Affiliate Newsletter
May 2004

Dear {RECIPIENT_NAME},

Welcome to the OneGreatFamily May Affiliate newsletter!

Below are some ideas and news to help you get excited and active with the OneGreatFamily affiliate program. I hope you find this newsletter to be very valuable.

Let me know if I can be any help to you or if you need something to further promote OneGreatFamily. Thank you again for your support and participation.

Please contact me with any questions!

Contents:

1. What's New? Have your site featured in the OneGreatFamily Weekly Newsletter

2. Top 5 Affiliates in April 2004

3. Do you want a customized feature to put on your site?

4. Affiliate Tip: Camouflage Your Links

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Do you have a really valuable genealogy site? Each week OneGreatFamily sends a newsletter out to our 300,000 subscribers with information on what's new at OneGreatFamily. In each newsletter we feature a valuable genealogy site.

Some of our affiliates have already been featured in the newsletter - but if you have not, and you have a great genealogy site that would be useful to the OneGreatfamily subscribers - please let me know by dropping me an email at: heather.matthews@onegreatfamily.com.

If you are chosen as an award winner, I will send you an email with the information about which day your site will be featured as well as an award banner.

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Top 5 Affiliates in April based on sale revenues:

1. $1328
2. $963
3. $579
4. $369
5. $285

Thanks to all the affiliates who had sales in April - we appreciate your hard work!!

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Here is a great article written by our Marketing Manager to help our affiliates better understand OneGreatFamily's services. Feel free to use some of this information to explain to your visitors how we can help them while researching their genealogy.

OneGreatFamily is an integrated technology service that allows each unique user to view the human family tree from his or her perspective.

Members have the ability to collaborate with others from around the world who are also viewing OneGreatFamily’s family history information from their own perspectives. Users have access to view the arrangement of other members’ genealogical info right from their own computer!

If two people from different groups look at the same person in OneGreatFamily they may see things quite a bit differently depending on what has been verified and accepted for each group. OneGreatFamily preserves all discrepancies and variations in its family tree. For example, one group may only have three children listed for someone while another group has found and accepted five children for the same individual. OneGreatFamily lets each group view the information the way they prefer and lets each group know when conflicts occur with information provided by other groups. You may delete information others have in their family trees from your group, and those others will still see their information the next time they visit OneGreatFamily.

But OneGreatFamily is far more than just a database of family trees! OneGreatFamily employs proprietary technology to match and merge family trees, a process that allows further collaboration and saves time and effort by reducing duplication.

OneGreatFamily has also introduced the Genealogy Browser as a way for those who use its service to actually review, edit, and update their family tree in OneGreatFamily. The Starfield of the Genealogy Browser allows users to see the shape of their entire family tree at once (up to 512 generations). Users can also zoom in and out of this powerful pedigree view to see as many details as they would like.

Other companies require those using their services to identify and compare family trees when trees contain duplicate information. Each tree may contain slightly (or entirely) different information which makes the process laborious and time consuming. OneGreatFamily is different – their system removes duplication and allows people to see all variations at the same time.

OneGreatFamily is a genealogy architecture, database, and software program all combined into one service. Don’t miss out on the extended features that make it the superior genealogy product on the market.

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I know that several affiliates already use this feature - but those of you who do not - I highly recommend it. Shawn Collins explains why:

"Do you want to disguise your affiliate links? Some people don't like to click on an affiliate link, because they think the page was created as a thinly veiled attempt to drive targeted traffic to an affiliate link. When they see an affiliate link on your site, as opposed to an altruistic link that does not generate revenue, it might take away credibility from the site.

Don't take that risk - you can easily camouflage your links by adding some simple code. With this trick, the affiliate linking code will not appear in the 'status' text that displays at the bottom of your Web browser. Rather, any URL that you wish to display will appear in the 'Status' area."

This is really simple to do in Commission Junction. When you are on the page that allows you to capture the html for a link - make sure you check the box "Hide tracking code in link?" - this will put all the code in the link that will allow the link to be hidden. Let me know if you still have questions.

As always, let me know if I can do anything for you. The sole purpose of this newsletter is to benefit your efforts and help you grow your partnership with us. Good Luck this month! Don't hesitate to contact me any time.

Warm Regards,

Heather Matthews
OneGreatFamily
Affiliate Program Manager
heather.matthews@onegreatfamily.com
http://www.onegreatfamily.com/affiliate/affiliate.htm
480-219-4452

Archived Affiliate Newsletters

If you are new to the OneGreatFamily Affiliate Program and would like to view past editions of the OneGreatFamily Affiliate Newsletter - we have archived all of them. Click here to view the Newsletter Archive. All the newsletters list the top affiliates, what was happening that month, and an affiliate tip to help you generate more sales.