Honestly, we wholeheartedly reckon on Michael, he probably manages to do something worthy there. It would be really very cool, if BigFishGames’ partners had as cool tools of reporting scheme as GameCenterSolution had. The contemporary reporting scheme has been reformed a little bit but still it is not informative enough. But it is an open secret that data analysis is highly important for us helping to make the work more productive.

At the beginning of April, 2010 those who deal with affiliate sales of casual games have got unpleasant news. The point is that Reflexive stops its game publication business and put an end to Game Center Solution Affiliate Program as a result.

Still, This Affiliate Program is going to work at its customary mode for three month. However, on June 30, 2010 all sales by the means of GameCenterSolution will be stopped and this games affiliate program will stop its being. According to the message by Reflexive, the studio plans to direct all its forces on game development.

When the affiliate program closes, you will be able to use its control panel, account, etc. for month. Up to June 31, 2010 all affiliates will get their last commissions! That is end!

Between now and June 30, 2010, the Game Center Solution Affiliate Program will continue its business as usual. We will continue to provide web service and support and pay referral fees on every qualified sale through June 30, 2010. We will stop processing sales after that date and our agreement with you governing the Game Center Solution Affiliate Program will terminate on June 30, 2010

In this connection from the Zamango base of casual games will be removed:

• 547 games for PC,
• 90 games for MacOS.

There will be remove only exclusive games that were spread by GameCenterSolution and were not available on other English affiliate programs (Alawar, BigFishGames). This removal will be done as soon as Reflexive closes.

That is pity to say goodbye to such a good affiliate program that provided us not only with a long list of PC and Mac games but its quite high quality conversion let earn its affiliates. We hope there will be a new fine game affiliate program which will take good position on casual game market.

Technology of working with widget is easy:

1) You choose the size of image: 160×200, 160×600 or 728×90,

2) Choose the platform: PC or Mac,

3) Get HTML-code that can be embedded into your web site.

You can test widget Featured Deal at the affiliate’s board: Sales Tools>Widgets.

This tool simplifies the work for all affiliates, since there is no need to invent your own banners, create new pages on your site with special offer. You are to paste the embed code into your site.

The other advantage of Featured Deal is that you cannot trouble about the banner removal because of lapse anymore. Widget reloads by himself, therefore your users will see only fresh information about sales promotion and special offers.

You can try this widget by now as all affiliates are able to use new bundle – Cake Mania Mega-Pac:

Games: Cake Mania, Cake Mania 2, Cake Mania 3, Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery, Cake Mania Main Street.

Platform: only РС.

Effective period: to 3d of January, 2010.

Price: 19.95 USD (saving 39%).

Those who does not want to use new widget and prefer to customize everything as they like, the information about bundles is still available at Sales Tools>Bundle Info & Links section.

On 4^th of  January, 2010 on Reflexive affiliate program will be available new special offer from Hipsoft.

This article is for those who have chosen the way of a content receiving and have the favorite game project started. Now you have a new task: how to receive statistics, analyse it and make a decision on increase of game sales from your resource. The Reflexive program’s control panel is unlikely the best example of report among all the other partner programs. Here you can find any necessary information.

Well, the following types of reports are available for a partner:

1. Affiliate Sales Totals. Gives the information about final quantity of sales in the context of channels (for those who have many game projects on one affiliate account).
2. Affiliate Sales History. More detailed sales report with the possibility to see all kinds of datas, for example, game title, country name, IP address, purchaser’s emails, etc.
3. Affiliate Downloads. Gives statistics about game downloads in the context of channels.
4. Earning Totals. Report about general earnings amount during fixed period.
5. Earning History. Complete report about earnings and payments.

Each report has a huge number of different parameters:

• Date Range: selection of statistics period
• Distribution Channel(s): selection of one, several or all sales channels
• Game(s): data revision on all games or concrete one
• Platform:  platform choice (PC/MAC)
• Total by: selection of a report parameter: by days, weeks, games, channels, etc
• Data Columns: selection of data columns
• Sort by: selection of a sort field or sort mode (ascending / descending)
• Graph(s): selection of fields you want to make a graph for.

After you have you report parameters set up, you can use the feature of the custom report save (custom report). The saved report standard appears in the control panel, and you can receive it by simple stroke of the mouse button without recurring parameter selection.

Any report can be saved in XML or CSV format for possible processing or visualisation of the received statistics by other means. Moreover, if you don’t want to enter the control panel every time when you need to view statistics, you can see a saved custom report via a link in Reports>Download (to do it  you should  insert  you IP address in the list of authorized addresses in Accounts>My user>Authorized IP Addresses).

One of the most interesting features in GameCenterSolution’s report system is the possibility to receive buyers’ e-mails for the further work with them. The list of e-mail addresses is available in the report Affiliate Sales History, as well as in Order Feed (Sales Tools>Order XML Feed). It allows to work more effectively, offering them another games that are similar to those they have already bought. The only problem with it is that not all buyers allow to display their e-mails and receive new information. Nevertheless, after reaching the certain number of buyers, availability of their e-mails turns to be a serious help for increasing the sales.

In the GameCenterSolution’s affiliate panel you can find a huge number of content tools (Sales Tools>Channels). In the previous article on Reflexive’s program we have already wrote about banners, Store Fronte, XML feed and iFrames. Here we could draw attention to the other features. First, you can find all necessary information about any game: buy link, download link, all descriptions, images, etc in the chapter Game Info & Links. Secondly, in Game Filters you can find a unique feature of game filters that you will find in no other casual games affiliate programs. You can easily select games to display on you site and games to blacklist:

There is another important feature of Reflexive’s partner program – content brending. You need only to load three images with your logo (Sales Tools>Channels>Brending Images) and they will be integrated in all games distributions. Moreover, loaded images serve for brending of game purchase’s page and support service’s page. In other words, if you don’t want to create a support page, you can use the page offered by the affiliate program. You can find the link to this page and its settings in Support.

After you have started the channel of sales and have sold necessary number of games, there is a question – how to receive your earnings? Times when GameCenterSolution gave possibility of getting money only with the help of check have sunk into oblivion. Now there is an opportunity to choose from 4 accessible ways of obtaining:

• payment via ACH (Automated Clearing House, the USA clearing system) – it is quickly and reliable, but it is necessary to have an account in the USA, and that is problematic enough for individuals who are not USA residents.
• payment by check. You must have the post address and patience before you can cash it.
• payment via PayPal. Your email at GameCenterSolution must coincided with contact one in PayPal account.
• bank remittance (Wire Transfert). One of the most simple and fast ways, you must have the bank account, and also know its requisites.

To receive money through bank remittance you must fill in a small form in control panel. The data can be specified in the bank where you opened the account.

GameCenterSolution will withdraw 20$ from your earned means for bank remittance and 5$ for check sending. The minimal sum which you can bring equals 100$.

Now you have the necessary knowledge to start working with the GameCenterSolution affiliate program. Good luck!

Now they offer the bundle of 10 games “10 Game Bundle” to all participants of the affiliate program at unique low price – $29.99

The collection includes 10 following games:

• Airport Mania: First Flight (1079)
• Big Kahuna Reef 2 (503)
• Ricochet Lost Worlds (96)
• Mosaic: Tomb of Mystery (492)
• A Fairy Tale (1355)
• Sprouts Adventure (1384)
• Build in Time (1131)
• The Great Tree (1007)
• Monarch: The Butterfly King (755)
• Costume Chaos (1283)

The collection is accessible both for Windows PC, and for MacOS. The offer is valid till November, 30th 2009.

More detailed information about “10 Game Bundle”, links to purchase, various promo-banners can be found in GameCenterSolution panel. Description for this collection is not provided, you should write it for the users yourself, the link to downloading also cannot be found, it will be accessible for user after payment. Banners of 5 various sizes are offered to partners, choose the one which suits you and place it on pages of your resource to inform your users about the given offer. You receive 10.5 USD from each bundle sold.

The first and the most important innovation concerns the calculation of payments to affiliates. Now partners receive 40 % of  so-called NetRevenues, i.e. of the total profit from games sales minus various expenses for transactions, hosting, etc. But since November, 1st, 2009 Reflexive partners will receive 35 % of the total profit (Gross Revenues) from games sales. The percentage rate was weakened, but, as Reflexive representatives stated, it was made in favor of partners, as aftertax earnings, instead of NetRevenue, reduced by various exemptions, would be basic. There is simple arithmetic:

These figures are approximate. If you have been participating in Reflexive affiliate program for some time already, you can replace them with your data and compare.

At first sight it seems that partners will be earning more, but whether it will be so or not the time will show.

Also Reflexive affiliate program promises to give more special offers (bundles and promotional items), for example, Double Play: Nanny Mania 2 and Babysitting Mania or Double Play: Jewel Quest 2 and 3, the partners’ commission from their selling will be higher, besides they are adequately purchased by users.

And the last update: Reflexive is going to sign a contract on cooperation with the major casual games publishers. So such bestsellers as Assassins Creed, Disciples, and the series of games about Nancy Drew will be added to the base, and it will help to attract more users to your website, to sell more games and to receive more money.

So all these innovations in Reflexive affiliate program are made to increase affiliates’ earnings, that is why if you haven’t joined this partner program yet and haven’t started to sell casual games, we recommend you to do this in the nearest future; and Zamango  Money Extractor plugin will considerably facilitate this process.

First of all, we must say that both of these companies are present on the market of casual games, and as a result, they partly share the catalog of games. Other features are different and to make it easy to understand them, we have placed all the data in the following table.

Turns out that there are two different casual game affiliate programs and both have their unique features. Obviously, you have to use them both if you want to achieve the best result in your affiliate sales!

So, what is left to di is to sign up for BigFishGame’s and Reflexive’s programs, enter your affiliate IDs in Zamango contron panel, and start earning money.

1. Reading the agreement and filling in the Registration Form.
2. Choosing the form of getting and giving away the content.
3. Receiving 40% from each sale.

Now we would like to tell you about the second step. This affiliate program has a vast toolbox.

• Banners. The easiest way is to place Reflexive’s banner on your site. After users click the banner, they get to the Reflexive.com site. The important thing is that your affiliate ID will follow those users everywhere they go on the site. If they buy something the sale goes to your account and you get your 40%.
• Store Front – is a good choice for the beginners. Banner with your site’s logo will be placed in the header, furthermore, your site will be hosted on GameCenterSolution.
• iFrame. It is an interesting way of placing content on your site. Several lines of code and you have a frame on your site, which displays aggregated information about the games you sell. The developers add various games, change tops, carry out marketing mix strategies, and you don’t have to do anything at all, you use the results of their hard work cause your frame is adjusted automatically.
• XML Feed. And of course XML Feed, option for those, who was reading about previous methods with a smile on their faces. Yes, XML Feed allows you to get and use the content any way you want. To use this option you will have to get some specialized knowledge, but we guarantee you that the game is worth the can die.

After you have studied the program, seen their site, chosen your way of getting the content, you probably have one question left: What is it all about? But only the most patient readers can find out the answer in the conclusion to this article.
The main distinctive features of the program are:

• you get 40% from each sell
• at the moment the program offers 1186 games to sell
• real-time statistics of sales
• game pages, pages where you buy games, and game installer can contain your logo
• you have access to your buyers e-mails.

On the whole, we can say that this program is stable, reliable, and is working for a long time already, which is important. Anyway, if you want to earn on the market of casual games we recommend you to try this program, cause the appetite comes while eating, and its impossible to get your own impression until you try.