Thank you for your interest in the search4hardware.com Affiliate Program!

In 1996, Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, popularized this idea as an Internet marketing strategy. Over the past few years, affiliate programs have grown enormously in popularity, taking many interesting forms. For many Web sites that don't deal much in e-commerce (selling products or services) themselves, functioning as an affiliate is a good way to participate in e-commerce.

Pay-per-Sale
Search4hardware.com's affiliate program is an example of a pay-per-sale (a.k.a. Cost-per-sale) arrangement. In this arrangement, search4hardware.com pays an affiliate when the affiliate sends them a customer who purchases something.

Technology So how do affiliate networks know when a visitor clicks from an affiliate to the merchant site? In our case, we provide affiliates with a variety of buttons, banners and suggested text that links the affiliate site to a special search4hardware.com URL. This link contains information about the referring affiliate, and allows us to record (via a small cookie ) the number of referrals, and potential monies owed (commissions earned) for visits that result in a sale. Every time we record a sale from a visitor who came via an affiliate link, the affiliate earns a commission. For every month that the customer retains his listing, an additional US$1.99 will be generated.

If you think you might be interested, you’ll need to have an existing web site, or will need to create a special domain to carry the referring links. The following steps will also be necessary:

1. Register with us as an affiliate and receive a unique Username.
2. If you haven’t already done so, you will need to register with www.paypal.com (in order for us to deposit monies earned directly into your account). Registration with Paypal is easy and provides a secure means to conduct transactions over the Internet.
3. Login with your Username and Password to access your account.
4. Click on the "Create Links" section, and select the type of link you would like to place on your site. Attach the provided HTML code to your link, and place on your site
5. At anytime you can login to your account and run reports that will advise you as to how your links are performing. You will see the referring links, and be able to track any commissions earned and deposited to your Paypal account.

If you don't have website :

1. Register with us as an affiliate and receive a unique Username.
2. If you haven’t already done so, you will need to register with www.paypal.com (in order for us to deposit monies earned directly into your account). Registration with Paypal is easy and provides a secure means to conduct transactions over the Internet.
3. Refer us any computer hardware store for advanced service package and make sure at the registration they enter your Username in "Referred By" field.
4. At anytime you can login to your account and run reports. You will see the referred customers, and be able to track any commissions earned and deposited to your Paypal account.

Any time you can close your account by pressing the button "Close Account".