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06/18/2003 10:34:48 PM · #1
Announcing the DPCPrints Referral Program

Members may now make money by referring sales to DPCPrints! You will receive 25% of the profit (*) for any print sale you refer! If you refer the sale of one of your own prints, you make 75% of the profit from the sale! If you refer the sale of someone else's print, you make 25% of the profit from that sale.

Here's how it works...

To get credit for a referral, you simply need to link to the site using your personal DPCPrints URL. Your URL is //username.dpcprints.com. For example, my personal URL would be:

//drewmedia.dpcprints.com

By default, this link will take a visitor to your portfolio. If you wish to have that person directed to the homepage instead, simply add '/home' to the end of your url. That is...

//drewmedia.dpcprints.com/home

You can also link directly to any photograph simply by adding that image's ID to the end of your URL. If I wanted to link to my "Stop Reflections" print, I'd simply add '/71' to the end of my URL. 71 is the ID for my image, which you can see easily in the browser's address bar for any particular image.

//drewmedia.dpcprints.com/71

This is not limited to your own prints! You can link to any artist's prints simply by placing their image ID at the end of your URL. For example, if I wanted to link to John Setzler's new print, I'd simply link to:

//drewmedia.dpcprints.com/24623

By linking with your username.dpcprints.com link in any format, you're given credit for a referral for that user. If that user purchases any print within 12 hours (and isn't referred by another user in the mean time), you'll receive 25% of the profit for that sale. Pretty cool, eh?

Your URL already works. Just replace your username in the format above, and you're ready to go. If your username has a space in it, you may use '%20' for the space, or you can contact us to change your username for you.

To make sure that your links are working, simply look at the bottom of any DPCPrints.com page after you follow your referral link. You should see 'You were referred by [username].' If you don't, your link is incorrect or you do not have cookies enabled.

You can easily track your referral sales of both your own prints and others' prints by visiting your 'My Account' page on DPCPrints.com, under 'Sales Reports.'

How to Get Started...

There's really no limit to how many different ways you can refer sales, but here's some quick ideas. I'd love for people to add their own ideas to this list!

- Add a signature to your forum posts on this and all other sites you visit, linking to your referral URL.
- Add a signature to your outgoing e-mails. Friends and family are very likely to want to help you out.
- If you have an online gallery anywhere, add a 'Buy a Print' link with your personal URL and the image ID. These types of sales referrals are already proven very effective.
- If you have a website, blog, journal, etc., place a prominent link to the site using your personal URL. This can of course be in any format to fit your site. If you've got friends who run websites, see if they'll link you.
- Get your site linked on your favorite website. If you know any popular link-sharing sites, post a link to your site.
- Link directly to your favorite images. These can be your own or someone else's.
- Create business cards using your referral URL. Not only does it look very professional, but it makes you more money!
- Create fliers to put around town -- coffee shops, frame stores, on campus, at work, ...
- Tell other communities you belong to about your site. Forums are a great place to start.
- If you're feeling really ambitious, you could even try running any kind of online or traditional advertisting campaign using your URL.
- Get creative. Any traffic you bring to your site is a potential sale. Make money while you're sleeping and all that good stuff :)

This feature is only available for members. The short version of 'why' is that members have already agreed to our extended terms, which includes payment information. If you aren't impressed with how much stuff you get for our measley $25/year yet, I'm not sure we'll ever impress you :)

Please feel free to share how you're promoting your DPCPrints site. If you've got any questions, you may also feel free to post them here. We hope you enjoy the new feature. Good luck, and happy selling!

Drew


* Profit is defined as the selling price minus the base price of any print. This is the same thing you're used to seeing, I just wanted to make sure it was clear.
06/18/2003 11:06:32 PM · #2
Cool Cool! :)
06/18/2003 11:29:02 PM · #3
My only suggestion would be to stay very clear of anything that even slightly resembles email spam. There are some shady "marketing firms" out there that say they do "permission-based" or "opt-in" email, but they are mostly spam operations. If the dpcprints.com site gets associated with spam in anyway it could be troublesome for everyone, especially the site operators. I know that other sites' affiliate programs and referral programs have become real spam problems, so let's hope that we can be more responsible. Perhaps the admins should consider adding specific language to the Member Service Agreement forbidding network abuse as a means of advertising.
06/18/2003 11:31:55 PM · #4
We absolutely do not promote or condone anything that resembles spam. Do not send e-mails to anyone you don't know. If you post to a web forum, make sure the post follows that forum's rules.

Drew
06/18/2003 11:33:03 PM · #5
From the existing Terms of Use:

4.3 You will not (i) use "spam," "blast-faxes" or recorded telephone messages to market or sell Products, (ii) interfere with the DPChallenge.com Service by using viruses or any other programs or technology designed to disrupt or damage any software or hardware, (iii) modify, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any technology used to provide the DPChallenge.com Service, (iv) use a robot, spider or other device or process to monitor the activity on or copy pages from the DPChallenge.com Web Site, (v) collect electronic mail addresses or other information from third parties by using the DPChallenge.com Service, (vi) impersonate another person or entity, (viii) engage in any activity that interferes with any third party's ability to use or enjoy the DPChallenge.com Service or (ix) assist any third party in engaging in any activity prohibited by this Agreement.

I'd say that clearly applies here.

-Terry
06/18/2003 11:54:55 PM · #6
OK, thanks Terry. I was only looking at the Members agreement, but the Terms of Use covers everyone, including non-paid accounts. That section certainly covers spam.

I'd still urge caution when considering the use of any third party to help you market your prints. There are just some shady operations out there that know people hate spam, say "We Don't Spam!" or some other lie to get your business, then turn around and abuse the internet in ways we all find annoying. Spammers are not above lying.

It's best to work on your own and understand your medium. Think about context when you post your referral link and what others will think about it. Be tasteful.

One notorious example: would anyone here ever buy anything from an X10.com popup ad?
06/19/2003 08:00:17 AM · #7
I have cookies enables, and I followed the links in this post, but I had nothing to say "You were referred by [name]"
06/19/2003 08:12:44 AM · #8
Originally posted by Konador:

I have cookies enables, and I followed the links in this post, but I had nothing to say "You were referred by [name]"

Took me a while to spot it, but it's right at the very bottom.
06/19/2003 08:15:03 AM · #9
Oh yeh, I see it now, I was expecting to see it in my Internet Explorer status bar :P
06/19/2003 08:19:28 AM · #10
Originally posted by Konador:

Oh yeh, I see it now, I was expecting to see it in my Internet Explorer status bar :P

LOL. Yeah, not quite that far down!
I speed read the announcement and was expecting to see it at the top :-/
06/19/2003 11:18:39 AM · #11
So does this apply to us too??

If I log on to DPC Prints with my username and purchase prints, do I get 25% of the profits back?


Message edited by author 2003-06-19 11:24:43.
06/19/2003 11:24:46 AM · #12
Originally posted by kosmikkreeper:

So does this apply to us too??

If I log on to DPC Prints with my username and purchase prints, do I get 25% of the profits back?

BTW: I changed my link to go directly to my store but it brings me to the main page. I even typed it in manually and it does the same thing.


You already can buy your own prints at cost, but if you wanted to pay your own asking price, i bet you could get the extra profit back maybe... lol :)
06/19/2003 11:26:01 AM · #13
Originally posted by jmsetzler:

Originally posted by kosmikkreeper:

So does this apply to us too??

If I log on to DPC Prints with my username and purchase prints, do I get 25% of the profits back?



You already can buy your own prints at cost, but if you wanted to pay your own asking price, i bet you could get the extra profit back maybe... lol :)


LOL I meant other people's prints John. :-P
06/19/2003 12:11:55 PM · #14
Originally posted by kosmikkreeper:

If I log on to DPC Prints with my username and purchase prints, do I get 25% of the profits back?

We are aware of this situation, and we decided not to stop it unless it becomes a problem. We'll leave it up to members individually to decide if they wish to take advantage of this, but yes, it does currently function as a discount on prints for members.

Drew
06/19/2003 11:17:17 PM · #15
Originally posted by drewmedia:

Originally posted by kosmikkreeper:

If I log on to DPC Prints with my username and purchase prints, do I get 25% of the profits back?

We are aware of this situation, and we decided not to stop it unless it becomes a problem. We'll leave it up to members individually to decide if they wish to take advantage of this, but yes, it does currently function as a discount on prints for members.

Drew

Well maybe that could replace the need for some other form of member discount, which I've wanted anyway.

It really amounts to about a 12% discount (since I assume it is 25% of the artist's share--or is the site chipping in too?), and I for one would be more than happy to let members have a discount on my prints, especially since they'll be providing advertising. Most "sales reps" get a discount on the products they hawk, along with their commissions ....

If we are putting the link to an image on an outside site, is there an easy and permissable way to link to the image thumbnail so it can be displayed also?
06/22/2003 01:51:47 PM · #16
Originally posted by GeneralE:

It really amounts to about a 12% discount (since I assume it is 25% of the artist's share--or is the site chipping in too?)

This is not true -- you may want to reread my original post. The 25% is seperate from the artist's share. So, if you are the artist and you refer the sale, you get 75% of the profit. If you're not the artist and you refer the sale, you get 25% of the profit.

Originally posted by GeneralE:

If we are putting the link to an image on an outside site, is there an easy and permissable way to link to the image thumbnail so it can be displayed also?

I will go out on a limb and say that if you are advertising someone's print, you may save and display a thumbnail of that work with the link. If there are any artists who do not wish to allow this, please contact me individually.

Anyone care to share any stories of how and where they are posting links? I just finished writing a utility for us to view everyone's referrals, and there are several members already doing a great job of getting their links 'out there.'

Drew
06/22/2003 02:01:23 PM · #17
I put a link in my deviant art sig and also will add links to the photos I upload there in the future. I also put a link on my school website that I created, which gets quite a lot of hits, however they are not likley to be potential buyers, unless teachers or parents see.
06/22/2003 02:23:50 PM · #18
A couple things I'm doing:

- Designing business cards with a link to my prints page.
- Designing mini-flyers with a link to my prints page and to the prints site as a whole.
- Talking to local businesses about placing my flyers.
- Looking into a couple different Internet-based advertising media for advertising the site as a whole.
- Included the links in my email signature.
- Will include "buy now" links when I post my images elsewhere.

-Terry
06/22/2003 05:49:01 PM · #19
Originally posted by drewmedia:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

It really amounts to about a 12% discount (since I assume it is 25% of the artist's share--or is the site chipping in too?)

This is not true -- you may want to reread my original post. The 25% is seperate from the artist's share. So, if you are the artist and you refer the sale, you get 75% of the profit. If you're not the artist and you refer the sale, you get 25% of the profit.

Originally posted by GeneralE:

If we are putting the link to an image on an outside site, is there an easy and permissable way to link to the image thumbnail so it can be displayed also?

I will go out on a limb and say that if you are advertising someone's print, you may save and display a thumbnail of that work with the link. If there are any artists who do not wish to allow this, please contact me individually.


If the referrer's share is coming out of the site's share that is most generous -- thanks!
I read in the site guidelines that we are not supposed to deep-link to the images here, but I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to do it for the print thumbnails, so we don't have to move the images off-site.
06/22/2003 06:47:14 PM · #20
Originally posted by GeneralE:

If the referrer's share is coming out of the site's share that is most generous -- thanks!

You're welcome!

Originally posted by GeneralE:

I read in the site guidelines that we are not supposed to deep-link to the images here, but I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to do it for the print thumbnails, so we don't have to move the images off-site.

I think we'd prefer that you saved the images on your own site, as we don't want bandwidth to get out of control.

Drew
06/22/2003 06:51:47 PM · #21
As a side note, whenever I try to go to the next page (or click 2, or 3) of the "challenge winners" gallery, it just takes me back to the main page.
07/19/2003 05:30:37 PM · #22
yep cant go beyond P1 with Quotes but v.good so far .Thanx
07/21/2003 10:36:26 AM · #23
First up, I'm lovin' the new site. Great job!

My question:
Is there any way of referal-linking into a specific sub-gallery?
I'm thinking it would be extremely useful to be able to refer people to the Sports section of my gallery which is likely to consist entirely of motorsport shots.
07/21/2003 06:08:49 PM · #24
Originally posted by bod:

Is there any way of referral-linking into a specific sub-gallery?
I'm thinking it would be extremely useful to be able to refer people to the Sports section of my gallery which is likely to consist entirely of motorsport shots.

*bump*
Is this possible?
If not is there a possibility of this possibly being made possible?
09/09/2003 01:45:50 PM · #25
Heres what I'm trying. Figured I'd make a webpage. I'm not sure about the legal issues of using the dpc prints logo. If anyone knows about this let me know please. Also, did anyone ever say they wouldn't want their photos linked to?

//www.bwasite.com/photography

Message edited by author 2003-09-09 13:47:00.
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