Daily Deals Software Vendor Information

Why Promote Through Us?

We offer an online marketplace to promote your Windows software at a discount, for one day only.

The sale is yours. This store, and others in our network, are a portal that directs sales to your cart. We act as a promotional affiliate, and take a percentage of each sale as a commission. We are not a distributor or reseller. Sales take place through your regular sales mechanism.

Benefits to You

• You'll get exposure. Our audience isn't your standard one.
  
  People go to your website because they're looking for products like yours. We get a different audience. People who are curious. People looking for a good bargain on something they can get immediately. Or maybe just trying to put off their work for a minute. And not only do you pay nothing for the exposure, you actually make money from all sales we generate on that day.
• In addition, your product listing, with links to your Free Trial and your website, remains in our History area.
• You'll get sales you otherwise wouldn't. Again, the people who come to your site are looking for some specific kind of software, and may be comparing several options. The people who come to this site are looking for a good deal, or just seeing if there's something interesting available.

  In addition to sales of your Featured Product:

  • You'll get any additional product sales that go with your product sale, as well as later upgrades, or future add-ons. You'll get new purchasers to add to your mailing and promotion lists.

    From an SIC 2006 presentation: people who have already bought one of your products are seven times more likely to buy another one than someone who has never bought anything from you. If you send emails out to your mailing list, current customers are thirty times more likely to respond to the promotion. You can easily turn sales you make into more sales.

  • No matter how good the discount, most users won't buy anything without trying it. And not everyone will get back to our site in time to buy the product at the discount, so you may see later sales at full-price from your own site. Plus, your product will appear on our history page with links to a trial version of your program and to your website.
• Our deals appear on a network of partner websites including BitsDuJour.com, Iconico.com, Tech-Pro.net, FindFiles.com, UpdatePatrol.com, SoftwareADay.com, CamDevelopment.com, CamUnZip.com, Winability.com and Uconomix.com. We're continuing to add new partner websites to give your software global exposure!
• It's no risk, and very little work for you. We don't charge any setup fees and only get paid as a percentage of your sales. We're not asking to be a reseller, where you'd have to set up your products for us to sell, and add a new method of handling sales and tracking payments. We use your existing processes, and your own store. All we do is refer sales to you. All you need to do is set up a special SKU or coupon for us for the day.
  
  Your own affiliate agreement is enough. Or, if you don't have one and aren't a member of one of the other affiliate programs, you can sign ours.

Articles About Us

• Nicholas Hebb, of BreezeTree Software calls us "The One Resource Software Developers and Consumers Can’t Afford to Miss", and included some tips to help improve sales.
• Automise broke our 2006 sales records. Read Why
• Andrey Butov, Printer Friendly author writes that "Yesterday, in one day, Printer Friendly 1.4 sold over 6 times more licenses than it has since its release earlier this year." and "I love business relationships where all sides win. It’s simply beautiful."
• Direct Access has been featured twice. The first time Andrea Nagar called it "a great day", and the second, "a great promotional tool".
• Read how Text2Go promoted a new product with great success.
• Hear how StyleSpread sold an "obscene number of copies" in one day.

Program Details

You offer a discount of a minimum of 30% off your product's regular single unit price. We strongly recommend more, but only require 30%. There's no maximum discount, and we've run many greater than 90%. The regular price must be the real amount (street price) the product is sold for on your website and any distributor sites.

The pre-discount price of your product can be any price, we've featured some very cheap and expensive products. The product should be appropriate for our audience of computer enthusiasts, from semi-technical hobbyists to professionals and be commercially available when you sign it up to be featured. We can't feature all our submissions, but we do review them all.

You make the discount available through a special (unique) SKU or special (unique) promotional coupon, and provide us any links we need if we can't generate them ourselves using the affiliate program's control panel.

You (or your affiliate program vendor) pay us an affiliate commission on all sales using the special discount coupon or SKU or affiliate link. Our current commission is 30% of the sale price (that is, of the discounted price) of any sales we originate. This pays for our work, we never ask for a setup fee.

Your product can contain no viruses, spyware, trojans or malware of any kind, and cannot violate anyone else's copyright or other intellectual property. Also, you have a way for purchasers to opt-out of your mailing list, and must have a published Privacy Policy that states that purchaser's information will not be sold, rented, given away or mistreated.

You agree that your product will not be sold or given away for a reduced rate on any other site, including your own, within 2 weeks of its feature date.

Note that we do not require that you belong to one of the standard affiliate tracking programs.

Process

Here's how it works:

• You fill out our Signup Form. We need your contact information, and the names of the product you'd like us to feature. You can always add more products later (or tell us not to feature one you've signed up for, there's no commitment until we actually schedule the feature).
• We'll review your software and make sure that it's a high quality application that's going to appeal to our users. We can't feature everything, but we try and be fair.
• When we're ready to schedule your feature, we'll email you with a suggested day for the promotion and a draft of our feature page for you to approve. Once you OK it and send us the discount coupon information, we're all set.
• The week before the week in which your product is featured, it will be previewed on our Previews page (without the purchase links being active). We also send out a newsletter to our subscribers and publish the preview in our RSS feeds.
• After the feature runs, if you're not a member of an established affiliate program, you'll tell us how many units were sold from the promotion, and send us payment for the appropriate amount. If you are, payment is handled by the affiliate program, we never ask for setup fees.

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