MoneyMaker Wizard

The MoneyMaker Wizard is a plugin, available from the Tools menu.  Once you sign up to be a BeFree affiliate partner for free, you can use the MoneyMaker Wizard to create advertisements on your web pages which will generate you money.

What is an Affiliate Partner?

Simply put, an affiliate partner promotes products and services on his or her web site for a commission. Affiliate partners have great ideas for web sites and want to offer their visitors complimentary products, content, or services. They choose affiliate programs that are contextualized within their sites' offerings.

From a novice webmaster sitting at home, to a charity, to a multi-million dollar organization, anyone can become an affiliate partner of premier online businesses. And through those relationships, affiliate partners can add value to their sites and put dollars in their pockets.

Affiliate partners agree to place links to these online businesses on their web sites for the purpose of promoting goods and/or services. Affiliate partners control the type of promotions placed, their locations on the sites and the length of time the promotions run. In return, the affiliate partners can earn commissions on click-throughs, leads or purchases made through their sites, depending on the arrangement with the online business.

E-marketing is a new evolution in affiliate partner marketing. E-marketers can use their e-mail capabilities to place text links within messages. These links serve the same purpose as placing promotions on affiliate partner web sites, and the benefits are the same.

When partnering with Be Free's customers as an affiliate partner, you can leverage these relationships to increase your site's traffic, enhance your visitors' experiences, and make more money. Our customers include some of the Internet's best known e-commerce leaders, including barnesandnoble.com, C/NET, The Gap, Travelocity.com, Staples, IBM, and Fogdog Sports.

How to Sign Up to Become an Affiliate Partner

To sign up to become an affiliate partner, just open the MoneyMaker Wizard and click on the sign up link. This will open a web page where you can apply to become an affiliate partner for free.

Wizard Description

This wizard walks you through picking which advertisements you'd like to place on your web site and automatically generates the code to display each advertisement.

Make Money on Your Web Pages

In the wizard's first step, Make Money on Your Web Pages, you can enter your affiliate partner id if you have one. If you have not yet signed up to become an affiliate partner, click the sign up link. Make sure you are connected to the Internet and press the Next button to log into your account with the specified login information.

Choose a Merchant's Site from the Merchant List

In the next step, a list of merchants are displayed in a treeview. The tree may take several seconds to load depending on your Internet connection speed. Each merchant lists all of its sites underneath it. Click on a merchant or site node to display the merchant's banner image. Once you pick which site you'd like to advertise, select it and press the Next button.

Choose a Section Link Group

All of the section link groups which are part of selected site from the previous step are listed in this step. Choose a section link group and press the Next button to select a link in that group for your web page.

Choose a Link

A list of links are provided for the section link group that you chose in the previous step. Highlight a link to view it in the browser. After you select which link you'd like to place on your web site, press the Finish button. The code to create the link will be downloaded and placed on the current open document. At this point, publish your document to your web site and you'll start earning money!

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