We are often asked about the affiliate program, so we decided to elaborate on that issue listing basic facts on affiliate marketing as it might come useful for a daily deal site.
Affiliates are people, who promote your site, and you pay them for their efforts. The amount you pay them depends directly on how many business they generated i.e. how many purchases were made due to their efforts.
Getsocio is growing every day and, thus, grows the number of settings you can tweak. And the new layout of Settings page comes along to guide you through all that variety of options. All settings are now grouped under tabs with nice icons. No need to scroll down to quickly make some adjustment.
Consider the following scenario: you have created a daily-deal website on Getsocio and started playing with features and options available. You find out that it is easy to add locations, so you spoil yourself and add many cities from all over the country until you get tired in the process.
Google Maps have been integrated into the platform for a while and it kinda needed a retouch. Previously, to put Google Maps to work you had to take several steps: you needed to set up an account with Google, generate the API key for your site and then go to Settings and paste it. Not that it took much efforts, but now you don't need to bother at all - Google Maps are ready to use right after you have created your site.