How Office Furniture Affects Your Business

I read this below and remembered why having a good office setting and good office furniture is important and why they are inportant to you. At one of our earlier businesses we never had any customers visit our office since all backups were done on-site. It was kind of small as we only really needed a few desks, rack space etc but we did once have the chamber of commerce director stop by and was impressed with our setup. Yes, I know probably just wanted us to sign up.

How Office Furniture Affects Your Business

Your office furniture can affect your business in ways that can never be imagined. When people walk into your office, what is their first impression of your office is important. Studies have shown that your office can actually send messages to others about the way you conduct business. What does your current office furniture say about you?

Custom office furniture, including movable walls, can make your company culture say whatever you want it to say. Bright colors suggest a vibrant, creative work environment. Glass walls, windows and doors bring about feelings of inclusion and teamwork. Tall, solid panels imply privacy and focus.

Filing cabinets and office file storage help to keep things in order. Whether you’re filing confidential employee records, tax information, monthly invoices or prospective client files, you need to have a place to keep them safe and organized so that when you need them, you can find them quickly and easily….Continue Reading

Your Blog Could Use A Coupon Or Two

This is mostly meant for affiliates and bloggers but if you are a merchant reading this, get an idea of what I mean below.

Most coupon sites already know that unless they have a coupon, a link that looks like a coupon, or some type of coupon links or codes for the merchants they are promoting they will NOT get any traffic and NO sales. Unless ofcourse they have those coupons and coupons codes available for their customers.

I won’t get into all the coupon and coupon site details, cause coupon affiliates will kill me for revealing secrets, but if you have a blog you should have some coupons or coupon type links too either on the page that talks about furniture (or other category) or even on the side blogroll or couponroll if you want to call it that. Look below at the ones I created and entered into the deals database for shareasale.com. I created 19 of them that can be entred into any site, blog or coupon site. This is also nothing new for me as I have been successfully creating these types of coupon links for EverythingFurniture for over three years now since I started managing the programs and they do get allot of traffic and sales. ( As a merchant you should have atleast 4-6 of these types of coupon type links, even if you do not want to deal with setting up actual coupon and discount codes)

Now affiliates, bloggers, you don’t need to have all of them displayed as it can depend on the structure of your site, page or blog but customers are always searching and looking for EverythingFurniture ( or other category or brand or merchant ) deals and they do click on those words with ‘Save‘, ‘10% off‘ and others. So if you have a coupon site you probably already have most of our furniture coupons links, or even all of them on your page as most coupons sites already do, but if you have a data feed site, content site or even a blog you should have at least a few of them displayed too, they will drive traffic, click throughs and maybe even sales.

Recent Coupons added

10% Off Select Computer Desks and Corner Computer Desks
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=1…7646&u=!!USERID!!
Expires: 06-07-08 Code: none needed

Great for Dads and Grads 16 Computer Desks under 300.00
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=1…7646&u=!!USERID!!
Expires: 06-07-08 Code: none needed

save 5 – 35% on select wine racks and wine cabinets
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=1…7646&u=!!USERID!!
Expires: 06-07-08 Code: none needed

5% off Patio and Outdoor Furniture orders over $500
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=1…7646&u=!!USERID!!
Expires: 06-07-08 Code: none needed

Save 5% off any Patio and Occasional Chair purchase of $500 or more
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=1…7646&u=!!USERID!!
Expires: 06-07-08 Code: none needed

Save up to 65% off Home Furniture Sale and Closeouts
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=8…7646&u=!!USERID!!
Expires: 06-07-08 Code: none needed

Save up to 70% off Office Furniture Sale and Closeouts
http://www.shareasale.com/u.cfm?d=8…7646&u=!!USERID!!
Expires: 06-07-08 Code: none needed

There are 11 other Never Expire coupon links in the Coupons/Deals that you can add to your site(s). Remember you can change the Expire Day any time, the link will always work and track and some of them will also be extended.

Not selling furniture yet? Get in and $$$ Get active with our EverythingFurniture and EverythingOfficeFurniture stores, sas details – click to join

I will showcase your video if it’s not bs

Sorry I put that ‘bs’ in there, perhaps not professional but I received a few emails to showcase a few videos for selling stuff online or marketing to affiliates or scams. I don’t have time for those scammers to just want to sell and sell to others. JRami is about consulting to merchants and helping merchants get programs online and manage their affiliate programs. We also work with and help lots of affiliate partners to join our merchant programs and make $, but wanting just to sell and sell and sometimes scam others with how to grow your program or make millions in affiliate marketing in six months is not what we do, never have and never will.

If you have interesting stuff and on video I will gladly point others to you and your video  for you and feature it, no charge or fees ‘yet’. I am looking for great educational videos on affiliate marketing to showcase here under Videos and also to show on the right hand side like the one you see there from Matt Cutts. I do not want just any ’sales’ type videos, I am talking about videos that educate merchants, affiliates and even networks on how to start, promote or work online as a merchant or affiliate in the affiliate marketing world.

You can reply to comments below with your link to the videos that you have, produced or know of and have found online or send me email on it through contactus.

There are some already planned that I like and will showcase and feature later like ones from jimkukral.com, tv.affiliatetip.com and a few others I have bookmarked.

Sample Merchant Terms of Agreement

Most affiliates I would say 99.99% of them abide by all rules of affiliate marketing. Even when no merchant TOS exists most of them will follow the rules as an industry and from network own rules. Occasionally either new affiliates getting into affiliate marketing or some that either do not care will need to have some type of rules set in place so that when you do contact them there are no excuses or that they did not know.

As an affiliate program consulting and managing company we protect our clients trademark brands all the time. This is one of the most valued part most often asked by our clients how we do it and how we police daily the activities of all affiliate partners and their traffic. We have been doing this successfully since day one and probably would not need a TOS but we are often asked what are some good terms to setup in an affiliate program for affiliates.

We always ad and suggest this or a similar TOS below as it covers most terms needed in a program but you may edit and add your own TOS into your program any time and not all wording may be suitable for your program.

Sample from EverythingFurniture.com and EverythingOfficeFurniture.com TOS (Terms Of Service)

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To sign up as an affiliate or as an existing affiliate partner or partner of EverythingFurniture.com and/or EverythingOfficeFurniture.com within any location or business relationship please verify that your site(s) does not have any of the listed “concerns” below. Periodically we may monitor and review your site(s) or other partners site(s) and send or post on our forum or update you direct and/or all partners at the same time with a friendly reminder of our terms or TOS. Our criteria for approving any affiliate or continued relationship with all affiliate partners or partners is that all sites and places where our banners, links, coupons, datafeed, products or product images are displayed or promoted must be in English or Spanish only for now, even through the use of email, blogs or forums, etc., whether you use any of our own domains/sites that we provide to you or your own domains/sites blogs or forums, is that they be kept free of errors on your end or from any affiliations with other sites that promote and or use technology software, parasitic activity and browser helper objects, redirecting toolbars, illegal activities, hatred, or porn, etc.

Concerns that may cause temporary or permanent removal from program:

A – verify that there is not a “‘no page found”, “wrong page found” or error message showing on your site
B – verify that site has no inappropriate content such as porn, hatred, illegal or offensive material
C – verify that site is not in another language other than English or Spanish
D – verify that site does not have a URL or domain re-direct, IFrame or forwarding to another site not approved or competing site
E – verify that you have appropriate contact name or email listed for you under your affiliate account
F – verify that your site has no parasitic activity, too many pop-ups, or automatic downloadable software ( download software such as those within a banner or link from desktop supported technology companies, incentive type sites, toolbars, adware, spyware or variations there of that may redirect improperly are not approved at this time )
G – verify that our datafeed or products are not included, uploaded, downloaded or advertised on places such as Froogle, (Google Products ), competing merchants stores or sites, eBay, etc or similar locations by you, an associate or partner as an affiliate link, banner, domain, page, or re-direct, etc. other than on your own sites(s), domains, etc. that may conflict with our own stores or other affiliate partner sites.

PPC and use of Trademark Restrictions/Terms:

- no direct to merchant ppc using our trademarks using a search engine campaign such as with adword, yahoo or msn
- must have your own EF/EOF landing page first is using a search engine campaign such as with adword, yahoo or msn
- no ‘official’ wording using a search engine campaign such as with adword, yahoo or msn in the ad title
- no trademark using a search engine campaign such as with adword, yahoo or msn display url

Until further notice you may continue to use EverythingFurniture.com, EverythingOfficeFurniture.com or variations thereof only for search engine ppc campaigns whereby customer lands on your site or page first that promotes and displays links, banners, coupons, product images ( such as use from a datafeed, make-a-page or other product display tool ) or any item related to EverythingFurniture.com, EverythingOfficeFurniture.com and thereby when customer lands on your site or page they must click-though from a link, banner, product image ( such as use from a datafeed, make-a-page or other product display tool ) or coupon onto EverythingFurniture.com or EverythingOfficeFurniture.com. If you are NOT using any of our trademarks and only using furniture related keywords or categories or products for your keywords you MAY continue (until further notice ) to use direct to merchant ppc only for that purpose using furniture keywords. You may NOT have the word ‘official’ in any ppc campaign that follows any of our tradenames and you may NOT use our tradenames in the display url.