Hey everyone! My name is Andrew Teman, and I am in product development here at Focalex, which is part of Intermix Media, which is now part of News Corp and the newly formed Fox Interactive Media (FIM)....whew...get all that? Focalex is the affiliate program side of things within FIM, and we work to monetize the traffic on our own internal network of sites, as well as manage inventory and run affiliate programs on some 1,500+ third party publisher sites. We have been in the affiliate game since 1998, and if you check us out (Focalex), you will see we have a solid track record and great rep in the affiliate world over the past 8 years. Looking forward to hanging on this forum, looks like an active place. Hopefully I can contribute to some of the discussions from a couple of different angles, as I am a publisher myself in addition to working on the affiliate programs here at Focalex. Our big programs right now are: ThankYouPages - Fully opt-in, highly customizable, registration-based advertising. Plugs into your site with ease after your registration process, and shows your users opt-in, lead generation offers, targeted based their demo information. Can earn very very well, with CPM's ranging from $25 all the way up to $500. TAFMaster - Paid Tell-A-Friend. Add "send this to a friend" links to your site and get viral marketing and make money. The number one tell-a-friend program on the web. We have the strongest earnings, the best customization, the most features, and have paid on time every month like clockwork since the program launched in 2002. WebGames - Add some of our flash based webgames to your site. Give your users some extra content and make money from embedded advertising and game purchases. Love to have some of you guys test us out. Give me a shout at andrew@focalex.com if you have any questions, or if you plan on signing up for any of these programs and I will see that you get the red carpet treatment. DOH! Can't live link yet. Makes sense. Be sure then if you want to apply to any of the programs above, that you give me a shout.
Welcome, Andrew. I'm new here as well, and learning very much. Glad to have an experienced affiliate person here to help explain and inform on the myriad of programs available. Best of luck to you!
Very interesting. Bookmarked focalex.com. Would certainly look into it. Welcome to the forums. Gamehouse
Hello Andrew Teman, Welcome to DigitalPoint Forums. You're at the right place to use your potential to the maximum. Hope things get better and brighter from here, not like they aren't already. Good luck! MaxCage.
Hi, Andrew! I just signed up for TAFMaster. Since your company is owned by FOX, I was not too surprised to see that your terms of service forbid sites that: "...promotes or contains content pertaining to ... anti-governmental stances,..." (from: hxxp://solutions.focalex.com/terms_tafmaster.aspx) That's fairly non-specific. They should probably clarify that, unless they intended it to be that far-reaching. Anyway, welcome aboard!
Interesting. To be totally honest, I had never even noticed that. However, I took a look back to a time long before we were ever even a glimmer in Fox's eye, and it was there way back then. http://web.archive.org/web/20030608043953/www.tafmaster.com/join_now/tac.mpl That sort of language in the Ts & Cs is pretty standard stuff. Basically it just keeps us from being dragged into libel and other suits if our affiliates fly off the handle and do something illegal.