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Who Can Be An Preferred Partner? Almost everyone of legal age can add value to your client offerings by linking to Stock Media content sites. Any legal, ethical company of good repute can be an Preferred Partner, including: Internet Service Providers Researchers Professional Associations Stock Media Suppliers Brick and Mortar Stores Commercial Printers High Volume Clients Content Creators Agents & Reps Community Web Sites Back To Top Why Should I Be A Preferred Partner? Unlike any other affiliate program, StockMedia.net pays Preferred Partner commissions on all sales for an entire year - even if the client buys directly from a StockMedia.net site in the future. Refer once, collect commissions for a year. StockMedia.net wants long-term relationships with web sites that will refer qualified buyers, and keep on referring them. Loyalty is rewarded with loyalty (and aggregated commissions that can add up without effort). Back To Top How Much Do I Receive? Each month, StockMedia.net tallies all sales for each Preferred Partner. Commissions are paid based on an incremental sliding scale in which the more sales that result from your referred clients each month, the higher the commission percentage. The percentage paid ranges from zero percent for extremely low amounts (to discourage small clients from calling themselves an affiliate) to up to 20%. Back To Top What Does It Cost? It costs nothing to be a Stock Media Preferred Partner. We pay you for referring quality clients to us. (Note: Commissions paid to our Preferred Partners are our client acquisition cost which come from Stock Media's share of sales, not from creator royalties.) Back To Top How Does It Work? In your account profile area at any StockMedia.net network site, select the "code & banners" area to create links for your site or CD. Click here for full instructions on How To Link. When a client goes to StockMedia.net or searches from your site or CD's, they are "branded" with your unique Affiliate ID number if they have never visited StockMedia.net before. This is done with a "long URL" link from your Affiliate banners, logos or promotional pages. Every purchase they make for the next year will carry your Affiliate number even if they bypass your site on future visits. Commissions are mailed within 60 days of sales receipts and are based on the combined sales of all your referrals during the prior month. Back To Top What Must I Do? Read the Contract Complete the Registration Process Set up links from your sites and CD's Promote your affiliation by encouraging your preferred clients to visit to StockMedia.net Back To Top Do I Have To Sign An Exclusive Contract? No. You can represent any affiliate program, competing or not. This is a non-exclusive contract that you may end at any time. You are, however, obligated not to display competing affiliate links on pages that contain StockMedia.net links - the exception being on home pages and top level frames which may contain competitors. Back To Top Is There Any Way That I'd Not Receive Benefits? Yes, you must, for example, consistently send more traffic to StockMedia.net than actual sales. (The only time this might not happen is if you stop linking to our site or stop referring sales leads.) You must be the first to "brand" a client. First come, first served. Commissions end one year from the initiation date of each client referral. You will no longer receive commissions if a client re-registers with a different name and email address through a different Preferred Partner link. If you violate the contract, for example, if you place StockMedia.net banners on a pornographic or illegal site, commissions will be forfeited. If you automate registration of others or force registrations in any way, your commissions will be forfeited. You cannot, for example, automatically sign up everyone in a database. Each individual must choose to sign themselves up. If a referred client chooses to become an Preferred Partner themselves, they will receive their own commission. (This must be done in writing and be exceptionally approved by StockMedia.net.) Back To Top How Do You Make The Most Money? Preferred Partners will quickly realize that the faster they refer their best clients to StockMedia.net, the more clients will bear their "brand" before others get the chance. Branding is preemptive. This is an intentional strategy of StockMedia.net to reward mostly our partners who drive traffic early and fast. Use the five default links that are automatically generated in your account section to create emails, object links and searchable links. Put them on web sites and CD's and in your emails. The quick and aggressive are rewarded with growing, long-term commissions. Back To Top

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