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 [...]
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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Coincidentally or not, but 3 of the 6 major US affiliate networks — and here I imply Commission Junction, LinkShare, buy.at, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network and AvantLink — announced holiday deals and offers of their merchants on November 17, 2010. These are: LinkShare affiliate network (in a blog post): ShareASale affiliate network (internally through affiliate [...]
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If you run an affiliate program on Commission Junction you should have noticed a new sub-tab appear in your “CJ Account Manager” a week or two ago — the Flex ID sub-tab: I am surprised no one has blogged about it yet (maybe Commission Junction itself should start a blog where they could announce new [...]
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Not too long ago I have put together a list of European affiliate networks. Apparently, the number of affiliate marketing networks servicing Eastern Europe is large enough to put together a separate blog post just on Eastern European countries. Below you may find the list of the ones I was able to identify. If I [...]
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