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The Best Sites in Life are Free!
by Shawn Collins, Refer-it.com.
It was predicted in the industry papers that 1999 would be the Year of the
Affiliate.
After years of experimenting with
banner ads and buttons, marketers finally realized
that the banner and button concept was costly and ineffective. In contrast,
affiliate
programs provide companies with a low-cost sales force that produces a reliable
revenue stream.
Companies such as Carprices.com, Amazon.com, and the One & Only Network have
made a
big splash in the affiliate marketing arena with their shared revenue programs.
But apparently revenue isn't the only thing that matters. As the saying goes,
content
is king. And free content affiliate programs are quickly emerging as the hot
segment in
affiliate marketing.
There are various models for the free
content sites. Some affiliates, such as CitiQuest.com,
generate their revenue by integrating advertising into the content. BigMailBox.com,
a web-based e-mail service where you can offer e-mail accounts with your domain,
provides
their service for free, plus a portion of their banner ad rotation is allocated
to the affiliate.
"We operate on an advertising revenue model," stated Rob Walther of BigMailBox.com.
"There is a 468x60 rotating banner on the users' mail interface. The ad rotates
each time
a new page is downloaded. We allow our affiliate to control 20% of the rotation.
BigMailBox.com earns its revenue by controlling the remaining 80% of the rotation
(booking ads to major, mainstream net sponsors on a CPM basis)."
SuperCalendar utilizes banner revenue to offer a calendar to "non-techie users
who have
to manage lots of events," according to Jeff Schwartz of SuperCalendar. In
addition to
receiving a co-branded calendar, Webmasters also have the opportunity to generate
revenue
when their users sign up for SuperCalendar.
Another popular model is utilized by iSyndicate where they offer free content
as a lure
to their sites, where they attempt to sell an upgraded version of the service.
Message Master combines the two concepts of ad banners and upgrades. "We charge
no fee
for our basic service, which is supported by advertising revenue. We do have
a premium
service that we do charge for where the user has control of all advertising
on the site,"
said Ted Trentler from Message Master.
Manna, the Daily Scripture Break, offers free uplifting messages from the
Bible that are
updated daily. This service was started by Tim Stevens of Right Angle wwWeb
Designs as
a personal application at first.
According to Tim, "The reason this program is free is because of the unique
reason it was
launched to begin with...I needed an incentive to remember to spend a bit
of time in the
Bible every day and this seemed like an excellent way to do that."
Various media outlets cater to marketers with their free content programs.
Your Radio Mall
provides a MLM and Home Business Radio Show, as well as Entertainment Radio.
The Advanced Marketing Techniques E-Zine is a free publication that provides
lots of helpful information in the areas of marketing, promotion and business
on the Internet.
While some free content affiliate programs focus on a certain niche audience,
there are many
that appeal to a wide demographic. Cyber Greetings, an online greeting card
and gift shop,
allows associates to link to their site and offer more than 400 online greeting
cards.
Webmasters can offer a personalized, practical e-mail service to users by
joining
the LifeMinders program.
The LifeMinders program enables website visitors to sign up to receive timely,
relevant tips
and reminders each week about home and garden, family, auto, entertainment,
personal finance,
personal events, health and pets.
Some free content sites use their product as a method to generate leads. Venture
Direct
Worldwide, a full service direct marketing firm, generates leads and creates
brand awareness
for advertisers through their network of free offer sites known as the Free
Forum Network,
according to Debra Silverman of Venture Direct Worldwide.
DirectLeads delivers leads to major clients like CoolSavings, MyPoints, ValuPage,
eTour,
FamilyPoint, CatalogLink, TurboTax, Quicken, and many more. "Affiliates make
about 75%
of the total lead amount," said Jason Wolfe of DirectLeads.
According to Scott Averbach of Bach Systems, Inc., "All our offerings are
on a lead basis,
thus they are free. We provide leads to companies wishing to advertise via
direct marketing
methods. They basically play the numbers game, they give something away so
many times and
eventually they reach a potential customer that buys something."
When the industry papers anointed 1999 as the Year of the Affiliate, they
were surely
referring to the revenue-based affiliate programs. But the first half of 1999
saw an abundance
of launches for free content sites, and the second half of 1999 is starting
to shape up as the
Year of the Free Content Affiliate.
Click here for a complete
listing of the free content affiliate programs on Refer-it.com.
Shawn Collins is the Affiliate Manager at Refer-it.com.
Refer-it.com is the definitive
directory of affiliate and referral programs on the Internet. Launched in
December 1997,
Refer-it.com was the
pioneer of the industry and their comprehensive listings provide key
information on all of the programs in their database.
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