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As an affiliate with Vita-Mix Corporation you can earn up to 15% commissions on all Vita-Mix 5000 or 5200
blenders sales that you submit to Vita Mix Corporation via their online
ordering system or by telephone. The affiliate identification code number that
you get as an affiliate is also known as a coupon code.Win a free Vita-Mix 5200 Blender.

Coupon codes with $ 25.00 discount and free shipping announcements are
advertised as a lure throughout the web and on eBay. Customers use your coupon
code number to get free shipping worth $ 25.00 when they either call Vita-Mix
for their order or place it online directed to the Vita-Mix online ordering
site through your affiliate link, placed on your own website.

And
so you may offer your buyers $ 25 instant free shipping discount on all
Vita-Mix 5200 Blender purchases with this coupon code. The coupon code
associates the sale to the affiliate marketer who is supposed to receive the
commission. The company however offers free shipping to everyone also. And
because Vita-Mix Corporation also offers $ 25.00 free shipping to anyone buying
from the company directly anyway, it is perhaps somewhat little lame to even
luring your customers in on a free shipping deal.

It
does not give you as a Vita-Mix affiliate an advantage offering a free shipping
coupon code to a prospective blender buyer. It is in our opinion in
direct conflict with affiliate marketer’s efforts. To get a competitive
advantage over Vita-Mix’s own sales efforts, competing with them against their
own free shipping coupon, they suggest that you have some form of a program
offering in addition to the coupon for free shipping. It would probably be wise
to budget that cost into your advertising expenses with the expectation hat you
will get paid every quarter. If the free item you have to offer, costs you $ 10
each and you sell 10 Vita-Mix 5200 Blenders in a month, then you need to have $
300 put aside to afford that campaign.

Win a free Vita-Mix 5200 Blender. And
if you expect to actually sell 10 Vita Mix Blenders per month, this is perhaps
the top of the peak. Yes, there are some good methods to do more than that.
Plus it will take time and most likely you need to invest some time and money
in order to build your business and increase sales beyond 10 Vita-Mix Blenders.
You may even consider taking on an affiliate agreement with Blendtec. Blendtec
Blenders are in the same quality class as the Vita-Mix Blenders and actually
cost slightly less.

You
might want to consider free articles, free recipes, etc, to entice the sale.
Some successful Vita-Mix blender sales affiliates have restaurants or herbal
shops and health related stores. But Vita-Mix does not allow cash rebates or
advertising on eBay if you are an affiliate.

Vita-Mix
is also very strict with trying to protect its trade name(s) and trademarks. In
an interview we were told that it is a trade name or trademark violation when
using the Vita-Mix name without the permission of Vita-Mix on eBay. The company
does not want its affiliates or anyone else who is selling a vita mix blender
advertise its name on ebay. But Vita-Mix has hundreds of linked eBay advertisings
itself, selling $ 25.00 free shipping coupons and even off-loads its
refurbished used equipment on ebay. We might add, the 25$ free shipping coupon
was argued by Becky Prince that it should not be sold because it is unfair to
buyers.

During
3 sales occasions our customers ordered a Vita-Mix Blender with our affiliate
marketer coupon code directly at the Vita-Mix Corp. Our customers called us
with requests for refunds of the coupons we sold them for $ 1.50 each.
According to our customers, Vita-Mix Corp offered them the free shipping
telling them that no coupon code is needed. Perhaps this was to avoid having to
pay the commissions or the sales reps wanted to take credit. Vita Mix Corp did
not comment to our allegations.

Is
it that Vita-Mix Corporation is scamming numerous people into the affiliate
program to gain free advertising? Is it an inability of seeing the conflict
they create between affiliates and their own sales agenda? You might think that
smart, intelligent people that sell an incredibly well built machine would
recognize immediately that a program has serious and flawed conflicts. The
organization could be held liable for scamming people into advertising for them
and then not compensating them for their sales efforts. It may not be exactly
that, but at least it surely looks like it.

Well,
not all is as bad as it looks. We are certain that many Vita-Mix Affiliates
have had good experiences selling Vita-Mix blenders and receiving commission
checks every quarter. They may not know however that one or two of their sales
were not compensated. You see, there is no way to know that you sold a Vita-Mix
Blender unless you have a method in place to control your Vita-Mix Blender
Sales and unless you know of really every single attempted purchase sent to
their sales system via your website. At the moment, at the
beginning of the 21^st Century, the computer age, Vita-Mix does not
offer an ctive account log-in where you can check your account status, at least
at the time. And there are no specific plans to have one system up and running.

In
an interview with Becky Prince, Sales Manager of Vita-Mix, she said that about
20 affiliates with Vita-Mix are actively engaged. The rest, over 3000 are
apparently only semi active. That might mean that 3000 sell 1 machine every 2
years or each year, and the 20 do the majority of the affiliate program sales,
while the majority of the revenue comes from road shows, inbound calls from
other advertising, and from Sam’s Club or CostCo sales. That is another
conflicting issue: CostCo and Sam’s Club get to sell the Vita-Mix 5200 at $
394.00 while the affiliates have to charge $ 449.

We
started our affiliate marketing activities with Vita-Mix Corporation December
2007 and sold immediately that same month 12 Vita-Mix 5000 Blenders. It was not
a good month at all for us. We cheated
ourselves to he 12 sales by advertising on eBay and inventorying Vita-Mix
Blenders so quasi. The eBay fees robbed us of about 50% of our commissions and
we had to pay them in advance. And we also did some deals with Canada in order
to meet competitive advantage. Canada
is however a big No-No as an affiliate.

Back
to our 12 sales in December 07. Vita-Mix Corp thought we kicked butt. December
2007 was the last month of the final quarter in 2007 with next commission
payouts scheduled beginning of January 2008. In January 2008 we were
congratulated that we made it to the top 20 with our sales effort of 12
Vita-Mix 5000 units. What does this mean to you? Our additional question to
that is: What’s wrong with that picture? Is it perhaps that it takes 12 sales
per quarter to make it to the top 20 Sales Affiliates? Is the Vita-Mix
affiliate program then working well?

To
the above findings, it is perhaps also intriguing to note that the Vita-Mix
Affiliate Program has rules and policies that each Vita-Mix Affiliate must
abide by. We intended to keep the rules. Becky Prince
emphasized that the rules and policies are there to be fair to all 3000
affiliates. In our opinion their affiliate marketing campaign does not work
well. Yet the company wants to keep its policies in place that don’t work for
the majority. Is that a smart move? Again, these are intelligent people, highly
successfully having developed a top high-performance blender. Does that mean
there are perhaps other motives behind the scene?

We
allege that company appears not having any interest in building its Affiliate
Program but rather just get free advertising. Or, perhaps, they are incapable
of building a satisfactory and mutual relationship between them and their
affiliates.

Hopefully our blog is going to help us all to reach some
positive collaboration with Vita-Mix and hopefully new affiliates and those
3000 that haven’t quite made it to success are coming up with a method that
will surely work for them. It is not an easy task to manage multiple sales
channels for a company. Affiliate marketers should however not become victims
to organizational misbehaviors of such as it appears with the Vita-Mix
Corporation, and perhaps others.

The
next thing that Vita-Mix must do is to get a working account log-in system for
affiliates to check their sales. Regardless, be aware of historic actions.
Normally a wolf in sheep’s clothing is still a wolf.

We
wish Vita-Mix and its fantastic High-Performance Blender 5200 much success.

Comments
and additionally shared experiences are welcome. We are open to learn the
opposite. All of our statements and allegations that may consequentially lead
to legal action against Vita-Mix are evidence. Nothing said or stated herein
has been fabricated and can be proven in a court of law. It is not our
intention to harm Vita-Mix Corporation. We desire to dig up the truth and we
are hopping for some fire.

Thank you!