eCompliments Launches Affiliate Program

eCompliments Launches Affiliate Program

This week marked the launch of our anticipated eCompliments Affiliate Program (ECAP)! We are excited that now more people can benefit from sharing the good.

What is ECAP, you ask? It’s a program where people or websites can be official affiliates of our site and receive a one-time $75 referral fee for each person/business they help upgrade to a Pro Package. It’s a pretty sweet deal.

There is no limit for referral fees.

It's real simple.

Here's how it works:

1. Apply on our website right HERE.

2. Once approved you will be given a personal code to use to give to your friends, family, contacts and acquaintances. If they use the code when they are upgrading their profile, then you get the referral fee.

3. If you have a website, you can put the eCompliments banner on your site with a special link to our site. If anyone follows that site and upgrades to a Pro Profile, then you will get the same referral fee.

I know some of you might be asking, “Why would you have an affiliate program?” or “Why should I be an affiliate?” The answer is going to sound cliché, but it is the absolute truth and it reminds me of that line in the movie Jerry Maguire, where he tells his client “help me help you.”

Seriously, we want to give you a little extra cash for doing something you are already doing. You already know small business owners in your community, right? Some are friends & family, right? Why wouldn’t you encourage them to enhance their business’ online reputation and upgrade to the Pro Package? When they do, they will get all of the benefits our Pro Package gives to small businesses.

There are many benefits a business receives from upgrading to the Pro version. You will be helping them increase traffic, drive positive word of mouth and ultimately increase their bottom line. It truly is a win-win situation for everyone involved. The small business owner is happy because you’ve told them about a fantastic tool their customers can use to share the good about their business. You are happy because you’ve got some extra money to pay that nagging credit card bill, buy those back to school clothes or simply put in your savings account!

Sign up to be an Affiliate today and start helping those small business owners you know! In today’s world, with bad news all around, it’s always refreshing to receive a compliment or even better, to let a business know that you have given them a compliment!

Posted by Trey Tipton, VP of Operations

Become a Facebook Fan!

eCompliments is growing our Facebook presence through our business page and Facebook Connect. I encourage you to visit our page on Facebook and become a fan of eCompliments at http://www.facebook.com/ecompliments. We update our wall frequently and encourage your comments.

After you become a fan we encourage you to send a request to your Facebook friends asking that they become a fan too. Join the share the good movement and encourage others to be optimist activists!

If you have a Facebook account then use the Facebook Connect button on our home page. Facebook users now have instant access to eCompliments without having to create a separate profile and log in. Share the good about any person, place, or thing on eCompliments and have the profile and your comments post on your wall. This way your friends can see who, what and where you’re sharing the good about.

$10,000 video contest is half way over

The eCompliments’ $10,000 YouTube Video Contest has reached it’s half way point. The quarter long contest started on July 1st and ends September 30th. The video compliment which receives the most votes wins $10,000.

There have been all kinds of entries so far accumulating about 20,000 views. Several new entries last week are making a run at the top spot. Recently, David Lehre’s eCompliments commercial, who had been sitting at number one for weeks, was overtaken by Great Neck Community School eCompliment. GNCS is actively sharing the good about their school and this contest.

I love you, Ruth and Haven Horse Ranch just posted last week and have already shot up to #3 and #4.

Will David Lehre return to the top? Will the parents, alumni and community of Great Neck keep GNCS at #1? Will eCompliments Rap rally? Will a new video be posted that steals everyone’s thunder?

It’s now less than 6 weeks until we hand someone $10,000. Who will it be?

eCompliments now has Facebook Connect

eCompliments has just rolled out Facebook Connect.

If you have a Facebook account then you no longer need to create a separate profile on eCompliments. Just hit the Facebook Connect button on the lower right hand of the home page and you can log in using your FB profile.

When you post compliments or reviews on any person, place or thing it will post simultaneously on the eCompliments website and your FB wall. This way your friends can see what you are sharing the good about and check it out as well.

Share the good through eCompliments on Facebook Connect!

Share the Good Professional Party in Jacksonville, FL

eCompliments enjoyed our first “Share the Good” party in Jacksonville, FL this week, hosted by our very own Jacksonville Community Manager Susan Woeppel. Business owners and professionals were invited to an absolutely beautiful venue on conservation property with floor to ceiling windows provided by Digital Video Arts.

We enjoyed wonderful foods like hummus, caviar pie (that was to die for!), assorted cheeses, crackers, yummy fresh fruits, bountiful cabernet and pinot grigio wines and a pleasing mix of musical tunes. It was a great social gathering for these local small businesses to get to know each other and find out how they could benefit from utilizing eCompliments and our Professional tools to help them spread POSITIVE word of mouth about their business…..right now!

As the Regional Director for Florida here at eCompliments I had the privilege of driving over from Tampa to partake in Sharing the Good! It was a great opportunity to get to know Jacksonville and the wonderful businesses in the community. The enthusiasm over what eCompliments could do for them and their community was just awesome! By upgrading to our professional version they could easily develop a strategy on building closer relationships with their customers, provide a way for their customers to share the good about them (rather than just hope they are spreading the word), establish a positive online presence and manage their online reputations…..no wonder I saw happy faces!

It made me feel great that I could work for a company that could really help small businesses not just here but in every town across the United States, accomplish the same, for such an inexpensive price! Talk about ROI! Even more fabulous, was to witness these small business owners and professionals see the greatness in coming together to Share the Good and utilize each other’s services to keep the community thriving. Why not have the wine store use the account in Jacksonville that is part of eCompliments, and the account use the massage therapist, and the therapist use the print shop and the print shop buy wine from the wine store, etc. Sharing the Good seems to be coming full circle in this community…..who’s next?

I wanted to thank Susan for hosting such fab event….she even sent people home with a goodie bag of truffles she made herself. Yummy Susan! Also gratis to Digital Video Arts (DVA) of Jacksonville for providing a place for us to share in the Good Times and Share the Good! And an additional gratis to Gloria from DVA for helping Susan with the preparations and making the out of this world caviar pie. One final shout out to Tropical Wines for providing such tasty wines for the evening!

Posted by
Angelica Michaels
Regional Director

Empower your customers to proactively share the good about your business

For most small business owners customer referrals are the most prized of all new customer sales to have. To know that a customer purchased from you, because he or she was referred by another, validates your business. For your customers to refer your business you must be doing something right.

The great thing about your customers referring your business to their friends, family and associates is it is the most powerful and effective advertising there is. There isn’t any amount of advertising you can buy that will impact a person coming to your business more than a heartfelt referral from someone they trust.

Any business owner knows the power of positive word of mouth and every business owner wants it. Owners will strive to provide the best product, or service, or value, or all of the above to get it. They will often bend their policies and bend over backwards for their customers to make sure they have the best possible experience.

If your like most business owners you hope that your customers will remember to refer you to someone they know if what you sell or do happens to come up in a conversation they are having. This is how it has always been. Do good by your customers and someday when the topic comes up they hopefully will tell someone else about your business.

But if customer referrals are so important, and for many businesses essential to your very survival, then shouldn’t you be actually equipping your customers with the tools to proactively refer you? How are you empowering them to actively share the good about your business?

The eCompliments Pro for business owners gives you such tools. What would it do for your business if your happiest customers started actively referring you to everyone they know starting today? How much would it impact your bottom line if you actually empowered your customers to refer you to everyone they know well instead of just hoping they will if the topic comes up?

If your business is listed in the yellow pages then you likely already have a profile on the eCompliments website. If not, it takes just a moment to add your business. It’s completely free unless you want to upgrade to our Pro version. Check out the ReferNow! and the MyFavorites features your profile has on eCompliments. Both equip your customers to actively refer your business.

Use the tools at eCompliments to turn your happy customers into a proactive referring word of mouth spreading volunteer army. It’s good business to help customers share the good about your business!

Benjamin Franklin says, “Share the good!"

Benjamin Franklin believed in the importance to do and share the good. In fact, he had two primary questions he asked himself each day. The first was his morning question. He asked himself, “What good should I do this day?”

What a great question to start your day off with. It brought him clarity of purpose and reminded him daily what was important to him, doing good.

The second was his evening question. He asked himself, “What good have I done today?” He ended each day reflecting on the good he did each day. You know sometimes he thought he could have done more (he was human like the rest of us). I also can imagine him smiling when he reflected on the good he had done on a daily basis as well.

Of course Benjamin Franklin did a lot of good and was an American pioneer in sharing the good. He was such an optimist and positive thinking person I can just imagine what a man of his capacity thought about each morning and each evening when he asked himself these questions.

There is no doubt Franklin reflected on What good should I do this day? and What good have I done today? when he was thinking about the good history remembers him for. Things like being a Founder of the United States of America, his writings, his inventions, his politicking and diplomating (yes I took literary liberty with this word). I doubt if anyone reading this needs a history lesson of all of the good Franklin contributed to not only America but mankind.

What is interesting to me however reading through his autobiography (photo is excerpt of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, published in 1793, page 40) is when you get the insight of who Franklin was as a man it gives deeper insight to the two questions he posed to himself each day. Franklin believed in doing good, in sharing good, in the little things as well. He saw and focused on the good in his relationships, friendships, and life’s simple pleasures.

I encourage each of us to follow Franklin’s example in starting and ending each day with asking ourselves the same two questions:
What good shall I do this day?
What good have I done today?