Now, you can partner with two affiliate marketing companies, LinkShare and ShareASale, to increase your store’s exposure on the Internet.

The basic concept:
Affiliate marketing companies help you find sites willing to advertise your store. These advertisers, or affiliates as they’re called, post a link to your store on their site. In return, the affiliate receives a commission if a shopper follows the link and ultimately places an order.

Getting started is easy:
We take care of all the technical aspects; You just need to sign up with one of the affiliate marketing companies, set your commission rates, and upload your marketing links (links to your products, etc). Once you’ve completed the setup process, the affiliate marketing company helps you find affiliates that are a good match for your store.

We take care of the rest:
We recognize when a customer comes to your store from one of your affiliates. If that customer completes an order, we send a commission notification to the affiliate marketing company and they initiate the commission process.

Check out your affiliate marketing results:
In Quick Shopping Cart, we mark orders placed by customers who came to your site through an affiliate so you can track how many orders your affiliate marketing campaign is generating. The order’s source code is set to LinkShare or ShareASale, depending on which company you’ve selected. You can view all your orders, broken down by source code, using the “Total Sales By Source Code” report.

Affiliate marketing is a great way to reach new customers. And, because you get to choose the affiliates that link to your store, you know they will be a good match. This means you can generate specific, well-targeted advertising for a relatively low cost.  More importantly, you only pay your affiliates when a shopper comes from their site and actually completes an order. So, you’re only paying for real results.

This new feature will really help you generate more sales. To get started, select Affiliate Marketing from the Promotions menu.