Geno Prussakov on October 23rd, 2009

In a reply to my recent “Most Affiliate Newsletters Never Get Opened” post a super affiliate and good friend of mine, Mike Allen, posted: I know affiliate managers likewise don’t read all the email messages they receive from affiliates. And I have the numbers to prove it. I thought: “I’ll bite!” And sure enough, Mike [...]

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Geno Prussakov on October 19th, 2009

Not many affiliate networks provide you with such data as an open rate for your outgoing affiliate correspondence (such as approval emails or newsletters), and this is really unfortunate. Commission Junction does provide merchants/advertisers with such important information as a part of the Email Campaigns reporting: Looking at the data for the last five pieces [...]

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Joshua Odmark has published a post on A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing and Amazon.com where he talked about posting an earnest product recommendation via Twitter, using an affiliate link condensed with a URL shortener, generating sales for Amazon.com, yet receiving no commissions for the customers he referred. “After realizing Amazon was not going to [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 6th, 2009

Some view the communication channel as “the means by which messages get from one individual to another” (Rogers, E.M. (1983), Diffusion of Innovations, p. 17). To me, such a definition allows for a one-way street scenario — when the messages do get announced, but the feedback/cooperation component is lacking. I personally believe that an effective [...]

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