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TESTIMONIAL
—Martie Goss, Scottsdale AZ
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Join Us!
FreedomFiler has a growing foundation of affiliates throughout
the United States and overseas. We are looking for qualified
professional consultants, web publishers, and retailers who believe
in our company's
mission
and have established the credibility to recommend FreedomFiler
products to their customers. To find out more about our
affiliate program please read the information provided below or
click here to submit an affiliate
application.
In A Nutshell What Affiliates Do
FreedomFiler affiliates can purchase at wholesale
prices and receive commissions by referring customers
to FreedomFiler. Affiliates also have the option of training
to become FreedomFiler Certified Consultants.
Quick Jump Contents
For whom is the program intended?
Who can qualify?
Prices
25% Commissions
How are commissions tracked?
Which affiliate profile matches you best?
Easy online sign up
Checklist of ways to earn commissions
Reselling, Receiving Payments Directly From Clients
Certification Program
For whom is the program intended?
• Professional organizers and consultants
• Tax preparers, accountants, and financial advisors
• Web publishers & online content providers including newsletters
• Public speakers and writers in the media
Who Can Qualify?
• Any professional organizer who is a member of NAPO (or has equivalent experience)
• Any licensed consultant, advisor, or counselor such as: CPA,
CFP, certified tax preparer, MFCC, or equivalent
• Any web publisher can be eligible; however, FreedomFiler reserves
the right to deny web publishers based on content
• Any public speaker or published author in the field of organization,
finance, or personal peak-performance
Affiliate Pricing
Affiliates automatically receive preferential pricing in addition to credits, based upon the total amount of purchases made over time. Affiliates can obtain
wholesale prices by purchasing higher quantity OR by making several
small quantity
purchases and building credits—the end result is the same. By
request, FreedomFiler's
stair-step purchase plan was created to make wholesale pricing available
to affiliates without requiring high volume purchase decisions to be
made
upfront.
Thanks to this program, affiliates do not need to be concerned
with keeping inventory.
WHOLESALE PURCHASE PLAN (NO-MINIMUM REQUIRED)
Stair-Step Pricing For FreedomFiler Deluxe Home Kit
Total Purchases Over Time
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1 Kit
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2 Kits
Promotion To Courtesy Level |
10 Kits
Promotion To Preferred Level |
50 Kits
Promotion To Wholesale Level |
| Retail $42.95 |
No Resale Profit |
-> $16 Credit* |
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| Courtesy $35 |
Profit Per Kit = $8 |
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-> $80 Credit* |
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| Preferred $27.5 |
Profit Per Kit = $15.5 |
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-> $375 Credit* |
| Wholesale $20 |
Profit Per Kit = $23 |
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*After each promotion to the next price level, affiliates receive full
credit toward future purchases in the amounts shown. You can purchase 50 kits all at once or over
time,
the total price paid per kit will be the same in the end.
Affiliate Pricing Levels
Your pricing level is determined by the total amount of purchases you
have made. You will receive credits toward future purchases as you progress
to each new pricing level.
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Retail (Level 0): total purchases under $50
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Courtesy (Level 1): after total purchases reach $50
• Preferred (Level 2): after total purchases reach $250
• Wholesale (Level 3): after total purchases reach $1000
Example Of How Credit Works
With accumulative credits, you will eventually pay the same price per
kit whether you buy 10 kits all at once or if you buy the ten kits
one
at a time.
For example, as a Level 1 affiliate, each time you
purchase a single kit at the courtesy $35 price you receive $7.50
credit toward Level
2 (preferred)
and also
$7.50 credit toward Level 3 (wholesale). Once your total purchases
reach $250, your Level 2 credits are made available to you so that
in the
end you
have
only paid $27.50 per item, not $35! Likewise, after $1000 of purchases,
your level 3 credits will be made available to you so that ultimately
you have paid only $20.00 per kit as you continue to purchase products. Note: Keep in mind that you may
save a small amount of money on shipping by purchasing
higher
volume
upfront rather than paying
for individual packages to be sent.
25% Commissions
Up to 25% commissions are earned whenever an affiliate refers
a customer to FreedomFiler and a purchase is made. FreedomFiler
processes and fulfills the order. FreedomFiler currently
awards a 25% commission for the purchase of any label kit by first-time customers when referred
by an affiliate. The commission earned from the purchase of any Ready-Made Systems is currently 10%.
% Commissions For Reorders Versus First-Time Purchases
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First-Time Purchase |
Reorders, registered customers only |
| Label Kits |
25% |
10% |
| Ready-Made Systems |
10% |
10% |
Note: all commissions are a percent of gross sales before tax and shipping. Commission percents are determined by FreedomFiler and are subject to change at any time.
How Are Commissions Tracked?
1. Online Links
By placing a link to freedomfiler.com from your website, newsletter,
or email, you will automatically receive commissions on orders placed
by customers arriving through your link. FreedomFiler will provide
attractive banners, advertisements in various sizes for you to use.
Standard text-based links are also available for use in email footers
or newsletters. Your online link contains your unique affiliate ID
so that FreedomFiler will know when customers arrive through your link
to make purchases.
2. Customer survey: How did you hear about us?
Customers are asked “How did you hear about us?” whether
ordering online, by telephone, or in person. You will receive commission
for any sales resulting from a referral you made. A customer may indicate
your name or choose you from a list of affiliates located in the customer’s
same area. If you are a spokesperson or writer in the media, your media
event will be posted on the “how did you hear about us?” questionnaire
in a dedicated list.
3. Manual ID# entry on order form
If you are assisting another person with an order, your unique affiliate ID number can be entered directly into the online order form.
4. Coupon Codes
FreedomFiler will provide you with a unique coupon code to encourage sales and to guarantee that purchases made with the coupon code result in commissions to your account.** Your coupon code can be given to a client in situations where you can not otherwise guarantee that a client will go through your online link to purchase FreedomFiler products. Again, this will ensure that you receive commissions for the referrals you make.
**Please Note : To ensure fairness to all affiliates, coupon codes may not be posted anywhere on the world-wide-web as per the affiliate contract.
5. Reorders
FreedomFiler is currently offering 10% commissions to affiliates for sales completed by any registered customer (referred by the affiliate) who returns to FreedomFiler to make additional purchases. Any customer referred by an affiliate who has purchased in the past but has not registered with FreedomFiler may still do so at any time by clicking on "Help Desk" and then following instructions for creating a new password. Thereafter, any purchases made by the registered customer will earn commissions for the affiliate.
Affiliate Profiles—Which Affiliate
Profile Matches You Best?
Website or Newsletter Publishers
Do you provide online content for home organizing, financial services,
time management, or personal peak performance? Leverage FreedomFiler’s
bold claims and unique selling propositions to create enticing headlines
that will draw your readers in! FreedomFiler’s
clearly defined filing techniques offer a rich source of highly practical
content that you may freely borrow from. Paper management is a persistent,
nagging problem for which many people are desperate to discover a real,
lasting solution. You can provide truly life-changing advice to your
subscribers by simply introducing them to FreedomFiler’s revolutionary
self-purging home filing system! Meanwhile, FreedomFiler currently
offers extremely generous commissions of 25% for referrals you make!
You may include
text-based links to FreedomFiler in the tips section of your website
or newsletter, or use FreedomFiler’s attractive banner advertisements.The
FreedomFiler Home Filing Kit has demonstrated an unusually high sales
conversion
rate during exhibits and one-on-one demonstrations.
In short, FreedomFiler is the ideal content piece that will provide
your readers with a permanent solution the #1 organizing problem in
the
home: paper
management.
Professional Organizers & Consultants
Simply put, the FreedomFiler is a remarkably effective way to attract
clients and deliver exceptional value through your services, by helping
you do what you do best... organize! Since the founding of the company,
FreedomFiler
has worked with professional organizers to refine and test the self-purging
filing system. The result is a system designed specifically with you
in mind. FreedomFiler is dedicated to advancing the best practices
knowledge of the organizing community. Therefore it is our policy to
provide free educational resources through our website or via teleconferences.
We are committed to making these resources comprehensive and readily
accessible to everyone.
In response to requests from
professional organizers,
FreedomFiler has developed a certification program. This training program
will solidify for your mastery of the FreedomFiler maintenance-free
paperflow system, and will add credibility to your
business while furthering opportunities
for
exposure.
FreedomFiler
is quickly building
an outstanding track record and gaining rave reviews amongst professional
organizers. In turn, we are confident that you will also find FreedomFiler
an indispensable tool in the process of transforming your client’s
relationship to paper management. We hope you will join our rapidly
growing community of professionals who are have also made FreedomFiler
their filing system of choice!
Tax Preparers, Accountants, And Financial Advisors
As a tax preparer or financial advisor, your customers will look to
you for guidance in organizing paper records for the home. You may
have seen or you may use various tax organizing products: the standard
product is a binder with pre-labeled categories for sorting tax related
documents for any given year. Aside from limited customization, the
problem with the tax binder approach is that you are offering your
client only a partial solution but do not allow the client to see the
larger picture of how to organize all household files, including
regular bills, receipts, policies and the like. It’s critically
important to integrate the filing of tax documents into your client’s
day-to-day paper flow system, otherwise the binder will only be an
afterthought when preparing for taxes each year. The tax binder
system may be used in conjunction with a proper home filing system,
but it will never replace a single centralized system of hanging files
for storing all papers that come into the home. Keep in mind that a
good hanging file system for all transactions, both tax and
non-tax related, will provide for your clients a superior overall
feeling of organization and dramatically increase productivity. Best
of all, your clients will be confident that the FreedomFiler system
will maintain itself over
time
and therefore can be consistently relied upon, without creating any
unecessary work for the client. FreedomFiler is a solution that your
clients will
use regularly if not
on a daily
basis
for the
rest
of
their life!
It’s
a fantastic way to build a lasting client relationship, further your
credibility, and increase customer loyalty.
Public Speakers and Writers In The Media
Organizing and paper management is a subject in which the public is in desperate need for specific, practical advice. The FreedomFiler system is an opportunity to shed light on a topic for which there has been much misinformation and general advice of little practical value. FreedomFiler’s bold claim backed by a revolutionary system provides a fantastic opportunity to win public interest and deliver new, groundbreaking content. Affiliates in the public eye can direct their audience to their own website or to the FreedomFiler website to make product purchases. Specific media events are listed on the FreedomFiler website during check out. Customers are asked to indicate from which media event or source they heard about FreedomFiler when purchasing. Commissions are tracked accordingly.
Easy Online Sign Up
If you have not done so already, please first
register with FreedomFiler and be sure to include your billing
address where you would
like
to receive
commission
checks (and also create a password for your account).
If you have already registered, you may then
submit an online request to become an affiliate. You will use your
password to make discount purchases online,
and also to review
your account
and
commissions
history.
You
will be provided
with a graphic web link that you can install onto your website, earning
commissions on sales generated. If you have a sign up code, your affiliate
membership will be granted immediately; otherwise, membership will
be granted after review (please allow up to 48 hours).
Checklist Of Ways To Earn Commissions
Website Link
Post a link to FreedomFiler on your website. Your website link contains your unique affiliate ID so that FreedomFiler knows when customers have arrived through your link to make purchases.
Online Newsletters
If you publish an online newsletter, you can include filing tips and information about FreedomFiler along with a link to the FreedomFiler website. Your newsletter link will contain your unique affiliate ID so that FreedomFiler knows when customers arrive through your link to make purchases.
Email Footer
Want an easy way to let friends and collogues know about the FreedomFiler? Consider placing a standard message at the bottom of your emails that includes your personal invitation and link to the FreedomFiler website. Many email programs will allow you to add this footer automatically to the bottom of your email messages—also known as a "signature" line.
Public Speaking & Media Events
When addressing the public, you may refer the audience to your website where you have posted a link to freedomfiler.com for purchasing products. You may also refer customers directly to freedomfiler.com but be sure to post your media event on the FreedomFiler website by first contacting FreedomFiler. This will allow customers making purchases to identify you in the “how did you hear about us?” questionnaire. To help guarantee that customers provide evidence of your referral, you may offer your unique coupon code at your media event.
Flyers, Brochures, Business Cards
On each of your promotional materials, be sure to refer your potential customers to your website where they can purchase FreedomFiler products by following your link to freeedomfiler.com. If you do not have a website, it is best to have clients contact you directly so you can assist them with placing an order, or you may offer your unique coupon code to ensure that any purchases will add commissions to your affiliate account. Alternatively, clients who go directly to freedomfiler.com and make purchases may still identify you as the affiliate who has made the referral. You can simply ask clients to type in your name or select your name from a list during check out, using the “how did you hear about us?” questionnaire. The other option is to resell products directly to the client (see reselling below)
Networking, Social Events, Word-Of-Mouth
The best part about promoting the FreedomFiler is that everyone wants one! If you tell others about FreedomFiler, consider offering your business card with your website address. If you do not have a website or if you tell anyone to visit freedomfiler.com directly, ask the person to mention you when filling out the “how did you hear about us?” questionnaire during check out. Of course you can always provide you unique coupon code to potential customers to be sure your referral is known. You will receive commission appropriately.
Reselling, Receiving Payments Directly From Clients
Re-selling is different that earning commissions because you must first purchase products from FreedomFiler yourself and then handle the sales transaction with the client. If you resell to customers as a regular part of your business, consider obtaining a tax-free reseller ID from your state board of equalization. As a reseller, this ID will allow you to purchase from FreedomFiler without paying tax on purchases. In turn, you will charge tax when selling to clients and give the tax revenue to your state board of equalization. FreedomFiler does provide drop shipping to customers via the online affiliate order form. For affiliate pricing information, click here.
Please click here to sign
up as an affiliate.
Certification Program
FreedomFiler's certification program has been born in response to requests made by members of the professional organizing community. The certification program does not replace in any way the certification program under development by NAPO, but is designed to enhance it. FreedomFiler certification requires a 2-year minimum of professional organizing experience (or demonstration of equivalent work experience). Consultants may waive the 2-year requirement by completing an approved third party general training program.
STEPS TO CERTIFICATION
Certification Classes
Benefits of Certification Classes
Gain an in-depth understanding of the FreedomFiler maintenance-free paperflow strategy and how to set up a FreedomFiler system for your clients. Add credibility to your business by using the FreedomFilerT certification logo on business cards and promotional materials. Receive customer referrals from the FreedomFiler website, and from other FreedomFiler affiliates such as tax preparers, financial advisors, accountants and bookkeepers. As a certified consultant you will immediately begin receiving wholesale prices on FreedomFiler products regardless of volume purchased. Ultimately you will deliver better value to your clients, improve your professionalism, and expand your practice. The training reservation includes 3 FreedomFiler Deluxe Home Filing Kits and recommended supplies for use as a FreedomFiler consultant (over $120 in retail value). Class size is limited to twelve participants. Trainings are generally conducted by two FreedomFiler Authorized Trainers to ensure that quality time is spent with each participant.
Fees for Classes
$300 includes a reservation for the next available training class and enrollment in the certification program, plus over $120 in FreedomFiler products and additional supplies. Fees are applied toward final certification (see summary of fees below).
How To Train
FreedomFiler training class information is posted regularly online. Please see Upcoming Trainings below for details. FreedomFiler may set up a certification class in your local city based upon the number of requests from individual organizers located in the surrounding area. Please email FreedomFiler if you are interested in attending a FreedomFiler training workshop in your city or a nearby location. You may jump start your training by studying the Questions and Answers booklet included with the FreedomFiler Deluxe System as well as the other instructional materials included with the kit.
Teleconference Follow-Up Trainings, Verbal Presentations, & Written Self-Examination
Benefits of Verbal Presentations
Practice your presentation of the FreedomFiler paperflow system that you will give to clients and at public speaking events. Refine your responses to frequently asked questions.
You will give a verbal presentation and receive coaching by the founder, Seth Odam, before receiving your certification. If additional coaching is required, the verbal presentation may be repeated.
Benefits of Written Self-Examination
Demonstrate your mastery of the FreedomFiler maintenance-free paperflow system by exploring the questions on the written self-examination and the first-hand research worksheet. FreedomFiler will provide telephone (or teleconference) support and will arrange for individual coaching on an as-needed basis to ensure that you complete the written and verbal examinations.
Fees For Teleconference Support, Verbal & Written Examination Review
$200 or $150 fast-track pricing (the fast-track sets a 3 month target date for completion and keeps you together with other participants in your class who also sign up within one week of taking the course, recommended)
(note: the $300 certification enrollment fee must have been paid previously).
Certification Completion and Agreement
Benefits Of Completing Certification
- Added credibility for your business by using FreedomFiler certification logo on business cards and promotional materials.
- Certification badge.
- Eligibility for receiving customer referrals from the FreedomFiler website, and from other FreedomFiler affiliates such as tax preparers, financial advisors, accountants and bookkeepers.
Final Certification
Certification is granted upon completion of your training checklist including all written assignments, verbal examination, and practice presentations performed. Your certification checklist may be completed on an individual basis within three months of attending a training class (for fast-track participants).
A certification agreement will be signed which includes a pledge on your part to uphold ethical standards and to be informed regarding best practices. FreedomFiler certification requires active membership in NAPO or an equivalent professional organization. The certification contract extends for three years, upon which the certification must be renewed by performing an updated verabl presentation or by submitting a brief written self-examination covering current best organizing practices. Certification renewal fees are currently either $150, or $75 for professional organizers who hold and maintain valid NAPO certification. RENEWAL FEES ARE WAIVED if more than 25 FreedomFiler systems are transacted through the affiliate account during the preceding three year period.
Summary Of Certification Fees
$300 Class Reservation And Certification Enrollment (3 FREE KITS)**
$200 Follow-Up Teleclass Training, Verbal Presentations & Written Examinations
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$500 Total ($450 Fast-Track)
SAVE $50, Ask about our fast-track program
**Refer a friend! An additional 15% discount is awarded for any two or more
colleagues who sign up together!
Upcoming Trainings
September 5, 2008 (Friday), San Diego CA, 8:00 a - 5:00 p (Primer from 8:00 a - 8:45 a)
Marina Village
1945 Quivera Way
Room D6
San Diego, CA 92109
LUNCH INCLUDED
conducted by Founder Seth Odam
Register with
FreedomFiler at 1-866-55-FILER
April 29, 2009 (Wednesday), Orlando FL, 8:00 a - 5:00 p (Primer from 8:00 a - 8:45 a)
NAPO National Convention
Orlando, FL
conducted by Founder Seth Odam
Register with
FreedomFiler at 1-866-55-FILER
(Additional Trainings To Be Announced)
TESTIMONIALS
—Karen DeClark, KD Organizing, Sterling Heights MI
—Barbara Browning, Order Within, Arcata CA
Read more testimonials
For further questions regarding the certification program or to submit a request for a class in your local area please email FreedomFiler or call 1-866-55-FILER.
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