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With the Holidays behind us, the New Year fast approaching, and the up-coming announcement of our year-end "Turn up the Volume" bonus winners, we've been very busy at Lightspeed Research (as I'm sure you can relate). We'd like to remind you that on Monday, January 10th, we'll be awarding cash bonuses to the three Lightspeed Affiliates who drive the highest volume of leads from November 1st through December 31st. The bonuses will be awarded as follows:
- Highest Volume Driver gets $1,000.00
- Second Highest Volume Driver gets $500.00
- Third Highest Volume Driver gets $200.00
Will you be one of the winners?
One other reminder: We've increased December commissions by $0.50 for all Lightspeed Affiliates who joined the program prior to December 1, 2004. We hope the bonus and the commission increases demonstrate our appreciation to you as a valued Web Partner. Although the commissions will revert back to the original pay-out of $0.75, we will be planning more affiliate incentives for next year.
Although we're all very busy dealing with our year-end business, it's customary to look back upon this year and review what has been accomplished. We've provided a brief "2004 review" on the Lightspeed Affiliate Program accomplishments along with an overview of our plans going into the New Year.
In This Issue
Top 10 List of Lightspeed Affiliates
Top Earner for November 2004
Accomplishments of 2004
Looking Ahead into 2005
Holiday Down Time
Marketing Tool of the Month
Lightspeed Affiliate Blog Postings
Lightspeed Affiliate Forum Postings
Top 10 Lightspeed Affiliates
Traffic Swarm
Amazing-Offers
PaidSurveys.com
ThePaid.com
Paid Survey
Get Paid Guides
SurveyMania.com
NX2
Six Questions
JustMoneyTalk.com
Top Earning Affiliate
Congratulations are in order again to Traffic Swarm , our Top Performing Affiliate in November! TrafficSwarm is an Internet marketing service that delivers free, targeted traffic to Web sites in its expanding network. As the leading online traffic syndicate, TrafficSwarm's mission is to help webmasters, small businesses, and “netpreneurs” market their sites more effectively to achieve their long term performance goals.
Accomplishments of 2004
The Lightspeed Affiliate Program announced it’s launch on September 9th of this year and has quickly grown into a quality program with well over 1,000 affiliate Web Partners, managed both in-house and via the Commission Junction network. There’s a lot to look forward to as a Lightspeed Affiliate, but let’s take a moment to look at what’s been achieved thus far:
Looking Ahead
In 2005, you will hear and see much more of the Lightspeed Affiliate Program. There will be more blog postings, informative affiliate polls, forum discussions, affiliate contests, and special promotions.
What we most want to accomplish early on in the year is to establish better one-on-one communication directly with you. We want to make contact with you, to talk about the program, how it’s working for you and how we can improve the Lightspeed Affiliate Program overall. We will be planning to attend upcoming conferences and events and would love the opportunity meet you in person.
In the meantime, please take a moment to write to us with this feedback, in either the
ABestWeb forum or the RevenueSource forum. You can also email us directly at affiliates@lightspeedresearch.com. Your feedback is always grealy appreciated.
Got Holiday Downtime?
According to a recent study by digital marketing technology provider, Atlas DMT, as reported by the E-Commerce Times, the 2004 holiday shopping season’s busiest day was projected to be the week of December 13th.
Site-Reference suggests doing the following to stay productive during a ho-hum post-holiday sales season:
- Re-assess your marketing strategy;
- Host fresh, original content (RSS feeds, polls, contests, etc.) for repeat sales;
- Update landing pages;
- Use free web-page analysis sites;
- Check all links for functionality;
- Read through your content.
Read more about how to take advantage of Holiday down time.
Marketing Tools of the Month
Do you know which keywords are on your Web site? Do you know how often they appear on each page? How about the same for your competitor sites?
GoRank.com offers a neat little tool to help you with your keyword density analysis and that of 4 competitor sites. If you have too high of a keyword density, you might be in risk of being omitted from some search engines. Too low can put you at a disadvantage.
Lightspeed Affiliate Blog Postings
How do you stay productive during Holiday down time? (posted 12/20/04)
Do you target car-buyers? (posted 12/20/04)
A Sincere “Thank-You” from Lightspeed Research (posted 12/7/04)
You can read all Lightspeed Affiliate Blog postings through the link below; be sure to bookmark this URL address in your favorites file: http://lightspeedaffiliates.blogspot.com/.
Lightspeed Affiliate Forum
For your convenience, we’re now running two affiliate forums; one is hosted at ABestWeb and the other is found at the new popular forum, Revenue Source. We’re presently running the following poll in both forums: How do you stay productive during Holiday down time?
Your votes, opinions, questions and comments are always greatly encouraged.
Thanks for reading the December Lightspeed Affiliate Newsletter.
Take Care,
Lightspeed Affiliate Team
Lightspeed Research
180 Mount Airy Road, Suite 100
Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920
affiliates@lightspeedresearch.com
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