Ever thought of a situation where recommending products to your friends or family via email, text messaging, social media, could help you win cash? ‘Wildlink’ developed by Wildfire Systems, Inc. based in San Diego, USA changes ordinary text product mentions into viable referral links which are directed to sellers’ products. Once a purchase is made on the basis of this connection, the referrer is rewarded in cash.
Jordan Glazier, founder & CEO of Wildfire Systems, Inc., says he has always been fascinated by the possibility of turning social interactions profitable. He focused on converting “word-of-mouth” product suggestions between friends into a viable money-making business. Glazier began working on a method to turn recommendations into referral links which could be shared, thus earning the advocate a financial reward; as a result of which Wildlink was born.
Wildlink, is available for iOS & Android as well as for Windows & Mac. The apps require users to open a personal account. Once the account is up & running, users can start converting products to short links. Subsequently, any recommended products/referral links which result in a purchase instantly create profit for the referrer.
The apps track all earnings & make them available to users to view their progress. Moreover, earnings are grouped by month & seller, so deciding what to recommend next becomes intuitive with practice. For detecting product referrals, Wildlink uses techniques including Natural Language Processing (NLP), states its blog.
Enterprises too are impressed with this “word-of-mouth” concept. Wildlink has already netted 20,000 E-commerce Sites, some of them top-tier companies like Booking.com, Expedia.com & Ticketmaster.com.
Wildlink lists the 4 most salient features as:
- Effortless – referral links are generated automatically, no work is required
- Helpful – the app allows members to be helpful to friends & family
- Rewarding – get paid for advocating products
- Ubiquitous – operates on all channels & all systems. Can be seamlessly integrated
Be it books, clothes, hotels, restaurants, they all find recommendation in routine conversations. In a win-win scenario for all, these suggestions can now be monetized.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
Image Credit: Wildlink
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