I was sitting in Chili’s Restaurant having dinner with my wife back on April 9th when I received a message on my Blackberry from MyLife. It was an email explaining that MyLife was ending their affiliate program.
Wow!
I was not a happy camper as I had used MyLife to make money online over the last 2 years.
A lot of money!
But what was even harder to believe was that they weren’t giving much notice to the affiliates. In fact, they were only giving about 4 days notice. And MyLife was a critical piece to how the APS platform operates.
Go to my web site (http://star-people-search.com) and you will see that what we offer affiliates, completely for free I might add, is a web site in a very popular niche, the people search vertical. Customers can search for anyone they choose and get free initial results. These initial results are what the other large companies will charge a customer approximately $2 to obtain. But the reason why we could offer these free results is that the customer had to enter their email address to unlock the results and this email was then sent to MyLife who would pay the affiliates $1.10 for each email address collected. It is what is called in the internet marketing world as a CPA offer or “Cost Per Action”.
CPAs can be very lucrative for affiliates because no sale is required in order to make commissions. All an affiliate has to do is collect some information from the customer, which in our case was an email address.
One of the drawbacks of using MyLife though was the turnaround it took MyLife to process the transaction and confirm the email address. Customers who wanted the search results had to wait upwards of 24 hours before receiving the information. Although the process worked quite well, we thought it could be much better.
Fortunately, for APS affiliates, Tissa was already working on an alternative to MyLife, and wouldn’t you know it, he had it in place by the time MyLife shut down their affiliates 4 days later.
Enter TrialPay!
TrialPay is a terrific company with a tremendous reputation in the industry, and they provided APS with a way to continue the CPA model.
Now when a customer uses the search engine, they will be presented with several TrialPay offers (usually surveys) in order to receive their free results. And, what is even better, is that there is no longer the 24 hour turnaround on the results. Customers will get their results immediately after they complete the TrialPay offer.
So not only did APS make the transition seamlessly, but I believe upgraded the process significantly from the customer’s perspective.
Oh, and one other thing.
The commissions from TrialPay are much better than what MyLife was paying.
So it’s a win-win situation for everyone.
If you have ever thought about starting your own business online, or working from home, then you should really check out APS and what we have to offer.
You can have your own fully functional affiliate web site for free and you can earn from multiple income streams. We also have great support. And as you can see we are constantly looking after our affiliates and trying to help them earn the most money possible. We have to do that. We use the same software platform that they use.
Sign up today and finally start to make money online from home!