Additional Information:

FusionQuest is a hosted solution – meaning that it’s web-based, subscription-based (though this one comes with a surprising and impressive one-time, flat-fee option, however), and requires no download – targeted at affiliate marketers and merchants wishing to harness the power of affiliates to increase revenues.

FusionQuest uses what its maker calls UltraLinks to “guarantee” un-thwarted, un-self-sabotaged search engine link popularity. UltraLinks are direct links to your home page – sans redirection, sans query strings. That means instead of those long, ugly, and obnoxious affiliate links that you and your affiliates begrudgingly use, UltraLinks are short, simple, easy-to-remember links that use your domain name, branding your company rather than FusionQuest’s or your affiliates’.

A bonus to UltraLinks, if utilized effectively, is that these short branded links (ie. “www.My-Product.com/?affiliateID) are easy enough to remember that they can easily be printed on posters, flyers, print ads, newspaper classifieds, business cards, radio, television and by any other offline method you can imagine - even word of mouth.

Ultimately, however, UltraLinks is pretty much the exact same thing as one of the many features you’d get from another product - Affiliate Link Cloaker (also reviewed on this site) – except UltraLinks is part of a larger hosted solution and Affiliate Link Cloaker is a downloadable product (one-time fee) with additional link-oriented features beyond “direct links”.

What, then, does FusionQuest offer besides this enormously useful, but by no means unique, solution?

Well, for one, FusionQuest is also a complete eCommerce management product, coming equipped with a fully-operational, feature-packed, and customizable Shopping Cart. While you may choose to utilize this feature, it is not required to run the software. FusionQuest also integrates just fine with most order processing systems that you may choose to use instead.

Along with this, utilizing FusionQuest as your primary e-commerce management tool empowers you to:
• Broadcast personalized emails to all your affiliates at once
• Customize the look and feel of your affiliates area to seamlessly integrate with the rest of your website and brand
• Send automatic, custom welcome letters and follow-up training ecourses for all new affiliates
• Set different commission rates for different affiliates
• Get support for an unlimited number of commission “tiers”
• Join the FusionQuest network and access over 32,000 affiliates who FusionQuest will forward payments to, from you, using direct deposit
• Link your affiliates to any page in your site (ie your product pages), rather than just linking them to your homepage
• Designate the number of return days (up to 999)
• Pre-screen new affiliates if you so wish
• Incorporate unlimited banner ads, text link ads, Flash animations and other creatives
• Unlimited affiliates
• Unlimited clicks
• Delay crediting your affiliates until after the transactions clear
• Integrate with offline forms
• Display on your website the affiliate’s name, ID, and email address
• Automatically capture each affiliate’s ID for your database
• Get support for recurring commissions
• Integrate fully with PayPal IPN

Get a free 15 day Test Drive of FusionQuest, after which you can choose between 3 different ways to continue to enjoy its benefits:

1. Non-Network: $195 setup fee + $19.95 per month OR $595.00 one-time fee + NO monthly fee -
a. self managed program;
b. FusionQuest takes NO commission;
c. recruit and pay your own affiliates;
d. integrates with PayPal mass pay;
e. automatically generates QuickBooks import file;
f. NO access to the 42,495 FusionQuest affiliates;
g. NOT listed in the FusionQuest directory

2. Network: $195 setup fee + $19.95 per month OR $595.00 one-time fee + NO monthly fee –
a. FusionQuest will pay your affiliates for you;
b. FusionQuest takes a 15% commission;
c. Full access to the 43,495 FusionQuest affiliates;
d. Listed in the FusionQuest directory

3. Combo: $1190.00 one-time fee + NO monthly fee –
a. If a FusionQuest network member becomes one of your affiliates, FusionQuest handles payment and takes a 15% commission;
b. If you find and recruit your own affiliate (and who’s not already in FusionQuest’s network) you pay the affiliate and FusionQuest gets NO commission;

All 3 options include up to 50,000 click-throughs per month. Overages are charged at $10 per 10,000 additional click-throughs.