Group and association marketing can become an important part of your Internet marketing program.

Participation in the affiliate, association, and multi-level programs is as easy as tagging the items on your menu(s) for each program and inputting the % discount or commission you will offer for each program.

You can easily offer items to associations at a 5% discount from your normal prices (the system will automatically calculate and display the normal price and the association price to association members).

You may have all other web sites linked to the RING!MerchantNetwork as Affiliates, earn a percentage commission on sales made from their links. You set that commission on a per-item basis in the menu item record. The system will provide reports and tracking of sales for you and the affiliate.

You may offer your product to particpating multi-level groups. When members of the MLM group enter the RING!MerchantNetwork from the MLM catalog site or a member's catalog page, the system tracks the sales made from that link. You get a report of sales and members who made sales so you can pay the MLM master account. The MLM group will distribute the payments to their members from thier report. You only cut one check. You get instant MLM distribution and you can add and remove product any time.

Why would a restaurant want to participate in affiliate and group programs? Why not?