Just a quick heads-up that a friend of mine has recently created an affiliate program for his jet charter service. Please check it out and tell me what you think. I would love to hear any feedback - good or bad, so it can be improved if necessary. Stratos Jet Charters Affiliate Program Does anyone have any feedback? I would love to hear it. Thanks in advance.
if i'm reading it right, you get only $10 for a referral????? that's extremely low for a sale that will be a 4-5 figure booking fee for the charter air company. i could only imagine how high the ppc costs would be to try and market that type of service.
ya, thats way too low for anyone to promote, considering that the market is small and the advertising costs would be high.
His pricing is unrealistic too. You can buy hours cheaper directly from American Express, Netjets, or Executivejets starting at 25k. Not the 100k your friend is pricing. Need to get with the program.
hmmm....i'm pretty 25 HOURS not $25K is the minimum purchase from any of the charter companies....you are still looking at over $100K for that.
I do not think that it is a 4-5 figure booking fee as the market it pretty competitive (not sure where you got that info). I understand waht you are saying, but as I said before (above) I do not believe that to be the case. Thanks for the input from everyone. I appreciate it. If anyone else has any other thoughts I would love to hear them (and/or replies to my replies). Thanks again...
i meant the cost of the flight would be a 4-5 figures cost. maybe that wasn't clear. i have looked into Netjets/Marquis/etc. all of them had 25 hour minimums. i am not familiar with the AMEX program and never heard of it so i have no first hand knowledge there. honestly i don't see the AMEX program being much different that booking the flights directly on a per-flight basis since the cheapest charter flights one can book are around $4k RT. if you have an URL for the AMEX program i'd love to read about it.
Via Commission Junction Elite Jet offers a $300 commission for converting leads (booked flights) via their private charter jet service. Of course, it's extremely difficult to get the lead action - a free quote - to convert, if not impossible. I had several leads but none converted. When dealing with charter flights on private jets, it seems that $10 isn't enough to get anyone to promote the service. That's just my 2 cents though!
That is really good input and I appreciate your information and thoughts. I am going to go back to my friend and discuss.
i have looked into Netjets/Marquis/etc. all of them had 25 hour minimums. i am not familiar with the AMEX program and never heard of it so i have no first hand knowledge there. honestly i don't see the AMEX program being much different that booking the flights directly on a per-flight basis since the cheapest charter flights one can book are around $4k RT. if you have an URL for the AMEX program i'd love to read about it.[/QUOTE] Become an AMEX Platinum card member and you can read about it. Membership has its privileges.
Become an AMEX Platinum card member and you can read about it. Membership has its privileges. [/QUOTE] a buddy of mine has a black card...i'll ask him about it.
After reading all the comments and talking with my friend here is the low down. They do not sell blocks of hours, they just have some of the lowest prices on jet charter flights and all are sold on a per flight basis with no other commitment. I am not sure if that helps explain it a little better. Also, I shared with my friend the comments on payments and wanted to run this idea by everyone. What if the payouts were: $50 - sign-up bonus $15 - for each qualified lead $200 - for each converted lead With a payout at $100 Any thoughts? Would you sign-up for a program like this? I thought the idea of being able to generate money on multiple levels would keep people interested and promoting the program. Please post your feedback - thanks in advance.
That would be a little better - still going to be a hard ROI for PPC advertising I'd bet. He probably should up it to less for a lead and more for a conversion.
I thought that since it may take awhile for someone to get a sale that people would like the income that the $15 per lead would create (to hold them over till they get a sale and a lot more money). This might keep them interested in the program as a sale may only happen once a month or so depending on the amount of leads and the quality of them. If you think that he could get away with nothing per lead and $300 per sale I am sure that would not be a problem. Any thoughts? Read further down the post to see the revised (suggested) payout structure.
the more i think about this, i'm assuming the market for private jet flights is so small and that the vast majority of people already know about the big players and therefore very few would need to use google to find potential companies. i think your friend is probably best served just finding someone to run a PPC campaign for him instead of creating an affiliate program.
Thank you for your thoughts as I think they are valid. My friend already has some really good affiliates, but was hoping to expand a little. As to PPC, he is also doing that at the same time. The additions to the affiliate network were the idea to increase business without just spending more on PPC. I like affiliate programs better also...