New Affiliate Network Pays out for Brick and Mortar Retail Sales

[Linda Buquet]

There have been lots of studies about how the Internet is used for shopping research before an off-line purchase is made at the retail store. So affiliates are losing a lot of commission when visitors use their site for research, yet buy in the physical store instead of purchasing online through an affiliate link.

According to <a href="http://www.revtrax.com/services.php">RevTrax</a> "<strong>89% of consumers pre-shop online, but less than 7% of retail sales actually take place online.</strong>"

<font color="#ff6600"><strong>Translated: Affiliates are missing out on a huge piece of the revenue pie!</strong></font>

So what if there was a way for affiliates to get paid when consumers shop on their sites, then buy in-store??? <a href="http://www.revtrax.com/">RexTrax</a> has an innovative new model. In a nutshell that are an affiliate network that provides and tracks off-line coupon purchases. Here's how it works.

<a href="http://www.revtrax.com/"><img src="http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/revtrax.gif" alt="revtrax" /></a>​

<a href="http://www.jangro.com/a/2008/10/31/revtrax-in-store-affiliate-network/">Scott Jangro explains how it works</a>.

"RevTrax?s technology provides a publisher with a unique printable coupon. Once printed, this coupon is then scanned at the point of sale and the transaction is credited to that publisher. Here you see what the publisher posts on their website, and once the user prints it, it gets a barcode that?s scanned at the store."

As of the end of October the company only had one merchant set up with trackable coupons according to Scott.

FeedFront Magazine recently featured a story about Rextrax that explains more about the company and how the concept works. "<a href="http://feedfront.com/archives/capture-revenue-from-in-store-sales-by-seth-sarelson-and-jonathan-treiber/">Capture Revenue from In-Store Sales</a>."

I hope this network takes off and more retailers jump on board. What a godsend for affiliates that would be!

 

[busproddep]

It seems like with everything people keep taking more and more pieces of "the pie." Between taxes, and insurances etc. it's good to hear that finally I could potentially be given a greater share of my well deserved earnings than before. Finally! Now if only all the retailers would jump on board!

 

[oracleofmist]

I am a bit skeptical, but then most everyone is for affiliate programs. Can anyone sell me on this?

1. Has anyone gotten any payouts from it yet?
2. (If So) How long did it take you to start generating revenue?
3. What kind of promotion tools do they provide?
4. Is anyone signed up for this?

 

[Linda Buquet]

It's brand new and I think they only have one merchant so far.

So my thought is it's a VERY COOL model that I hope will take off.
So I was letting people know about a cool model more so than saying join this program.

As far as creatives the main thing would be coupons because you need to give folks a reason
to print off something that has your affiliate ID in the barcode and take it into the store.