Setting up a contract for a direct affiliate relationship

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l3msip

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I am currently building a e-store for a largish local furniture company that has no previous online presence.

They have suggested the idea of commission based marketing, essentially a direct affiliate relationship.

They have no experience doing this, and just floated the idea, but the terms suggested look pretty good (commision on ALL sales through new website, so no tracking issues, and THEY are willing pay for PPC!) so i want to give it a go.

I have never set up a direct relationship before though and wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction for a contract etc. I have basic contracts written up for web design, but not any ongoing stuff.

I am just looking to avoid getting fucked. I dont want so spend my time setting up and testing ppc campaigns and my money on SEO for the company to say thanks buddy, now fuck off!
But the idea of an affiliate offer that pays for its own ppc, i cant resist.
 


they are paying for their own PPC and you keep commish on all website sales? fuck dude call your attorney if you have one have him make a nice legal contract and basically have it state that both parties agree to the terms you have mentioned above.. As long as they are contractually obligated to fulfill their end of the terms (pay your commission) then you are basically in good shape...

I would as a safe bet and a benefit to the business setup new adwords or what ever you plan to use accounts for the business with their own cards linked to those accounts so that makes sure things go the way they are supposed to and if you ever get tired of it you can walk away and leave them with a good account with keywords etc. that they can maintain..
 
I've done similar contracts, where the company pays the ppc costs and I get a commission. I try to make the contract as long as possible (obviously), but usually 6 months is what we settle on (meaning that whether they can my ass or not, I get a commission on all PPC sales made in that timeframe). Usually there's a stipulation that I've hit some goal before a longer term contract comes into play.

If you're doing SEO, I would make sure the commissions contract is at least a year, if not...forever.

Of course...a contract is just a piece of paper. And if they want to rip you off...they will. But it's nice to have.
 
Yeah I know it sounds a bit too good to be true, but been I've in contact with the director of the company for a while and they have basically had such a bad time with other companies (paid £1000 GBP for a default os-commerce site on shared hosting, and sank alot more than that bidding on generic broad match adwords) that they are at the point of "If you can make us money, we will make it worth your while".

I guess with something so potentially lucrative I should get proper legal advice rather than scrape something together off the internet!

Though if anyone knows anywhere that does some kind of 'contract templates' so I can just get it reviewed by a solicitor, rather than made from scratch, that would be great.

Cheers
 
by the way, i wouldn't go through the hassle of calling an attorney. depending on where you live a "local furniture company" does not a million dollar contract make.

take a look at some of the free legal websites out there, create a contract, and get results...
 
farking said:
by the way, i wouldn't go through the hassle of calling an attorney. depending on where you live a "local furniture company" does not a million dollar contract make.
take a look at some of the free legal websites out there, create a contract, and get results...
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Yeah, true! I'll give the docstoc website a browse.

Cheers
 
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