Affiliate FAQs
Q. How much does it cost to become an Affiliate website of Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find?
A. Nothing.
Q. How long does it take to present the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find online directory from our website?
A. Depending on your website builder, it can be finished within 1-hour or up to half a day.
Q. Apart from my organisation’s website, how much exposures will businesses receive that register through my website?
A. They will be exposed through over 50 business related websites that are already part of the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find network of websites across Australia. That number is growing rapidly.
Q. How much work is involved in running my organisation’s presentation of Findaustralia Weblocator?
A. There is nothing to do at all. Like all affiliate systems, your organisation is being paid commissions when businesses who have registered in our system through your website purchase services from Findaustralia Weblocator
Q. Is there a limit to the number of organisations that Findaustralia Weblocator will join as affiliates?
A. Yes. Findaustralia Weblocator has no interest in appointing too many affiliates. It is in the best interest of our affiliates and Findaustralia Weblocator not to have over saturation in geographic areas.
Q. Once I have applied to have my organisation become an affiliate how long will it take to be accepted?
A. Your application to become an affiliate will be evaluated and you will receive a response within one workday.
Q. Why is Findaustralia Weblocator keen to bring the business and industry organisations into the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system?
A. Most industry organisations have a local geographic focus or an Australia wide industry focus. This is very important to most businesses because they usually have a geographic focus or an industry focus. The Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find online directory allows your organisation to brand the directory as its own and enhance relationships within your members and potential membership. The Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system is a great relationship building system for your organisation because your organisation can easily invite businesses to visit your website and register in the system for free.
Q. Why should my organisation affiliate with Findaustralia Weblocator?
A. There are numerous benefits that are derived from having Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find online directory on your website. These include significant revenue opportunities, creating new relationships with potential customers and greater exposure of your website.
Q. Why is a Findaustralia Weblocator affiliate relationship a long term revenue opportunity?
A. A business can only register once in the UGLii system. If the business registers through your organisation’s website, it cannot register again in another website connected to the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find network. When a business that has registered through your organisation’s website purchases a service in our system, Findaustralia Weblocator must pay your organisation a commission.
Q. What evidence of my commission entitlements do I receive?
A. The Findaustralia Weblocator affiliate system presents you with a monthly report of all transactions. You can also access the affiliate system online to see your accumulated entitlements and history of commissions at any time. It is very transparent.
Q. Which organisations will be accepted as a Findaustralia Weblocator/Affiliate?
A. Business organisations including local chambers of commerce, specialist industry organisations, ethnic business organisations and international (country to country) chambers of commerce are welcome to apply to become an affiliate.
Q. What security does my organisation have in this relationship?
A. All affiliated organisations own their revenue entitlements in perpetuity. Providing your organisation displays the system on the agreed website, it is entitled to the ongoing revenue stream and is protected by an agreement subject to the courts of Victoria and Australia.
Q. How is my organisation paid its commissions?
A. Our billing cycle is monthly and you can be paid by cheque or internet banking – it’s up to you.
Q. Do you expect my organisation to promote the Findaustralia Weblocator directory?
A. Yes we do, though there are no obligations to do so. Clearly the more businesses that register through your website the stronger your relationship with those businesses will be and the larger your organisations ongoing revenue stream.
Q. What are my organisation’s legal obligations?
A. You must agree that the website you are showing the system on is mainly about business. You are not allowed to place any material that is irrelevant to the system or that is pornographic, racist, defamatory, blasphemous or sexist on the same site as our system.
Q. Can I sell advertising around the system on my website?
A. Yes you can but it must be about products and services that are helpful to businesses. The revenue you make from that is completely yours.
Q. An affiliate arrangement is a contract. How can I see the contract?
A. You can see the contract by registering to view the Findaustralia Weblocator documents online. Although the contract is executed online, you can download and print the contract at any time. You can also see the rates of commission that Findaustralia Weblocator is offering now.
Q. Can Findaustralia Weblocator alter the commission rates?
A. Once Findaustralia Weblocator has accepted your application for an affiliate deal the commission rates are set. The only way you can alter that is if your organisation and Findaustralia Weblocator both agree and advise UGLii Find Australia Pty Ltd of your agreement to vary the rates. The UGLii system sets the wholesale rates for services and your commission rates are indexed to the wholesale price that Findaustralia Weblocator is charged for the services that businesses use. In other words, if wholesale price of a Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find service go up by 5%, your organisation’s commission goes up by 5% automatically. If the wholesale rates go down your rates will go down. You will be given notice of any price fluctuations.
Q. My Australian organisation is a federation of state based organisations. Should I have one affiliate agreement cover all my organisations or enter all organisations as individual affiliates?
A. Both ways are possible depending on your needs. While it may take a bit longer to establish each organisation as an independent affiliate, we strongly recommend that you do that. The reasons are
* The system can deliver its maps to users that enter the system through each state organisation’s website focused on its state. Of course users can search anywhere in Australia.
* Your state branches can brand the system as their own. They are more likely to promote it to their members and help their members benefit from it if it is branded as theirs and they are getting revenue from it.
* They can sell additional advertising to local advertisers on the same page that they present the system on. If there is only one page nationally that limits the additional revenue opportunities.
* The Findaustralia Weblocator affiliate system treats each affiliate (organisation) as a separate profit center. This means that you can quickly see which organisation the revenue and traffic is coming from (and perhaps reward your management and marketing team on a success basis).
Q. How can being an affiliate of Findaustralia Weblocator help businesses in my organisation?
A. Many businesses struggle to understand the relevance of the internet to them – that is until they see the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find online directory system. Our online directory presents business information geographically, which is what most businesses require. Your organisation can provide every business in your organisation with valuable online discovery at no cost. That discovery is not only through your website but through all websites that present the system across Australia and eventually globally. Other intangible and important benefits include organisational pride and self awareness, which always translates into greater energy and enterprise in your organisation and greater benefits to your members.
Q. We already have an online directory of our members. Why should we use the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system?
A. If you provide a directory service of your members already, you will know that:
* Your existing directory is fairly difficult and expensive to keep up to date (business data on our system is managed by the businesses themselves)
* Your existing directory gets limited exposure therefore delivers limited benefit to your members (our system is now searchable on more than 50 Australian Business Websites from which 8.5 million page impressions are delivered each month)
* Your existing directory has limited search modes (our system is a true spatial system and gives a simple search process or advanced search processes)
The Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system is updated directly by the business and presents incentives to businesses to keep their information up to date. The system is completely automated and no investment is required by your organisation other than presenting the online directory on your website pages.
Using the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system exposes your businesses through many websites not just your own.
Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system has several search modes – all of which are truly spatial.
Q. I am convinced of the power of Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find but should we turn our existing directory off as soon as we affiliate with the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system.
A. That’s up to you. The Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system has facilities that you can use to introduce your members to the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system without dumping your database into the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system. You can leave you existing system running as long as you like.
Q. We are a very conservative organisation that does not like to take risks with something new. How should we deal with the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system?
A. There are a couple of issues here. The UGLii Find system has been operating in Australia since 2002 providing services to Australian businesses; so we have been around a long time in internet terms. Secondly the system allows a business to register through one website only, even though that business gets automatic exposure through many websites. Once a business has registered in the system it is very unlikely to remove its discovery information, deregister from the system then register again in your organisation. There is simply little advantage for them in doing that. In other words, the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system presents your organisation with an important opportunity to consolidate relationships with your members, establish new relationships with businesses that should be your members and derive a significant revenue stream. That opportunity will diminish over time as your members (and potential members) register through other organisations.
Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system is very confident that most businesses within the Australian economy will register in the system to gain free exposure. We are also confident that many will buy one or more of the various services the system has to offer.
Q. What services can our organisation make commissions from?
A. Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system will pay you commissions on sales of
* UGLii Links – which is a link from a business’s free UGLii (dot on the mapping system) to a businesses website. We expect about half of all businesses will buy these services in time. Obviously the sales are limited by the number of business that have websites but more than half of all business have websites and the proportion that have them is growing steadily.
* Credentialing services - special services that are of most benefit to brand owning businesses
* Automated website building service – of benefit to businesses that do not have a website and does not require an expensive hand built website. Also useful for businesses that currently have a website but want more webpages that they can self manage.
Q. If my organisation wants to cease to be a affiliate of Findaustralia Weblocator, what is the process
A. Under the agreement you are required to give one months notice to Findaustralia Weblocator of your intention to cease displaying the Findaustralia Weblocator/UGLii Find system. Your commissions will cease from the next 15th day of the month.
