[jjkent]

Introducing an excellent program that was extremely successful last year with really high conversion rates - Personalized Letters from Santa Claus to Your Child.

Among the highlights:

- Custom designed Santa stationery and envelopes
- each letter is completely personalized for each child
- if you order more than one letter, the second letter is totally different (good for brothers and sisters)
- Postmarked "North Pole" (each letter is sent to North Pole, Alaska to be postmarked and mailed from there)

Each letter costs $9.95 and a 25% commission per sale gives you $2.49 per letter. During the Christmas season, these letters are GREAT sellers!

The main web site is at santamail.org (http://www.santamail.org) and you can sign up through ShareaSale (http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=4321) for the affiliate program.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at cj@pagewise.com.

Thanks,
David

[yintercept]

That $9.95 includes postage and handling I assume. I did not go through to the end of the checkout, but I am always surprised at how many companies tag on a fee in the final page.

Come to think of it. If $9.95 includes postage and handling, it would be good to mention that.

sound thinking (http://plusroot.com/dbook)

[DesignerWiz]

Another thing I noted was the "yellow" URL links on white background .. very difficult to make out.

Delivery made 1 week after sale purchase .. that is a little troubling if viewer see's this .. bookmarks page for later purchase and dumps cookies.

Otherwise .. very good program. http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Ray Thomas
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[yintercept]

I agree, the ordering would be a lot better if the customer could choose the ship date. Most parents would want a letter showing up a day or so before the big date. Of course this puts the affiliate and merchant in the position that we would know if we will get paid until half way through December.

Come to think of it, since everyone does last minute shopping, I were this merchant, I would design a post x-mas present. That talked about the year's flight, and thanked the child for the cookies, or in the case of happypoon's house, the beer and pretzels.

[jjkent]

The $9.95 price DOES include shipping.

Cookies are set to 90 days for affiliate's commission. Unfortunately we can't do anything if they dump cookies, but fortunately, most people don't know how to http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

What we found last year was that parents would rather get the letter early, put it away until a few days before Christmas and then give it to their child. With an expected 30,000 orders this year (with no affiliate program, we filled 10,000 orders last year on a late start), we couldn't possibly deliver on a specific date (all letters are shipped to the North Pole post office and then postmarked and mailed from there).

We also do offer a post-Christmas postcard for another $4.95 (and an extra $1.25 commission).

(oh, and the yellow links will be gone very shortly - it's very difficult for us to read it also http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif)

[EcashClan]

This looked a great program last year but by the time I got around to finding you it was too close to Christmas to do anything in 2002.

I'm glad I stuck my beak in here today and just signed up thru Shareasale but have found one lil' thing on your site which niggles at me.

I intend setting up a site for the Australian market redirecting to you after explaining foreign currency, trusted merchant, get in quick etc. but am not keen on your 'Email a friend' at the foot of your home page.

Seeing as you admit to expecting to increase sales from 10000 last year to 30000 now that you have an affiliate program is there any chance you could drop that hyperlink?

Naturally I would have that link on my home page which would still draw more business your way.

I guess it's a bit like asking if you intend to be a Merchant/Advertiser or an Affiliate/Publisher .... you can't be both in my book.

Cheers from Oz

Supporting the Australian Affiliate marketing industry

[cpaempire]

Hi, I would like to promote your site. I few a few questions for you though could you drop me an email with your contact info? Daniel@optinbig.com

[shri]

We have a fairly large parenting site which has members from all over the world. Do you deliver internationally?

[labinski]

Hey there:

I am in Austin too, btw! We just signed up for the Santa letter program. We'll promote it this holiday season on our big cooking website - our readership includes lots of parents and grandparents.

Steve Labinski
Austin, TX

[jjkent]

(Aussie) Ecash,

I am looking into the "email a friend" link and seeing if we can keep that off the page for affiliates. I will post my findings here either way.

However, to answer a different post, and to give you the heads-up before you promote this program, we only ship to the US right now.

And welcome to the program Austin Steve!

[jjkent]

UPDATE: The email to a friend link will no longer show up on affiliate links.