| Why are you doing this? |
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Our organization does not have a sales or marketing department. We believe in the
power of the internet and networks of people, viral marketing, word of mouth, etc... So rather
than investing in a sales force, we are relying soley on our affiliate program for all
our sales, marketing and promotional activities. We feel the collective power of the
highly diverse, ambitious and creative talent that we can discover through this
affiliate program is of far more value than any team we could hire inhouse, and
we are willing to pay a premium for this value. |
| What is your organization? |
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Our organization is Quarkis Company Ltd., An American managed Thailand
registered limited liability company operating in Phuket and specializing
in highly focused aggregate directory website properties.
You can learn more about the company at
www.quarkis.com and
more about the founder at www.jeffhock.com. |
| How Much Money Can I Make? |
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You have discovered this opportunity at the ground floor. We estimate that
you will earn $35 per paying member you refer to this website. If you can bring in just 1 customer per
day on average, that is $12,775 USD per year directly to your bank. Yet, this would only provide
us with 365 customers. We are striving to have 50,000 customers by 2010 and we have the infrustructure
to support this number. If you are highly skilled, networked and motivated, this is a $1,750,000 USD
market opportunity for you. |
| How Do I Earn A Luxury Trip To Phuket Thailand? |
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Affiliates who bring in 100 customers are eligable for the free Thailand holiday. Bring in 100
customers and we provide you with two weeks of free luxury accommodations for two and help you procure
discount airfare, however you must pay for your own airfare. Affiliates who
bring in 500 customers get two weeks free accommodations and we pay for round trip
airfare for one. Affiliates who bring in 800 customers get two weeks free
accomodations and we pay for round trip airfare for two people. We are a small company
based in Phuket and are delighted to host you, take you sailing, to the best
restuarants, siteseeing, relaxing on the beach, partying, you name it. We will give you
total red carpet treatment during your visit. We consider you 50/50 partner in this venture,
it shows in the commissions we pay you and it will show in the way you are treated when you
come out here to visit, which technically, will be a tax deductable business trip.
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| Is there a time limit on the Thailand Holiday incentive? |
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No, as long as we are in business and you keep bringing in customers, we will honor
this incentive offer. If you already have 100 customers and are shooting for 500, or if you
have 500 customers and are shooting for 800, you don't have to worry about losing the
level you've achieved. If you give up before reaching 800 customers for any reason, we will
honor your reward of attaining 500 customers. If you give up on reaching 500 customers,
we will honor your reward of attaining 100 customers. |
| What if I accomplish 100, 500 or 800 customer attainment but am unable to use the reward? |
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You are allowed to give your reward away to someone else to fullfill but you can not sell it.
Furthermore, we will not give out cash compensation in exchange for the reward.
We will only give out the vacation reward as it's described above, because technically, it will
be considered a business trip. |
| Is there a time limit on this affiliate program? |
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No, as long as we are in business so are you. Once your affiliate application has been approved, then
you are free to participate for as long as you want.If however you fail to bring in a single customer
during any given consecutive 6 months stretch, we reserve the right to terminate our partnership with
you after paying you out in full for the customers you did manage to bring in. |
| How will you determine how many customers I've brought in? |
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We have a sophisticated referal tracking and managing system that will allow
both of us to see exactly how many people you bring to the website and how many of
those people sign up and list their property and make payment. So, you
are never in the dark concerning your progress. There is never any ambiguity over
this data and you are free to test it out all you want to make sure it's accurate.
We give you backend access to the Affilates section, a totally transparent and easy
to use system that allows you to see all of your stats and track, manage and monitor
your progress, the people you refer to the site, the customers who sign up, and
the ones that pay. This allows you to focus on maximizing the effectiveness of your
sales and marketing campaigns without ever worrying that you are somehow being
cheated or not given full credit for your referals as is the case with many other
affiliate programs. Even if your referal doesn't purchase immediately, but they come
back to the site to make purchase hours or days later... you still get credit for
that customer. In fact, using IP addresses and cookies, we keep track of each referal
you bring in for a 1 month period. If they come back to our site and make a purchase
within the month after you refer them, you get credit for them. |
| What is the type of work I need to do? |
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We have a collection of directory style websites in the travel and leisure industry
and are seeking help with sales, marketing and promotional activities. Essentially you
will be responsible for "getting word out" about these websites to targeted customers
and encouraging them to visit this website and sign up. For each paying customer you
bring in, we pay you and incredible 50% of the money we collect from them.
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| How do I learn how to do this work? |
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We provide you with a ton of well documented training material. There's many tactics
and techniques that you can use to bring in customers. We provide you with a very
comprehensive and detailed set of instructions that covers all of these methods,
you are then free to create your own or stick with the ones that work best for you.
Of course, we absolutely do not tolerate spamming, phishing or any form of dishonest,
abusive or overtly agressive tactics, so all new tactics you invent that are not documented
with us must be approved with us in advance. Our policy is simple, under no circumstances
are you to annoy a potential customer or cheat our competition.
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| But most customers don't sign up on their first visit? |
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Aha! This is the scam that other affiliate programs may use, but not us. Say you refer 100
people to our website. Maybe only 1 of them signs up and pays right there and then. However,
maybe 3 of them think about it, search around competitive websites, and then decide to sign up
with us, so they come back, sign up and make payment sometime later. This is common, usually the customer
will take hours or even days to decide. But you don't need to worry. We capture that customers
IP address and put a cookie on their computer, so we can track them whenever they come back,
even if it's 1 month later. We invite you to test out our system and see for yourself the
level of integrity built into our affiliate tracking system. |
| How much work is involved? |
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Depends on if you have your own website or not. If you already have a website in the travel
and leisure related industry whereby visitors to your website may be interested
in the services we have to offer... well, the work is very easy for you. You simply post a link
on your website that automaticallly refers people over to Free-Rentals. (We provide
you with very easy copy and paste html code that automatically has our tracking system built into it). This
allows us to automatically track each of these people coming in to when they sign up to when they pay.
All you have to do is sit back and focus on increasing traffic to your own website and then
collect checks from us. That's the passive approach and it works well with high traffic websites or blogs.
The active approach, for those eager to visit Thailand, is to use a series of techniques and tactics, essentially contacting vacation home owners directly and encouraging them to sign up. We offer a very comprehensive overview and online training manual showing you all of the tactics and techniques that we know of and approve of in your efforts to directly contact customers and encourage them to sign up with us. Here is one example. Goto http://www.craigslist.org and you will see they all you to post ads for free and also contact owners of ads for free. They have several categories directly relating to the services offered here at Free-Rentals.com. |
| Can I use any method I want to bring in customers? |
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Absolutely NO spamming or phishing or harrassing customers will be tolerated. If an affiliate is
caught spamming or phishing, they are immediately disqualified from the program. If it is brought
to our attention that they are annoying or harrasing potential customers, or frauding or cheating
our competition, then a warning is provided. Three warnings and they are terminated from the program.
We encourage creativity and out of the box thinking and will work with an affiliate to help make
them successful, so long as they are good, honest and descent people... which is the only type of
people we accept into this program, (or at least, try too). Bottom line, since we are paying you
a whopping 50% commissions, we consider you a 50/50 partner in terms of our working relationship.
It is in our interest to see you succeed and we will work tirelessly with you to help you do so,
but we don't work with evil, bad, dishonest, corrupt or greedy people. |
| How do I get get started? |
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Goto the Sign Up section and fill out the application form. If accepted, we will send
you a password and username and instructions on where to log in and how to get started.
CLICK HERE to goto the Sign Up section. |
| I already filled out the Application but never heard back from anyone? |
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Sorry, we've been getting a LOT of interest in this program and unfortunately we can
not accept or reply back to everyone. We are only allowed to accept a limited number of people into this affiliation program,
so if you didn't hear back from us, that means your application was not accepted and we do not
need your help. But we thank you for your interest. |
| I have been accepted as an Affiliate already, but can not access my account information? |
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Your need to LOG IN... CLICK HERE to goto the LOGIN section. If you forgot
your login username or password, goto the CONTACT section and inform us. |
| Can I get a legal contract documenting this arrangement? |
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Yes, but only after you have brought in 10 customers. In short, we can not waste our time
hand holding people who do not have the capacity to do the work involved. You need to
prove to us that you understand WHAT the work is and HOW to do it. We will work closely with
these type of people who have done their homework and know what they are getting into and how
this system works. Obtain 10 listings and we will provide you with a signed legal contract
supporting our promises outlined here. In the meantime, you will just have to rely on this
webpage. We recommend you print it out for your records.
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| Is there a limit to how many people can become an affiliate? |
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Yes, We only need a certain number of people but we don't specify exaclty how many.
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| What is the target goal for the average affiliate? |
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We advise our affiliates to aim at bringing in 800 customers in 2 years. This comes
to 33 customers per month, approximately 1 per day. If the average commission per customer
is $35 usd, then the affiliate will earn $28,000 USD for this work plus a trip for 2 to
Phuket Thailand valued at approximately $5,000 USD. So the question becomes, for $33,000 USD,
how much time are you willing to put into it? If you value your time at $10 per hour, then
that allots you 3,300 hours total, or (3,3000/800=) 4 hours of work to bring in each customer.
So, another way of looking at this, if it takes you 4 hours of work per customer, you are
essentially working at a rate of $10 USD per hour. If it takes you 8 hours of work per customer
then you are working at a rate of $5 USD per hour. And if you are a super achiever and can
get a customer to sign up in 2 hours of work, then you are essentially working at a rate of
$20 USD per hour. Keep in mind, we use $35 USD as the average amount you will generate per
customer, but it could be more or less than this amount as our pricing scheme allows the
customer to decide on a price plan. |
| How am I paid? |
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In your affiliate account where we track and manage all of your referals and customers,
it will list your "paid out" status. We pay you every 10 customers. So once you get 10
customers, we pay you your 50% commissions of the money we collect from those customers.
We will pay you either by mailing a Bank of America check (USA) or Siam Commercial check (Thailand)
or making payment to you online via PayPal. Your payment check will range in size from approximately $135 USD
to $645 USD depending on which payment methods your customers chose.
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| Do I get re-occuring income from repeat customers? |
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No. Your commissions are a one time only payment to you based on the customers initial signing
up on this website and making payment. You are not entitled to commissions from repeat customers
who continue listing with us and pay in subsequent years.You only stand to earn 50% from the
customers initial payment after signing up with us.
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| This opportunity sounds too good to be true? |
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The fact is, not many people will ever discover this opportunity, as
we don't put any time or energy into promoting it. So those who discover it are lucky
to do so. If word of mouth catches on and we do start getting a lot of people interested
in becoming an affiliate, we will close down this section and only keep on board the
existing affilates who are already signed up and are participating and doing well. We don't
want to grow this affiliate program beyond the point where it starts eating itself, we want
to secure a small team of affiliates who are in this game for the long haul, and then give
them PLENTY of runway, a big piece of the pie, that will allow them to continue earning
commissions for years to come. We are extremely careful not to over saturate the number of
affiliates we have because not only would it start to take away from the size of the pie for
all existing affiliates, but it could then become bothersome to vacation home owners. We want to do
everything possible to avoid multiple affiliates contacting the same vacation home
owner, and the best way to prevent this is to just keep the number of affiliates to
a minimum. So, this is in fact a "window of opportunity" for you. |
| How do I know if this is right for me or not? |
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We can tell you right now... no, it's not right for you. Look, we don't want to be
rude, but let's save time for all of us. If you are even doubting the potential of this
program or your ability to execute and bring in customers, then it's not a good fit for you,
nor for us. |
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Free-Rentals.com is a subsidiary of Quarkis Company Limited.
Affiliate Program Manager Jeff Hock can be reached as follows:
59/8 Moo 9, Soi Sukee, Tambon Chalong, Phuket 83130 Thailand
Tel +66 76 383 614 | Fax +66 76 383 614 | Mob +66 8 1476 0380