Credit cards are somehow one of the central keys to PPC affiliate marketing and to any online purchase. Just like landing pages, affiliate networks and merchants, you mostly won’t even be able to buy any traffic from major engines or sites without them, except Yahoo since they also do offer Paypal.
Currently I’m using a Swiss card provided by UBS, that doesn’t reward me in any kind for using it. Besides that, the problem is that they even charge me 1% of the transaction value if its in a foreign currency. And because most of my traffic is bought in USD I’m paying CHF0.01 to every damn dollar in advertising I buy. FAIL.
They do offer a rewarding-point system called “UBS Key-Club”. But well, not even the supporters on the phone do undestand how that club works and frankly, they do not offer any good rewards.
Get paid back a percentage of every purchase you make
That really sucks since I know most people in the states are even getting paid-back a little money for using their credit cards to do their purchases.
Why are you not already doing that? Does your credit card provider offer these kind of rewards? If no, then ask your account manager to get you these offers.
I’m thinking about something like a card that rewards me with flying miles for every dollar I spent on it, or any bank offering a 1-2% cash-back reward. And you should look out for these kind of offers too.
Every good card with rewards would serve for me. Just do not make me pay for the use of my freaking card!
I mean, thats at least another 100 bucks on fees that I’m losing after spending 10k a month! And as you already should know, every penny counts.
One Comment
Posted June 12, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Yeah - I’ve been on the points bandwagon for about 6 years now. It’s awesome. If you’re spending 10k a month or more on PPC you should be able to get a free trip to nearly anywhere in the world once a year if you’re on a decent points program. Pretty nice bonus if you ask me! Haven’t tried the cashback cards yet…