[bookswim]

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BookSwim - like "Netflix for books" - is the first online book rental library club lending you paperbacks and hardcovers directly to your house without the need to purchase! Whether it's New Releases, Bestsellers, or Classics, we've got 200,000 titles to choose from, with free shipping both ways! Read your books as long as you want. -- no late fees! Even choose to purchase and keep the titles you love!


PAYMENT:

For monthly and yearly membership signups, earn an $18 commission payout! ($15 to the affiliate, $3 to SAS). Even if we give memberships away for free, you're still awarded the same commission structure.

Average signup fee (without a promotion) is between $14.99 and $35.99. We always have plenty of half-off coupon codes as a perpetually running promotion.

Earn 10% on our gift card purchases (in ANY denomination), which typically averages $200-$300 per gift card -- that's $20-$30 commission payout!


FEBRUARY SALE
For February, we're having a "CUSTOMER BLITZ". For 2 weeks only, BookSwim is practically GIVING AWAY our memberships. We've never done anything so reckless, so our accountant is only letting us do this till February 29th.

THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THE CUSTOMER PAYS IS THE NUMBER PLAN THEY SIGN UP FOR!

:: 3 Books At-A-Time Plan = $3.00 for the 1st month (Reg. $19.99)
:: Use Promo Code "3FOR3"

:: 5 Books At-A-Time Plan = $5.00 for the 1st month (Reg. $23.99)
:: Use Promo Code "5FOR5"

:: 7 Books At-A-Time Plan = $7.00 for the 1st month (Reg. $27.99)
:: Use Promo Code "7FOR7"

:: 9 Books At-A-Time Plan = $9.00 for the 1st month (Reg. $31.99)
:: Use Promo Code "9FOR9"

:: 11 Books At-A-Time Plan = $11.00 for the 1st month (Reg. $36.99)
:: Use Promo Code "11FOR11"

This promotion ends 2-29-08 and BEGINS TODAY! Signups will go wild. Hurry to get those promo codes up and earn double the commission on these promo codes only. You'll earn the standard $15 for every signup.


TARGET AUDIENCE:

- Low-Middle Age Women
- Senior Citizens
- Home-bound individuals
- Book Readers


CONTACT:

Any questions? Please email Chief Marketing Officer George Burke - george[at]bookswim.com - or call 732-603-1091.

[2busy]

umm..that site is full of affiliate links to buy books from Amazon. Who's going to sign up to send you traffic? Talk about a leaky site! For every book rental link there is an affilaite link to buy the same book from Amazon, has everyone from SAS gone off to the summit and left the back door open?

[Bill]

umm..........has everyone from SAS gone off to the summit and left the back door open?Not yet. But those leaks were specifically pointed out in a thread a little over a month ago, here: http://forum.abestweb.com/showthread.php?t=97540

[ProWebAddict]

umm..that site is full of affiliate links to buy books from Amazon.

Too bad because it sounded like a good idea. Well it is a good site idea but not if you want affiliates.

[bookswim]

Hi, you haven't found a loophole. We work in conjunction with Amazon as the deal we have worked out with them is in order to utilize their catalog datafeed, we were required to provide a linkback to them. This was required for legal purposes.

This is not "affiliate leakage". In fact, BookSwim has only a .05% conversion on Amazon purchases, and a 6% conversion on membership signups, which is our sole focus. We eagerly await the day when we can remove the Amazon sales link.

[2busy]

I had read the earlier thread about site leaks which is why I went to browse. No affiliate in their right mind is going to promote traffic to your site as long as those leaks are there. I just don't understand how this got included in SAS. Live and learn.

[bookswim]

Guys, I think you're misdirected here. Regardless of any links to Amazon, we're selling BookSwim memberships. Affiliates are paid to allow customers to signup for a BookSwim rental membership or for a gift card sale. I believe you're losing focus of the affiliate opportunity here.

[Sue]

And a commercial link to Amazon is still a leak that no experienced affiliate will accept.

[Bill]

Guys, I think you're misdirected here. Regardless of any links to Amazon, we're selling BookSwim memberships. Affiliates are paid to allow customers to signup for a BookSwim rental membership or for a gift card sale. I believe you're losing focus of the affiliate opportunity here.I was following this concept since your introductory thread a month ago because we are a family of avid readers. I enjoy books more that TV. I had even read your "investors" page with interest (until I perused more of the site).

With that said, here is my problem with what you just stated. I don't "allow" my readers/visitors to purchase things - whether a membership OR a book. I "pre-sell" them so they, hopefully, will have an interest in purchasing what you have to offer. You have a link to Amazon next to just about every book on your site. That link is a huge LEAK (Search for threads about "leaks" to see how knowledgeable affiliates feel about them) My customers have a 50-50 chance of clicking away from your site to Amazon for more information (because of Amazon's credibility). Actually they may click away at a higher rate because the Amazon button is ABOVE your "Add to Rental Pool" button. (Was that Amazon's idea or your designer's idea? :D )

So, if I successfully pre-sell my visitors on the book rental concept before sending them to your site. What do you do?... You end your intro paragraph with this: Even choose to purchase and keep the titles you love!
No thanks. I'll be sending my readers directly to Amazon where I already know my conversion rate.

[bookswim]

I guess I need to clarify "Even purchase the titles you love". We allow our members to purchase the books that they've got in hand; the books sent to them by us after we sign them up as members.

BookSwim is a book rental service; the only in America to offer paperbacks and hardcovers for rental.

I can appreciate that as affiliates, you guys are pre-qualifying the traffic you send to bookswim.com as potential book renters, so what that means is that you've sent a person who wants to rent, NOT BUY, a book from BookSwim. If they're not interested in purchasing books, they would not have come to bookswim.com.

We have a .05% conversion to Amazon through our "buy at" link. Obviously, 99.95% of bookswim.com traffic does not care about buying books from Amazon.

Based on this conversation, I see we can redesign the "buy at amazon" buttons to remove them completely from category pages and keep them out of sight. I hope this can appease everyone's fears of leaks.

Can you guys find anything else we should improve upon that you guys would need to become a bookswim affiliate?

[Rolet]

I am confused I thought you said it was a legal requirement to have the amazon buy the book link and now you are saying you are going to remove it......

[bookswim]

It's a requirement to keep a link on each book detail page, so we're keeping the small, unobtrusive "purchase" link, but we're removing the huge BUY AT AMAZON buttons that appear on category pages.