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  I am happy to announce the Beta launch of TextShark, the gold standard for Mobile Affiliate Promotions.  TextShark was launched out of a collaboration between myself and Jeremy Enke (http://www.jeremyenke.com).  I am excited to work with Jeremy closely on this product as he is an affiliate marketing wizard and shares my work ethic.  When you have two skilled people working in concert, expect great things!

    TextShark has been in development for more than half a year by the excellent team at Pre23 technologies (http://www.pre23.com).   TextShark is focused on giving affiliate marketers the ability to process micropayments for various products and services by capitalizing on the ubiquity of text messaging to act as an information gateway and payment system.   TextShark uses premium rate text messaging to monetize these products and services. 

      We are the first site to intersect the affiliate networking model with the text messaging micropayment solution.  The goal of TextShark is to enable affiliates to capitalize on promotions without the need to accept credit cards or other cumbersome and trust-oriented payment devices.  The payment ingress is as simple as sending in a text message.   With the ubiquity of Short Message Service (SMS) or Text Messaging, most of the world has the ability to use this payment solution.  Our intention is to enable affiliates to market their own creative promotions and use TextShark to provide the backend network. 

      Currently, TextShark is enabled in most of the EU and the UK.  Here is the coverage list:

Australia (Telstra, Optus, Vodafone)
Austria (Mobilekom, One, Tmobile, Telering, Drei)
Belgium (Proximus, Mobistar, Base)
Denmark (Tdc, Sonofon, Telia, Orange, Tele2)
Finland (Dna, Radiolinja, Sonera, Elisa)
France (Bouygues, Orange, Sfr)
Germany (Victorvox, Mobilkom, O, Vodafone, E, Tmobile, Talkline, Debitel)
Greece (Vodafone, Cosmote, Qtelecom, Telestet)
Ireland (O, Vodafone, Meteor)
Netherlands (Kpn, Vodafone, Tmobile, O, Orange)
Norway (Telenor, Netcom, Tele2)
Portugal (Optimus, Telecel, Tmn)
Spain (Telefonica, Amena, Vodafone)
Sweden (Telia, Tele2, Telenor, Three)
Switzerland (Swisscoma, Sunrisea, Orangea)
UK (O2, Vodafone, Tmobile, Orange, Three)

 During Beta, we are offering affiliates 30% lifetime residual commission on TextShark revenues.  Our normal affiliate rate will be 20% once the Beta period has ended.  We look at the commission bump as incentive for affiliates to help us fine-tune the product offering.  Affiliate signup can be found at http://www.textshark.com/affiliate_registration.php 

 We also offer a forum for technical and marketing help: http://www.textshark.com/forums as well as a Blog for updates from Jeremy and myself http://www.textshark.com/blog.  We look forward to helping affiliates monetize their products and services in the years to come. 

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