Make more money with Big Fish Games

First Steps with BigFishGames Affiliate

noreply@blogger.com (BigFishGames) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:45:00 +0000

Today I will describe how to start working with Big Fish Games Affiliate.

At first you need to create your own account.

Go through this link and click "Join PNP Now" link at the left of the screen.
Fill all mandatory fields and click "Create Account" button. You need to enter valid email because you will need to confirm you account creation through your email later.
On the next screen you will need to enter your full name and Nickname. On this step plz be careful - you will not be able to change your Nickname and this name later will be used in your affiliate network (don't use any vulgar or any "F" words).
Confirm entered data on the next screen or edit it.
The only thing that remains is to confirm your account creation through email you entered on the first step.

Now you have created an account and you can see what is available for you on the portal.
http://pnp.bigfishgames.com - Here you can see:

The summary about rewards and network grows.
Content that you can use for attract traffic to your site/blog.
Payment options
Managing your account data (Full Name, Your email and etc.)
Also you can send email to each contact from your network.

http://my.bigfishgames.com

Summary about your rank and your network in "Big Fish Games" affiliate program.
View your past rewards and payment history if rewards have been earned. View summary about your rewards.
Managing of your network / friends.
Managing your account data (Full Name, Your email and etc.)
Managing your "Big Fish Games" Game Space.

Visiting each area listed above you will get enough information about it on appropriate page. If you want to ask me something let me know, I will answer on each question you have.

Spend a little bit time to discover this portal, it contain everything you need for working with affiliate.

Differences between BFG affiliate and other game publishers

noreply@blogger.com (BigFishGames) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:09:00 +0000

Just wanted to say you again why I choose Big Fish Games affiliate program and what is the difference between it and other affiliates from game publishers.

OK, lets start from the begging - how much % from sales you will get in different affiliates and payment types:
Big Fish Games - 25 % from all sales plus additional 15% bonus if you will prove that you work only with BFG affiliate. In result you will get 40% from whole sales. BFG affiliate supports 3 types of payments: PayPal, check and wire transfer (min payout for wire transfer is $500). The interesting thing here is that BFG doesn't take any commission from all payments.

Reflexive Arcade - One of the biggest player in Casual Games affiliates. They offer 40% from whole sales always. Types of payments: PayPal, check and wire transfer ($20 is minimum for wire transfer). BUT they have commissions for Check ($5 for check sending) and Wire Transfer ($20). Also Reflexive Arcade takes from you some deductions, Processing Fees ($0.35+2.48%) - billing charges and 0.25 for each 1Gb traffic from downloads. In result we have a little bit les then 40% from whole sale in case if we have a good traffic conversion (at least 5% from downloaded games has been sold).

Arcade Town - they pay 35% from whole sales. In real they don't have theirs own billing system and they work by bmtmicro.net. All statistic information you also will look in bmtmicro.net. I didn't spend a lot of time to understand theirs system (it is too complicated) what why it so poor information about it.

Real Arcade - it is not very interesting for us. They work through CJ (Commission Junction). The goal of theirs affiliate program is to give $12 for each registered account from you (the main problem here is that you will get your money only if user will left his Card information on his account). They have another affiliate, but you can work with them with different conditions only if you have a huge portal with huge traffic.

This was a short description for biggest affiliates in game industry. They are very close to each other in some cases but below I will describe a main benefit of working with BFG affiliate.

Friends List
Friends List is the list of all users which left theirs email on BFG portal (after game downloads, on account creating and etc.). It mean that all people who buy through your site, or come back to BFG site after they downloaded a game from you and left theirs email will go to your Friends List and will be their FOREVER. You will have always (FOR LIFE) 25% (+15% additional as I describe above) rewards when somebody from your list will buy a game. It means that the goal of BFG affiliate is not JUST selling defined games but to attract more users to join your friend list - nobody else can offer such benefit. In all other affiliates you get only reward for games that you sell through your link or through downloaded from your site game and in this case a lot of users don't come back to you, they use publisher site and you don't have any rewards from it.

Some (approximate) statistics related to friends numbers and rewards from them in a month (only sales from current friends - not from new one):
Friends - Rewards

100 - $20
500 - $140
1000 - $350
4000 - $1500

Kick Off Post

noreply@blogger.com (BigFishGames) — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:48:00 +0000

Hello Everybody,

The main purpose of this blog is to share my knowledge and experience of this affiliate (web-mastering) with blog readers. You can ask me - Why I am doing it? I'll tell you why: I will lose nothing if I share my knowledge about it but all people who registered with my affiliate code which I helped and which start to earn money from it will give me a little reward too. I will gain a small percent of my friend's earnings but the best thing here is that all rewards are paid by "Big Fish Games" and friends don't loose anything.
What why I am interested in that all people who tried to earn money online earned as much as they can.

A lot of time I was searching for good, clear and easy in use affiliate for online money earning. I tried a lot of them but the most interesting for me became the affiliate program from games publisher "Big Fish Games".

Just short description about affiliate program (for beginners):
The publisher pays you for advertising his products or for selling them. You will get money from each person who comes to "Big Fish Games" site by link with your affiliate code and buys a game. The best thing for web master here is that user don't need to buy the game on the same day or internet session, he can do it tomorrow or after few weeks. In all cases you will get your rewards.
How the affiliate program knows that user comes week ago from your site: cookies are saved on user computer with all information about affiliate code.

May be a lot of you will say that it is not enough statistic about your earnings on this affiliate or there are a lot of competitors in this area in web or it not enough content and games which are provided here. And in some cases you will be right but only in SOME cases. If you have very popular web site with huge traffic there is no interest in using this affiliate BUT if you are just start trying to earn money online it is the best choice in my opinion. Below I will try to describe why I think so.

You don't need to fill any specific forms (for tax)
It is very easy to setup completely working site on your host
You don't need to worry about paying (all is made by Big Fish Games)
You can sell games from free blogs (if you don't want you use just blogs with your own site, but I will try to explain that it is not a good idea)
Earn statistic is updating daily
It is very profitable system of friends (from which you will receive earning always then they will buy games) - Later I will try to explain it in more details

Those are the most important reasons why I selected this affiliate for further work.

In the next topic I will try to explain how to start with all of it.

Some links for beginners:

Big Fish Games Affiliate Description

noreply@blogger.com (BigFishGames) — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:45:00 +0000

Big Fish Games functions as your marketing and customer retention engine. You get paid for the lifetime value of the customers you attract.
Expect a powerful paradigm shift from traditional game affiliation programs. With Big Fish Games, not only do you benefit from your customers' purchases, but also from the purchases made by the friends your customers refer through My Game Space. Big Fish Games offers a suite of tools to assist you with your growing customer base - links and banners for your Game Space, create Iframes for your website, initiate Big Fish RSS feeds, and take advantage of our XML data to build a robust affiliate site.

Earn Up to 40%
Earn lifetime residuals off the customers you introduce to BFGs
Access the industry's top casual games before they launch on other sites
Earn an additional 25% commission when customers introduce BFGs to friends and family through their personal Game Space!