April 2010

Do Affiliates Want Relationship, Communication, or Neither?

A few days ago, I published a brief article based on the data retrieved from both Econsultancy’s U.S. and U.K. 2009 Affiliate Census reports, and from the newest Affiliate Summit’s 2010 AffStat Report. The article was entitled: Communication with Affiliates: Methods and Frequency, and appeared at Econsultancy.com. I think everyone […]

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Affiliate Marketing: Pros, Cons and Other Considerations

I’ve just finished reading an interesting article in the UK’s Marketing Magazine where they look at affiliate marketing, giving their take on the pros and cons, as well as quoting some interesting statistics. You may read the full article here (it’s got some good tips for merchants new to affiliate

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Mobile Affiliate Marketing Best Practice Guidelines

Yesterday (on April 27, 2010) the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has published version 5.0 of its “U.S. Consumer Best Practices (CBP) Guidelines for Cross-Carrier Mobile Content Services” [more here]. This fairly voluminous document (139 pages long; full text in PDF here) prescribes industry standards for mobile messaging (SMS and MMS),

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Improve Affiliate Recruitment with Google Alerts

Are you using Google Alerts (or any other brand monitoring tools) for affiliate recruitment? They can be truly great, as they are always up-to-date. So, your recruitment email, when coming as a reaction to something newly-written online, will generally have better chances of catching the attention of your prospective affiliate.

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Pay Per Call Advertising Draws Impressive Conversions

A month ago ShareASale published a brief case study on how the pay-per-call model was working for one given affiliate program, that of Legacy Learning Systems [view it in PDF here]. In it the program’s manager, Matt McWilliams, shared that in the first 30 days with the platform — ShareASale

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Effective Affiliate Recruitment Through Affiliates' Eyes

Yesterday I have written about the key affiliate expectations as presented by the new AffStat Report. Today I’d like to mention one more graph that caught my eye in this report. It addresses the question of avenues that affiliates use to find out about affiliate programs “and then join”. The

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AffStat 2010 Reveals Key Affiliate Expectations

Having surveyed over a thousand of affiliates “on their methods, preferences, and strategies”, Affiliate Summit has put together its newest 2010 AffStat Report [source], and made it open to public (free of charge) yesterday, April 20. I’ve been waiting for this one to be announced, and been glad to see

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