After a several year hiatus, TiVo is once again offering Internet entrepreneurs bounties for hardware and service sales… which may or may not be related to their newly appointed CMO. Whereas TiVo previously ran with the pricey Commission Junction, and featured something like $60 commissions, the new program is hosted by Share-A-Sale and storms out of the gate with pretty hefty kickbacks for those affiliate links and banners:
Our affiliate program is providing a $100 bounty for the sale of any Roamio DVR, which range in price from $199 to $599, plus service. Sales of other products on tivo.com are compensated at a 10% commission rate.
Of course, a variety of web sites and services derive a percent of their revenue via affiliate marketing (including yours truly), and I imagine this sort initiative has the potential to expand online conversation. Who knows, maybe it’s even enough incentive to get Megazone to once again fire up his blogwriter.
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Timing could be pretty good... had been percolating a '1 year with TiVo Mini' post. ;) (Also considering a '9 months on T-Mobile' post -- it won't be pretty.)
That's certainly a lot better than Amazon's 4% affiliate rate on electronics.
I would like to see both posts. I have had a Mini for about 6 months now and I have been generally happy. Only thing I don't like is when I have to go to the main unit to change a setting that affects the Mini (channel lineup, video providers, etc.). They should change it so the local experience is identical to the remote experience, but that is my personal thought. As for T-Mobile, my wife and I have had them for a little over a year now. I haven't had any issues with them while in NoVA. The one thing that I have noticed that could be a better experience is when I go on trips. I have family in NE Ohio, so the trip through MD and PA there is little data service. Same for the business trip I made down to Raleigh, NC. In both destinations, things are fine. Just no data between. (1G or 2G is pretty much unusable, especially on the highway.) I don't use a whole lot of data regularly, so it wasn't a big deal. I am curious to hear about your experience. I am contemplating moving to someone like AT&T now that their pricing has come down (especially out of contract pricing). For me AT&T service would wind up costing about the same as my T-Mobile service since I have family members who are already on AT&T (and it would get cheaper for them if we joined them).
As for an on topic comment. Would this mean the return of things like Fatwallet cash back for Tivo?
Josh