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Scuba Diving Affiliated programs

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jim_knopf

7:56 pm on Mar 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Could anybody here recommend me an affiliated program I could use on scuba dive websites?
Thanks for advise

flobaby

11:39 pm on Mar 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hi Jim,
How about Fish Pie T-shirts on ShareASale?

Also, you might want to check out the travel oriented programs at CJ.

eljefe3

2:55 am on Mar 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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If you have any destinations in mind, contact the dive shops at the various destinations and work out a commission deal. Most dive shops that I know of pay 30% commission which can be a lot of $$ on liveaboards.

jim_knopf

3:40 am on Mar 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for replies,

will check on the advise.. like the t-shirts myself.... :-)

flobaby

4:07 am on Mar 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, they're mine, actually.

LifeinAsia

4:56 pm on Mar 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Amazon- lots of books directly dealing with diving. Presumably the site is also location based (for great dive sites)? Amazon has lots of destination-related books as well. A hotel reservations program is good as well (we use IAN).

Beagle

8:39 pm on Mar 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Seems like I'm saying this a lot lately - but don't limit amazon to books. If you go to the amazon homepage, search "sports and outdoors" from the drop-down list, and type in "scuba diving" as a keyword, you might be surprised. -- Of course, if you're getting 30% commission from somewhere else, you might not want the amazon ads competing with them!

fourchette

6:39 pm on Mar 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

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quick question...

If for example someone could pull out a deal with some specific diving shops at some location.

How can you set up a program that will make sure you are being paid for all the leads?

Would that kind of deal only be working if the person buys directly from the internet, and not fom the phone for example?

Would the diving shop had to change his site to follow up on the leads you are generating them?

Thanks

LifeinAsia

6:49 pm on Mar 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

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There's quite a bit of variation with different levels of complexity, depending on exactly what you want to do.

It depends on how you define a "lead." If you are just linking to the dive shop's site, it's pretty easy to setup tracking to see how many time people click on the link.

If you are openly displaying the dive shop's contact info (phone, address, etc.), there's pretty much no way to track.

For sales, if the site is doing e-commerce, they probably have to modify their site to add tracking. Unless they're already doing tracking for other sites, then they just give you a tracking code.

If they're mostly offline sales, not a whole lot you can do for tracking. Even if the shop is completely trustworthy, if a salesman forgets to ask how the customer found out about it (or more likely the customer will respond, "I don't remember- some web site I think."), you're out any commission.

Alternatively, if they are mostly offline sales, you can build them an e-commerce site hosted by you- then you can directly track all online sales.

fourchette

8:17 pm on Mar 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

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woah lifeinasia

That's a great answer!

thanks a lot!