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Freetures Defined

You say "Enhancements", I say Freetures! You say "Added Value", I say Freetures! You say "Free Features" I say Freetures! No, this is not about gremlins, not about anything resembling gremlins or any other animal for that matter; but it is about value. An enhancement, though it does increase value in most cases can cost a buyer more. Added value means exactly as stated and can also be tacked on to the price of an item. Free features, the source from which freeture(s) originated are adornments and added benefits delivered with the purchase of a product or service at no extra charge/cost to the buyer, but I rather not repeat free features in rapid succession; thus the term "freetures"

For the purpose of this page, a freeture is defined as, "anything of value that is added to a product or service in order to enhance its attractiveness to a prospective purchaser without extra costs/fees to the purchaser". Freetures are utilized on a daily basis in the sales and marketing profession to attract a larger portion of the buying public and gain better market share.

A good example of a freeture would be a printer which usually retails for $200 that is added to the purchase of a $1,250 desktop computer and delivered to the purchaser for a total price of $1,250. In this example the freetured value of the package would be $200.

It must be pointed out that any item which has traditionally been provided with a purchase at no extra cost, like a sipping straw with the purchase of a soft drink or a refrigerator with the purchase of a single family home - in most places - would not fit the description of a freeture.

In the example above, if the waitress/waiter poured an additional glass or half glass of the same soft drink for the patron without adding it to the tab, the extra portion would be considered a freeture; or if a second refrigerator of comparable value to the first one was delivered to the home purchaser at no additional cost, the second unit would fit our "freeture" definition.

There are many instances where a freeture has made the difference between sales and non-sales of products and services. From automobile showrooms to insurance and real estate agency sales offices, and retail outlets throughout the world, freetures are helping to create sales and the various markets are better off for it.

The internet market has traditional been one of the largest utilizers of freetures but did not identify the various product enhancements and added value features as such simply because the term as it is being used here had not been introduced in such a manner; but nevertheless it remains that, based on our definition, freetures are abundant throughout the internet market place. We'll just have to find them.

Take websites, for example. Some websites cost money to build, and others don't. How do we recognize when a freeture is being utilized by a web host provider? Or you may ask, is it the website that costs the money or is it the hosting of the website that you pay for and the website is the actual freeture used to sell the hosting? Since a website is almost useless without web hosting, maybe we should explore this needed resource in an effort to answer our website freeture question.

Here's the suggested approach to searching web hosting companies for freetures. We'll look at five companies that currently offer web hosting packages to website owners who are entering the internet market place.

We'll compare what they offer with what we consider minimum website hosting requirements necessary to get a website up and running satisfactorily. We will then search for freetures in each of the web host's packaging.

For the sake of clarity, we will look at only one hosting package per 72 to 96 hour interval because we must then identify what we believe to be specific freetures when compared to our minimum standards web hosting package as outlined in the following paragraph. It should be a lot fun. Join me!

Our basic web hosting package will fit the following description:

At a minimum, a web host package should include server space of 10 MB, CGI-BIN, Server Up-time of 99%, Three Email Accounts, FTP Access, Web-based Email, A User-friendly Control Panel, Free Scripts and an Interface to let website owners know their website statistics. These are the minimum requirements based upon our basic plan standards.

Although we will only look at one web host every 72 to 96 hours, the names of the five companies will be provided here in order to establish a degree of continuity and keep the exercise as simple and balanced as possible. The five companies are Globat, Host Gator, IPower, Lunar Pages and Think Host. Each one can be accessed from the "Freetures" page on this the author's “Marketing Internet's Niche Treasures” website or simply by doing a search of the names mentioned above. More Freetures available at the site mentioned above.

A MLAP, short for a multi level affiliate program, is a relatively new type of affiliate program offered by some innovative web merchants.
In addition to referral commissions for their direct sales, affiliates of MLAPs also get paid commissions when their sub-affiliates at multiple levels sell affiliate products.
Unlike MLM programs, which charge "recruitment" fees, "starter kit" fees, "product testing" fees etc, there is never any money needed to join a MLAP...Which means that there is never any money to be made by simply recruiting sub-affiliates.
The power of MLAPs lies in their ability to unlock the huge potential for increased earnings that lie in the "wasted traffic" that websites receive.
For example, out of 1000 visitors to a website, perhaps a maximum of only 5 might eventually buy any affiliate products that the webmaster would recommend. The other 995 become "wasted" as they do not contribute in any way to the affiliate's earnings.
However, many of these "wasted" visitors, would see enough value in these products to sign up as affiliates themselves and sell the products to their own contacts and web visitors.
When this happens in a single level affiliate program, the original affiliate earns nothing. In a MLAP, the original affiliate would also be paid a referral commission on the sales made by these sub-affiliates.
Depending on the number of levels the MLAP uses, commissions from sub-affiliate sales get multiplied at each level, resulting in greatly increased affiliate earnings.
For the affiliate, MLAPs provide a way to maximize the value of their "wasted traffic" using the viral power of "word of mouth" marketing, without the risks associated with MLM programs.
For the MLAP merchant, an MLAP allows his affiliate program to sign up affiliates more effectively by standing out from the crowd of single level affiliate programs.
Because they are relatively new, certain issues, (such as the ideal number of levels a MLAP should have, and the percentage of referral commissions that should be paid at each level), are still open to debate.
What has become clear though, is that MLAPs have become an important option for both merchants and affiliates, to increase their share of the ever-growing size of E-Commerce.
About The Author
Terence Tan is the project manager of HugeAffiliates.com,a website dedicated towards the development of Multi Level Affiliate Programs as an alternative system of business. Visit http://hugeaffiliates.com to learn more about how MLAPs can multiply your affiliate referral commissions.

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