your not an affiliate you should be! Get more info here!

As affiliates, you get to see very little of what goes on at iContact. If you have an iContact account, you may speak with someone at customer service or tech support, but rarely do you even speak with someone at the company, let alone get to see into the company culture. Why is this important for affiliates to see? Well, I’m not sure that it is. However, to me it’s great to get a glimpse inside of an industry leading company and see what keeps them going and what makes them tick. So, to do this, iContact has created the iContactTV channel on YouTube where the post videos regularly as iNews. The videos can be anything from video staff surveys to impromptu celebrations.

Posted below you can check out the latest from iContact’s iNews. This video chronicles the decorating contest that iContact recently had, for which employees stayed nights and came in on weekends to work on (they actually did work during the day I’ve been told). That’s dedication! Check this video and head over the iContactTV to see everything else that goes on at iContact.