This is a paid review and only a little influenced by me being paid to write it. If you are interested in ordering a review for your company, please do so through this link. 
There are dozens of affiliate networks out there… some bad, some good, some great, and publishers can often find it difficult to decide on which one to use.
Motive Interactive recently gave their network an entire revamp, and ordered a paid review on this blog to let people know about it – they’re already one of the trusted affiliate networks in the industry, but with this advertising surge it looks like they’re aiming to become the best.
Dubbed Advent 2.0, Motive Interactive’s interface definitely has the futuristic look – they’ve gone for web 2.0 and its worked, with their backend one of the best I’ve ever seen. I logged in and had a look around, and they appear to have a fair amount of offers, ranging from your standard email / zip submits to offers that pay around $30 – $50.
However, I’m not here to talk about aesthetics – here’s three things that I saw in the email I got about them that YOU should be interested in, as they’re three reasons why Motive Interactive should be looked at before other affiliate networks.
Highest Payouts. Of course, all ad and affiliate networks tend to offer the ‘highest payouts’… but with Motive Interactive, this is actually true. If you find that another network is offering you a better price, all you have to do is let them know and they’ll beat it. With offers specifically hand picked for you by one of the most experienced networks in the business (they’ve been around since 2003) you should be able to make money with them if you’re willing to make a go of it.
5.5% Referral Commissions. The previous highest was around 5% from Market Leverage… however Motive Interactive offer you 5.5% commission on anyone you refer to their network, as long as they don’t go more than a year inactive. As an example, this means that if you refer someone that goes on to make $100/day, you’ll net yourself $165 per month for doing nothing.
Reliable and Negotiable payment schedule. Motive Interactive offer weekly and net-15 payments – now for the former, this is probably for top affiliates only… but the latter isn’t too bad (that’s two payments per month). Other affiliate networks tend to be net-45 or even more, and although they do make it quicker for the top affiliates, you’re not likely to be one of those starting out. Here you can invest comfortably into your affiliate marketing efforts, knowing that if you perform, payment will come to you right on time.
Those are three major things that I liked, but there are some others – they have an easily searchable interface, which you can categorize based on payouts, niche, distribution type and so on. Their rewards program starts at 1%, but raises to 2% if you do well – when you’re making that much money, the rewards don’t tend to mean much but anything extra is always nice.
The last thing (but certainly not the least important) thing that I’m going to mention is their real time tracking… something that is extremely important when you’re running pay per click campaigns or email marketing ones. Basically, your stats update in real time, that is clicks, revenue and so on – you can use this and compare it to the figures that they supply you with (like how the rest of the network on average is doing with certain offers) to supercharge your affiliate marketing efforts.
Here’s a screenshot of their offer search panel:
As you can see, using it is fairly easy. What Motive Interactive also allow is for you to ‘feature’ certain offers on your homepage of your affiliate account… so you can keep the offers you’re interested in running firmly in view.
You can watch the below seven minute video for a video tour of their backend… do let me know how sweet you think it looks
If you are interested in signing up for Motive Interactive (and I suggest you do so, as they’re a trusted network and having more options is always good) you can sign up through this link.
If you’ve got any questions or doubts, feel free to leave a comment – an employee of Motive Interactive will probably check this review from time to time and be more than willing to answer anything you want to ask them.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I think it’s the 10th review of motive I read this week…But good review still!
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Luke Jeffrey Smith (1 comments) Reply:
October 24th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
http://brightkite.com/objects/71265c98a1f711ddad06003048c0801e
Oh you will be seeing more from the Motive Network – Advent 2.0 in the future ! Join today
-Luke
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Ryan McLean (95 comments) Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
lol, same with me. But I guess they really want to push their services. I may actually sign up for them now. Their improvements look great.
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Franklin Bishop (16 comments) Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I know, spending some cash.
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October 24th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Ditto what Ben said…Motive must be on a big new membership drive.
Great review!
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October 24th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Thanks for the link, they must be on a massive membership drive.
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October 25th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I’m seeing Motive Network reviews almost on all top blogs. I’d love to join it. But the only problem is that, I’m under 18 and I don’t have total access to checks, cards, etc.
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October 25th, 2008 at 2:56 am
I’ve got a few questions:
1. Do they pay using PayPal?
2. Do you need any credit card to sign up?
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Luke Smith (2 comments) Reply:
November 6th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Paypal = yes we do !
No credit card checks and a quick approval process.
-Luke
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October 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hmm good offer by go daddy.Thanx for mentioning it Jason.I gonna try it
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October 26th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Another great network to Join.
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October 27th, 2008 at 12:07 am
a wiked network
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October 27th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Another great network to join and offcourse to earn more money
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October 29th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Is it great, than the commission junction
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October 30th, 2008 at 5:02 am
I’ve seen them “around” too … is anyone here signed up with them? Have you had a good experience? Any insight is appreciated. Thanks! *SmiLes* Suzanne
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November 1st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I’ve seen this site advertised everywhere in the last few weeks, and I’m definitely considering signing up. I see they have quite a few offers available, but do they have a list of their offer payouts somewhere?
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November 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Thanks for informing me about this affiliate network Motive Interactive is doing a very active marketing campaign by buying ads and reviews on a ton of related blogs and sites. You should definitely check it out.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Seen many bloggers promoting and reviewing this.. Seems like a really good opportunity.. Hope I am not missing out alot!
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November 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
This looks a great site, thanks for the review
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November 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
I’m going to give it a shot.
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November 6th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
good review. this adds my knowledge. thanks
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November 6th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I just signed up and when I wanted to submit my application it kept saying that entering my tax number is a requirement so I entered any number and submitted. (I live in Dubai).
anyways Luke, if you ever see this comment do you mind fixing it? I signed up with the username danger9918.
thanks
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November 6th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I just approved you – also we are working on a new sign up form that has no issues for our international publishers – so yes we will fix it soon!
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November 8th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Thanks for the quick response Luke
:)
I have been playing around with the publisher control panel for the past 2 days and it looks awesome
Affiliatemoz.com’s last blog post..Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review
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November 14th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Just wanted to drop a line in here and say thank you for a great review! Motive is excited and looking forward to working with all of you! We are now out of beta and have officially launched the new Motive CPA Network powered by our advent 2.0.
Check out the press release : http://tinyurl.com/5ty4wc
Brendan J. Smith
Chief Executive Officer / Founder
http://www.motiveinteractive.com
http://twitter.com/brendansmith
http://www.linkedin.com/in/motive
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