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Today affiliate.com announced their Revenue Stimulus Program.  Here is the official announcement:

Affiliate Economic Bailout

In today’s challenging economic climate, it seems like just about every industry is getting some kind of bailout program.  But, we haven’t heard anything proposed for the Affiliate Marketing Industry.

Rather than waiting for the Congress to institute a bailout program for our Affiliates – we thought we would just do it ourselves.

Introducing the
affiliate.com Revenue Stimulus Program

Our industry was built on the principles of self reliance and innovation.  In the tradition of those guiding principles, we have instituted the affiliate.com Revenue Stimulus Program to help our Affiliates generate some extra income this holiday season.  We believe that the best way to help Affiliates drive more revenue is to give them an incredible payout increase on one of the hottest offers in the industry.

Beginning today (Monday, December 15, 2008) at 10:00am Mountain Time, we will be raising the payout on Ringtones.net (6013) to an unheard of $16.  (This new payout will remain in effect until December 31, 2008.)

Ringtones.net
Payout Increase – $16
(From December 15 – December 31, 2008)

Take advantage of our Revenue Stimulus Program today and watch your revenue soar this holiday season!

This is the time to make some serious money with Ringtones.net.  I’m not just saying this because I work for affiliate.com, this is a HUGE payout on a Ringtones offer.  I remember when Flycell used to pay something similar and people were going crazy for it.  If you already promote ringtones, you owe it to yourself to switch out your links for the next 2 weeks and enjoy the extra revenue boost.  Nothing starts off the new year like an infusion of cash.

Now go make some money!

For those of you who have been following the decline of the Ringtones game in Affiliate Marketing, this might sound like a doomsday warning.  FlyCell is going to be dropping the affiliate payout on all of their campaigns to a measly $6.

Remember when FlyCell used to be promoted by affiliates on forums as, “The Ringtones offer that pays $16″?  Those days are gone, and I doubt they are ever coming back.  There have been more lawsuits by the Florida A.G., there have been more talks of the carriers taking control of the market and selling through their own sites exclusively, and now payout drops.

This also comes shortly after the announcement that Flycell no longer accepts Sprint traffic.  Oh how the mighty have fallen.  There are still some Ringtones offers that are doing well.  At CPA Empire we have Ringtones.net with an affiliate payout of $10, and it accepts Sprint traffic (EDIT: As of 10/10/08, Ringtones.net is losing Sprint as well.  Sprint is dropping pretty much all of their ringtones providers).  Jamster is paying out $9 at NeverBlueAds and $10 at ClickBooth.  There are a few other smaller offers, but until someone figures out how to monetize Ringtones better on the backend, I doubt we’re going to see prices much higher than $10 for a while.

In an announcement dated today, the ringtones provider Flycell announced that they will no longer be accepting traffic from Sprint, Nextel, or Boost customers through its landing pages.  There is a process being put in place to allow affiliates to become certified to accept Sprint traffic, but it is going to be looked at on a case-by-case basis from Flycell.

This is another case of the carriers pulling back from ringtones aggregation sites like Flycell.  Mark my words, it won’t be long before one of the major carriers (Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T or Sprint) announces that they will only be selling ringtones through their proprietary store.

CPA Empire affiliates are encourage to redirect their Sprint traffic to our Ringtones.Net offer, which does still accept Sprint customers.

To see the official Flycell notice with instructions for become certified, click below.

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