Building affiliate networks based on BILLmanager
The development of a successful, constantly growing business is impossible without interaction with companies working in areas related to your company, without the development of partnerships. Such relationships allow companies to combine their strengths and direct these forces to achieve maximum results in their activities. BILLmanager provides an opportunity to develop several partnership options. Among them are various referral and reseller programs.
Referral programs are a fairly cheap way to popularize your services with a company by attracting your own customers. It looks like this: a company that provides certain services gives its customers special referral links to its website or a set of promotional codes. Clients of this company distribute the received links and promo codes to their customers, readers, friends and acquaintances in various ways - whether it be mail, a link on a site, a banner, social networks or anything else.
For example:An online music and movie store sells media content. And the owners of this store offer authors of thematic blogs, journalists, other people related to this topic (and even their own customers!) To participate in the store’s referral program. These people are registered in the program and receive a special link or a promotional code containing a unique identifier. Further, they are required to make sure that as many people as possible are registered using this link or code. They post them on their website, in various forums, blogs, send them to friends and acquaintances, etc., thus bringing new customers to the store.
Visitors who register using such links and codes during their first purchases may receive certain pre-determined discounts. And for those people whose links these customers came to, a certain percentage of the money spent by the new client will be credited. Thus, the referral program is a mutually beneficial offer both for a company seeking to popularize its products or services, and for current customers of this company who would like to receive bonuses and discounts, and possibly even have additional profit due to attracting new customers .
If you use the BILLmanager billing system in your work with customers and would like to use the advantages of referral systems to the benefit of your company, I can please you - for the organization of your own affiliate system, you will not need almost any additional steps. Creating a new referral program takes place in a few clicks. And in a few minutes your customers will be able to take part in the popularization of your service.
What do you get:
- cheap and high-quality advertising among the target audience relevant to you
- the expansion of the customer base
- sales increase
What do your customers get:
- discounts on the use of your services
- the possibility of additional earnings
Moreover, using BILLmanager you can create various referral programs for different groups of clients, types of services, indicating various types of bonuses. Thus, you can build entire referral networks that will attract the maximum number of existing customers to the business of advertising your services. Most of the work in automating statistics, calculating spending, paying bonuses and much more is done by BILLmanager. You just have to determine the amount of bonuses received by customers, and the types of services for which they will receive these bonuses.
In addition to referral programs, BILLmanager provides a convenient platform for the direct resale of products and services. You can link your BILLmanager with your partner's BILLmanager billing system, import its tariff plans and, along with your services, resell your partner's products to your customers. This will allow you to receive certain pre-agreed bonuses from the partner (for example, discounts on further purchases of his products) and popularize his products / services among your customers.
As an example, consider the following situation: your company provides virtual and VPS hosting services. Sometimes your customers turn to the sales department with a question about the possibility of renting a dedicated server. They are already "crowded" on a virtual server, and for the development of their resources a fully-fledged dedicated server is required. But renting (and even more so buying) dedicated servers is a rather expensive affair, paid back only on large volumes and after a certain time. Therefore, in such cases, it makes sense to simply resell the server from a larger business partner who is engaged in providing dedicated servers. This partner can provide bonuses when buying or renting a certain number of servers. In this case, the partnership interaction scheme may look like this: for each leased server, the discount on further leases increases by one percent. In this way:
- You have not rented a single server - there are no discounts.
- rent 1 server - 1% discount on the purchase of the second
- rent 2 servers - 2% discount on the purchase of the third and 1% on server renewal
- rent 3 servers - 3% discount on the purchase of the fourth and 2% on server renewal
- ..................
- 15 servers - 15% off
The types and sizes of bonuses, of course, are agreed in advance and can be different. This will allow finding the most beneficial forms of cooperation for both parties. For the final client, everything will look as if he is buying the server directly from you - directly and simply.
If you do not have the opportunity to buy and deploy a full-fledged billing system, then BILLmanager has something to offer you in this case. Your partner can give you the opportunity to use his own billing system. Everything looks quite simple - in the partner billing, you will be allocated a separate section that you can bind to your own domain. Moreover, through this section you can distribute not only the products of your partner, but also your own. For the end customer, this will look like a separate, independent billing system. Thus, you can get a convenient platform for the sale / resale of products and services, and your partner gets an assistant in the distribution of his products.
If you have any questions about setting up affiliate programs, you can always read our documentation or contact support. We will be happy to help deal with all the difficulties!