Education is an important part of any professional’s personal improvement. In an area as diverse as digital marketing, it is important to keep up to date and look at how you can apply new (or sometimes old) ideas and methodologies to current problems. I also think once you have learnt […]
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Affiliate management. It’s a term that we often throw around, and we tend to look at processes and how we can improve them. The focus tends to be on the business side of management – what margins we can afford, which affiliate brings in the most revenue, and what will
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I always talk about affiliate marketing as a business that relationships are important. Getting to know your affiliates, speaking to them regularly while taking an interest in their business, results in better performance for everyone. But can you talk too much? Like most people it can get very busy when
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I was chatting to a client recently and they were telling me that they were off to a network to talk to their sales team. I was a little surprised, as I didn’t realise that they were looking for a new network. After asking, I found out that this wasn’t
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I often talk about affiliate marketing being an industry that’s built on relationships. While it is a performance industry with everyone’s focus being on the bottom line, you get more out of your affiliate programme if you have good relationships with your affiliates. This works both ways – the affiliates
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I thought I would write something about some of the pet hates I have, but also things that are likely to alienate your affiliates. This site is build towards people who want to get more from their affiliate programme. Sometimes you learn just as much from the ‘what not to
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I wrote last month about the need for clients to share their objectives with affiliates to get the most from their programme. Objectives are also important when planning and measuring your promotions. You could have a number of different objectives that you want to achieve but it can be best
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As with all marketing activities it’s important that you have what you want to achieve. Having goals and objectives is important as they are the basis for setting KPIs and give you something to measure how successful your activity has been. Sometimes is can be easy to get caught up
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With great excitement we bring you the first-ever guest post at AM Navigator’s blog. We loved Graham Jenner‘s approach, and happily accepted his contribution. Should you want to contribute to this blog as well, email us. I read with interest Geno’s recent post about a drop in open rates on
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