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About Keen
Becoming an Affiliate
Tracking and Payment
Questions About Linking
About Keen
What is Keen?
Keen®, Your Personal Advisor,
provides live, immediate advice for your everyday life. At www.keen.com,
and through 1-800-ASK-KEEN, you browse the listings of people selling
their advice to find the right advisor for you. After choosing an advisor,
you'll be connected to that person live over the phone. Your privacy is
ensured because Keen makes the call--your phone number and other personal
information are never revealed.
Anyone with knowledge and advice to share can become an
advisor by selling what they know, on topics ranging from personal advice to computers and taxes. Advisors can create listings (on the website)
and personal greetings (on the 800 number) to describe the information
and advice they have to offer. Advisors set their own per-minute fee
for each listing they create, keeping 62%.
Quality advice is ensured through Keen's consumer-based
feedback and rating system, as well as through the credential verification
service.
How does the Keen Affiliate Program work?
It's very simple. You start by filling out our Keen
Affiliate Program application. Then you just copy and paste HTML code onto your
website in order to display links to Keen. These links
contain a unique identifying code that will credit you for every user
who registers as a User for the first time, is over 18 years old,
adds a valid payment method, and places at least one paid conversation to another
User through the Keen Site. (We make the first conversation easy by offering
new users their
first conversation free!) Our third party vendor, Impact Radius, will track each registered Keen
user who comes from your site, as well as those users who make or
receive two calls. Impact Radius will then calculate your commission
and provide you with real-time reporting and monthly commission checks.
Becoming an Affiliate
Why should I sign up?
There are a number of benefits to joining the Keen Affiliate Program:
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Enhance Your Content and Build Loyalty.
Give your users something new that they'll keep
coming back for by providing them with a convenient and private way
to get live, personalized advice over their telephones.
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Get More Revenue From Your Site.
Joining our program is free, and you'll earn $100 for every new Keen
user you refer who makes or takes one paid call. You can make even
more money by becoming an advisor yourself, and getting paid for answering
Keen Calls.
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Connect Your Users to Any Topic, Category
or Listing. Connecting to the category
or topic most relevant to your users, or featuring your own advisor
listings, will help you make a live, personal connection with your
website's users.
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Reliable Third-Party Tracking. Keen
has partnered with Impact Radius to provide you with trusted
third-party tracking, customized reporting and monthly commission
checks with a $25 minimum payout.
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Sales Tips. Keen
provides you with great profit-enhancing tips like new site features,
special promotions and other events
through our quarterly affiliate newsletter.
Is my site eligible
to be part of the Keen Affiliate Program?
Most websites qualify to participate in the program.
Please refer to our Affiliate
Agreement for full details. We do, however, reserve the right to refuse
membership to a site or revoke a site's membership at any time.
What if I operate more than
one site?
Sign them all up! You can have multiple sites under
one affiliate account and create separate links for each of them. You
can even generate separate reports for each site. You'll receive a single
monthly check combining the commissions earned on all your sites.
Can I join the Keen Affiliate Program
if I operate my website outside the United States?
Yes, but note that you will be paid in U.S Dollars,
and that
international connection rates
apply for calls made from outside the U.S. or Canada.
Can I join the Keen Affiliate Program
if my site isn't live yet?
No. Your website must be live so we can review it when
we get your application.
Are there any hidden
costs?
No. You pay absolutely nothing to join the Keen Affiliate Program.
Tracking and Payment
How much does Keen
pay me in referral fees?
We pay you a $100 referral fee for each new customer
who registers as a User for the first time, is over 18 years old,
adds a valid payment method, and places at least one paid conversation to another User through the Keen Site.
How does Keen
know how much traffic is coming from my site?
Your links will contain a unique tag that represents
your site. When a visitor uses one of your links to browse Keen,
the tag is stored and, when that visitor makes a paid call, passed to
the referral payment database. Impact Radius, a neutral third party,
will handle all user tracking and will calculate all your bounty payments.
How do I check how many
users have registered from my site?
Go right to Impact Radius's site to check out
the records of everyone who has come through your link and made a paid
call, and to see how much you've earned. You can track this information
for a time period of your choosing so you can monitor, evaluate and improve
your Keen placements. You can also view the number of
registered users that have linked from your site but haven't yet made
a paid call. Those users have an unlimited amount of time to make a
paid call.
When do I start earning
commissions?
As soon as your links are up and the first user links
to Keen from your site and makes a paid call.
Can I use my own link to
register myself for Keen?
Yes. We encourage you to use your links to register
yourself on Keen.
Will I get paid for click-throughs
to Keen?
No. We only pay referral fees to Affiliates.
Questions About Linking
How do I link to Keen?
Once you sign up for the Keen Affiliate Program, you'll be given
special URLs that allow you to link to different areas of our site, including
the homepage, or specific categories and topics. You can even make money
by placing a Keen search box or pull-down menu on your
own site.
How many links can I
have to Keen?
You can have as many links to Keen
as you want. There are several pages to choose from. The only requirement
is that you set up the links using the URLs we give you when you sign
up.
When are my links "activated"?
You will be part of the Keen Affiliate Program the moment you finish
registering and agreeing to our Affiliate
Agreement. For as long as you are an affiliate, whenever someone registers
with Keen after linking from your site and makes a paid
call, you'll earn a $100 bounty.
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