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Frequently Asked Questions
We calculate sales from
the 1st of one month to midnight of the last day of the same month (ex: March 1
- 31). All referral checks are mailed within 10 business days after the last day
of every month. For international affiliates, we can make arrangements to send
payment via paypal. Click
here to contact us.
The visitor counter
records every single person who visits HearandPlay.com site by clicking through
your affiliate URL. The sales counter records all sales that are made
through your affiliate referral number for that month. Even if visitors came
through your affiliate URL 2 years ago, you'll still get credit for the sale as
we use advanced tracking technology that records sales for up to two years
after the initial visit.
Many people wonder how many sales are normally generated in relation to the number of visitors to HearandPlay.com. It really depends on the visitors you're sending. If your website is directly related to music or piano playing, then you'll probably see higher conversion ratios than if your website was related to auto repair and you were trying to monetize traffic through our program. On average, sites that are music-related earn one sale for every 95 to 115 visitors they send us. Some sites that really "perform" see one sale for every 33 to 50 visitors they refer to us; however, to get this kind of conversion ratio, a personal "recommendation" is required to give the course credibility. A personal recommendation can increase your referral fees by as much as 416% (we've done the math). For more linking strategies, click here. For those of you who may not be aware, these conversion ratios are fantastic when you consider that the average conversion ratio for a web site on the Internet is one sale per 720 visitors! With that said, I want to make it clear that the type of traffic you generate has a direct affect on the percentage of people that buy. For example, if you are promoting "The Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" 300-pg course on a site that sells horse saddles, it would be more reasonable to expect 1 sale out of every 1,000 visitors to the HearandPlay.com site as these visitors are not targeted (i.e. they're unqualified visitors). However, if you have a site that is music related or at least attracts visitors who might be interested in what we have to offer, you can expect to see results such as one out of every 70 visitors buying because they are the perfect qualified visitor. Better yet, if you have a site that is piano-related and actually sells other piano material, you can expect results such as one out of every 50 or better! If your site is not directly related to music, don't worry. We've seen non-related sites pull a sale from every 100-200 visitors. It depends on the way you position our promotional tools to your audience. For example, if you operator a site for parents, you'd post a personal message on top of our banner saying: "Get your child involved in music." These "connecting phrases," alone, may increase your conversion more than just posting our banners in an unrelated part of your site. Of course, as stated above, the personal recommendation from you is powerful in swaying your audience towards our products.
Overall, the biggest revenue generator for HearandPlay.com affiliates is "The Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" 300-pg course. This is the product that we recommend that are affiliates push the hardest. Why? Because if your customers love our first book, they'll purchase our ear-training software, and then our dvd series --- and you'll get paid for every single referral (because we cookie visitors so that even if they buy months later, you'll still be connected to them, which means you'll make money on repeat business)! So here's what we recommend:
I want to let you know that most of our top producing sites started off small, so don't be worried if your first month does not produce overwhelming results. Getting a site to produce thousands of dollars in referral fees takes a few months of "tweaking" to see what is most effective for your particular site. For example, our current
top affiliate member only received about $200 for his first check, but now after
working together to find the most profitable ways to link to our sites, he is
producing referral fees in excess of $4,000 a month. Now, don't get me wrong,
you need a lot of traffic to your site to be receiving over $4,000 every
month... but no matter how small your site is, try some of the suggestions
located within this site as these are the techniques and tricks the top
HearandPlay.com affiliates are using with phenomenal success.
Our tracking software is very sophisticated and compensates for people returning to the site many times a month. It would take me a while to explain all the technical stuff, so I will avoid that and try to explain it as simply as possible. If you try to click through the banner/link you placed on your site over and over, the "visitor" counter on your special reporting page will show it as only one visitor. This is because it is "you" coming back again and again (you are just "1 visitor" coming back again and again). We set up the software to do this so the visitor numbers are always accurate and you can always figure out the "real" sales conversion ratio (the ratio of how many visitors it took to get one sale). Let me explain what I mean by that. Say you had 2,000 new visitors a month clicking on your affiliate link and visiting the HearandPlay.com site. Let's say that 400 of those 2,000 visitors every month come back to the HearandPlay.com site twice (2 times). Now after 12 months of being part of our referral program, you would have brought in 24,000 "new" visitors and sold approximately 225 courses (as we, on average, have one sale for every 105 people that visit HearandPlay.com). The way our visitor counter is set up now, after the 12 months, it would say that there were 24,000 visitors (as the counter only shows "new" visitors). However, if we set up the counter to count all "new" visitors AND repeat visitors, it would really mess up the sales conversion statistics. As discussed before, if 400 of your 2,000 visitors a month visited the HearandPlay.com site twice, there would be 400 "extra" visitors recorded. So instead of registering 2,000 unique visitors in a month, the counter would register 2,400 visitors a month (28,800 visitors a year). Over the period of a year, this would work out to 4,800 repeat visitors calculated as "unique visitors" (400 repeat visitors X 12 months = 4,800 "extra") and this would really throw off your sales statistics. Instead of accurately showing that you converted 1 out of every 105 visitors into a sale (24,000 visitors divided by 225 sales), it would show that you converted 1 out of every 128 visitors into a sale (28,800 visitors divided by 225 sales) which is WRONG! I hope the math does not confuse you here -- it is a little complicated. But I wanted to illustrate the point. The way the counters work is they only count NEW visitors to the site so you can see your proper conversion ratio to make sure everything is going OK with the way you are promoting HearandPlay.com. This may raise one question in your head. How do I test to see if my counter is working if after the first time I go through the link, it will not count me anymore? That is easy. Simply delete/erase all the "cookies" from your browser and you will trick our counters into thinking you have not been to the site before so it will count you as a "new" visitor (and you can verify that the counter is working by seeing it increment by one). On a little different
note, no matter if the visitor is counted as a "new" visitor or if they are a
"repeat" visitor and not counted on the visitor counter, your affiliate
referral number is ALWAYS coded in all the HearandPlay.com web pages so if that
visitor ever orders within the next 2 years, you will get the referral fee.
Before you'll start to earn significant commissions each month, you'll need to increase the traffic to your web site. I say this because there have been a few people in the past who have expected to earn huge commission checks each month, despite the fact that their web sites were only seeing a few hundred visitors each month. The fact of the matter is that if you are not getting many visitors to your site, then you will not get many people linking through to HearandPlay.com, and you will not be making a lot in referral fees. We have set up some
tutorials to help you drive more traffic to your site, and thus to your
affiliate link. Click here to
access it.
We take care of everything. You just need to direct the visitors to the HearandPlay.com web site through your affiliate links, and we'll look after taking the order, delivering the product, etc... When one of your visitors clicks through your affiliate link, we will display the appropriate sales letter, where the customer can order directly online, through our 800#, fax, or by mailing in a check. When the customer is ready to order, the HearandPlay.com ordering system takes over, and automatically processes the order -- while recording your affiliate identification number to guarantee that you're credited for the sale. But how does it track orders via 800#, fax or mail? Good question. Our sales letter will always prompt the visitor to mention an offer number to receive the mentioned special offer and additional bonus items. Of course the customer will write this number down because they want to claim their free products and discounted price (who wouldn't?). Now... when they call the toll-free number, the representative will always ask them for the offer number. If you guessed that our system automatically places your affiliate ID number as the offer number, you are correct! For example, if someone goes to hearandplay.com through your affiliate link (lets say "345890"), they will be prompted to mention offer # 345890 when ordering. We thought this would be a brilliant way to track offline sales without having to ask visitors what site they came from. Note: The same applies for the "order form" that customers must print out in order to mail in their payment. Right under our address, there appears and offer number which is also your affiliate ID number. You can be assured that all sales are tracked regardless of whether they are ordered online, by phone, fax, or by mail! [Use our
quick
links section to visit our home study course through your affiliate id.
Then scroll to the bottom and see your ID mentioned as the offer number. This is
how the program tracks phone sales.]
It's easy! When you signed up as an HearandPlay.com affiliate, you were assigned a unique identification number. Refer to your email if you have forgotten this number. It is usually a 5 or 6-digit number and is used in every URL that you use to link to the HearandPlay.com affiliate products. For example, to promote:
Note: You can get "quick links" to all major pages of our site generated for you automatically by simply entering your affiliate id in our quick link generator. Do you see how, in each case, your unique identification number appears in the URL? Well, it's this number that we use to track how many visitors you send to the HearandPlay.com site... and how many sales you refer! We have special software that runs seamlessly in the background, automatically tracking everything without your visitors even being aware of it! Now, in the case of all the "Copy & Paste" e-mail promotions, classified ads, banner ads, text links, pop ups, etc... that we provide you with to promote the various HearandPlay.com affiliate products, we have inputted a "YOURID" tag which should be replaced with your affiliate identification number. It's thta simple. However, if you decide to write a personal letter of referral and e-mail it your customers and subscribers... or if you write your own text link or article about a HearandPlay.com affiliate product to add to your web site... you'll need to use the correct affiliate URL with your unique affiliate identification number in it, just like we've shown you above. If you plan on using your own personally-written promotions and just need a list of common pages with your affiliate number already included, click here.
Currently, our average "medium traffic site" receives a monthly referral check between $300 to $500. We have web sites that earn under $100 a month (very low traffic sites) and others as high as $6,500 a month and more (popular, high traffic sites)! The amount you earn depends on the type of people that visit your site, how many visitors you receive monthly, and how much exposure you give the link to your HearandPlay.com affiliate link. (This is the key... *how much exposure you give your Hearandplay.com affiliate link*)! Sites that have links to Hearandplay.com in many places throughout their web sites do MUCH better than sites that only have a small link or just one link throughout their site. I cannot emphasize enough how important exposure is to the success of your campaign. Make sure you spend some
time reading the various tips and promotion ideas that we share with you
throughout this site. You'll discover the same secrets that our top affiliates
(affiliates earning $6,500+ per month) are using so that you can experience the
same success. Even just implementing one of the techniques we share can
literally double your monthly commission checks. So don't take the
strategies we share with you lightly!
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