I’d like to welcome the nice people at Netpartner.com, our newest sponsors here at Lammo.net, without whom we would not be able to bring you such regular, and in-depth posts. Whilst the Netpartner model is not particularly new or revolutionary in most ways, they are relying on reputation and relationship building with both publishers and advertisers to create a strong and resilient CPA network, which can only be a good thing for all involved.

NetPartner’s positioning seems very well balanced across merchant and affiliates. There appears to be a recognition as to the real value of affiliate publishers which isn’t always discernable in some networks. Netpartners emphasises its established publisher network and states that it has global reach.

On top of their ethical business ideas their website is a very impressive looking creation as well, with the information for publishers and merchants organised sensibly and the page uncluttered by too much text, so you immediately know that they mean business. And now we come to perhaps the most interesting part of the Netpartner business model – the tried and tested introductory offer scheme! In a bid to attract new publishers to their network Netpartner are running a welcome promo by which new affiliates who sign up before the 28th February 2009 can have the opportunity to get a free gift or an instant cash payment on top of their commission. There are of course a couple of conditions to this offer that have to be met, so let’s get into the good stuff.

Firstly, once you’ve signed up you’ve got a period of 30 days to start making money in order to be eligible for the all important introductory gift. You can browse and pick the right kind of offers to add to your advertising space once you’ve activated your account, which the user friendly Netpartnet interface should help with, and then get it straight onto your advertising space. There is of course a minimum monthly balance of $25 to meet if you want to see any of your money but if you don’t make that much initially then it’s carried over to the next month so there’s not likely to be a problem. However, if you want to be in with a chance of getting the gifts then you’ll need to earn some serious commission. There are three grades that define the prize you’ll get. Make $500 or more in your first 30 days with Netpartner and they’ll send you some perfume from Anna Sul, a Polaroid camera or Ray Ban sunglasses. Alternatively you can just have a straight cash sum of $80 rather than the gift which to some people may well be more attractive in this lowest bracket.

The second introductory bracket requires you to make $2500 or more, for which you’ll have a choice between a BlackBerry, an iPod Touch or a PS3. The BlackBerry could potentially be registered to an American network so it might not be ideal, but the iPod and PS3 are more attractive to the inner gadget fan. The cash alternative is a generous $400, which in the current economic climate will do quite well for Brits with our once sturdy pound weakened. The highest introductory offer bracket is the $5000+ which may seem a little steep but if you’ve got the right traffic should be easily achievable. For your hard work you’ll have the choice of a Canon EOS digital camera, an iPhone or a HP Laptop. The cash alternative is $800, which again a few months ago when the pound was stronger against the dollar may have been less attractive than it is today.

So what’s the catch? Well, firstly of course you need to have a chance of making consistent commission dollars immediately after opening your account s the clock is ticking from that moment for the first 30 days and only transactions considered as ‘valid’ will count towards your monthly
commission. Secondly it’s stated that the offer is made on a first come first served basis, and that gifts can be changed or substituted at any time once you’ve made your first month’s commission and then made your choice. For this reason you might be further persuaded that the instant cash option
is the one for you, and to be fair I’d be likely to go for it myself (The recent Stirling nosedive means that getting paid in Dollars is like giving yourself a 40% payrise!). It’s all down to personal tastes of course, and it’s nice to see that a network is looking to reward hard working publishers with hard cash or gifts, and as an incentive to sign up and start making money it’s an interesting idea that isn’t always used to its best effect in the world of affiliate networking.

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