NLP Affiliate Program FAQ:

Q: What is the main purpose of your NLP affiliate program?

A: It's a great way for our customer or students or other training organizations to earn extra income just by recommending our work & materials. You refer a customer, you get paid a commission. It's win-win for everyone.

Q: What is the main benefit of your NLP Affiliate program?

A: You can generate money quickly, especially if you have an existing mailing list or existing web site traffic. Many affiliates write a short endorsement via e-mail and hit "send." Within 10 minutes, sales start rolling in, and commissions start racking up.

If your customer list is a good fit for our books and programs, your readers will appreciate you telling them about our site. When they end up buying... you get paid.

Q: What kind of NLP Sales can/do I get paid on?

A: Unlike many other programs that only pay if the customer buys on the first visit, we pay if he/she buys months later. Each new referral is tracked via the computer's IP address and if that IP address ever becomes a customer within 3 years... you get paid your commission. You get paid on sales, but if that customer returns the book for a refund, we deduct the already-paid commission from future commission checks.

Q: What separates your NLP Affiliate Program from the other affiliate programs selling books and similar products?

A: The main thing is that we pay out more money to our affiliates, and not only for products, but soon we'll also pau out for event signups. Amazon.com pays about 5% for a referral and occasionally pays up to 11% on special situations. We pay 20% of the selling price on products, 10% of the tuition someone pays for our events, may offer occasional higher commissions for product/event launches, and are considering superaffiliate status for higher referral commissions in the future. You get bigger checks, and even if you only send out ONE referral link just ONCE, you get paid a commission on everything that customer buys online for the next year after their most recent purchase (has to be done online, so you should continue to recommend events/products with your affiliate link on an ongoing basis). Some affiliate programs even refuse to pay a commission on the 2nd or higher purchase your customers make. We realize the value of referrals and the lifetime value of a customer.

Q: Which of your NLP products/services can I resell/recommend, for NLP affiliate referrals?

A: If the product is sold, or one can sign up for an event, via the "Mastery InSight Institute" shopping cart, then you can resell/recommend it and earn affiliate commissions.

Q: Where can I check my statistics, orders referred, find out how much money I'll be receiving?

A: After you're an approved affiliate, you can log on anytime through our secure login page, using your affiliate ID# and passcode.

Keep in mind only product orders that have already been successfully charged, will show as 'payable'; if we have been traveling and have not yet had a chance to run charges for your customers, these orders will remain in a pending state until we can run charges. Also, event registration commissions do not pay out until your referred students have attended the course(s) they signed up for. So depending on how early someone signs up for a course, you might have to wait months for your affiliate fee on their tuitions. (No functional delays are placed on product order commissions).

Q: Will this system work for me, guaranteed?

A: No, of course not, there are no guarantees in business. But there also aren't any COSTS for you to become our affiliate! No risk, no loss, just potential profit. If you're a good marketer, if you have a goodly sized list or readership or customer-base, then you should do well. The more you study marketing, PR, and sales technique, the more skills you'll develop to enhance your results. Additionally, we're going to invest a lot of time into providing you increasingly effective tools for you to succeed. The fundamentals are simple. Get lots of people to view our sales letter/ web page. If you get LOTS of people to see your ad or link to our site, you have greater chance of earning commissions.

Q: Do you provide free NLP consulting, or NLP products, or NLP training attendance if I resell your products?

A: You'll get support with your NLP affiliate program to the degree that we'll help you get your account in place, your links tested & working (from our side), and provide some marketing material as well. We cannot offer extended help with web programming issues (but we'll help you customize your links etc, if you're dealing with all your own formatting/display/design issues). If you're asking whether your NLP affiliate program membership or NLP Sales results entitle you to direct NLP Coaching of you on your business or lifestyle, the answer is no -- they entitle you to be paid appropriate commissions! Any request for NLP coaching/consulting on issues unrelated to the NLP affiliate program will be treated as a separate billable business request. However, if your e-mail question involves our affiliate software, affiliate codes & links, etc., we do aim to help you become more profitable (as time in our own schedule permits!). And (very high) performance will result in additional gifts. But in terms of guaranteeing free services just for joining, sorry -- not going to happen.

Q: Do I need customers or a web site to make money as an affiliate?

A: It certainly would help. Your job as an affiliate is to send traffic to our site and find new customers, even better -- to recommend specific products or events to qualified prospects. So, if you don't have a customer database or a website, you will have a much more difficult time finding customers to send to our site. However, one of the best ways to generate affiliate commision revenue without your own site is to post heavily on online NLP forums, referencing your affiliate ID at the bottom of your posts. Even stronger results come from informing prospects that if they DO buy from us, they should let you know afterwards that they used your affiliate link to do so, after which you'll send them a free copy of 'special report' of some kind that you yourself had written.

Q: What happens if one of my referrals doesn't use your website, but instead orders by phone?

A: At the moment, ONLY orders/signups placed online through your NLP affiliate links will be trackable for commissions. But here are two other promises -- (1), if we know during a phone conversation that an NLP event registration was referred from an affiliate, we'll ASK (never demand) that customer on your behalf if they'd be willing to register through the online page. Also, (2) If over time we find that it's easy to credit you properly through the affiliate program database for sales/signups referred via phone, then we will attempt to do so. But at this moment, we are NOT committing to that, so I would encourage all NLP affiliates to encourage their customers to transact business with us through the website -- be honest with them that you're getting a commission (the FTC's recent rulings are pretty adamant about this anyway!), and then offer them something simple for free after they've bought from us online, as added-value to them for honoring your NLP affiliate recommendation!

Q: "During the past 2 months I was paid like clockwork by you on the 15th of each month. It's the 17th and you still haven't paid me? What gives?"

A: We're a very small business, and our NLP training/travel schedule sometimes DOES get in the way of NLP business as usual. Unfortunately, that's not going to change immediately. Perhaps in the future we'll have a larger team on staff. Bottom line -- understanding this is a PRE-REQUISITE of doing business with us: If we're late on an affiliate check during heavy travel activities, you're going to need to be patient until our travel schedule allows us to catch up.

Q: What if disputes occur?

A: We're pretty reasonable, and we really like doing business with reasonable people. We believe disputes are best handled privately. So, any disputes must be addressed or handled privately, as we believe that our NLP affiliates are valued NLP business partners. We respect your privacy, and value you as a business partner. Do take note however -- We will not allow any affiliate to trample on us or make unreasonable demands. And take special note: if any NLP affiliate attempts to deal with any dispute in any remotely public way, whether through NLP forums or NLP newsgroups, etc., we will consider that a violation of our own privacy, and therefore, grounds for immediate termination of the business relationship and forfeiture of all future commissions which may be earned through future clickthroughs (whereas, if we part amicably, even after we de-activate your partner ID, new commissions can still be credited to you from new sales made from past referrals. It really behooves you to handle any disputes or disagreements both respectfully and professionally).

Q: I referred 20 $500 event registrations to you 2 months ago, Jonathan -- you owe me $1000 in referred signups! How come you haven't paid me yet?

A: Please remember -- product sales commissions get paid out monthly as long as your total commissions owed is $100 or more (any less, and your total carries into the next month). But SEMINAR registrations will not pay out commissions until after your referred students have attended the courses they paid to attend. We do get cancellations & refund requests before courses occur, so paying event commissions early would be neither wise nor appropriate. You'll be paid appropriate commissions on event registrations in the usual monthly method, after relevent seminars have been attended.

Q: Do you offer telephone support, Jonathan?

A: Yes. I'll offer telephone support to affiliates who have already articulated their problem in an e-mail and where I was unable to successfully resolve the issue by e-mail. Then, an appointment is scheduled with you. I'll call you; I will categorically not offer inbound customer support without an appointment; our office is too small for that. Sorry. Email is the best way to reach me.