General Questions
What is iAffiliate?
iAffiliate is a CPA affiliate network, focused toward the biz-opp niche, which enables affiliates to find offers to promote with some of the most competitive payouts in the industry. It provides affiliates with a unique affiliate link, creatives they can use to promote any of the given offers, and a place where they can track their sales statistics in real time.
What is CPA?
CPA stands for Cost Per Acquisition or Cost Per Action. This is the most well-known form of affiliate marketing, in which the owner/publisher of a product pays an affiliate a set amount in commissions every time that affiliate’s promotion of the publisher’s product prompts a customer or end user to take action on that product. The amount of the commission is usually either a percentage of the sale price or a flat amount.
The “Action” or “Acquisition” part of CPA can be summed up two different ways:
- CPL (Cost Per Lead): when the affiliate’s promotion provokes the customer or end user to sign up as a potential buyer, often submitting contact information by which they may be contacted with advertisement material. This is often done through the giving away of a free product.
- CPS (Cost Per Sale): when the affiliate’s promotion provokes the customer or end user to purchase one or more of the products being offered by the publisher.
What is a Conversion Rate?
A conversion rate is the percentage of clicks which turn into leads or sales. For example, if a promotion generates four hundred clicks and there were twenty-four sales that resulted from those clicks, the conversion rate would be 6% (24 sales divided by 400 clicks).
What’s a Payout?
Payout is the amount an affiliate can expect to receive in compensation for his productivity with the offer. At iAffiliate, the payout is 100% on nearly all products, meaning that whatever the consumer pays, the affiliate makes.
How Does Campaign Tracking Work?
Each affiliate will have their own unique link by which they promote. Since the link is unique, its tracking is separate from all other links, and as a result, an affiliate will be able to see how many clicks they have generated, as well as how many sales they have generated, and even how much money they have made from those sales.
Is iAffiliate CAN-SPAM Compliant?
iAffiliate is 100% compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act.
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Advertiser Questions
What types of Advertising can I get through iAffiliate?
iAffiliate provides the affiliate with banners, HTML creatives, newsletter creatives, and text creatives as promotional material. In addition to these, affiliate are able to incorporate their own unique link into their own websites and/or blogs.
What if I have my own Advertisements?
iAffiliate attempts to maintain the highest level of ethical marketing reputation. If you have your own advertisement, contact your affiliate manager to ensure that the advertisement is approved for use. Once that is accomplished, your own ads may be used freely.
How can iAffiliate Help Maximize my Conversions?
iAffiliate will allow the affiliate to promote multiple offers and compare the campaign statistics. By allowing the affiliate to do this, it empowers the affiliate to hone his promotions and maximize his productivity by dedicating more time to the campaigns that are shown to be more productive.
How do I get Started Running Ad Campaigns Through iAffiliate?
Simply visit the iAffiliate Sign-Up page to sign up! There is no upfront cost, and no contract. We simply require a credit check. Once you are signed up, you can get started!
How Much Does it Cost to Begin?
It is free to sign up.
How are Advertisers Billed?
At the end of each week, we reconcile our campaign tracking report with the statistics of each affiliate.
How Can I Stop my Campaign?
An affiliate can manually set a cap on the number of sales able to be made, and the campaign will cease when that cap is reached.
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Affiliate Questions
How do I get Started as an Affiliate?
If you just joined our network and are approved, you should receive an email with log-in instructions. Once you are logged in, you can browse campaigns and payouts (CPA amount), select creatives, view performance reports and enable tracking.
What Payment Options are Available to Affiliates?
US-based affiliates may choose direct deposit, check, or Wire. International affiliates may only be paid by Wire (except Canadian residents, who may be paid by check). Note: there is a $10.00 fee for local wires and a $20.00 fee for international wires.
What are Affiliate’s Payouts Based On?
Each campaign states the commissionable action. They may be either cost per sale (CPS), cost per lead (CPL), cost per action (CPA), or cost per click (CPC).
Is There a Minimum Payment?
No. Affiliates have the ability to set a payment threshold, but there is no requirement to do so. Affiliates will be paid on the weekly sales that they accrue.
What About Taxes?
If you make over $600 in a year by being an affiliate with our company, it needs to be reported to the IRS. Send us a completed W-8 form (for international affiliates) or W-9 form (for US affiliates) so that information can be used to complete a 1099 form at the end of the year. We won’t allow affiliates to work for us unless they comply with the law as required by the IRS.
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