After a long weekend of testing, I am pleased to announce that RBA is now officially open for business!

We are ready to begin accepting affiliate applications and have launched with 154 international campaigns with some great payouts!

Also, don’t forget that all affiliates who join through March/April will receive a $20 bonus.

So, welcome once more and let’s start generating some commission…

I am pleased to confirm that we now have over 150 campaigns ready for the network launch later today.

The campaigns are across all verticals and we have negotiated some great payouts.

We are looking to have over 200 by the end of April, so please watch this space!

We have decided to offer all new affiliates a $20.00 sign-up bonus to expire on the 30th April, 2009. The idea is that this will help in attracting affiliates during the early stages of the network launch.

With a payment threshold of $50.00, this means that affiliates who joins the network during this period only have to earn $30.00 to get paid $50.00.

It is literally free money!

We are pleased to announce the first poll aimed at ensuring that the network is offering the best methods of payment to affiliates. This will be an open (ongoing) poll so that all new affiliates can add their votes.

Expect to see many, many more!

We are missing something! We have the logo, the basic branding, the color schemes, the font style, but we are missing… a slogan!

So, what better way than to let the affiliates decide.

So, here’s the deal…

Leave your idea for a slogan in the comments section below. We will then take what we consider to be the best 10 and put them to a vote. Then we will be awarding community point bonus as follows:

• Winner: 100 points
• 2nd Place: 50 points
• 3rd Place: 20 points

Affiliates are restricted to one slogan each.

Good luck!

Launching a new network is a little like starting a new real-estate business. We need campaign listings (just as real estate agents need property listings). It follows that we need to be patient whilst our list of exclusive or direct advertisers grows.

Subsequently, in these earliest days of expansion we have decided to search out and consolidate the best performing offers and campaigns available on partner networks with a view to obtaining the best possible payouts available and running them on RBA.

We have now commenced with this search and would appreciate any suggestions from members in terms of successful offers you have worked with along with the network the offer appears on. We will then approach them and attempt to work a partnership deal so we can run them on RBA.

The initial target of available campaigns at launch is 200+ and so we have a lot of work to do between now and launch.

Wish us luck !

We have now received confirmation from Directtrack that the network is live and that we can commence work on setting up the administrator functions and options.

Once this is done, we can commence with the first stage of negotiating with partner networks regarding promoting any campaigns they have that are direct with the merchant (and preferably exclusive). This will give us a good starting point whilst the networks profile grows and advertisers come directly on board.