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1. What is an affiliate program?

Affiliate marketing is a form of online advertising that rewards website owners for promoting other websites products or services.

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2. What is an advertiser?

Any website that sells a product or service, accept payments, fulfills orders. An advertiser allow other websites to place links to its products and services on their sites, and pays those advertiser’s a commission for sales that result from visitors clicking on those links.

So in the Certified Tax Audit Affiliate Program, Certified Tax Audit Specialists is the advertiser and you, the website owner, are the publisher/advertiser.

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3. What is a publisher?

The website owner that promotes the products or services of an advertiser in exchange for a commission on sales. The publisher displays ads, text links, or product links on its web site, in email campaigns, or in search listings and is paid a commission by the advertiser when a visitor makes a purchase.

So in Certified Tax Audit Program, Certified Tax Audit Specialists is the advertiser and you, the website owner, are the publisher.

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4. How does it work?

Affiliates have nothing to lose, just a few minutes of their time getting set up.

Just set up an account with our Affiliate Network Program, and use the graphics or texts provided to link to www.certifiedtaxauditspecialists.com site. Whenever someone from your site buys or subscribes to Certified Tax Audit Specialists services, you will earn a commission for that sale.

NOTE: CTAS will pay a commission on the purchases they make up to 3 years after they originally clicked on a link at your site! Plus, any renewal, Certified Tax Audit Specialists service is an annual fee for the subscriber!

The links Certified Tax Audit Specialists provides through its Affiliates Network are special links that enable tracking of online purchases. These links are different from the links available on the Certified Tax Audit Specialists site - only the links available through our Affiliates Network are designed for the Certified Tax Audit Affiliate Program.

When a visitor to your site clicks on one of the links they are directed to the Certified Tax Audit Specialists and a cookie is placed on their browser that last for 3 years. Any time your visitor makes a purchase from Certified Tax Audit Specialists, during those next 3 years, the purchase will be tracked by one of our Affiliates Network – and you’ll receive a commission!

Our software tracks each affiliates referral, calculate their commissions, and ensure that they get paid. You get paid for simply referring new customers to our site.

There are no advertising costs!

With our affiliate program, we only pay for advertising that gets results.

With your Affiliate Program, you have the power to exponentially increase your income as more and more affiliates sign up and we continue to coach your affiliates.

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5. How much will I earn?

The more clients you convert, the more money you can earn. Really simple! You will earn a 20% commission on your Tier I sales and 10% commission on your Tier II sales. Tier II are any persons who were brought in by your Tier I affiliates, Tier II are sub-affiliates to you.

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6. When and how do I get paid?

Payments are made once a month, by the 10th of the following month, provided your total commissions exceed the Affiliate Networks minimum payout amount of $15.00 dollars. Payment will make through Affiliates PayPal. You will receive a notification for your payment from CTAS and from Paypal as well when your commission is ready.

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7. Do I have to take subscriptions or payments on my site?

NO. Certified Tax Audit Specialists will manage all of the order taking and billing process. As a publisher, you just need to link customers through to the Certified Tax Audit Specialists website.

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8. Why join?

- IT’S FREE and there’s nothing to lose - it won’t cost you a cent to become Certified Tax Audit Specialist affiliate.

- FREE MONTHLY TRAINING -

- EASY TO SETUP - the Certified Tax Audit Program is straightforward and simple to get going and our Affiliate Network provides you with all the creative training you’ll need to start earning money.

- 3 YEARS TO BUY - even if persons don’t sign up right away, you will be paid a commission for everyone who buys or subscribes directly on Certified Tax Audit Specialists for 3 years after they click through your site.

- 3 years to become a member of the Certified Tax Audit Plan for your affiliates and sub-affiliates for any new members who becomes a member of Certified Tax Audit Plan.

- UP TO DATE REPORTING - You can check how much you have earned with real-time online reporting.

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9. What is the 3 years referral period?

We currently offer a 3 years referral period for visitors, who clicked from your site to ours, to return to our site and make a purchase of Certified Tax Audit Specialists services. You get commission on all transactions that take place up to 3 years after you and/or your sub-affiliate send someone to Certified Tax Audits Specialists website.

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10. What are the benefits of being a CTAS affiliate?

You Make Money: Earn 20% for first-tier and 10% for second-tier commission on qualifying CTAS purchases. The more sales you refer, the more you make.

You Associate with a Nationwide Trusted Company: CTAS is one of the nationwide trusted companies and peace of mind you associate with.

You Control Your Work: You select the services to offer and monitor your results. You work with CTAS to make this program work well for you.

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11. Who can join the CTAS Affiliate program?

The CTAS affiliate program is open to all publishers that complete their application with and meet the requirements of our affiliates. If you want to participate in Certified Tax Audit Specialists success and start money, we encourage you to apply.

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12. Is my website eligible to become an affiliate?

Every web owner is qualified to become an affiliate. No unique monthly visitor required. But we reserve the right to refuse membership to a site or revoke a site’s membership at any time if we deem that it contains objectionable material.

Please read our CTAS Affiliate Terms and Conditions for more information.

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13. Can I operate the CTAS Affiliate program in more than one website?

YES. You can have multiple sites as an affiliate. Just use the same link with your unique affiliate number and provide us with the website information. you can have one CTAS Affiliate account that will include all of your sites.

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14. Will it cost me anything to be involved?

NO. The Certified Tax Audit program is free. All you need to do is sign up here.

In a few minutes you can start making profit from your affiliate program, is as simple as filling up the affiliate form instantly in 5 minutes you will receive the information on how to set up your site with our affiliate resources.

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15. How do you start?

Joining the Affiliate Program is quick and easy. All you have to do is follow these 5 simple steps:

1.- Fill up the Affiliate sign up form.

2.- Check your e-mail you will receive a welcome e-mail from our affiliate program.

3.- You will find links to your affiliates account and the affiliates resources pages.

4.- Choose the resources to place on your site.

5.- Start promoting Certified Tax Audit Specialists Plan and earn some meaningful extra money.

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16. What technical skills do I need to have?

Publishers need to be able to copy and paste HTML code and place it accurately within the code of a Web page or within an email, don't forget to add your affiliate number where indicated.

Affiliates persuade visitors to click through to our site by posting a simple banner ad or text link on your website or write a short referral letter to their customers, and we do everything else.

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17. Do you offer technical support?

Yes, we do have our IT department ready to support you on any questions and problems you have.

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18. When and how will the tools and training will be provided to the affiliates?

CTAS will provide promotional tools for the affiliates and great update monthly training to whoever signs up for our FREE Affiliate Program.

After you sign up online with CTAS affiliate program, you will receive instructions and links to our Private Affiliate Members Resource Center Site, where you can start our downloadable training sessions anytime you want at your own pace or start using our resources.

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19. What do your tools include?

CTAS tools include Banner ads, Product images, Text links, Email promotions, Product reviews, Articles, & Interviews.

For more sample of CTAS tools, go to CTAS Affiliate Resource SAMPLE page.

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20. What is banner ads?

A “banner ad” is simply a graphic that links to our site with our affiliates’ identification numbers hidden in the code.

Banners are strategically designed to entice our target market to click on them, so that our affiliates can direct these potential customers to our website and persuade them to sign up for our newsletter, to sample our service, or to actually make a purchase.

Banners are a pretty standard promotional tool given to our affiliates because it is easy for them to just copy and paste the HTML code we give them, add it to their web site, and watch the sales start to roll in.

See our CTAS Affiliate Resource SAMPLES page.

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21. What are text links?

A text link is a simple copy of html code that our affiliates can include on their web sites to direct people to our services.

The beauty of text links is that affiliates can easily present their visitors with a short sentence or paragraph that clearly explains what they will gain, how they will benefit, or what they will learn by clicking on it.

See samples of text links.

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22. What are E-Zine ads?

E-zine ads are classified ads designed to be used in our affiliates’ email newsletters or e-zines.

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23. What are e-mail promotions?

Email promotions can be highly profitable promotional technique for our affiliates – one of the most profitable techniques.

Our affiliates’ customers and subscribers respect their opinions, so when they present their customers with good information about a quality service, their clients are going to act!

See samples of e-mails.

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24. Do you have articles?

Articles allow our affiliates to provide their visitors with valuable information, so the articles are a great resource for both our affiliates and their visitors.

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25. What interviews do you have?

Providing our affiliates with a transcript of an interview done with “Uncle” George.

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26. How and when am I going to find out if something is sold?

You will receive an email from our affiliate program AssocTrac when you have made a sale through your link, you can login into your affiliate member account to see reports from your sales. (see the sample below).

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27. Can I get information on visitors and sales?

Yes, you can login into your affiliate member account to see reports from your visitors and that's not all you have a report for Direct sales, Direct Refunds, Referal Sales and Referral Refunds. (see sample below).

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28. How often can I access my sales statistics?

Anytime you please to see your sales statistics they are for you to view 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

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29. How are visitors track?

When you become an affiliate for our site you are given an affiliate ID number which you will use to track your visitors using links to go to our site. All the information and instructions you will receive than once you sign up to our affiliate program.

When people visit your site and click on the link, banner or graphic on your site , they will be redirected to the certifiedtaxauditspecialists.com home page where they can make their purchase of our service.

By sending people to our site, our system knows that it is YOU who referred them by recognizing your unique affiliate ID number, and you will earn a your commissions for sales made to that person.

When the person clicks on your link to our site, our affiliate program system records the IP address from that persons computer and your affiliate ID number. If that person doesn't buy right away, but they come back to the certifiedtaxauditspecialists.com site in the next 3 years (even if it's not directly through your link the next time) our system will know that it was YOU who referred them originally, and you will still earn your commission!

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30. What is my responsibility as an affiliate?

Your only responsibility is to maintain your website or news feeds according to agreed upon placement of CTAS content on your site.

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31. Where can I find out technical specifications?

Your Business Development Representative will introduce you to our CTAS Affiliate Resource Center which covers frequently asked technical questions.

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32. Who processes and handles customer service?

CTAS will do all of that for customers that you refer to our web site. All you have to do is place links on your site to forward traffic to our site, and CTAS will do the rest!