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The Official Empower Network Affiliate Compensation Model
R e v i s e d b y D a v i d W o o d , C E O o n 1 2 / 2 0 / 2 0 1 1
The Empower Network was built with two goals:
1. To help you make more money in your existing business, by giving you tools,
training, coaching, and
systems that work with your personality to help you get results, reduce costs,
and live a more
empowered life.
2. To help provide you with a way to create leveraged affiliate income from
marketing our systems,
tools, and trainings to help people in the Direct Sales, Network Marketing, and
online marketing niche
succeed more in their business. To do this, we have created a system that
distribute earnings on a
potential of 100% commissions on the total purchase price of the product being
sold, for all of our core
product line. (see definitions at the end of this document)
4 Important Points
ONE – You can–t make money from recruiting affiliates only -commissions are only
generated from the
sale of our marketing systems, education, and training tools that serve the
greater Network Marketing,
Direct Sales, and Affiliate Marketing niche.
If someone registers through your affiliate link as an affiliate, but does not
purchase a product, there is
no commission generated. Commissions are only generated by selling products, and
customers can
choose optionally whether or not they want to activate their affiliate account.
Becoming an affiliate is optional.
AFFILIATE OPTION: Empower Network affiliates are also not required to join the
Basic Membership in order
to become an affiliate. If you are an affiliate of Empower Network, then
affiliates may sign up through
your coded affiliate link at: http://www.empowernetwork.com/affiliates?id=YOUR-
USERNAME
(replace YOURUSERNAME with your username)
As a customer and/or an affiliate, you can choose to use our products to build
traffic, leads, and
marketing campaigns for any business you choose.
TWO – Each product has its own affiliate compensation plan, which is not tied to
any of the other
products. The compensation plan for each product has to be activated
individually. Future .core'
products may alternate the structure of the plan below for the additional
product. (Example shown later
in this document.)
THREE – The structure of this compensation plan, the success of other
affiliates, and our system does not
guarantee that you will earn any money. While many of our affiliates earn
SIGNIFICANT income, many
also do not, and by participating as an affiliate, you agree that is ok, and
that your own success is based
on your marketing skill, hard work, leadership ability, and other factors we may
or may not present in
this document.

FOUR – In order to qualify to receive commissions and participate in the
following commission plan,
there are 3 steps need to be completed:
See our Full official income disclaimer at:
www.empowernetwork.com/income.php?id=pays

S t e p O n e – Execute an affiliate agreement by registering on the affiliate
agreement page from your
referring affiliate.
S t e p T w o – Generate the required product sales to activate the commission
structure on EACH
PRODUCT.
This can be done by either:
A. Purchasing the product for your own personal use, and maintaining a
subscription to that product if
it has a monthly fee.
If you have completed the other 2 steps to activate the commission structure,
your affiliate application
will be activated to begin to receive commissions under the compensation plan
for that product with
your first sale.
Before you make your first sale, you will be classified as a .customer only'.
OR...
B. Generating one customer .non-affiliate' sale of that product. (Compensation
for each product is
activated separately.)
Until your compensation of a particular product is activated either through
personal use or customer
sales, you receive no benefit for referring affiliates, or the sales of those
affiliates for that particular
product.
It should be noted that if the product in question is a monthly subscription,
you have maintain a
customer subscription either through purchasing it for your own personal use, or
maintaining one active
customer subscription. You will then be activated to participate in the full
commission structure with
your next sale of that product, and receive commissions immediately.
Many affiliates choose to purchase the product for their own personal use, to
help them promote their
own business outside of Empower Network, and to aid them in understanding the
value and sales
message, however, purchasing a product is not required to activate a
compensation plan on any
Empower Network system, tool, or training product.
S t e p T h r e e (IMPORTANT) – Empower Network operates on a principle
called .direct pay' where your
customers who fall on qualifying 100% commissions actually make payments to you
directly. In order to
participate in the Empower Network affiliate compensation plan, you have to
activate one or more
methods of receiving payment in the profile area in your Members back office.
The direct link to update
your payment methods on your business profile is:
http://empowernetwork.com/Members/profile.php
* If any of the three requirements are not met, you will not qualify to receive
commissions for
that particular product/or any of them, depending on which step is missed,
(Example: it is not

possible to be paid without an activated payment method), you will not qualify
under the
commission plan for that product, and all commissions and powerline sales will
pass over you to
the next qualifying affiliate. If you have purchased a product, and do not meet
any of the rest of
the criteria, you will be classified as a .customer only' and all commissions
and affiliate
powerlines will be assigned to the next active referring affiliate.
* See definitions for more information on payment methods/fees that are
available in various countries.
http://socialmediabar.com/commission-loophole-pays1

Currently, all of our products operate on a .dynamic powerline' system, where
the 2nd, 4th, 6th and
every 5th sale of every affiliate pass to the qualifying sponsor, and you keep
100% of the purchase and
ongoing price on all other personal sales on products you qualify for.
Customers (non affiliates) also have the ability to refer other customers.
Although they don't receive
commissions, they have the ability to get a free product, or a free
subscription, by maintaining 2 active
customer referrals of that product.
All customer referrals are counted as personal sales to the next qualified
sponsor, and referrals will fall
on the regular powerline structure for that sponsor.
Here is an example based on the sales of the basic membership:
In this hypothetical example, it is assumed that you are fully activated as an
affiliate for the –blogging
system– $25 monthly membership by following the three steps outlined earlier.
If you referred Lisa, and she decided to purchase the blogging system, and fell
on your first position, you
would receive a direct, monthly recurring payment of $25.
You would then pass up the product purchase from sales 2, 4, 6, and every 5th to
your powerline
sponsor for the blogging system.
If you then sold a blogging system to Frank -Frank would stay connected to you
for future products,
and the sale of the blog would pass to your sponsor. You would then collect a
100% commission on sale
3, 5, and 7-10, etc.
Next, Lisa activates her affiliate account by agreeing to the affiliate terms
and activating a payment
method. (Remember, since she is already a customer herself, she does not need to
have a qualifying
sale).
When Lisa starts marketing successfully and generating product sales, you would
receive a direct
payment for monthly subscriptions in the above example for her 2nd, 4th, 6th,
and 11th sale.
If Lisa continued marketing the system, you would also receive a 100% direct
commission payment for
her sales 16, 21, 26, 31, etc to infinity for her personal referrals.
Lisa would keep 100% of sales 1,3,5, 7-10, 12-16, etc -just like you do on your
own personal sales.
Here–s an illustration of how that would work with
both
affiliates
and
customers
in
your
organization:

In this example, Lisa would earn $175 monthly from her first 11 sales. You would
be earning $100
monthly, as a .training bonus' for helping her succeed and providing value to
her business.
Remember though, the product powerlines have their own compensation plan, and
you are passing up
commissions on product sales, not customers or affiliates.
Here is an example based on the sales of the Inner Circle membership:
Lisa is now serious about learning how to be a successful marketer online, and
decides to participate in
the Inner Circle ongoing educational series for another $100 -or Lisa becomes
qualified to receive
commissions by making one customer sale of the Inner Circle product.
In this example, Frank, who was her first Basic Membership sale decides to not
purchase the Inner Circle
product. However, Lisa’s second Basic Membership sale, Joe, does decide to
purchase the Inner Circle
for $100 per month.
Therefore, even though Joe’s purchase of the Basic Membership was her 2nd sale
of the Basic
Membership, his purchase of the Inner Circle product is her first sale for the
Inner Circle product and
Lisa would receive the commission for the product sale. This is Lisa’s first
sale of the Inner Circle product.
The powerline structure for the Inner Circle is different because it’s a
separate product and the
commission structure is independent from that of the Basic Membership
commissions.

We believe this is a tremendous advantage, because you have the motivation to
help Lisa become a
successful affiliate, because you earn a full 50% of her first six sales, and a
full 20% of all the 100%
commissions paid by her future customers, without actually .losing' the future
potenIal value of any
customers -it is a real win/win scenario.
Remember, the powerlines (see definitions) are PER PRODUCT SALE, and are not
based on the order of
affiliate recruiting, customer signups, nor are they based on the sale of any
other product. If you are
qualified on 2 products, but not on the 3rd, the sale of the 3rd product would
skip to the next qualified
affiliate, until you meet the parameters to qualify on that product.
Also, all sales that you receive direct payment on are now linked to your sales
powerline for that
product, and you would also receive a direct, 100% monthly recurring commission,
not just from their
personal purchase, but their referrals would count as qualifying sales if they
are customers. If they are
affiliates, you would also receive powerline commissions on their 2nd, 4th, 6th,
and every 5th sale unlimited
levels down within the affiliate tree. The reason you can be paid on powerlines
down
unlimited levels is because there is actually only one person being paid on each
product sale.
See the example below:
In the above hypothetical example, we’re assuming that Lisa’s 2nd, 4th, 6th and
11th sale also became
affiliates and began referring other customers to the blogging system. You would
be receiving $425
monthly in direct customer payments -a total of 17 member subscriptions from
referring just one
extremely aggressive marketer!

Before someone .acIvates' the affiliate agreement on this, or any other product
by following the three
steps outlined earlier, they are not eligible to participate in this system, and
if they referred Lisa in the
example above, the entire powerline structure for THIS PRODUCT would pass to the
next person in the
sponsorship tree who is qualified to receive commissions on that purchase.
It's important to note, that in the powerline system, you ARE NOT passing up
affiliates OR customers you
are simply passing up that particular product commission, and the powerline tree
for that
compensation structure. If you passed up the powerline sale for Lisa, in this
example, she could still be
personally connected to you on one, several, or none of the other products based
on the structure and
qualifications.
Remember, the compensation structure is NOT based on the order of recruiting
affiliates -it is based in
the actual order of products purchased. An affiliate could decide to purchase no
product at all, and if
they made no customer sales to qualify -there any affiliates recruited would
pass to you until they did,
and you would be paid based on the order that actual product sales were made.
If they chose this method, and then started referring customers, you would get
all affiliate powerlines
and their first customer sale would then qualify them on that product’s
commission structure, and
would start being paid with the normal compensation plan as long as they
maintained one active
customer on that product purchase.
Also, if you are qualified to receive powerline sales on one product, but not
another ’ the powerline
sales of that product would skip over you to the next affiliate who is qualified
on THAT product. All
qualifications happen on a per product basis -and one product does not
necessarily activate another.
REMEMBER -you are not .passing up' affiliates OR customers -you are passing up
powerline
commissions on a per product basis -and it is the same when you receive passups.
AKA -your affiliate
team does not .pass' customers to you -only sales and powerline commissions on
that individual
product.
We have found that the powerlines tend to .stagger' and you might receive all
product commissions on
a customer, or you could receive one, and pass up the others -it is based in the
order of purchase on a
per product basis.

Current Products Available In Our Affiliate Compensation Plan:
The Empower Network is a training and educational services company, which
provides marketing tools,
systems, and ongoing training as a service to the Network Marketing, Direct
Sales, Affiliate Marketing,
Coaching, and Online Marketing niche. We also allow affiliates to earn 100%,
direct commissions on
qualifying product sales in a .powerline' commission structure described above,
on a per product basis.
Think of us as a community Personal Development, Traffic Generation, Business
Networking, and
Training community that supports those niches, and our products will make sense
to you, even if you are
not in the niche -we provide value by helping people make more money in their
business through
education, personal growth, perseverance, and real world .grass roots' markeIng
tacIcs.
Here are our current products, and their associated compensation plan:
Product ONE: The Empower Network Viral Blogging System:
This is the core, introductory product offered through our marketing platform.
It offers:
’
Simplified, complete blogging and internet traffic system
’
Design structure that is optimized for marketing conversions,
’
High converting lead capture pages
’
Full web hosting and free system upgrades
’
Full access to your leads and customer database
’
Full Fast Start Training series to educate you on how to start getting results
by participating in
our marketing platform
’
Access to our weekly training calls to help educate you on getting results.

This product is designed as both a traffic and lead capture platform for a
.front end' markeIng product
to help you market a primary business of choice on the back end of our platform
and help cover your
marketing expenses and create additional income.
We do not collect statistical information on what businesses our members choose
to market, as that is
proprietary information to them.
A customer may also elect to be a customer only, and participate in the lead
capture, blogging, and
traffic system but not to receive commissions.
The current total price per customer of $25 per month, and 100% of the purchase
price is paid out to
the qualified affiliate within the compensation structure. The compensation
structure is a .reverse
powerline' system, where sales 2, 4, 6, and every 5th pass to whoever you are
connected to on your
qualifying sponsor for this product. Also, you receive sales 2, 4, 6 and every
5th from every affiliate who
is personally connected to you on this product purchase residually, as long as
they maintain an active
subscription.
Product TWO: The Inner Circle Membership:
This is the core ongoing training product, and consists of audio training and
interviews from marketing
experts within the online marketing, direct sales, and network marketing niche.
It is updated between 2 and 4 times per week with new audio material that is
available for download,
and also to listen to online via the members area.
We encourage Inner Circle Members to listen to these trainings in their car,
while exercising, and in
.down Ime' and to apply the markeIng concepts in their business. All exisIng
audio trainings from the
Inner Circle are available for active members to download at any time.

The current price of the Inner Circle is $100 per month, and 100% of the $100
payment is paid to the
qualified powerline affiliate on a monthly, residual basis as long as the
customer stays active on the
program.
The commission structure for this product operates under the same powerline
structure as the basic
membership, and sales 2, 4, 6 and every 5th pass up from qualified affiliates to
the powerline affiliate
they are connected to on this product.
Product THREE: The Costa Rica Mastermind Intensive Video Series:
This is a private, 12 hour professional quality video recording of a retreat
held in a 10,000 square foot
home, overlooking the ocean near David Wood’s mountain home in Costa Rica.
Participants paid $2,997 to attend the 3 day work shop, and David Wood covered
in detail the entire
business structure of starting, maintaining, and growing an online information
marketing empire, along
with 4 guest trainers -David Sharpe, Chris Rocheleau, Lawrence Tam, and The MLM
Brothers, covering
the entire foundation of internet marketing and .hypnotic' sales psychology to
grow any direct sales
business to unlimited heights.
This product is available for a one time purchase of $500 and includes a 42 page
online instructional
manual, 12 hours of professional video, quizzes, and step by step guidelines.
There is a 100% direct payment commissions on this product of the entire $500,
and it operates under a
reverse powerline system where a 100% direct commission on sales 2, 4, 6 and
every 5th pass to the
qualifying powerline affiliate.

Definitions:
Core Products:
A .core product' is a product that is a .stand alone' upsell in the Empower
Network Funnel, that affiliates
participate in a 100% commission payout plan. This is only possible with
products that only have minor
overhead, such as ongoing audio training, video training, and blog hosting.
Sales for admission to training events a .non-core' product, because there is no
way to pay for the
overhead of a training event and still pay 100% commissions.
Also, there may be future .non-core' products that do not pay out in the same
100% commission
structure, for example, if there are offline DVD's, a post card system, or
anything that creates excessive
overhead for the company -it would not be possible to maintain that commission
structure, however,
no plans for any such products are currently under way.
Affiliates:
An affiliate is defined as someone who has:
1. Executed an Affiliate Agreement by agreeing to the affiliate terms and
conditions.
2. Activated a payment method to receive payments from product sales.
3. Is actively qualified to receive commissions on at least one product, by
either making a purchase for
personal use, or referring one non affiliate customer.
Customers:
A customer is defined as anyone who has purchased any of our products, but has
not yet activated the
affiliate compensation plan, or who has chosen not to participate.
Powerlines:
A powerline is a unique structure that appears in a team, where receiving a
commission from a product
sale automatically attaches the downline powerline to you from that customer,
for that product.
In other words, if you sell the $500 Costa Rica package, and that customer
chooses to become an
affiliate, that affiliate's .powerline passups' would go to you, and there are
no additional qualifications
to receive them.
So if you only made one sale, ever -and the powerline passup structure was 2, 4,
6 and every 5th, as it is
with the Costa Rica product, then if your sale personally sold 30 of that
product, you would receive sales
2, 4, 6, 11, 16, 21, and 26 for that product from that customer.
Also, those sales are now connected to you, and if any of them choose to become
affiliates and also
resell that product, the same structure from them passes to you.

Since technically, each sale is paid only to one person, and each product sale
only pays one level of
commissions, powerlines have the ability to reach unlimited levels of affiliates
through an organization,
within that specific structure.
For example, in this case, if sale 2 referred 2 -you would get the 2nd sale, if
they referred 2, you would
get their second, and so on with no limitations or additional qualifications.
Sale:
A sale is simply defined as an actual purchase of one of our products. Both
consumers (non affiliates)
and affiliates are free to purchase any product they choose.
Payment Methods:
*** IMPORTANT: Some of the payment methods require a monthly, and/or per
transaction fees, and
are considered a normal business expense, as it is the only method that we can
have your qualifying
customers pay you 100% of the purchase proceeds and maintain a viable product
and company
infrastructure to support the future growth of your business.
Depending on the country you are in, and other factors that may be unknown, the
fee may vary
depending on the merchant/payment solution currently available.
(AKA -if Empower Network took the payments directly, and attempted to pay you
100% commissions,
we would be losing money on every payment from eating per transaction fees, ACH
fees, etc -we would
be losing essentially 3-5% every time we paid you a commission -plus, you
wouldn't be able to receive
the money directly and immediately)
We strongly feel that passing the ability to you to have control over your
business, to receive payments
directly, and to take responsibility for your customers gives you an edge in the
marketplace that can
contribute to a dramatic increase in success when you apply proper marketing
principles and hard work
to the following plan, and as such, we desire full disclosure of any and all
fees, even if charged by third
party, independent merchant processors.
As of the creation of this document, there are currently 2 payment options
programmed into our
system.
The first is included with the Affiliate Tools and is called the eWallet. This
payment processor is available
to the active affiliates of Empower Network who activate their affiliate
agreement and pay the $19.95
affiliate fee. (Even though the eWallet is included within the Affiliate Tools
it is still an independent
merchant from Empower Network and is subject to the processing fees that are
determined by the
merchant. Processing fees are NOT determined by Empower Network.)
Authorize.net CIM payment gateway is an optional payment processor for

affiliates that are more
advanced and have created their own merchant account separate from Empower
Network.
Authorize.net CIM is completely optional and only recommended to those
affiliates that are comfortable
and knowledgeable with setting up their own external merchant account.
Whether or not you use Authorize.net CIM it is still required to have an active
affiliate account which
requires payment of the Affiliate Fee.

A Few Important Points:
There is a difference in the sales structure from customer versus Affiliate/team
sales, because customers
are not eligible to receive commissions unless they choose (optionally) to
execute an affiliate agreement
and follow the three steps to activating the commission plan.
Similarly, an active affiliate may choose to change their preference to
.customer only' at any Ime. The
commission difference is caused by the .customer referral program.'
Customer Referral Program:
The difference is caused by a bonus program where any customer can refer 2 other
customers, and
receive that particular product for free. In this case, both sales, and all
associated referral sales
unlimited levels down would pass up, and fill the powerline structure to the
next qualified referring
affiliate, and the customer would simply get free access as long as their
referrals maintained an active
subscription.
The customer referral program refers to customer sales only, and an affiliate
who elects to purchase a
membership does not count towards the .free product' option.
Also, the customer referral program does not refund one time product purchases,
it only grants new
access, and will grant a customer free access to a subscription product as long
as they have 2 active
customer referrals.
Known Issue In The Direct Pay/Powerline System
(it's ok, really...)
Because we are operating in a .direct pay' system and the powerlines are
calculated in real time, it is
possible for the initial purchase to be credited improperly -there is no way to
fix it, and existing sales
cannot be re-credited, because commissions are already paid directly to the
referring affiliate the
moment the sale is made. (So please, don't ask, the answer is no...)
This is a rare issue, and you have to just be ok with it, and by participating,
you agree not to try to reassign
people, I want you to understand that this plays out equally over time, because
it happens with
the same mathematical predictability.
Let me give you an example -let's say you were fully acIve on the Inner Circle
Membership for $100 per
month, and you had not yet made a sale.
On your first sale, you would qualify for a residual commission of $100 per
month – and let's say you
had 2 people hit your order page simultaneously. Our system will do a database
query to check who the
sponsor should be, and populate the payment form with the API data of the
affiliate's merchant
account.

In this case, it may detect that no sale has been made, and will pull the same
API data for both
customers. If both of the customers paid without refreshing the screen, it is
possible that you would
keep the recurring subscription to both sales, when you should have passed up
one.

The system will then correct the powerlines for future sales, but the
subscription to that product will go
to you -so in this example, you would have received an .extra' $100 per month
that would have ideally
been paid to your powerline sponsor on that product.
If your customer then cancelled his payment and resubscribed at any future time,
the payment would be
corrected, and also all future powerlines would also be assigned properly from
that person who was
misplaced on the initial payment.
This isn’t really a negative, but if the opposite happens (very occasional that
either of them do) you
could pass up 2 sales simultaneously. Also, you could have someone pass 2 sales
to you, when they
.ideally' would have passed one.
This is part of the compensation plan, because the only way to fix it would be
to remove the ability to
receive 100% commissions :) You do want 100% commissions, right?
The income statistics above are for all active affiliates world wide for the
date specified above, are
based in US dollars, and updated frequently. An 'active affiliate' is defined as
someone who: 1) Has
executed an affiliate agreement; 2) has paid, and is current in paying the
monthly affiliate fee; 3) has
earned at least one commission in the last 30 days; 4) has either an approved
merchant account, or
integrated a payment method in the members area; and 5) has not been terminated,
or chosen to
discontinue for any reason.
View the full Official Income Disclaimer at:
Folks, obviously, the income examples discussed in this video are extraordinary.
The income claims presented are
not intended to serve as a guarantee of income. Instead, they're designed to
give you an idea of what's
possible. Success in this business requires leadership, hard work and
dedication. Since we want to help you
make an informed decision, we've gone above and beyond with our income
disclosure document. If you want to
see the average earnings, please visit the page at:
www.EmpowerNetwork.com/income.php. Make sense?

Final Thoughts (From David Wood, CEO and Co-Founder)
I designed the Empower Network affiliate compensaIon structure based on how I've
always wanted to get paid,
being in the Network Marketing industry for the last 9 years, and now in the
affiliate marketing industry for the last
2 1/2 years.
I've always been frustrated with the enormous teams that I've had to build to
earn a significant residual income,
and wanted a way for the average person, with no previous experience to get
involved, and have a CHANCE at
creating a real, life changing income, while providing real value to the market
place, and training, tools and
resources that have changed my personal business and outlook on life.
Dave Sharpe and I partnered together to combine our different kinds of marketing
skills into a platform that
combined the power or direct response with social media and ’hypnotic selling’
tactics that worked...
...the way the internet does.
We decided -why fight Google and Facebook, why not create something that the
INTERNET loves?
It worked.
Within six weeks of launching the company, we paid out more than $1.8 million in
direct commissions, with no
substantial pre-launch period, selling more than 12,200 blogging memberships in
99 countries around the world.
Right now, we’re getting millions of page views per day on our site, and
supporting people in over 100 different
network marketing companies, helping them make more money, learn critical
marketing skills, and we have
created more people making life changing income than I've personally seen.
Am I making a wild claim there? No, I just have never seen 57 people make more
than $5,000 in the first 60 days of
a company -let alone a virtual company that started with 2 founders, one
employee, a programmer, and a server
that couldn’t handle the load.
In a month, we expanded to 10 full time support staff, a server infrastructure
that we can scale to unlimited traffic,
and...
...it's just the beginning.
This document may have seemed a bit complex, it is designed for the .logic
thinker', not the typical marketer.
For me, I’ve actually never cared.
How do you make money, in this, or any other direct sales or affiliate company?
Sell lots of products, recruit other affiliates. Teach them to do the same. Keep
it simple, and I hope
to see you on the beaches of the world.
To YOUR success,
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CEO and Co-Founder
Empower Network, LLC

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