As many of you know, I have been working over the last few months with my partner Brad on launching an SMS / Text messaging affiliate program.

I am happy to say that we are now live for beta testing in the European market.  Over the past few years text messaging has become just as popular as email.  Initially I wanted to launch this service to simply monetize poker freerolls better.  After more research though, I’m confident you can incorporate SMS into almost any marketing campaign.

Here is a quick example of how a poker affiliate would use this service.  Let’s say you are having a freeroll with $100 added.  Obviously you are going to get all the freeroll whores trying to get in.  To be honest, until TextShark, there has never been a way to monetize off these freebie players.  Now instead of just “giving away” the password for your event, you can require all players to send an SMS to get the password.

Once your traffic sends the SMS, they will get a message back directing them to a page with the necessary information.  You will earn a commission on every SMS message that comes through your specified code.  With TextShark, you will also be able to check your stats in real time.

Leveraging SMS for poker freerolls is just one example of how you can use our service.  Being an internet marketer however, I’m sure you can think of other ways to use this service.  This service can be used in both online and offline settings.  The only limitation to TextShark is your imagination.

Obviously we are only launching in beta right now to the European market.  We realize some things may come up that need to be tweaked or changed…… This is the point of beta.  In return for affiliates working with us in this stage, we are going to give a starting rate of 30% revenue share.

We also offer a great 2nd tier sub-affiliate program.  Being a new product, and the only type on the market, there has never been a better time to build your own network and bring in affiliates under you.

Likewise we will set up a limited number of $50 added freerolls at fulltiltpoker.com for our European partners.  During beta testing, we ask that our affiliates post any issues, questions, comments, or suggestions in our TextShark Support Forums. 

That is a really great and creative idea, leave it to you to think outside the box!

I’m an european affiliate, but somehow I feel uncertain about this. Feels like this could do unexpected costs to my visitors that would affect our relationship.

Should probably read more about it

I can’t wait to hear the results of this, I think it may be a huge use of todays technology! Keep us update don how it goes and lets hurry up and do this for us Americans.

Good luck with it J!

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