For ages there has been an inherent disconnect between the promotional method an incentive affiliate uses, and the end goal of every pay-per-lead program — or that of generating “potential sales contacts“. After all, when the chief end-user motivator is cashback, points, virtual currency, or anything of this kind, it is very hard to reap [...]
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Remember my 2009 post about Bank of America becoming a loyalty affiliate? Another classic example of a major brand acting as a cashback affiliate, which has just caught my eye, is ShopDiscover: And just like it was with the Bank of America — where you had “to be a user of … Online Banking to [...]
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Yesterday, in The Ugly Side of Affiliate Marketing post a friend and fellow affiliate marketer, Tricia Meyer wrote: The eBay Partner Network announced out of the blue that they are dropping loyalty sites until at least October. The question this immediately raised in multiple heads was, of course, “why?” Carolyn Tang Kmet, adjunct lecturer in [...]
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Not too long ago I’ve blogged about the bright near future for coupon affiliates. It seems that loyalty affiliates have a future as well, and certain strategic factors will make (or are already making) some of them significantly more competitive than others. For instance — according to the data from a CMO Council study entitled [...]
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