[troylemaire]

Hello my name is Troy and I am the Owner/Current Affiliate Manager of
Religious-Items.Com. We are kicking off our program with this announcement and are using ShareASale.com as our Affiliate Network. We invite you to come and look at our program and to Sign Up!

Religious-Items.com has over 1800 products consisting of different metal qualities as well as different categories of Christian and Religious Jewelry. We specialize in Saints Medals, Star of David Jewelry, Rosaries, and Angel Jewelry. Our jewelry is priced
25-40% below retail pricing. Most of our Jewelry is made from Platinum, Gold, and Sterling Silver.

If your site revolves around Men’s, Women’s or Children’s items then we are a perfect addition for you. We also have sub-niche markets for Travelers, Athletics, and Hispanic Jewelry. Just email me to ask about the different sub-niches that you may be interested in.

We had a great Christmas season and are looking forward to a successful 2004. This can be accomplished with the help of affiliates who are ready to make some sales.

We offer 11% commissions and 60 day cookies. We also offer 30 day returns to US customers and 21 day returns to Non-US customers. Currently we are offering free shipping for order over $25.

Click Here to Join our Affiliate Program (http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=4683)

If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact me. I am committed to making this program a success and I know with your help this can be accomplished.

Troy LeMaire, Owner/Affiliate Manager
Religious-Items.com

[SSanf]

Do you plan to carry any items for religions other than the Abrahamic religions, like Budhists?

I have a number of religion oriented domains and will carry stuff for all faiths so you might have things I can use.

Angels are a good cross over item since they are used by both Christians and Pagans.

Mr.Merchant, if you do business in any way what-so-ever with parasites, your products will not be sold on my sites!! http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/nono.gif
Affiliates, before you use CJ merchants, Read This! (http://abw.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?q=Y&a=tpc&s=548608979&f=106607689&m=2676006894&p=1) http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Comments are to be interpreted as opinion unless otherwise noted.

[This message was edited by SSanf on January 15, 2004 at 01:53 AM.]

[MrSpeed]

What's your position on parasites ?

Do you have a datafeed ?

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Leave the gun, take the cannolis.

[troylemaire]

SSanf,

I was hoping that you would be interested in my program. Right now we only have Abrahamic religions. We will be looking at other religions as we find more manufacturers. Honestly though, I don't see this happening for a while.

MrSpeed,

We are Parasite Free! This was one of the reasons that we signed up with SharASale, so that we can cut down on potential Parasite Affiliates. I forgot to include my latest signature with my post which has my links including the datafeed link.

Thanks,
Troy

<FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">Religious-Items.com</FONT> (http://www.religious-items.com)
11% Commissions - 60 Day Cookies - 30 Day Returns
<FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">Affiliate Page</FONT> (http://www.religious-items.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=6)~ <FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">DataFeed</FONT> (http://www.religious-items.com/feed.zip) ~<FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">Signup</FONT> (http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=4683)

[troylemaire]

I have updated the feed to reflect the ShareASale links. If you click on the DataFeed link in my signature line you will find the feeds in the Zip file.

There are 2 files in the zip. The first file contains the original ShareASale feed combined into one file. The second file contains the original ShareASale feed combined together with the keywords for that particular item.

Thanks,
Troy

<FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">Religious-Items.com</FONT> (http://www.religious-items.com)
11% Commissions - 60 Day Cookies - 30 Day Returns
<FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">Affiliate Page</FONT> (http://www.religious-items.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=6)~ <FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">DataFeed</FONT> (http://www.religious-items.com/feed.zip) ~<FONT color=#0000cd target="_blank">Signup</FONT> (http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=4683)

[troylemaire]

I received an email the other day from one of my affiliates, who said they noticed a difference in price between the feed they are using on their pages and the price when someone landed on the site pages. So I first wanted to explain why this is happening.

When I first started I offered product at a price that was below the normal "Triple Keystone" pricing of the jewelry products. Since then I did some testing to see what would create more sales. I found out that people wanted more information on the product pages than I had, so I added content to reassure them of their purchase. I also started messing with different discounts on the site. I found that at a 40% discount people would purchase and I would still be able to pay the bills.

So I increased my normal prices to the "Triple Keystone" rate and started offering a 40% discount off of this rate. Which in the end gives the customer a lower total cost for the product than before.

While I was testing I did not update the prices in the datafeed to ShareASale and this was the reason for the discrepancy in the prices.

I also added variants to products thereby taking what was 3 seperate metal qualities of the same products and combining them into 1 product with 3 seperate variants. This 1 product was the link of 1 of the 3 original product links. I didn't want to delete the product pages that were linked through ShareASale so I put redirects that pointed them to the product that now had variants. This caused an issue because of the prices not being updated on the redirect products.

I have just sent a new datafeed to ShareASale for them to upload. This new datafeed consists of only the products with variants. Please update your feeds so that they will not point to the products that redirect to the products with variants as I will be deleting the redirect products soon.

I apologize for all of the confusion and for such a long email. In the end I know this will be more beneficial for all, as I have seen a dramatic increase not only in my sites sales, but also in my affiliate transactions.