Affiliate Registration Form
Affiliate Program Terms & Conditions
As an Affiliate for Tier One Business Services (TOBS), you agree to the following:
Online Marketing – As an Affiliate, you have the opportunity to market the Customer Traffic Builder using any of the approved methods described on our site : Targeted business email solicitation, Facebook/Social Media marketing, forum postings (including Craigslist), and offline printed material. Targeted email solicitation can ONLY be done to businesses who are found either on Google Maps or any business directories. You may NOT harvest general population email addresses.
Use of Affiliate Code – You will receive an Affiliate ID (AID) that you need to use in our web URL. You may use a URL shortener to cloak your affiliate link. When clicked by a visitor to our video information page, your AID will be used to send you an email for each prospect when they request a free trial.
Lifetime Commissions – Once a prospective client converts to a paying customer, you will receive your commission each month for as long as the client stays active. You can either bill your clients directly, or have us bill your clients. Our fee is $15 per month per client as of 10/12/24. You keep the difference between your net selling price and our fee.
Selling Price – The list price for our service is $59 per month. You are free to set your own selling price, offering a “discount” from our list price if you wish.
Payment Methods – If you choose to invoice your customers directly, including automatic recurring billing, you would set up your own payment service with a provider such as Stripe. For each active client, we will bill you $15, plus any processing fees associated with the payment. Or, we can bill your clients for you, and pay you the difference between the net selling price (price less credit card fee) and $20, which includes a $5 office fee.
Independent Contractor – As an Affiliate, you are an Independent Contractor (IC) and not an Employee. You are required to pay any Federal and State income taxes on your commissions. If we bill your clients for you and pay you your commission, we will submit a 1099 form to the IRS as per their requirements. If this case, you agree to provide us with either your SSN or EIN before we pay you any commissions. If you bill your clients, we do no reporting to the IRS. There is no Employer/Employee relationship between TOBS and you.
Non-Compete – You agree to not solicit any of our clients once they are using our services for a period of at least one year from their activation date. We also agree to not solicit any of your prospects who come to us from your marketing efforts for a period of at least 30 days from the end of their free trial date if they do not convert to a paying customer. Once any of your prospects convert within a 30-day window, they become your clients for as long as they remain in our program.
Marketing & Training Material – We will provide you with a training package that will contain a combination of PDFs and videos on how to market the program. This includes using our recommended email scraping service (independent from TOBS), and email merge services (also independent of TOBS). You are free to use any services you find on your own. We will also provide you with a Google Docs version of a marketing flyer you can use, along with a template for a business card. You will receive a QR code image that you can include on your printed materials. This code will link visitors to your affiliate-coded video landing page.
Bonus Marketing Material – Once you have submitted your first paid client, you will be rewarded by receiving our entire Social Media & Online Marketing Library. This will help you ramp up your marketing efforts.
Marketing Support – TOBS has a Facebook group and LinkedIn group .
Reporting Dashboard – TOBS is in the process of creating a reporting dashboard where you will be able to log in to see a listing of your clients, along with revenue earned for the current month, and year to date. You will also be able to see and update your affiliate account information. Until we have enough of an affiliate base to invest in creating this back-office feature, we will provide you with a monthly report of your clients and earnings. Note that earnings are only provided if we bill your clients for you. If you bill your clients or process a recurring invoice, we are not privy to your earnings.
Marketing Warnings – TOBS allows you to conduct targeted cold email solicitation to active businesses anywhere in the world. We expect that there may be some complaints from businesses who receive unsolicited email, but that is to be expected. Since we do prohibit mass non-targeted email marketing, if we receive enough complaints, we will notify you and ask you to change your marketing methods. If we continue to see the same type of mass emailing and receive additional complaints, we may at our discretion disable your affiliate link, meaning you would no longer receive any email leads. We will also notify you if this happens. Your affiliate account will still remain active, meaning you will can still bill your existing clients or receive commissions from these clients if we are billing for you.