Regardless of whether you are looking at an affiliate network as a merchant (aka advertisers) or an affiliate (aka publisher), I believe there are certain bases that are critical for each affiliate network to cover. And when these foundational bases are not being paid the attention they deserve, they turn into problems …major problems. Today [...]
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It’s Friday again, and in the best traditions of Twitter #FollowFriday today I’d like to bring you a list of US affiliate networks which are actively using Twitter to keep both affiliates and merchants up-to-date with their latest news, developments, blog posts, and so on… I see that in 2009 Zac posted his compilation of [...]
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A new OPM has emailed me: I may start working soon with a large company that deals with generating leads in a specific vertical in the medical field. This would be my first time managing a lead gen affiliate program. I’ve done some research into this, but I wanted to ask your opinion on what [...]
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When I type in nearly any affiliate network‘s name, among the top suggestions I see [affiliate network]+”scam” search phrases: This isn’t surprising. Why? Here’s a true story: two days ago I had a merchant approach me. The beginning of our dialogue could be condensed as follows: Merchant: We are looking at promoting our e-business through [...]
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As I was packing for PubCon South 2011 at Austin (8-9 March) — where I will be speaking on the affiliate management components the majority of merchants miss — I told my wife that I should order more business cards soon, as I’m running low on them. My daughter (important: who accompanied me on my [...]
I’ve noticed this new function in ShareASale‘s merchant interface yesterday morning, but wasn’t exactly sure how new it really was. Then I saw Jared Saunders — affiliate program manager at Jenson USA and holder of ShareASale’s “Exceptional Affiliate Manager” 2009 award — tweet about it: …and apparently Jared’s right. There seem to be no blog [...]
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Less than a week ago in an intro to this post, I blogged how pleasing to my (and I’m sure every affiliate marketer’s) eye it is to see new developments at different affiliate networks. Now, in addition to ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network and LinkShare, we have AvantLink with their February news! Yesterday they announced their [...]
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And it has finally happened!! An hour ago, today on Tuesday (February 8, 2010), ShareASale launched its brand-new Generation 6 merchant interface, and I surely love both the look and the multiple user-friendly features. Here is the way it looked just this morning: And here is the way it looks now: Here are a couple [...]
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Yesterday as I was adding new coupons for a ShareASale-based affiliate program I have noticed a little (but a very significant) addition to one of the fields you can fill out when adding a coupon/deal to the network. They now have a field for special commission to be applied on coupon/deal transactions. The fine print [...]
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