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Commission Structures
Percent of Sale
Per Registration/Per Form
Per Click

Reporting
Among the greatest benefits LinkShare provides for affiliates is comprehensive reporting. Affiliates can use their reports to do a quick check on how much money they are earning, and to figure out what's working and what isn't. There are up to sixteen different reports that can be run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The reports are an invaluable tool for affiliates who want to get the most out of their programs. That's why it's important that LinkShare affiliates have access
to all of their reports in one centralized location. With one username and password, LinkShare affiliates can log in and learn about their performance with individual merchants, but they also can compare merchant offers, links, payment structures, individual products, sub-affiliate sites and more.

Centralized reporting means that you can evaluate the success of all your programs, metric by metric. With a click of a button you can rank your programs by impressions, by sales, by conversion ratio, and most importantly, by commission.


Tracking Technology
Whenever a visitor from an affiliate's site clicks on a link and goes to a merchant's site, LinkShare keeps track of all of the transactions that the visitor makes on that merchant's site.

Joining
LinkShare hosts a password-protected website that offers affiliates a choice of hundreds of merchant programs. On the site, affiliates can join new programs,
get links to put on their sites, and then generate reports about how their links are performing and how much they have earned.

Merchants

Representing approximately 60% of Fortune 500 companies with affiliate marketing programs, LinkShare offers a web-based, turnkey solution with all of the tools, technology and services you need to create, manage and optimize your affiliate program. LinkShare's clients include industry leaders like American Express, AT&T, Dell, Delta Air Lines, Disney, Hallmark, Handspring, JCPenney, and OfficeMax.com.

Once your offer is posted, it will be highlighted on the affiliate log-in screen as a "New Program," guaranteeing that affiliates have the opportunity to see and
appraise your offer. You will also be featured in the LinkShare newsletter that goes out to all affiliates.

Through LinkShare's interface, you can target affiliates in the network by site category, date joined, geography and/or other criteria and send those
select groups special offers, allowing you to customize your marketing efforts and drive sales.

LinkShare allows you to compensate your Virtual Sales Force in any way you wish, according to your business's goals and objectives, including:

Percent of Sale
Per Registration/Per Form
Per Click
or any combination of these

LinkShare allows merchants utmost flexibility to commission their affiliates in virtually any way they like. For example, you could offer a hybrid
compensation structure: 10% of sales and a $.02 click-through fee to reward your affiliates for both traffic and sales. Or, you could reward them for success: offer a 5% commission fee up to $5,000 in sales, 7% for up to $10,000 in sales, and 10% for any amount greater than $10,000. Or, your compensation could reflect a special, limited time promotion. Only LinkShare gives you this kind of flexibility and control.

If you choose to participate in The LinkShare Network®, you will acquire affiliates both from the affiliate sign-up on your website and from an offer posted to the affiliates in the network. If you choose to have a Private Label Solution, you will acquire affiliates from the affiliate sign - up on your website only. Whichever method you choose, LinkShare will work with you to develop an acquisition strategy in keeping with the objectives and resources unique to your business.

As a member of The LinkShare Network®, your affiliates can easily access their reports through LinkShare's centralized affiliate interface using their usernames and passwords. If you opt for our Private Label Network Program, your affiliates access reports through your hosted and fully customized URL.