Our affiliate program allows you to place House of Staunton links on your web site and earn a commission when one of your visitors purchases from the House of Staunton. When a visitor to your web site clicks on one of those links, our website can identify them as having been referred by your website through a web browser cookie. This allows our website to be able to track any and all purchases that they make - both now and in the future! Every time that one of your referred visitors purchases from us, you will receive a commission of 10% on their purchase price. For example, if a customer that was referred by your site purchases $100.00 worth of products from HouseofStaunton.com, you will earn a commission of $10.00.

• It's free and easy! There's no charge to participate - In fact, we pay you! Every time you send a customer to us from your site, you earn a commission on their purchases. There's no easier way to add e-commerce to your site. All it takes is a few minutes of your time.
• It's gives your visitors added value by bringing the goods they want to purchase directly to them! Chess players want chess equipment. With the House of Staunton, you'll be able to offer them the world's finest Chessmen. We get a new customer, you'll get a generous commission and they get terrific Chess equipment - It's a win-win-win situation!

Absolutely!

Before our affiliate system was made available to the public, we asked several Chess website operators to help us test our new system by including tracking links on their websites. The results were astounding!

Within 5 hours of going live, the first affiliate-tracked sale was registered in the amount of $103.95 - or $10.40 in earned commission. Over the next 2 weeks of testing, our affiliates generated sales that had an average purchase of $128.30, or an average of $12.83 in earned commission per sale. There were even 5 affiliate sales that had a purchase price of over $300.00.

Imagine, putting a link on your website and earning $30.00 just by someone clicking on it!

The House of Staunton store affiliates can actually have affiliates associated under them. These are sub-affiliates — of which each affiliate can have 4 levels of. The importance of having sub-affiliates is that it allows us the ability to distribute affiliate-based marketing across a wide range of individuals, with your help.

Signing up to become a sub-affiliate (an affiliate's affiliate) is equally simple to do through our website. A prospective sub-affiliate simply needs to visit the House of Staunton website, by clicking on your affiliate link. Once they have been redirected to the our website, the prospective sub-affiliate can sign up to become an affiliate with the House of Staunton. Once the affiliate sign up process is complete, the visitor will now be an affiliate of the owner of the affiliate link (your level 1 affiliate) which they used to visit the House of Staunton.

Additionally, your sub-affiliate may have someone visit our website through their link and choose to become an affiliate. This new affiliate would be your sub-affiliate's Level 1, which would make them your Level 2. The process can extend out two more levels to provide you with 5 levels of income generations.

• Top Level = 10% payout (You)
• Level 1 = 5% payout (sub-affiliate 1)
• Level 2 = 4% payout (sub-affiliate 2)
• Level 3 = 3% payout (sub-affiliate 3)
• Level 4 = 2% payout (sub-affiliate 4)

Since we launched our affiliate program, we've received emails from a number of prospective affiliates that all asked the same question - "Is my website too small to join your affiliate program?" The answer is a resounding no! We at the House of Staunton encourage ALL WEBSITES to join our affiliate program. Whether your website has 50,000 or 5 visitors/day, we invite you to join our family of affiliates.

A link (or hyperlink) is a piece of text or an image in a Web page that, when clicked on, takes you to another Web page.

TEXT LINKS: As it's name implies, a text link is a line of text that, when clicked on, takes you to another web page. If you are unfamiliar with HTML programming, the following line of HTML code will create a text link on your website that displays the text, "Visit the House of Staunton, Inc". that when clicked on, will direct your visitors to our website with affiliate tracking.

SOURCE CODE:
<a href="http://www.houseofstaunton.com/?Click=AFFILIATE_ID" target="_blank"><b>The World's Finest Chess Sets - Only at the House of Staunton, Inc.</b></a>  

WHAT VISITORS SEE:
The World's Finest Chess Sets - Only at the House of Staunton, Inc.

Once again, please be sure you change the AFFILIATE_ID to your website's affiliate id.

IMAGE LINKS: As it's name implies, an image link is a graphical image that, when clicked on, takes you to another web page. If you are unfamiliar with HTML programming, the following line of HTML code will create an image link on your website that  when clicked on, will direct your visitors to our website with affiliate tracking. We have prepared a number of different graphical images that you can put on your website.

SOURCE CODE:
<a href="http://www.houseofstaunton.com/?Click=AFFILIATE_ID" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.houseofstaunton.com/hosbanner2.gif" width="468" height="60" alt="Visit the House of Staunton"></a>

WHAT VISITORS SEE

Once your Affiliate Account is approved, you will be able to login to our website and go to the My Account section. At the bottom of this section, you will see new section called "Affiliate Statistics" which contains a link to your Affiliate Page. From the Affiliate Page, you will be able to click on a link to Generate Banner Ads which will take you to a new page with the HTML codes already containing your unique ID and ready for you to use. There are also instructions for Advanced Users who wish to generate customized codes.

CURRENT ADVERTISEMENTS THAT OUR AFFILIATES CAN USE.

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Your account will reflect commissions immediately on each purchase that you refer and you will be paid monthly when commissions earned are greater than or equal to $100.00. All Payments are remitted within 30 days and are remitted via check - to the address specified in your account! For example, an affiliate payment for the month of June will be paid the last day of July. This allows us to take into consideration returns and order changes.

All of our affiliates have the option to redeem their commission for a House of Staunton gift certificate that is worth DOUBLE what their commission is!

For example, If you are owed a commission of $100.00, you can redeem it for a $200.00 Gift Certificate for our catalog. It's the quickest and easy way to get great Chess equipment. This program is especially valuable for Chess Club websites, where your members can buy from the House of Staunton and your club will effectively earn 20% in free merchandise!

Is there any limit to the number of affiliate ids that I can create?
Yes. There is a limit of one affiliate id per mailing address. This rule is strictly enforced to insure the integrity of the Affiliate Reward Program. Affiliates who violate this rule will be subject to having all of their affiliate accounts disqualified from participating in the Affiliate Reward Program. Please don't do it.

Is there any limit to the number of websites that I can put anaffiliate link on?
No! If you operate 10 different Chess websites, we strongly encourage you to link all 10 of those websites to the House of Staunton's affiliate program. However, you must use the same affiliate id for all 10 of those web sites for the reasons described above.

Do I have to use one of the banner advertisements you provide?
No! We make these banners available as a convenience for our affiliates, but by no means are you required to use them. If you wish to use a simple Text Link instead of an image, that would be fine. Alternatively, if there is a particular picture from our website that you really like, perhaps a picture of one of our products, you can use that as well. We at the House of Staunton encourage you to use your own creativity and use our affiliate system as you see fit.

How reliable is the affiliate tracking system used by HouseofStaunton.com?
Simply put, the affiliate tracking system that we use is the most reliable system available on the Internet. Unlike other affiliate systems, it has the ability to track your referred customers even if they place their purchase weeks after you first referred them. When you refer someone to our website, a cookie is stored that identifies that person as your referral. If they leave the website and come back at a later time, that cookie still exists and the sales will still be tracked.

The majority of the affiliate systems available on the Internet, such as that of Amazon.com, require that the purchase BE MADE IMMEDIATELY in order for you to receive the full commission. If your website directs someone to Amazon.com and that customer clicks on any other links other than ADD TO CART, the amount of your commission from that referred sale is slashed by 66%! And if that customer leaves the website, but comes back later and places an order, you do not receive credit for the sale!

But not at HouseofStaunton.com! Because of the nature of our products, we understand that not every purchase will be made as soon as they click on the link. Our tracking system gives your referred customers the flexibility to consider their purchase for however long they wish, while still giving you full credit. Whether they place ane order immediately or several weeks later, you will still receive the full 10% commission. It is also worth mentioning that our system is capable of tracking and crediting repeat customers. For example, if one of your referred customers purchases a Chess set and later purchases a Chess board, you will receive full credit for both purchases!

I am already an affiliate for another website and have their links on my website. Is that a problem?
Not at all! You are free to run your website as you see fit and if you wish to have affiliate links for different web sites, that's fine with us. All that we ask is that you keep in mind our generous commission and tracking procedures and encourage you to compare it to the terms of your other partner/s. We are confident that you will find that the House of Staunton has the best affiliate system on the Internet and there is no need to partner with anyone else. But if you wish to do so, that's fine.

What do I do if I have a question?
We'd be happy to answer any and all questions that you might have! Please CONTACT US and one of our trained specialists will assist you.