Take Charge of Your Success

To get the most from your e-Business, you'll want to work with other e-Commerce partners. Plimus connects you to a global team of sellers and potential affiliates ready to help make your business dreams a reality. Learn how to:

• Build An Affiliate Network
• List & Find Products in the Plimus Marketplace
• Inform Partners with the Plimus Product Feed

Build An Affiliate Network

With Plimus, you have full control over the building and growing of your affiliate network. You decide which products to make available. You decide what commission you want to offer. And You decide which affiliates are allowed to sell your product.

The seller/affiliate relationship can create many positive outcomes for shoppers, sellers and affiliates alike.

• Shoppers find more relevant product choices across the sites that they search and visit.
• Sellers work with affiliates to develop extensive international sales coverage. Sellers can operate a cost-effective sales and marketing channel paid on performance. The typical affiliate commission of 30% generated on a banked sale reflects a far lower cost than that of employing sales staff, working with SEO experts, or committing valuable advertising dollars. Even better - there is virtually no bureaucratic cost. Commission items appear in your reports and are paid like clockwork on the due date to your affiliates.
• Affiliates benefit from developing revenue, presenting an ever richer range of products to their customers, and have every incentive to make the sale and get their commission paid by Plimus, on time and hassle free.

Attracting Affiliates

It's no secret that the top performing sellers in the Plimus network offer their products to affiliates and also engage in affiliate reselling themselves. So, now is the chance to grow your business, without risk, using the Plimus Affiliate Program. The system is not exclusive so you can use it alongside any other affiliate program you choose.

Affiliates are smart, and can sell anything they want, but they will do a better job for you if given the right tools. We suggest that sellers should have readily available on their websites the following materials to the extent you are able:

• Creative ads – banners for affiliates to use
• Recommended keywords list for affiliates to use with search engines
• PR and articles about your products and you as a seller
• Special designated landing pages for specific campaigns
• Newsletters and online advertorials or information.

The more and better tools you give to affiliates the more sales they will create for you and the better traffic they will drive to your site.

Making Products Available

Making your items available to affiliates takes seconds from your contract settings. It's an effortless step to make offerings available to affiliates. They simply check a box, set a commission rate and click Submit; now the offering can be made available to affiliates around the world.

Finding, Recruiting and Approving Partners

Although you can use the Plimus e-Business platform's affiliate system like anyone else, you also have the opportunity to 'go direct'. Use the Plimus Marketplace to identify complementary providers and agree on a cross-marketing deal. Then offer their products direct to your customer base. The seal of approval from you will increase conversion rates - everyone wins. Then arrange for your partner to cross-market your products into their install base. Before you know it, you're both generating new business without investing in expensive advertising.

Communicating and Educating Partners

Utilize Plimus' powerful Newsletter feature to communicate with and educate your partners in real-time on an ongoing basis. Embed special offers, personalized coupons, and limited-time affiliate-specific promotions to drive traffic and raise revenues.

Monitoring and Tracking Your Affiliates

With Plimus, you can track and monitor your affiliates' progress and continue to manage the ongoing relationship. Offer special deals and promotions to those needing help, increase commissions for those selling in volume, or possibly even end a reseller relationship with those who don't fit your business model. With Plimus affiliates, you have the opportunity to grow your business exponentially.

How Plimus Pays Your Partners

At Plimus, we have thousands of fantastic products for you to affiliate with - from red-hot games to music memberships, from software utilities to SAAS services. Most offer commissions of 30% and more, and Plimus take care of dividing and distributing the revenues - no need to worry about invoicing and payment terms. We can get your revenues to you anywhere in the world, ready to spend the day they're paid.

The affiliate commission is calculated based on the product price regardless of Plimus' commission.

If your product costs $10 (subject to 10% commission) and you pay your affiliates 30%:

List & Find Products in the Plimus Marketplace

Showcase your products and make them available for affiliates to sell on your behalf with our innovative, new product catalog - The Plimus Marketplace.

Increase your revenues without the incremental effort. At the same time, our popular merchant community allows you to connect with other vendors marketing complementary offerings. Through this powerful medium, you can find opportunities to both offer your own items to other sellers' customers, and to increase your own revenues by cross-marketing other items to your own user base. Learn more about the Plimus Marketplace. For even more detailed information, view the Plimus Marketplace Help Guide.

Inform Partners with the Plimus Product Feed

Enroll in the Plimus Channels program, and we'll add your products to our XML feed. This is then distributed to pre-approved, substantial web outlets, who will further expand your products' visibility across the Internet. Click here to learn more about the Plimus Product Feed.