It is a partnership between Apogee Components and people like you that want to make a little bit (or a LOT) of cash money.

You've probably been recommending Apogee Components to your friends for years, haven't you? But besides that nice feeling you get for helping someone out, you probably wished
for more.

Well, now we want to recognize you for the help you've been in getting our name out to the public. In fact, we'd like to pay you for helping us to sell more rocketry items. That is what an Affiliate Program does. When you recommend a friend to buy from us, and they follow through and do make a purchase, you'll earn an 8% commission on that sale. The more they buy, the more money you make!

Step 1: You sign up to become an affiliate at Share-a-Sale (Click Here). Note: during the sign-up process, Share-A-Sale will ask you for your Tax I.D. number or your social security number. Why? Because you will be making money (hopefully a LOT of money, right?), so they have to report it to the IRS for tax purposes.

Step 2: On your web site, you make a nice statement about Apogee Components and recommend visitors to buy rockets from us. (hint: For more sales, a "text" endorsement is recommended). You can also put a banner ad on your site, which isn't quite as good as a text statement from you personally. But some folks prefer banner ads.

The URL link you put on the "Click Here" or the banner ad will take visitors back to Share-a-Sale web site, which then relays them to the Apogee Components home page. During this process, Share-A-Sale puts a cookie on their browser, so it can track the customer, and it knows that the recommendation came from your web site.

Step 3: In this step, Apogee sells the customer one or more of our great products. The sale is recorded by Share-a-Sale, and they determine how much commission you make on the sale. You make a commission only when a sale is made. So be sure to make a good recommendation on your web site (see below for some helpful hints).

Step 4: At the end of the month, Share-A-Sale sends you a check for your commissions.

There are many good reasons. The most important is that they provide "Third-Party" verification. That way, no one (particularly you) gets cheated out of a commission check. The have a very sophisticated tracking system that matches each sale to the person that made the recommendation. But from your perspective, they pay monthly, and on time. You want your money, don't you?

The Share-a-Sale company has been in the affiliate program business for quite some time. They have over 700 merchants in their system and thousands of affiliate partners. Their sole purpose is to provide commission tracking and payment services. This means you can trust them to give accurate tracking of commissions, and timely payout of your cash.

For our part, it takes the burden off us of providing individual checks to potentially hundreds of affiliate partners -- along with filing all the tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service. We are a small company and are not set up to write lots of checks. All we have to do is write one (big) check to Share-a-Sale, and they write all the smaller ones to the affiliate partners. They do collect a fee from us -- NOT from you. It is FREE for you to become an affiliate partner.

There are many good reasons. The most important is that they provide "Third-Party" verification. That way, no one (particularly you) gets cheated out of a commission check. The have a very sophisticated tracking system that matches each sale to the person that made the recommendation. But from your perspective, they pay monthly, and on time. You want your money, don't you?

The Share-a-Sale company has been in the affiliate program business for quite some time. They have over 700 merchants in their system and thousands of affiliate partners. Their sole purpose is to provide commission tracking and payment services. This means you can trust them to give accurate tracking of commissions, and timely payout of your cash.

For our part, it takes the burden off us of providing individual checks to potentially hundreds of affiliate partners -- along with filing all the tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service. We are a small company and are not set up to write lots of checks. All we have to do is write one (big) check to Share-a-Sale, and they write all the smaller ones to the affiliate partners. They do collect a fee from us -- NOT from you. It is FREE for you to become an affiliate partner.

There are two ways. First, increase the number of visitors you send to the Apogee Components web site. You can do this by putting the endorsement on your main home page, and in a prominent location so it is easily seen. In other words, if no ones sees the link, they won't click on it. So put it where people will see it!

Second: Pre-sell you site's visitors on our products before they get here. In other words, get them in the buying mood so when they come to the Apogee web site, they have a burning desire to acquire our products.

You accomplish this by providing a good endorsement. It is your web site, so your visitors already trust you. But if you don't urge them to make a purchase, they probably won't. It is the words you use in the recommendation that encourage people to buy. That is why your "text" works much better than a banner advertisement. A banner advertisement doesn't have the same effect as an endorsement coming out of your mouth.

When you write your endorsement, you can mention things like:

1. First of all, don't forget to sign your name. Without that, it is a no-name advertisement that carries no weight.
   
   
2. How much you've personally purchased from us in the past and what you plan on buying next time.
   
   
3. How well Apogee treats its customers and responds quickly to requests.
   
   
4. How you've fallen in love with a specific product of ours.
   
   
5. How you feel that Apogee is different from other rocketry suppliers and is worthy of your endorsement.
   
   
6. How you are planning on spending the commission check, and why it is important that they buy now instead of later.
   
   
7. Tell about other happy people that have clicked on the link and bought from us.
   
   
8. Remind them of the birthday or Christmas present they need to buy for one of their
   loved-ones.

Your endorsement is the key item that will determine how many people click on the link and actually buy from us. The more work you put into it, the bigger your commission check.

Not one cent. It is free.

Click here for more information on becoming an affiliate.