If you are an existing affiliate of Chinavasion inside the “old” system you need to change your links and get inside Shareasale as soon as possible, before the deadline. When you continue your great promotional work through the Shareasale system you’ll find it’s easier to use and gives you more real-time data to help optimize your campaigns.

The Chinavasion merchant channel in Shareasale is already there, so please sign up and learn the ropes now!

Key Points To Note

• The link building and tracking system at Affiliates.chinavasion.com will no longer give you commission after 30th November 2009
• All Affiliate accounts will get accrued commissions paid out in full on that end date.
• The Chinavasion Shareasale channel is already running beautifully so you can already switch over any time.
• It’s open to everyone to join free and instantly.
• You still get the same great 6% commission rate, 30 day cookie period.
• The 1% second tier commission still works.
• You can get paid by direct deposit in many countries. Payment is automatic and always on time.
• To continue / start as a Chinavasion Affiliate from now on you should register at Shareasale.com as an Affiliate and sign up (free) to the Chinavasion Merchant Channel

PS – You get a datafeed of all Chinavasion’s products inside Shareasale – hurray!

 

What is Shareasale?

Shareasale is the second largest affiliate system in the world. Literally thousands of merchants run their affiliate programs through the central Shareasale system, including many famous brands and huge online retailers.

Shareasale’s own introduction for Affiliates. You can
consolidate commissions from lots of programs into one, meaning
more commissions adding up and faster payouts!

Key Points About Shareasale

• Shareasale is trusted, stable, and easy to use. You can sign up free with no obligations.
• Inside Shareasale you will find affiliate programs from hundreds of different merchants, not only Chinavasion.
• Making links is really easy, it’s all automatic after you’re signed in, which is much simpler than the old Chinavasion manual link building
• You can get all your metrics inside Shareasale including per order statistics and averages such as click through rate and conversion rate. You can even see how Chinavasion measures up against other similar merchants.
• Click here for the Shareasale Affiliates FAQ
• Their system is amazing but their help documents are not, so watch this space, we will produce more information about how to take advantage of the Shareasale money-making opportunities!

Existing Affiliates – What You Should Do Now

Existing affiliates will not be automatically transferred into the new system. You need to sign up at Shareasale if you are not already a member there.

After the switch at the end of November 2009, your old links will not work any more, you need to build new ones.

1. Sign up to Shareasale
2. Join our channel there.
3. You will get email notifications from Shareasale that your registration was successful and that your application to join the Chinavasion channel was approved.
4. Any Chinavasion Affiliates widgets you have built will run for a while but quite soon after will stop displaying properly. Please replace them with banners, text links (including categories), or product links.

Everything else is exactly the same as before, the same terms and conditions and the same great 6% commission…. Just a lot easier to use!

Already Watched The Video And Ready To Start?

• Login / Sign Up (if you are already a Chinavasion buyer just use the same login)
• Build a link to any Chinavasion page

More…

• Automatically create product links
• Create dynamic product widgets 
• Grab banner graphics

Hi, this is George from Chinavasion.com

I want to tell you very quickly about a great opportunity which will immediately let you
 

Monetize your forum signature
 

You’ll see quite a few forum posters who are already renting their forum signatures to webmasters for SEO. I think you can make more money immediately with the affiliate opportunity I’m about to explain to you…

First of all, what is Chinavasion? Chinavasion is the leading consumer electronics wholesaler on the web. Search for "wholesale electronics" on Google and you’ll find us right up there at the top. We provide the world with hi tech gadgets directly from China. Our biggest customer bases are in North America, Europe, and Australia, but really every country in the world is going crazy right now for Cell Phones, Car Stereos, Media Players, Solar Phone Chargers, LED Light Bulbs, Radio Controlled Spy Camera Cars…. I can’t list everything, you have to go and check out the website – Chinavasion.com – It’s a gadget-lover’s dream and a real revolution in letting everyone in the world easily access the China market at these wholesale discount prices.

Through our Affiliates Program you can earn 6% commission on the product value of referred orders.

But what I want you to have a look at today is our second tier affiliate tracking. If you’re active in the world of internet marketing and affiliate websites, you’re really in a unique position to influence new affiliates who are out there looking for high-earning new programs.

You will get paid for referring good Affiliates.

If you go out there, and start referring new affiliates to the Chinavasion program, you’re going to be earning 1% second-tier commission on all the orders they refer, forever.

Let’s look at an example.

http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/2din-car-dvd-player-gps-bluetooth-with-7-inch-touchscreen/

If a customer arrives at Chinavasion through an affiliate’s link and buys this Car DVD Player for $368.66 then the affiliate will receive 6% – $22 in commission.

If that affiliate "belonged to you" because he originally created the affiliate account after being referred by you, you will take 1% on his referred orders. So on that $368.66 order you will get 1% – $3.68

It may not sound like a lot, but consider your unique advantage for spreading the word in the affiliate marketing world. If you refer just 10 active affiliates who refer just 10 orders a month at the average order size of $300, your 2nd tier commission is $300 every month… not bad considering all you have to do is put one link in your forum posting signature and sit back.

PLUS considering you could refer a high performing affiliate and, through no extra work, earn ten times that much.

There’s no cost or risk to yourself to try this out.

All you need is a Paypal account to receive your commissions every month.

Just put your affiliate link in your forum signature and try it out for a couple of weeks. Using the Chinavasion affiliates dashboard you can immediately see when you referred sales, or when the affiliates you referred made sales, giving you 2nd tier commissions.

Three steps:

1. Go to affiliates.chinavasion.com, click "Login/Sign Up" and create your account
2. Grab your affiliate id in your account area
3. Tag your affiliate id on the end of any link to Chinavasion.com or our affiliates pages.

For instance, if your affiliate id is 5540

your link to the Car DVD Player we talked about is:

http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/2din-car-dvd-player-gps-bluetooth-with-7-inch-touchscreen/?ref=5540

Or, as I am recommending, if you want to promote the Affiliate Program and get your 2nd tier commissions effortlessly, link to

http://affiliates.chinavasion.com/become-a-chinavasion-affiliate-earn-commissions/?ref=5540

(That page is actually a duplicate of our main page but for system reasons if you link directly to http://affiliates.chinavasion.com/?ref=5540 the page content doesn’t show correctly, although the cookie still sets successfully the page content doesn’t show correctly, although the cookie still sets successfully)

Remember to change that reference id to your own personal affiliate id.

If you’ve got any questions about how to make this work for you, contact me any time at

…and I’ll get back to you in one working day.

So, in conclusion:

• You have a good place to put links in your forum signature
• Everyone loves buying electronic gadgets
• It’s easy, fast, and risk free to try this out
• Test it and start earning money now
   

How To Build A Link To ANY Chinavasion Web Page

Manual link building is easy, and you can link to any Chinavasion page to collect commissions on your referrals.

Simply add the following to the end of any www.chinavasion.com URL: ?ref=5540

IMPORTANT: "5540" is NOT YOUR affiliate ID – it is just used on this page as an example.

Check your affiliate dashboard to see your ID number

Examples For You To Grab

Here are some examples of links to important, highly converting landing pages on Chinavasion.com

In every example, replace “5540″ with your own affiliate ID, to track the sales to your account.

• Chinavasion Homepage http://www.chinavasion.com/?ref=5540
• New Products http://www.chinavasion.com/products_new.php?ref=5540
• Drop-Shipping Information http://www.chinavasion.com/wholesale-dropship.php?ref=5540
• To a product category http://www.chinavasion.com/index.php/cName/mobile-phones/?ref=5540
• To a product, the Mobile Phone Watch: http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/super-cool-mobile-phone-wrist-watch/?ref=5540

For more automatic, easier link building, be sure to check out:

• Chinavasion Affiliate Widget creator
• Chinavasion Affiliate Product link creator
• Chinavasion Affiliate Banners

Linking To Search Results

Some URLs for Chinavasion pages already have ‘arguments’ (i.e. already has a question mark ?arg=value) in the URL. In these cases you have to append the affiliate ref with & as &ref=5540

e.g.
http://www.chinavasion.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=mobile+phone
searches for mobile phones
Your affiliate link would be:
http://www.chinavasion.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=mobile+phone&ref=5540

Advanced Notes

• Links without a channel ID will be tracked as clickthroughs on your default channel.
• If you want to add a channel ID for a manual link, make a widget, note the channel ID number for your chosen channel, and insert it into the URL as &channel_id=2788 e.g. http://www.chinavasion.com/wholesale-dropship.php?ref=5540&channel_id=2788
• You don’t need to worry about the trailing slash / in the URL, just keep the normal Chinavasion URL as it is and add on your ?ref=5540 – however you should not yourself add a trailing slash at the end of your affiliate link e.g. …vasion.com/index.php/cName/mobile-phones/?ref=5540/ would be wrong.
• You can also link to Chinavasion’s subdomains blog.chinavasion.com, or affiliates.chinavasion.com in the same way described above and your cookie will be set. (You cannot currently set a cookie by linking to support.chinavasion.com)
• To link to this area of the site, to encourage other people to become Affiliates "under" you (1% lifetime commissions) please use http://affiliates.chinavasion.com/become-a-chinavasion-affiliate-earn-commissions/?ref=5540 (change to your ID there) – That page is actually a duplicate of our main page but for system reasons if you link directly to http://affiliates.chinavasion.com/?ref=5540 the page content doesn’t show correctly, although the cookie still would set successfully.
• Links which you built prior to October 2008 using the older “banner maker” etc will still work fine.

We will send you updates about the Chinavasion Affiliates Program
Check your email inbox for some great free advice and news!

» Click here to get into your Affiliate account, build links, and check your stats!

Click the link in the confirmation email and you’ll start receiving the great insider information you requested straight away!
 

If you don’t receive the confirmation email right away, please remember to whitelist the email address "affiliates@chinavasion.com" and check the mail wasn’t accidentally delivered to your junk mail.

We hate spam as much as you do – your email address will never be shared or used improperly.

 

Chinavasion – Your Reliable and Rather Cool China Electronics Source

 

That email address is already subscribed to Chinavasion’s Affiliate “Stay Updated” Newsletter!
 

If you signed up before but didn’t get the confirmation email – please
check your ‘junk’ / ’spam’ / ‘bulk’ mail folder to locate the confirmation
request.
 

Please « GO BACK and try again if
you want to sign up with a different email address.

Chinavasion Affiliate Program / Chinavasion Affiliate Account Terms And Conditions

By signing up free for a Chinavasion Affiliate Account you are agreeing to the following Terms and Conditions. Please review the General Agreement and supplementary notes carefully.

If you have any queries about your Chinavasion Affiliate Account or payments you can contact us by submitting an “Affiliates” ticket here:http://support.chinavasion.com/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=submit

You can also reach that URL by going to www.chinavasion.com and clicking “Contact Us” from the left sidebar.

General Agreement

The Chinavasion Affiliate Account service agreement (the “Agreement”) is made by Chinavasion Wholesale Ltd. (”Chinavasion”), and you, as the registrant in the Chinavasion Affiliate Program (”You”, “Your”, “Affiliate”). When signing up as an Affiliate of Chinavasion, and throughout the duration of your Affiliate Account, You agree to abide by the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement. By registering for Your Chinavasion Affiliate Account, you are indicating that you accept these terms and conditions. If You do not accept the terms and conditions of the Agreement, do not sign up for the Chinavasion Affiliate Program. All content on the Chinavasion.com site is copyrighted material and copyright violations will be treated seriously. The entire text of this Agreement is copyright.

Terms of the Agreement

The term of this Agreement will begin upon the online submission success of your Chinavasion Affiliate signup form, and will end when terminated by either party. Either You or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, by giving the other party written notice (Chinavasion will use your email address as provided on signup). If the Agreement is terminated, You agree to remove all material related to Chinavasion from your websites or as far as possible from other media which you have previously used in your affiliate promotional activities. Even if some of your affiliate links remain, You are only eligible to earn commissions on sales that occurred during the term of this Agreement (up to and including the date of termination).

Joining the Chinavasion Affilate Program

You may create a Chinavasion Affiliate Account by filling out the online sign-up form found at /affiliate_affiliate.php, provided that:

• You are the holder of a Paypal account into which we can pay affiliate commissions (which depends on where you live or hold a bank account – please see Paypal’s current list of countries served at: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-approved-signup-countries-outside);
• You are aged 18 or over;
• You are not already signed up as a Chinavasion Affiliate on another account, or have not at any time in the past held an account which was closed by Chinavasion;
• You have not already been requested to cease public activities relating to the marketing of Chinavasion’s products and services.

You may not reassign your Chinavasion Affiliate Account to the ownership or management of another person, unless this is authorised by Chinavasion in advance. If you change the payment Paypal address on your account to that of a different person, we may withhold payment while we query this with you, for security reasons.

Cancellation of Your Chinavasion Affiliate Account

When using the online signup form, your account is automatically created. However, Chinavasion may cancel your account at their sole discretion. We will notify you if your Chinavasion Affiliate Account is being cancelled, and give you an opportunity for discussion. Reasons for cancellation include but are not limited to the following:

• You provided false information in your account signup;
• You are or have been, in Chinavasion’s opinion, contravening the terms and conditions of a Chinavasion Wholesale Buyer Account owned or administered by You (for Chinavasion Wholesale Buyer Account terms and conditions of see:
  http://support.chinavasion.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=view&parentcategoryid=14)
• You hold a Chinavasion Buyer Account which is in debit because of completed orders which are unpaid for example due to chargebacks or Paypal disputes;
• You do not hold a Paypal account or your Paypal account cannot receive money;
• You are or have been promoting or referring to Chinavasion in a negative light or through inappropriate or unethical methods (see “Promoting Chinavasion” below);
• Your account has been inactive for a long time and no commission earnings are outstanding.

Chinavasion may terminate this Agreement for any reason, at any time. The terms of this Agreement and our acceptance criteria are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

You may terminate your Account and this Agreement at any time by writing to Chinavasion using the Affiliate Ticket submission here.

Promoting Chinavasion

We disclaim all liability for the media content created or published by you in the course of your activities romoting Chinavasion’s products or services, and for any statements made by you in this regard. Further, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, damages, and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees) relating to the development, operation, maintenance, and contents of your affiliate promotion activities.

The following are examples of ways to promote Chinavasion in an acceptable way provided other standards outlined in this document are adhered to:

• promoting Chinavasion’s products and services through your own dedicated websites or ebooks using your content to which you hold the copyright;
• promoting Chinavasion’s products and services through your own existing websites on related themes such as electronics, gadgets, wholesale and wholesalers, drop-shipping, auctions, gifts, China business, business-to-business, import / export and trade, product reviews, technology, and affiliate programs;
• promoting Chinavasion’s products and services through third party websites such as blogs, newsgroups, forums, online classified advertising sites, and article directories where your involvement is explicitly permitted and invited by the owners of the website, and where your comments or submissions are useful and relevant to that website and its user community;
• promoting Chinavasion’s products and services through emails to people who have explicitly agreed to receive messages from you on Chinavasion-related themes (see example themes above);
• promoting Chinavasion’s products and services through online advertising channels (such as pay-per-click, pay-per-impression, pay-per-(time period) banners, and text links) provided the context is appropriate (see below);
• promoting Chinavasion’s products and services in offline media such as print publications, provided the context is appropriate (see below);

You may NOT promote Chinavasion through the following methods:

• promotion through any media representing yourself, your company, or the promotional medium as officially representing or being part of Chinavasion Wholesale Ltd., including but not limited to using the name “chinavasion” in your company name, domain name, or subdomain address, and further including any very similar names that suggest association with Chinavasion or lead to confusion with the name Chinavasion;
• promotion using false or misleading statements, claims, statistics, prices, or pictures about Chinavasion products and services, including about the Chinavasion Affiliates Program;
• copying and using text and pictures from Chinavasion except where permitted by Chinavasion’s “Content Usage Policy” (see below);
• unsolicited emailing (spam);
• automated (spam-like) posting on other people’s websites including blogs and forums;
• submission to search engines, web directories, social bookmarking sites, or similar using your affiliate link as the URL;
• promotion through any media that condones or encourages illegal activities;
• promotion through any media associated with spamming, viruses, spyware, or adware;
• promotion through any adult-oriented (sexually explicit) media;
• promotion through any media that contains or promotes racism, violence, hate, or intolerant discrimination;
• promotion through any media that includes excessive foul language;
• promotion through any media that is associated with pyramid schemes or similar;
• promotion through any media which contains content that in Chinavasion’s sole judgment is defamatory or arassing to Chinavasion or any third party.

Content Usage Policy for Affiliates:

The following examples are intended as guidelines to what you may re-publish online and offline in order to promote Chinavasion with your affiliate links. This list is not comprehensive and we may contact you to request removal of unacceptable material on your websites or elsewhere. We may also contact webmasters or web hosts to request removal of content placed by you, without contacting you directly. Furthermore you should contact Chinavasion directly if you are unsure about the permissability of statements or content used in your promotional activities, prior to pubslishing that material.

Acceptable:

• Using product pictures from Chinavasion.com in providing information about those products and linking to Chinavasion;
• Using product description text from Chinavasion.com in providing information about those products and linking to Chinavasion;
• Quoting sections of text up to 250 words from Chinavasion public documents such as the Chinavasion Knowledgebase (FAQs) and Chinavasion publicity leaflets;
• Using your own photos or videos of Chinavasion products and packaging.
   

Not acceptable:

• You may not use the Chinavasion logo on other sites UNLESS it is clear that you are discussing Chinavasion and not representing yourself as Chinavasion or an authorised representative, reseller, or commentator, AND only if the Chinavasion logo links to Chinavasion.
• You may not copy or mimic text, trademarks, logos, or images in order to refer to or mimic Chinavasion’s accreditations from third parties, including but not limited to: Alibaba Gold Supplier; Alibaba TrustPass; Huaxia Credit; ScanAlert / Hacker Safe;
  ValidatedSite;
• You may not copy or imitate the design or elements of the Chinavasion.com website including but not limited to: html code; icons and graphics; css styling; category layout; category naming; distinctive features of layout;
• You may not copy or adapt product reviews or customer testimonials from Chinavasion.com
• You may not copy or adapt Chinavasion documents or ebooks including but not limited to: the Chinavasion Import from China Mini-Course; Chinavasion newsletter text; Chinavasion blog posts; text used on the Chinavasion.com main page; text used on Chinavasion.com product category pages and subcategories; the Chinavasion Knowledgebase andother FAQs.

Restrictions above in relation to copying / adapting includes translations into foreign languages.

Logos and trademarks of third parties are used on Chinavasion.com with permission, and you should seek permission before using such text or images yourself.

Calculation of Commissions

The calculation of commissions payable to you is at the sole discretion of Chinavasion and subject to change without prior notice. This is the system by which your affiliate commissions will be calculated:

• When someone clicks through your affiliate link to Chinavasion.com, AND your affiliate cookie is correctly set on their computer, AND within the cookie period that person places an order and pays for the order, AND the order is successfully delivered, AND a period of 16 days has passed since the delivery of the order, your affiliate account will be credited 6% of the total products value of the order. (The shipping fee of the order is not included in the commission calculation.)
• At the second tier: When someone clicks through your affiliate link to Chinavasion.com, AND your affiliate cookie is correctly set on their computer, AND within the cookie period that person successfully signs up as a Chinavasion Affiliate, AND that 2nd tier affiliate successfully refers a sale (as described above), your affiliate account will be credited 1% of the total products value of the order.

 Please note the following important conditions:

• The cookie duration is 30 days;
• Chinavasion cannot guarantee that the cookie generated by your affiliate clickthrough will be preserved – users are at liberty to block, delete, or overwrite cookies;
• Commissions cannot and will not be calculated or credited manually;
• If for ANY reason our online system did not credit a particular order to your affiliate ID we cannot and will not credit it to your account manually;
• Commissions are shown in your Affiliate Account on Chinavasion.com before they are actually credited: if the order that was made by your referred buyer is not paid for and delivered, commission will not be paid;
• Commissions initially shown as credited to you from delivered orders may be withdrawn if the order in question changes status due to payment issues (such as a credit card chargeback or Paypal reversal) or item returns;
• Ordering goods for yourself or your dropship customers through your own affiliate link is not allowed. If Chinavasion finds you did this previously, Chinavasion reserves the right to debit any erroneously paid-out amount from any associated affiliate or wholesale buyer account.

Chinavasion Affiliates are bound by the normal terms and conditions if buying from Chinavasion as a Wholesale Buyer, and Chinavasion undertakes no responsibilities promoting or endorsing your products and services.

Payment of Commissions

Chinavasion will pay you your affiliate commissions based on the following conditions:

• Your commission earned up to and including a calendar month is paid within the first 15 days of the succeeding month;
• All commissions are paid through Paypal ONLY, to the paypal account email address you specified during signup;
• The minimum commission payout is USD 50.00 (e.g. if you have $51 in commissions you will be paid the full $51 through Paypal on the monthly payout day, but if you only have $49 you will have to wait until you go over $50 before you get paid anything at all);
• If payments are unclaimed Chinavasion does not undertake responsibility to contact you as Paypal will already send more than one email reminding you to claim / collect the funds; it is your responsibility to keep your contact information up to date;
• If an unclaimed payment is returned to Chinavasion by Paypal, we will attempt re-payment if you contact us;
• Unclaimed payments over 90 days old will not be paid. If an affiliate commission is accidentally overpaid by Chinavasion, you agree to promptly remit such excess payment upon notification by us. We may withhold further commission payments until the previous overpayment is resolved.

You are wholly responsible for declaring your income from the Chinavasion Affiliate Program to the taxation and legal authorities in your country. Chinavasion undertakes no responsibility in assisting you with financial or legal paperwork relating to your Affiliate Commissions. Chinavasion reserves the right to charge for services providing formal paperwork or other confirmations of your Affiliate Commissions.

Privacy Policy and Data Protection

You must provide valid contact information to participate in the Chinavasion Affiliates Program. Your contact information will only be used to contact you with information about the Chinavasion affiliate program and Chinavasion. Your information will never be shared with any third parties. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or with the consent of the other party, each of the parties agrees that all information, including, without limitation, the terms of this Agreement, business and financial information, customer and vendor lists, and pricing and sales information, concerning us or you, respectively, or any of our affiliates provided by or on behalf of any of them shall remain strictly confidential and shall not be utilized, directly or indirectly, by such party for its own business purposes or for any other purpose except and solely to the extent that any such information is generally known or available to the public through a source or sources other than such party hereto or its affiliates.

Limitation of Liability

We will not be liable for indirect, special or consequential damages, or any loss of revenue, profits or data, arising in connection with this Agreement or the Chinavasion Affiliate Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under to this Agreement.

Disclaimer

Chinavasion makes no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Chinavasion Affiliate Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, Chinavasion makes no representation that the operation of the Chinavasion.com website will be uninterrupted or error-free, and Chinavasion will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors; however, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to correct errors or interruptions promptly.

Independent Investigation

You acknowledge that you have read this agreement and agree to all its terms and conditions. You understand that Chinavasion may at any time (directly or indirectly) solicit customer referrals on terms that may differ from those contained in this agreement or operate web sites that are similar to or compete with your web site. You have independently evaluated the desirability of participating in the program and are not relying on any representation, guarantee or statement other than as set forth in this agreement.