Cookies

Below are a few emails that we sent to our affiliates on December 2011. It is important that you understand how cookies work as part of your affiliate program and our agreement. Your commissions depend on it. Thank you!

Understanding The Cookie Business...most important Cookie'ology' in the affiliate business...

How Cookies will affect your commission payout:

Dear Affiliate, (dated December 12, 2011)

It's really the perfect time to write about cookies at
Christmas. My grand mothers, may both of them rest in peace,
used to make fantastic cookies. I miss them dearly... the
grand mothers, not the cookies.

Obviously, this time, I am really talking about the electronic
cookies that we use in the process of determining who of our
affiliates,if any, send us referral sales. We had some cookie
experience lately that I want to share with you so we can all
learn and operate on the same page.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a database file that contains a coded message of
an affiliate who is mentioned as the referring affiliate when
a sale is made. A customer goes to your website to learn
about the Omni Blender. This cookie program is then placed
on the customer's cache (inside his/her computer). When the
customer purchases a blender going to our website either
directly or indirectly through your website (by clicking on
your link to our website), the cookie that contains your
affiliate information, when placing an order, then tells
us within the order form who, if any, the referring
affiliate was.

If that customer happened to go to another affiliate's
website (not yours), a new cookie is placed in that
customer's cache and over-writes yours. A purchase
then on our website, who ever the customer visited last,
will tell us who should get the commission.
The last one wins!

No matter what, I want to clarify: From now on, so all
affiliates know it and understand it, whatever the cookie
says makes the rules. And this is not the fortune cookie
either. (LOL). We cannot keep making changes to a purchase
order once and when an order is placed and an affiliate
calls later "I didn't get the commission for...".

If you have questions, please, please, call me, or email
me. We can discuss it and clarify further. I will be
posting more details on our website under the affiliates
program under rules and policies. ...just imagine, as we
get bigger from a company-standpoint, not necessarily from
my cookie-eating habits, it could seriously impair our
payment process when affiliates involve us in a cookie-
related commission dispute "NOOOO, this is mine and
not....who ever's commission".

I hope you can understand and will support us with this
cookie business. If you do not work with a computer and
you take sales and/or refer customers to us in the hope
they will tell us somehow by phone, or by ESP and/or
within the order, it is not as easy to always assign you
as the affiliate, especially if I find out sometimes
weeks, or even months after the purchase took place.
As much as I want to serve everyone, please allow us to
set certain rules and abide by them.

I am personally involved in the business process, selling
the blenders and building our affiliate business. I hope
you know that I am sincere and intend to give you and
every affiliate the deserved credit. Our livelihood
depends on it. And that is why I strongly believe, if you
don't know how this cookie business works, study it on
our website, through Google, and/or call me, or email me.
I will work with you.

Thanks again for your business that you send our way.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuka, etc... some people say
Happy Holidays... I am sticking to Christmas or Hanuka...
I believe in Jesus Christ, and hopefully am worthy of HIM,
as imperfect I am!

Best wishes with sincerity

Thomas Fox

Email December 19, 2011

This is an update about the affiliate marketing business

and how cookies relate to commissions allocated to you

as the affiliate.

Last week we determined that what ever the ‘cookie says’
–obviously not the fortune cookie, but the electronic cookie,
in reference to the data programmed with your affiliate
information on it, that person/affiliate will receive
the commission. There are however some exceptions that
have to be taken into account!

The update to this former decision will rule and
supersede this former rule:

The last cookie will determine whether you or your competing
affiliate will get the commission. But if the blender
customer writes the affiliate name and /or your affiliate
ID number into the field(s) under “Other Information” on the
online order form, where we are asking for “How did you
hear about us?” and/or “affiliate marketing code/referral
code”, then the information in these fields will supersede
the automatic cookie.

If a customer writes into both or any one of these fields
your name and/or your affiliate id number, this tells us that
you actually worked with this customer in person. Although,
a customer may have visited another affiliate’s website,
the customer’s stated referral information should count
higher. I hope this makes sense.

Most affiliate-related Omni Blender sales do not indicate the
information added manually by the customer, but rather having
used your website. We receive the affiliate information via
the cookie business model. In most instances there is nothing
to worry for you that your customer could migrate over to a
competing affiliate by accident. If you do however still worry,
just make sure you tell your customer to enter your affiliate
id number under “Other Information” in the appropriate field(s).

And that is basically it. I feel we have given this matter
more than enough attention and I hope that you, as our
preferred affiliate will try to understand and also support
us with this rule in regards to the cookies prevailing
if no contradicting information is manually provided.

As always, we will post this email as record on our website.
We are also available to you by email and phone.

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Thomas Fox
801-623-3225

Email December 20, 2011:

Tell your customers, when ordering an Omni Blender, to enter your affiliate ID # and name into the order information. This will supersede the automatic cookie (at this time).

I want to add another clarification, if you allow me:

We, OmniBlender.COM LLC should not be the only ones that
have some responsibilities here. You do understand that
the commission(s) is/are paid out at the end of the
following month from the date of the sale made. This
allows any adjustments to be made in regards to a possible
but unlikely return due to 30 days money back guarantee.

Ideally, when you make a sale it is because a customer
had your information in the cookie on his/her computer.
To make sure you are correctly assigned the commissions,
please tell your customer, or do it yourself when ordering,
to write into the appropriate field "where from" your
affiliate id # and your affiliate name.

Please understand, we are only human too. (I am actually
an alien, and Dept Homeland Security gave me the ID to prove
it). Anyway, we can make mistakes. It is your responsibility
to check the correctness of commissions assigned to you before we pay out commissions. (YOUR RESPONSIBILITY).

Once commissions are paid out, incorrectly, we refuse
from now on, to correct it afterward. It gets too messy.
Imagine we have to ask an affiliate to return the commissions
so I can pay you...

So, if you know who bought a blender and you should get
the commission for it, make sure you check your affiliate
account to see if it has been allocated correctly. If not,
contact me right away, so I can fix it. Let's work together
please! I need your help, and you need me, together we can be
successful.

If you have any questions or you do not know how to access
your affiliate account, please email me or call me. If you need
help with building a website, I am yours for that challenge!

DELETING of COOKIES.

You can eat your Christmas cookies
and that will delete them. 

To get cookies off from your own computer,
if you have a Microsoft Operating System 
(like Windows 7), in your FireFox or MS 
Internet Explorer browser go to "Tools" 
and look for "Clear Recent History", or
use keyboard "CTRL+SHIFT+DEL" for the 
same... Check the applicable box(es)/ 
or un-check as desired.

Clear your Cache and delete Cookies (but 
not your memorized passwords). That is all
I can tell you. If questions, contact your
Operating System provider or your Browser 
provider, whoever you are using.

Why clearing your cache and deleting 
cookies? Just remember, we are not talking
about deleting cash! Hold on to your cash,
but clear your cache.

If you want to use your own website and 
you want to place an order together with
your customer through your own link, if 
you have a cookie from your favorite
OmniBlender.COM blender competitor affiliate,
the cookie on your computer will designate 
him/her as the recipient of the commissions.
You probably don't want that, right?

And, now, from now on, you have the chance 
to ensure that you get the reward you deserve.
Don't fight, but stand up for your cookies 
(LOL) in your customer's computer. It's more 
work, but it is worth it.

Now, nobody can't say I didn't cover this 
cookie business enough. I hope this suffices.
Merry Christmas! Enjoy your Christmas cookies.
I believe in Jesus and the peace He brings!

December 21, 2011

Call with questions 801-623-3225