New Product Launch: Ads for Providers

New Product Launch

ADVERTISING for Products, Services, Premium Blogs & Outside Web Sites

I am delighted to announce that you can now:

  1) Boost your earnings by building Ads for your Products, Services, Premium Blogs

  2) Earn money by building Ads for OTHER PEOPLE'S Products, Services or Premium Blogs

  3) Promote a web site or page that is outside of FanBox

How does it work?

First, go to the Ads creation page:

Notice the new choices in the drop down:

Choose "A Service, Product or Blog Package" to advertise your or even someone's elses things.

Or choose "A webpage outside of FanBox" to drive users to any web site or page.

You will have the option of Advertising something you Provide; something someone else Provides; or something you recently inserted or bookmarked:

If you are advertising your own Product, Service or Premium Blog Package:

   When people click on your Ad and buy your items, you now earn 100% of the price of the item:

      That's 70% because you are the Provider of the item

      Plus 24% because you funded your Ad

      Plus 6% because you created your Ad

      70% + 24% + 6% = 100%

   If you don't want to fund your Ad, you earn 70% + 6% = 76%

If you are advertising someone's else's Product, Service or Premium Blog package:

   When people click your Ad and buy someone else's items, you earn 30% of the price of the item:

      24% because you funded your Ad

      Plus 6% because you created your Ad

      24% + 6% = 30%

      (The Provider of the item gets 70%)

   If you don't want to fund the Ad (for someone else's items), you earn 6%

So the next time you see something cool for sale - be sure to bookmark it:

.... so it will appear in your Provider pop-up (for easy insertion):

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Can bloggers really earn 12%?

Can bloggers really earn 12%?

Is it true that bloggers earn 12% of the retail price of any Product, Service or Premium Blog -- when someone clicks from their blog?

The answer is yes! I'll show you how it works below.

But first, have you noticed the new look of the blog editor?

Two things have changed:

1) The look of the editor has changed, to be more closely WYSIWYG (pronounced Wizzy Wig).

WYSIWYG stands for "What You See Is What You Get" -- and the new look is designed to help your published blog look just like it did in the editor. (Same width)

2) Check out the new Provider button:

When you click the Provider button, you'll see the Provider insertion pop-up:

From there, you can insert any Product, Service or Premium Blog that you created; that someone else created; or even something that you recently inserted (into another blog post or Ad) -- or bookmarked.

Just click "Insert" after choosing something, and the editor will automatically insert a link into your post.

That link has two characteristics:

1) When your readers click the link, they will immediately see a "Buy Now" pop-up (for the item you inserted):

When the reader clicks "Buy Now" -- you make 12% of the price of the Product, Service or Premium Blog Package.

You earned that for doing such a great job at using your writing skills and creativity to create interest in the reader -- such that he or she would want to learn more and/or buy the item.

2) The text of the link is the name that the Provider chose for his or her Product, Service or Premium Blog Package.

If you prefer, you could make the text of the link say something else -- whatever you want -- such as "Buy it now, big spender", "Check it out", or "Take it from me, you really want this".

Here's how:

In the editor, select some text, such as "Buy it now, big spender". Then, press the Provider button:

Choose the Product, Service or Premium Blog, and press "Insert" -- and the text you selected will automatically be turned into a link.

When your readers click the link, they can purchase the item using their FanBox Bank with only one click.

Oh, so how do you bookmark interesting items -- so that later you can remember to blog about them?

Everytime you see something cool, simply click the "Bookmark this" link:

After you do, you'll always have easy access to that item from your blog editor, as well as from the Ads creation page.

From both those areas, the bookmarked item will appear in the Provider pop-up under the green "Recently Inserted or Bookmarked" button.

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New Product Announcement: AlertPay

New Product Announcement: AlertPay

You've been asking for it, and it's here!

FanBox is happy to announce that AlertPay is now available as a payment (top-up) option for all users.

Instructions for topping up your FanBox Bank via AlertPay:

1. Login to your AlertPay account and click, "Send Money" at the top left of the screen:

2.  In the "To" field enter finance@corp.fanbox.com as the email address that you're sending money to.

In the "Purchase Type" dropdown, select Service.

3. VERY IMPORTANT: You must make sure that your email address that you use to sign in to FanBox is included in the "Details" field.

Without your email address -- the same email you use for signing in to FanBox, the finance team cannot identify your FanBox account, and so there will be significant delays in adding your top-up to your FanBox Bank.

Then, click the "Next" button.

4. On the next page, enter your 4-digit AlertPay PIN number, click the "Send" button and you're all set!

THAT'S IT!

Your top up will appear in your FanBox Bank within 48 hours of being successfully received by FanBox!

Cheers,-JC

By the way, although Top-Ups ARE allowed, AlertPay does NOT appear to currently allow Cash Outs to outside the United States.

From the Alert Pay web site:

Hopefully AlertPay will change that policy soon, for the benefit of all FanBoxers.

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When an Auction ends, who earns?

When an Auction ends, who earns?

1) The Seller, of course.

2) The Success Coach of the Seller.

3) The Promoter. (I'll define this below)

4) And the Success Coach of the Promoter.

Who is the Promoter?

If the buyer clicked on an Ad, the Promoter is the person that created the Ad - earning 6% or 30% of the final price - depending on whether she paid for the Ad.

The Promoter can also be the person whose bid on the item caused a chain reaction of feed stories to go out - including an unlimited number of Likers, Commenters and Reposters that further spread the word.

Example:

Jo is selling Olives and Zoe bids on it.

Arlene (Zoe's friend) comments on it, spreading it to Arlene's friends and fans - one of which is Jenny Lee.

Jenny Lee "Likes" it - spreading it to her friends and fans - one of which is Scott.

Scott reposts it, spreading it to his friends and fans - one of which is JC.

JC bids and is the winner.

Guess who earns 6% of the final price?

Anyone?

You guessed it: Zoe.

You see, all the viralness is tracked back to a bid. The person that bid gets the credit, because she didn't just "Like" it - she put her money where her mouth was - proving that she really Liked it because she didn't mind paying for it to own it. 

In FanBox Auctions, it pays to bid on things:

Not only are you helping your friends and fans, your Success Coach, and the seller -- but you're also setting yourself up to be a seller (if you're lucky enough to win the auction).

If you win the product or service, enjoy it -- or place it up for Auction.

Seriously - what better way to find things to sell, than by bidding on them?

If you don't end up winning, you still earn as the Promoter.

And if you are the winner, you're setting up shop and now have things to sell.

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Maximize your earnings with Notifications

The new Notifications feature is live:

The purpose of Notifications is to make it easier for you to build your LOYAL fan base.

You will be notified whenever someone leaves a comment in any of your blog posts - so that you can quickly respond to them to ensure you maintain their interest in you and your blogs.

Notifications are also sent to you when people bid, like or leave comments on any of your products or services or photos.

Remember, the best way to build your earnings on FanBox is to create a LOYAL fan base.

To maximize your earnings:

More important than the QUANTITY of fans, is the QUALITY of your RELATIONSHIP with your fans.

(Haven't you noticed that sometimes people with lots of fans make less money than people with less fans? This is because the quality of your relationships is more important than just having lots of fans).

So, to maximize your earnings by building HIGH QUALITY relationships, be sure to ALWAYS respond to everyone that has taken the time to leave you a comment or question.

By doing so, you will become more important to them, so they will spend more time in your blogs... and the compensation algorithms will also recognize that you are building quality relationships.

The new Notifications feature will let you know immediately when someone has left a comment in your blogs.

Your fans are your customers.

Try to not miss any opportunity to satisfy your fans -- and soon you will notice that they are there for you.

Any questions? I'm here for you.

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