Alec Saunders SquawkBox

I’ve spent the day painstakingly digging through our affiliate lists, checking out websites, and sending feedback to our affiliates on how they’re doing.  Not only is it a good relationship building exercise, but I’m also really enjoying seeing how different folks are taking advantage of the Calliflower affiliate program.

For example, Australian Dave Bradshaw has put up an Online Meetings Review website, signed up for affiliate programs from a series of online meeting vendors, and written reviews of each of the services.  Nice! And I was naturally pleased to see that Calliflower scored 9/10, the highest review on the site, tied with Webex.  

Similarly, Virtual Conference Office is a site containing content on how to run a virtual office, including conferencing services.  The owner of this site has deployed Calliflower advertising in several strategic places. 

Many affiliates simply post an advertisement or send email to their address books.  I like the approach of both these sites because they try to surround affiliate links with quality content as well.

On Friday of last week, we started something new for Calliflower.  We held our first conference call for Calliflower affiliate network members.  It was short, and gave people the information they needed to go and implement a marketing program of their own to earn affiliate revenue from selling Calliflower. 

It was also a great opportunity to demo the features of Calliflower.  I showed some powerpoint, and two documents in the document sharing window, plus I made a recording of the whole call. 

We announced the first Calliflower sales contest on that call. The contest runs until April 13, and pays $500 to the first affiliate who makes 10 or more Calliflower sales, and $100 to each of the first 5 affiliates who make 5 or more Calliflower sales. 

So, if you’re interested in earning a little money, and have a blog or a mailing list at your disposal, head over to the Calliflower affiliate network, and get started today.

 

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We’re back at it again, with some more news.  Since first launching Calliflower, we’ve been getting asked how others can make money from working with Calliflower and by helping to sell it.  The good news is that the day has arrived, and it’s TODAY!

Beginning last fall we launched Calliflower Premium, which gives customers unlimited conferencing calling, and unlimited document sharing for an unlimited number of participants, for just $50 per month.  We also announced Calliflower on iPhone at that time, and finally launched it just last week.  This was all a prelude to having an offering that would allow us to tap into the affiliate marketing networks that exist on the internet today.

Today, we’re announcing the Calliflower Affiliate Network.  Now you can earn a nice recurring income stream by simply referring your customers, business associates and friends to Calliflower.  For each new customer who signs up, you earn 25% of the monthly fee paid.  AND for each new affiliate you sign up, you can earn 10%.

We provide banner advertisements, sales letters, and tracking tools at http://affiliates.calliflower.com.  And for more information on the program itself, visit http://www.calliflower.com/affiliate_network.

The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance has announced today that they have adopted Calliflower as part of their Web 2.0 Office. As part of the agreement,  not only will CATA use Calliflower for its own calls, CATA will also market Calliflower to its 28,500 members, becoming the first official reseller of Calliflower.  This is our first step in building an affiliate marketing channel for Calliflower, and CATA is our first affiliate member. 

We first started working with John Reid and the CATA team last summer as they were building a showcase for Web 2.0 office technologies that they described as the “Bedouin Office”.  The momentum to do this deal was really enhanced by their successful internal use, making for a really basis to launch Calliflower as a member benefit.  In John’s own words:

"We particularly like the Calliflower Web interface— it’s an easy to use, interactive dashboard that makes organizing and participating in multiparty calls simple and engaging. There is also a richer call management feature set compared to our previous service. We save thousand of dollars while adding Web 2.0 collaboration power."

In today’s environment what could be better than saving thousands of dollars, and getting more for your money at the same time?