[Rick Greer]

Hello!

My name is Rick Greer and I am the affiliate manager for ThePlanet.com (http://www.theplanet.com). I am proud to announce a new affiliate program from The Planet in partnership with Share-A-Sale.

The Planet is the number one privately held, dedicated server hosting provider in the world. Serving more than 22,000 businesses worldwide, The Planet provides reliable, scalable and affordable web hosting services that enable small- and medium-size companies to successfully grow their businesses.

PROGRAM DETAIL

Commission: 65% of Total Sale
In the month of February, The Planet will pay an extra bonus to our leading new affiliates -- with more bonuses coming in March:

• Top Overall Sales: $1,000 Bonus
• Single Largest Sale: $250 Bonus

Program Details:

• 120 day cookie duration
• Funding on auto-deposit
• Creative refreshed frequently with new promotions
• Large sales are standard, average sale well over $100
• Wide range of products, priced $69 to over $1,000
• Unlimited order size

Self-referring your first server purchase is allowed as well – we all need hosting somewhere, and we’d be happy to talk about your own hosting needs.

PRODUCTS

Examples of our most popular products include:

• $69-109: Celeron Server Line
• $149: Conroe 3040 SATA Server
• $219: Conroe 3060 SAS Server
• $309: Kentsfield 3210 SAS Server
• $459: Clovertown 5335 SAS Server
• $1,099: Clovertown Quad Core, 10-drive RAID Server

The majority of our sales include upsells such as control panel and hardware upgrades, and multiple servers can be included in a single sale. Full Product Line (http://www.theplanet.com/dedicated%2Dservers/)

TRACKING DETAIL

Visitors will automatically see a specialized version of The Planet’s site whenever your affiliate traffic is detected on our site:

• All chat pop-up is suppressed.
• All "Chat Now" and "1-800 number" prompts are removed from our site header.
• "Chat Now" and "1-800 number" prompts are removed from most inside pages.
• You still receive your commission if an inside sales rep is selected in our shopping cart
• Other offline sales methods do not currently track all sales, but everything is tracked for volume for continuing development priority.
• Our inside sales reps use an online quote and checkout system whenever possible, when working with phone and chat contacts. When a customer checks out using an online quote, an affiliate sale will still track.

GET STARTED!

SIGN UP: New Share-A-Sale Affiliate (http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=15362)
SIGN UP: Existing Share-A-Sale Affiliate (http://www.shareasale.com/a-joinprogram.cfm?merchantID=15362)
MORE DETAIL: Affiliate Program Detail (http://www.theplanet.com/partners/affiliate-program.asp)

We excited to be working with such excellent affiliate partners, and please send us your feedback as well. We look forward to growing together!

Best Regards,

Rick Greer
Affiliate Manager

email: affiliates@theplanet.com
Direct: 866.862.9823 or 281.714.3199
Chat: [ICQ] 358842549 [AIM/YAH] RickGAff
http://www.theplanet.com/partners/affiliate-program.asp

[John Powell]

Welcome to ABW Rick! I signed up when you first went live. Do you plan on getting anything in the deals database at SAS?

[popdawg]

Welcome Rick. :wave:

Due to a hardware issue, I get to test out your support today and I have to say, so far so good.
VERY quick responses, support staff who are communicating clearly and following up with what they say.

I posted a few weeks ago about the purchase tracking. At that time, I noticed but didn't mention the live chat and phone numbers not appearing when I went through affiliate links. Very nice.

Glad to see the approach you are taking to your affiliate program and I wish you the best success.

[Rick Greer]

Thanks much! I just got back online after making it to Vegas tonight for Affiliate Summit -- looking forward to meeting some of ya'll we've learned much from, lurking for so long.

Yes, the promotional material is fairly slim at this moment -- happily all of our promotions/deals and content will be going up over the weekend and this coming week, along with a rolling deal/banner set that you can "set and forget" if you prefer.

I'm glad our call/chat methods are well received -- it's still not airtight yet, but we are doing everything we can for a product that often requires lots of hands on sales help. (If anyone wants an example of the quoting tool sales reps use that I mentioned, just PM me...any feedback or issue reports are greatly appreciated! We want to know what we might be doing wrong!)

And of course -- if anyone needs any help in regards to a hosting account with us (sales, support...anything) let me know, and I'll make sure you get taken care of. :)

Now I'm off to make our new forum on ABW a little less....empty.

Thanks again!

[markwelch]

Popdawg wrote: > "Due to a hardware issue, I get to test out your support today and I have to say, so far so good. VERY quick responses, support staff who are communicating clearly and following up with what they say." <

I had the same experience in late November, when the motherboard on my dedicated server at ThePlanet failed (after 2 1/2 years). Support staff was very responsive, and restored service far quicker than I expected (it's never as quickly as I wish, of course, but they went far beyond what was required and even took extra steps to install my "old" hard drive into the newly-rebuilt server so I could extract data I'd failed to back up). While the event led me to accelerate a planned transition from a dedicated server to a VPS, I was completely satisfied with the service and support I got from ThePlanet.com.

I discussed this earlier at http://forum.abestweb.com/showpost.php?p=781945&postcount=24

There's another thread on ABW discussing ThePlanet candidly, at http://forum.abestweb.com/showthread.php?t=93334

[Snib]

Welcome Rick!! I'm also in Vegas and would love to meet you. I'm currently hosted with ThePlanet and can't wait to start promoting you.

- Scott