LinkConnector Welcomes Showstopper Merchant, hats.com, and Tops Off a Growing List of Leading Online Retailers

With the launch of the hats.com Affiliate Program in the LinkConnector Affiliate Marketing Network, Affiliates have the opportunity to generate revenue in a high-converting niche space.

CARY, NC — June 19, 2008 — LinkConnector (http://www.linkconnector.com/), a leading Affiliate Marketing Network with progressive solutions for merchants and affiliates, announced today that hats.com (http://www.hats.com), a recognized online provider of hats and headwear, has launched an Affiliate Marketing Program in the LinkConnector Network. The hats.com Affiliate Program offers affiliates a commission rate of up to 12% on sales they generate. Given that the merchant is well known for being a top-producing online retailer in its space, affiliates have the opportunity to generate significant revenue. According to the Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide to Retail Web Sites, hats.com is a Top 500 Online Retailer, a position they obtained through their high annual sales volume. Affiliates promoting the hats.com Affiliate Program will have a top-converting offer in a niche market, and will benefit from LinkConnector’s many unique platforms, including an intuitive interface featuring ten advanced affiliate reports.

The hats.com Affiliate Program through LinkConnector offers affiliates a tiered commission structure that ranges from 10% to 12% on all sales. This compensation package is geared to reward and incentivize top performance among affiliates. The hats.com Program emphasizes the importance of pre-sale qualification of its audience, and will use LinkConnector’s advanced WYSIWYG newsletter functionality to reach out to their affiliate partners and educate them on the best means to achieve top conversion rates. The merchant plans to launch a product feed and is open to a wide range of affiliate promotional methods including Search Engine and Email Marketing. The merchant also provides year-round coupons to further increase interest and conversions.

By partnering with hats.com through LinkConnector, affiliates will benefit from access to LinkConnector’s dedicated Affiliate Relations Department as well as the Network’s powerful Web 2.0 technologies, such as LinkConnector’s new Widget Builder.

“It was important to us to partner with a network that emphasizes customer support like our own. Both LinkConnector’s Merchant and Affiliate Support teams provide us and our affiliate partners with the hands-on support we need to effectively ramp up our program quickly and increase revenues,” said Ross Sachs, Vice President of hats.com.

The launch of the hats.com Affiliate Program in the LinkConnector Network marks the addition of another Internet Retailer Top 500 Merchant for LinkConnector, according to the 2007 edition of the Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide to Retail Web Sites. As a group, the Top 500 e-retail businesses accounted for a total of $83.6 billion of the nation’s $136.2 billion of retail web, according to the 2007 Edition of the Top 500 Guide. Products sold on the hats.com website resonate with a large audience. Their products historically perform best in the following markets: College or Young Adult, Seniors, Fashion, Trendy, Golf, Travel, Sun-Protection, Outdoors and Camping, and Celebrity.

About hats.com
hats.com is undoubtedly the most recognized URL on the Web serving today’s fashion trendsetters, tech savvy, intellectual yet hip consumers for headwear. Our variety of the best headwear brands and products compliment a modern, busy lifestyle. Our customers are fashion enthusiasts, music lovers, and entertainment fanatics who have disposable income to spend on accessories, music, electronics, travel, sports and other products that will enhance their lifestyle.

To join the hats.com LinkConnector Affiliate Program, visit: /affiliate-program-details/?mid=25028.

About LinkConnector.com
LinkConnector is an Affiliate Marketing network, helping merchants and affiliates increase online sales. LinkConnector is redefining affiliate marketing with its ground-breaking technologies like Naked Link Technology®, Affiliate Connections™, Pending Sale functionality, and Virtual Affiliate™ tracking. Naked Link Technology gives merchants a way to boost their organic rankings while they promote their site on LinkConnector’s Network. Affiliate Connections provides affiliates with a quick and dynamic system to determine optimal promotions for their sites. LinkConnector’s Pending Sale functionality opens up pay-per-sale campaigns to any merchant who begins their sale process online. Virtual Affiliate tracking allows merchants to track, in real time, virtual affiliates such as organic search engines. Equipped with LinkConnector’s new technologies, merchants and affiliates can take their affiliate marketing efforts to new levels of success.

Affiliates join free at http://www.linkconnector.com/affiliatejoin.htm. For a limited time, Merchant set up fees are waived. To join for free, visit http://www.linkconnector.com/merchantjoin.htm.

PR Contact:
Jackie Lane Bates
LinkConnector

www.linkconnector.com

Ross Sachs
hats.com
www.hats.com