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Saturday, January 21, 2012

How to activate your CC Bill Webmaster Affiliate Program

I have talked to many ladies and producers in the adult industry who process payments through CC Bill.

What a few of them do not realize, or do not know how to set up, is the CC Bill Webmaster Affiliate Program.

Why set this up?

Simple.

When another website puts your link on their website, the referring website gets paid a commission you specify each time they refer a sale to you. And, there are a lot of adult review websites, and places you can share your link with, that REQUIRE you to have an affiliate program for them to even list you at all.

I think in this day and age this is a vital tool for the producer who sells video.   If you want to get the word out there, you need to give a little to get a little.   However, the BEST thing about the program, is you only pay out when people are making you sales.

So how do you set it up?

For current CC Bill Clients: (not affiliates)

1. Go to the CC Bill.com website and on the top row click on "Client Login"
2. Put in your Client ID, User Name, and Password.
3. Select the sub account you want to set the affiliate program on in the drop down menu next to your account number.
4. Click on "Legacy Affiliate".
5. Click on "Signup Template".
6. Then click on "System Setup".

You are now in the screen where you can set up your affiliate program.

Here are some of the fields you will see:

Redirect URL Field:
Put: http://www.yourwebsite.com or http://www.yourwebsite.com/tour/index.html

Banners Slots: (10)
This is where you will put the banners for your website. If you have banners on your own website currently, simply right click on one of your banners, click "copy image location" and then copy and paste each one into the field at CC Bill. This will give your affiliates banners they can place on their website. You should use many different sizes as different websites will use different ones.

Telephone Billing Payout:
I would put somewhere between 20 and 50 percent.

Base Percent Payout or Base Dollar Payout:
Most affiliates pay between 20 and 50 percent per sale or signup. Or you can specify an amount that you will pay for every sale, regardless of the sale price. (A percentage would be safer)

Recurring Payment:
If you are a website that is subscription based, you should offer a recurring payment to the affiliate for generating the sale. This will keep the affiliate motivated to work harder for you and the affiliate sent you the sale anyhow so they should share in the profit.

(The next 4 options are pretty self-explanatory)

As for the click tracking at the very bottom, I don't know exactly how that works, but it is explained on the page. You can set those values yourself, or what I would do, is simply leave everything checked as it is.

"CLICK UPDATE"

Great job!

Now you have to go through another process to get the html code on your site and start having CC Bill track your affiliates.

Go through these quick steps:
(assuming you are still logged in)

1. Select the sub account you want to set the affiliate program on in the drop down menu next to your account number.
2. Click on "Legacy Affiliate".
3. Now click on "Signup Template".

You are going to see an html field.

Just below the introductory text is a field that starts with the following:
title - PAGE TITLE - title

You want to copy the above, all the way down to the bottom of the page inside the field, and then right click and copy. (or control + c).

You will now create a page on your website entitled "Webmasters".  (or put the form in one of your existing pages). Copy and paste the code you just copied into the html of the page you create on your website. Go ahead and make all the fields line up and look good on your page and then save and view it.

If everything looks good.........then you want to put a link on the frontpage of your website that looks like this:

$$ Webmasters $$

Simply link the $$ Webmasters $$ phrase above to the page you just created above that will take surfers to the page where they can sign up for your affiliate program.

Good job!

Now, you will want to set up your email message the affiliates receive:

1. Select the sub account you want to set the affiliate program on in the drop down menu next to your account number.
2. Click on "Legacy Affiliate".
3. Now click on "Set Email Text".

Essentially, welcome the affiliate that just signed up and provide your contact information or a rally-rally pep message.

NEXT!

There are some important things you will want to "enable".

Follow the steps again.

1. Select the sub account you want to set the affiliate program on in the drop down menu next to your account number.
2. Click on "Legacy Affiliate".
3. Now click on "Advanced Features".

Bonus Level Tiering:
Yes! Fill it out. Motivate your affiliates to push you instead of your competition.

Payment Options:
The Payment Options area allows you to setup how referrals from recurring billing (trial or initial amount) are handled and whether to pay for rebills. You may have different payment options for a subscription that start as a trial or recurring. When a subscription begins, it can be optionally set as a trial. The trial can optionally convert to recurring. This option is disabled by default.

Payout Resetting:
When enabled, an affiliate will start to qualify for each bonus level tier at the first day of every month; during the month, the transaction totals might qualify the affiliate to be moved to the next bonus level tier. When disabled, an affiliate has to qualify for each bonus level tier only once; transaction totals are calculated from the date the affiliate signed up for the program.

Signup Refreshing:
Specifies a user-defined URL where to send all new Affiliates after they complete the signup process.

Allow Blocked Countries:
When enabled, CCBill will allow you to receive Affiliate Signups from all countries. When disabled, CCBill will disallow Affiliate Signups listed in the blocked or barred countries.

Multiple Redirects:  (VERY IMPORTANT!)
This is important so that your affiliate can "direct link" to certain pages on your website.

Email me or comment below if you need to instruct your affiliates how to code these links.

Append Data on Redirect:
When enabled, this option allows you to append data on a redirect.

Partner Bonus Program:  (VERY IMPORTANT!)
If you enable this, if any other webmasters sign up for your affiliate program THROUGH one of your affiliate's websites, the referring affiliate will make a small percentage off each one of the new webmaster's sales. This will allow your affiliates to refer other webmasters, and receive a small commission you specify off each of the sales of the webmasters they refer. A good percentage on this is 4 to 10 percent. (Be sure to just put one numeric value in the field when it asks your percentage payout. For instance 4 instead of 4.00)

Cookie Expiration:
Set this generally 3 to 7 days.

Receive CC Bill Emails:
When enabled, CCBill will send an email to the webmaster each time a subscription rebills that was referred by an Affiliate. When disabled, CCBill will not send emails for Affiliate subscriptions that rebill .

CC Bill Account Grouping: (this should be enabled, but ensure that it is)
When enabled, your Affiliates can direct traffic to your subaccount Affiliate Programs. The option is only available in the "0000" CCBill subaccount or main account. When disabled, all new Affiliates will have to individually signup for each subaccount's Affiliate Program.

Refer to the Affiliate Directs Setup Guide to learn how to setup Multiple Redirects for your Affiliate Program. Multiple Redirects will direct traffic to all your subaccount websites if CCBill Account Grouping is enabled.

You are done!

There are a few more things you might want to investigate and go through, but this will at the very least get you started and going concretely.

Hope this was helpful.

Meow!
- Johnny Ringo -

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Friday, January 6, 2012

Catfight Report Movie Review - Angering the Gods

Angering the Gods
(but pleasing the catfight fans)
By Mr. Blue

One of the more encouraging developments in recent years has been the number of women who take their catfights seriously.

These include the new breed of stuntwomen (think Zoe Bell) as well as actresses who are not afraid to handle their own action scenes. A recent example of the latter is actress Paula Patton, who reportedly handled much of the fight scene with Léa Seydoux in the latest Mission: Impossible film.

For political correctness reasons, the ladies probably refer to what they do as female combat. Semantics aside, these women know that a good “girl fight” is what most men (plus more than a few women) want to see.

Today’s stuntwomen often have a background in martial arts and take their craft as seriously as anyone (gone are the days when that jungle girl swinging on a vine might have been a stuntman wearing a blonde wig).

Some of you may not have heard of them before, but there is a group of accomplished stuntwomen, martial artists and aspiring actresses who formed a performance group known as Kung Fu Femmes.

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They put on live shows but the group also produces clips depicting women in various forms of combat, often as a pure demonstration piece but sometimes with a storyline.

And while the ladies do not appear nude (too bad), they seem to realize that sexy costumes don’t hurt the visual appeal of their performance.

Earlier this year, Kung Fu Femmes released a fantastic short film called “Angering the Gods”, which should have gotten more attention than it did.

Produced and directed by a male martial artist named Tony Laudati, the story involves a famous female entrepreneur (played by Amy Johnston, an all-American blonde) whose new line of jewelry proves too tempting for a world-class cat burglar (played by Drinie Aguilar, an exotic looking brunette).

Amy Johnston (blonde) vs Drinie Aguilar (brunette)

The ladies eventually face off in a warehouse with no one around (except for us lucky viewers) and they will battle until one girl emerges victorious.

This type of clip shows you don’t need a huge budget or Hollywood style effects to produce a great catfight.

All that’s necessary are two sexy ladies who know how to handle themselves and a storyline that’s worth watching, plus a director who knows how to film a fight scene and is willing to let the ladies mix it up.

The result may not be perfect but “Angering the Gods” is better than most catfights served up by the established Hollywood studios.

Take a look.
Mr. Blue

ANGERING THE GODS
Amy Johnston vs Drinie Aguilar

Enjoy!


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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Girl vs Girl Fighting for a Good Cause in Toronto

To all the pundits out there that say female vs female fighting is bad:

Fighting to Give Women a Fighting Chance
Toronto's largest women's shelter, built on a heritage-listed site, is on the hunt for a new home. Recently, one unique fundraiser helped to raise money for it.

Photo Credit and Source:
Toronto IST

Last Friday 300 Muay Thai kick-boxing enthusiasts flocked to the Great Hall for the second Girl Fight this year, a bid to help raise money for the largest women’s crisis and relief centre in Toronto, Nellie’s.

The notion of hosting a kickboxing night to shed light on women’s issues like domestic violence may seem a little screwy at first, but for organizer Anna Von Frances it made complete sense.

“How much we raise, it’s never going to be enough,” the thirty-year-old founder of official event host Pink Mafia told us. But, she continued, “after I visited Nellie’s shelter I knew something like this event could change their lives. It’s a chance to showcase women in combat sports—and showcase confidence—and to give back to women who need a bit of a hand.”

The Great Hall is no shabby venue when it comes to hosting boxing events; the ring is an official size (20 by 20 feet) and the second tier allows viewers to peer down on the fighters. What they saw: a range of all-female kickboxing events, with fighters from a variety of clubs from around the GTA bashing it out in four main amateur fights, with demos and sparring hit outs wedged in between the main sets.

Von Frances had been boxing for just under two years. She turned to the combat sport as an alternative exercise treatment when she became ill, but says it gave her the confidence to do things she never considered doing before, like running through a ravine by herself any time of the day or night. “I don’t worry about getting raped anymore. The confidence it gives you is incredible,” she said. “Most women don’t park underground and are forever looking over their shoulder late at night. Boxing gave me the confidence to defend myself, or at least be able to get away.”

Read the Rest and the Full Article at Toronto IST:
http://torontoist.com/2011/12/fighting-to-give-women-a-fighting-chance/

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