Welcome, JV Partners!

Thanks for looking me up. I'm really excited about Blogging in Action and the Six-Figure Plugin Suite, and I think you and your customers will be, too!

If I haven't contacted you directly, you probably have no idea what this partnership opportunity is all about. There are two places you might want to check out to get up to speed:

1) Download the partnership quick reference sheet if you haven't seen it yet. It provides the highlights of the opportunity. This page you're viewing has more details, and the details won't make much sense without the highlights!

2) Check out the affiliates page. This is where you'll find sales tools and general information about the program.

What I Can Offer You As a Partner

I'm looking for top-shelf partners (or those who aspire to be top-shelf) who want an excellent program to promote to their customers, and partners who want to form long-term mutually beneficial partnerships. No spammy, used car salesmanlike products -- I want to work with folks whose product quality is on par with mine.

1) Partners receive preferential compensation, which consists of:

• 70 percent base commission rate
• Up to $15 per product powerseller bonuses
• A shot at 8 cash prizes, ranging from $100 to $2,000
• 1 entry per sale into prize drawings for a Nintendo Wii, an iPod, a Flip Video Camcorder, GPS Navigation System, and more great prizes.

2) Partners receive promotional support to help make EASY sales:

Let's work together to build a campaign that will help you gain the maximum number of sales. We can create customized sales pages, we can offer exclusive discounts, you have access to a rebrandable giveaway report, a giveaway toolkit or other incentives, we'll assist you with any contests or promotions, we'll help you with blog posts, etc.

3) Partners receive reciprocal promotions:

If we can help build each others' businesses, or if we're not on equal footing in the partnership, let's look at other ways we can help each other out. For example:

• Reciprocal product promotions
• High-value backlinks
• Autoresponder endorsement swaps
• Ad swaps
• Thank you page downloads
• Bundle products as a bonus
• Reciprocal blog posts
• Reciprocal reviews
• Reciprocal testimonials
• Etc.

Getting Started

Looking to take the next step? This is how you do it.

I'm currently evaluating partnership opportunities, so please use the form below to submit your name and e-mail address. I'll respond to you personally, and this will help me stay in touch with you over the course of the promotion. Submit this form now, and I'll be in touch soon.

Full Name:
E-mail:

Note: you are not required to join this mailing list to promote, but it will allow me to update you on the promotion, new marketing tools, the giveaways, and such. It goes without saying, but I'll mention it anyway: of course I won't spam you.

Topics of Interest

• I will not burn your list! Here's exactly what your customers will receive if they optin to my lists.
• I want to make promotion as easy as possible for you.
• ** Use this partner link instead of the link on the affiliates page **
• Discounts are available for approved partners.
• Compensation structure details and clarifications.
• A little more information about my background.
• How to get in touch with me.

E-mail Optin Sequences

For your customers who choose not to purchase immediately, once opted in, they will receive consultative e-mails in the auto responder sequence. My purpose for including the sequences below is to show you that although I am very interested in making sales for you and for myself, I want to do that by educating your customers and helping them make good decisions, not by brow-beating them.

Six-Figure Plugin Suite Auto Responder Sequence

The Six-Figure Plugin Suite offers a blog traffic preparation guide to optins. All e-mails in the sequence tie into automation that the Six-Figure Plugin Suite performs for bloggers.

• E-mail #1: Checkin
• E-mail #2: Building a blog community and a soft sell
• E-mail #3: Blog earning with AdSense plus a free report and a soft sell
• E-mail #4: Blog earning with affiliate programs and a soft sell
• E-mail #5: Increasing RSS subscriptions and a soft sell
• E-mail #6: Utilizing social media and a soft sell
• E-mail #7: URL tips and a soft sell
• E-mail #8: Utilizing imported content in blogs and a soft sell
• E-mail #9: Article marketing and a soft sell

Promotional Tools

I have a number of tools on my web site that you can freely use, including:

• Banner ads
• E-mail sales copy
• E-mail endorsements
• E-zine ads
• Keywords
• PPC ads
• Rebrandable giveaway book (56 quality pages)
• Giveaway toolkit
• Blog posts (coming soon)
• Customized partner messages and discounts

More will be added during the coming weeks. Please see the Six-Figure Plugin Suite affiliates page for details.

I'm also willing to work with you in any way that you feel would benefit you and your customers the most. Some partners have suggested a free copy to offer to their customers for a contest or giveaway, or a freebie incentive to encourage click-throughs to the sales page.

What do you think would work best with your customers? Let me know and we'll work it out!

Partner Link

For the Six-Figure Plugin Suite standalone product, use the standard PayDotCom link.

If you want to offer a discount, all I'll need is your affiliate username, and I'll set it up -- there is no change to your partner URL.

You can also use an automatically cloaked URL if you don't want to cloak it yourself. See the link section on the affiliates page for details.

Partner Discounts

The Six-Figure Plugin Suite sells for $147, but there are $10 to $50 discounts available for approved partners, resulting in a final price of $97 to $147, in $10 increments. You can use these at your discretion as a special discount rate for your customers.

To be approved to use a discount, just let me know what discount you would like to offer to your customers, and forward your PayDotCom ID to me.

Compensation Structure

This looks like a lot to take in, but I wanted to provide a comprehensive compensation structure while providing clear guidelines on breakpoints. Don't worry about a thing—I'm very accurate with calculations, and both I and my assistant will be calculating earnings and bonuses twice monthly.

Six-Figure Plugin Suite Base Compensation

The Six-Figure Plugin Suite standalone product is sold through PayDotCom. The commission percentage for partners is 70% (it's set to 60% for regular affiliates). These commissions will be paid via PayPal around the 20th of the month following the one in which they were earned (standard PayDotCom payment).

Base price is $147, but you have the option of offering your customers anywhere from a $10 to $50 discount.

Commission = approximately $98 for each suite sold at full price.

Six-Figure Plugin Suite Powerseller Bonuses

• If you sell at least 20 suites, you will receive an additional $5 per product bonus.*
• If you sell at least 50 suites, you will receive an additional $10 per product bonus.*
• If you sell at least 100 suites, you will receive an additional $15 per product bonus.*

Six-Figure Plugin Suite Incentives

• First partner to sell 20 suites will receive a $200 cash prize.*
• First partner to sell 50 suites will receive a $500 cash prize.*

• First partner to sell 100 suites will receive a $1,000 cash prize.*
• First partner to sell 250 suites will receive a $2,000 cash prize.*
• Each partner will receive one entry per sale into a random prize drawing, where winners will receive additional bonuses like a Nintendo Wii, an iPod, a Flip Video Camcorder, GPS Navigation System, and more.

*Clarifications on Bonuses and Incentives

1) Discount Adjustments: Discounts can be used at your discretion, but to ensure that everyone is on equal footing for the bonus compensation packages, adjustments will be made on a pro rata basis for determining payouts. For example:

You sell 30 Six-Figure Suite offers at the discount price of $117 (or 80% of the full price). Your total product sales are 30 x .80 = 24 sales. This levels the playing field for those who promote without discounts.

2) Multiple cash prize eligibility: A partner is only permitted to claim one of the large cash prizes per offering, but if one partner is the first to reach multiple milestones per offering, then they will receive the larger of the cash prizes, while the second partner to achieve the smaller of the milestones will receive the smaller milestone's cash bonus.

For example, John is the first partner to sell 20 units. Two days later, Mary reaches 20 units. Soon, John becomes the first partner to sell 50 units. John is entitled to the 50-unit cash prize and Mary is entitled to the 20-unit cash prize.

3) Bonuses and incentives are net of returns, but they are paid on the normal payment date anyway. We're all adults here!

4) Random prize drawings are held based on total number of sales. More sales = more drawings. These are at my discretion, but they will be generous—just not guaranteed. :-)

About Me

I graduated with a BSBA in Finance too long ago to admit! Within two years, I transitioned into IT within a large financial services firm, designing financial planning software. It was then that I earned my Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Certified Web Programmer (CWP) certifications.

By 1997 I was offering freelance web programming services, while working full time as the "tools team" lead engineer for a large, multi-national consulting firm. During this time I earned my Certified Lotus Application Developer (CLP), Certified ColdFusion Professional (MMCP), and Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) certifications.

During the next five years, I wore many hats, writing numerous technical manuals, designing enterprise software, building mobile phone software, extending blogging and content management systems, and more. I started blogging proper in 1999, but didn't involve myself seriously until 2003, when I began maintaining the corporate blog.

Due to my technical background and prior experience with the web, I found blogging to be a very natural transition, and I used what I learned on the job to begin blogging for profit personally. Before long I was programming custom themes, plugins, and widgets, both for blogs and other platforms like mobile phones.

Also during this time I transitioned into product and project management, while beginning coursework towards my Masters in Information Technology degree, and earning the Project Management Professional (PMP), Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) and Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer (SCMAD) certifications. Glutton for punishment, what can I say?!

Being a sponge for information, I acquired an absolute wealth of knowledge in blogging, web programming, traffic generation, and more over the years. My reputation is one of technical accuracy and breadth of knowledge.

My latest software project is a location-based social network for mobile phones (Swirl Connect), and I've been working from the comfort of my home office since November 2001, partly as a full-time consultant, partly as a blogging strategist, and partly as an internet marketer. Over the past 2.5 years, I've transitioned to earning 80 percent of my income from auto-pilot sites, niche blogs, and long-term blogging.

Contact Me

The best way to reach me is via e-mail, even if it's just to schedule a convenient time to talk on the phone. For urgent or immediate queries, I'm available via instant message. Of course, there's always the good old fashioned telephone.

E-mail:	shaun@wordpressforbeginners.com
IM (Yahoo):	groundswell@rocketmail.com
IM (AIM):	itsagroundswell
Telephone:	888-447-9475

 

I look forward to working with you!