[hotelsbycity]

Hello,

My name is Andrew and I am the affiliate manager over at HotelsByCity.com. We are very excited about the launch of our brand new hotel program. Here are the Details!

The Online Hotel Reservation industry is one of the largest online, with more than 300,000 sales everyday!

That being said the industry has never been setup properly for true affiliate marketers. Being an affiliate marketers for more than 5 years ourselves we understand first hand the struggles of launching a program in the travel space.


You only get paid on confirmed bookings with the hotel. (no payment on cancellations, or no shows, etc.)
You have to wait for the hotel to pay the merchant before the merchant pays you

HotelsByCity.com has set out to change all that, by offering Guaranteed Payment on every sale you send to our program!

No more waiting for 6 months to get paid, and then only getting paid on a percentage of your sales.

We offer $10 per sale, whether that customer ends up cancelling or not!

We also have all the regular stuff:


90 day cookie
using auto deposit we keep our affiliate payment account at $200 min.
Monthly bonus for meeting certain sales targets
Aggressive commission tiers for top performing affiliates
Phone tracking for any partners sending more then 2 sales a day


To Learn more about our program visit a thread posted by an ABW member here:

http://forum.abestweb.com/showthread.php?t=96121

To Sign up for our program visit:

http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=14618

To check out our October promotion visit: (Note: we will have new promotions every month)

http://forum.abestweb.com/showthread.php?t=95606&page=2&pp=25

This is a brand new program for us, but we have received a great response so far, sales have already started rolling in, and a number of top affiliates have started to test our program.

That being said we are looking for feedback to help make this program better. If you have any questions, or custom requests please don't hesitate to post them, I will be happy to get back to you as quickly as possible.

[Billy Kay]

Phone tracking for any partners sending more then 2 sales a day

Merchants can turn on/off phone tracking??????

# auto deposit, $200 min
# Monthly bonus for meeting certain sales targets
# Aggressive commission tiers for top performing affiliates
# Phone tracking for any partners sending more then 2 sales a day

Can you recommend a hotel program for regular, NON super affiliates? (LOLOLOL)

[hotelsbycity]

Hey Billy,

Although we are definetly targetting top producing affiliates, we still have a great program for affiliates who only send 1 or 2 sales per month.

I think everyone can appreciate a guaranteed payout on every sale.

As for the phone issue, here is the breakdown:

-about 20% of bookings are phone bookings so for every 5 sales 1 is a phone booking, the idea is if you do 5 sales a month, this it isn't going to make much of a difference whether phones are tracked or not, but if you do 50 sales a month it will

-so at 50 sales a month we will credit your accont for 10 phone sales.

Hope that makes sense, down the road we will be integrating "real" phone tracking, but for now this is what we have in place.

Hope that helps!

[lookingfortips]

I think everyone can appreciate a guaranteed payout on every sale.

about 20% of bookings are phone bookings

Being an affiliate marketers for more than 5 years ourselves...

Did you enjoy losing $10 for every five sales you generated when you were an affiliate?

[hotelsbycity]

Did you enjoy losing $10 for every five sales you generated when you were an affiliate?

No, we were always appreciated merchants that paid on phone bookings (which few do)

As I have stated above, we are definetly working on implementing phone tracking, and we would be happy to work on a deal for any affiliate that generates at least 5 sales.

So that being said, if you are serious about marketing our program, please sign up and give it a try (provide feedback to us on anything you think can be improved)

and for every 5 sales, we will compensate 1 bonus sale.

hopefully this helps get things off the ground.

Cheers!

[lookingfortips]

Well, I don't know much about hotel affiliate programs but it seems you tried to up your competitors by paying for no-shows and cancellations so that is a nice touch. The best of luck to you with your affiliate program. Any merchant that is willing to come to ABW and discuss things with affiliates already wins points with me even if they aren't in my current niche. :)

[hotelsbycity]

Thanks,

Our goal is to try and offer the best support we can.

As far as your niche is concerned, you may want to test out the travel market, it can be a lucrative industry :-)

[hotelsbycity]

Hello,

I have been reading a few forum posts, were some affiliates have mentioned they would like to see an easier way to generate links for the various affiliate programs on shareasale.com

We have created a tool that we hope simplifies this process for our program, to try it out visit:

http://www.hotelsbycity.com/affiliate/shareasale/

Even if you are not currently an affiliate of HotelsByCity.com you can still enter your shareasale ID just to test drive the system.

Feeback would be greatly appreciated, as we are working to make our program better all the time.

Note: for those of you not familiar with our program, the "HotelsByCity Microsite" (last tab once you login) is a site that we designed especially with the affiliate in mind, it has no phone number, and no products, or ads other then "hotels" which is comissionable on every sale.