It isn’t unusual to see affiliate recruitment emails, newsletters or other pieces of merchant-affiliate correspondence come from email addresses dissociated from the actual merchant on whose behalf they are being sent out. This often happens when the program is being managed by an OPM (outsourced program management) agency, and at times also when the merchant [...]
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A new affiliate program manager has emailed me the following question (about corresponding with affiliates): How often should I follow up? I don’t want to seem like a stalker. It’s a very good (and an important) question, as affiliates will frequently not reply to your very first email, and follow-ups really are extremely important. I [...]
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It’s Friday again, and in the best traditions of Twitter’s #FollowFriday list sharing, today I’d like to turn to email marketers. So, ladies and gentlemen, I now bring you a list of 10 email marketing experts and/or companies/projects to follow on Twitter (bios taken from whatever each of them listed on their Twitter profile): Chad [...]
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I’ve just finished reading yesterday’s iMediaConnection article entitled Performance marketing: Avoid the newbie mistakes. Overall, it’s a good article, but there is one thing I cannot agree with. The author wrote: A little secret in performance marketing is that more than 50 percent of total performance transaction volume is driven by email list owners who [...]
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Affiliate recruitment is a form of direct marketing Yesterday I have received the following piece of correspondence from the American Home Shield, a home warranty company I’ve used for a year, and parted ways with about a year ago: I’m not gonna go into the reasons why I do not miss them as much as [...]
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While recruiting affiliates into the affiliate programs of the merchants we work with, over the years we have registered that follow-up recruitment emails are actually more effective than the initial email contact with a prospective affiliate partner. In fact, more affiliates are being recruited through follow-up emails than through the initial contact. Here’s the stats: [...]
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Yesterday morning Wall Street Journal published a brief article on the future of e-mail marketing, quoting Forrester Research’s data that by 2014 the U.S. spend on email marketing will reach $2 billion (with a growth rate of close to 11% a year). The opening remark of that WSJ article was, however, quite surprising to me. [...]
3 Worst Of Awards: Affiliate Application, Email & Blog Comment
Every day there are a number of routine tasks I have to perform. Among them: (i) review of affiliate applications, (ii) response to emails, and (iii) review of blog comments that have queued up in the moderation queue of this blog. Every day among the good ones, there are also bad and silly ones. Today [...]
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