ARS Rewards Program Update
 

As announced, the current ARS Rewards Store is going through major upgrades and improvements. On 2/23/04, a moratorium on ordering was instituted and rewards ordering will return on 5/1/04. The following changes will be implemented:

All points in the ARSRewards.com system will be valued at $0.10 each. All current points in the current system will be multiplied by 1.5 and then revalued at the $0.10 each. Initially, we said that in order to get your points transferred, you must send a signup to a site in the ARS 4 Real portfolio within 30 days of 2/23/04. And that if you do not, you would lose your current points. Well, we are removing that stipulation! You DO NOT have to send a signup in 30 days to receive your rewards points. It was misconstrued that we were attempting to 'take away' from our loyal webmasters and that was not at all our intention. We have decided that EVERYONE WHO HAS REWARDS POINTS WILL KEEP ALL OF THEIR POINTS, REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY SIGNUPS YOU SEND IN! Of course, it is easy to get a signup within 30 days, but this way you will not have to be worried about losing any of your ARS Rewards Points! We are glad to be able to offer this to our loyal webmasters!

Creation of ARSRewards.com, to be released on 4/1/04. This will serve as the new and improved store for rewards order redemptions. We are going to be including an international version as well.

Adding products that you want to order couldn't get any easier with ARSRewards.com. A form will be available for webmasters to use to add products to the store. The requests will go into a queue and be manually verified and then added to the store. This way, the store will be full of items that webmasters want, not what we think they want. Webmasters will also have the ability to update pricing on items currently in the store. There should never be a need to order outside of the store now that you can get anything you want added within a day or two.

www.ARSRewards.com Coming Soon

WHAT?! Noone's gonna comment about everyone getting to keep their rewards points; and the points all transfer over to the new system??

I figured ya'll would be pretty happy about that. :)

Good job Amber. I'm sure lots of webmasters are happy to ear that.

Good to hear that :thumbsup

Lots of us sort of thought we already had them but pretty cool you guys are not taking them away.

:thumbsup

The old ARS rocked and I am sure the new one will too!

Sweet, I respect this move even though like you say it would be pretty easy to get 1 sale in 30 days.

However some people like me who do most sales in the ethnic side of ars dont have a site to promote yet in the new system, so this decision is nice for guys like me.


- Brent Axford

YAAAAAYYYYYY! :GFYBand

I't s a good news, and ARS continues to rock :thumbsup

It's fair :thumbsup

Thanks Amber for the info :)

ARS will start rocking again when the new CHAMP system launches. Look forward to Lesbian Desire - video edition :thumbsup

Ya but will I still get my hot tub or are the points simply for content of which I don't need.

what's ARS?

I love the new program. Can't wait until May, then I guess the order I placed last month will go through?

something you dont need to know about.

leave the meat for everyone else

You can still use your ARS Reward Points for pretty much anything you want....not just content. The new store will open on 5/1/04. Thanks.

YYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

YEAH!!!


Thanks guys. You're doing the right thing.

all I want to know, is the 40k in traffic I would have been able to get with my rewards points before will translate into 40k worth of clicks in the new store...


or is it gonna be more like 4000 hits?



j/k...thanks for the update though


:winkwink: :thumbsup

nice to hear that :)

It's good to hear the positive feedback guys :thumbsup

hell yes that's good. I have a lot of ARS reward points but haven't had time to check out the new changes.. I would have been pretty upset if my reward points had of disappeared.

Axeman, your ethnic ARS links will redirect to FMAO (For Mature Audiences Only) PPC to related ethnic sites where you'll earn income from the text links and creatives...no money will be lost.

Also the current exit on FMAO has a lot of traffic leaks and only pays 50%. The 'real' FMAO pays 70% and has ZERO traffic leaks.
We expect a 70% click through rate with a higher value per click than what you are currently seeing on the exits.

FMAO will allow traffic from XML (approval, applying process for this one), Banners, search boxes, text links, etc.

The Present ARS (GIM) link codes and BYOT traffic will be redirected beginning Monday, 3/8. You will have the choice to send your traffic to either FMAO, or ARS4Real sites. You will be able to make the choice sometime next week; an announcement will be made as soon as it's live.

awesome..I wasnt gonna lose mine anyway but its cool that everyone else will get to keep them also....

sounds good that we will still have our points