Reversals happen. They happen to merchants, and by extension, they hit affiliates too. Of course, affiliates love programs with “no reversals” policies, but if you, as a merchant, aren’t ready to offer one, I strongly encourage you to at least stick to the following 3 best practices:
1) Locking Periods — Set the locking period in [...]
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About a month ago, I made a blog post on the 3 signs that tell you to decline an affiliate application. It was an international (i.e. non-US) affiliate, and an Ireland-based search and affiliate marketer, Dave Davis quickly commented:
Wow, awesome seeing the “other side” of the applications. This example is an absolute shocker.
Would love to [...]
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There’s no merchant that hasn’t ever wondered what makes an affiliate pick one program over another. Is it commission rate, conversion, EPC, or a combination of all these? Or maybe there’s a significantly larger number factors? There is.
I believe that there is a set of 15 factors all of which are closely intertwined and interdependent; [...]
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Nearly every day I get applications from affiliates that are either hoping to get approved by an inattentive affiliate program manager, or aren’t really thinking much about how their application looks to the manager.
If you want your affiliate application declined, here’s a 3-step guide for you (satisfying any 1 of the 3 “requirements” will do):
Have [...]
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Automatic Approval of Affiliate Applications (AAAA) is a mistake commonly spread among new and seasoned affiliate program managers alike. If automatic declines of affiliate applications can be destructive to the development of your affiliate program, automatic approvals may end up costing the merchant significantly more than an auto-declined application.
The main reason for the danger of [...]
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I’ve conducted an experiment whereby a newly opened affiliate account, which had one website listed, applied into 4 affiliate programs. All of these programs were in the niche absolutely unrelated to the niche that the affiliate website was listed in. The first three responses were:
So, two pending applications, and one automatic approval.
The response from the [...]
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When as a Commission Junction advertiser/merchant you get a “Publisher Country Change” notification (see example below) in your network mailbox, treat it as a red flag.
In my experience, in the majority of cases it means nothing good. C’mon! How often do people change the country of their residence from USA to Kenya or China as [...]
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.
If, for example, you are an [...]
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