A speech given by Dan Pink at the RSA and later animated by Cognitive Media was uploaded to YouTube last month, and has already received close to 400,000 views, and a storm of accolades from marketing and management professionals around the world. No wonder why. Dan talks one of the most fascinating subjects in [...]
Continue reading about Motivation by Money Versus Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
Have you ever wondered if there are any other motivators available to affiliate program managers besides cash bonuses, prizes, and other extrinsic means of affiliate motivation?
There are!
It has also been proven that the more cash bonuses you give out, the more the per-bonus amount is expected to increase to create the same drive next time [...]
Continue reading about Become a Better Motivator by Appealing to Deep Seated Needs
Some time ago I joined an affiliate program. I do this frequently — to analyze the styles and approaches of various affiliate program managers. I am not doing this to make money on (or promote) the merchants who run these affiliate programs. However, out of hundreds of affiliate programs who have me (an “affiliate” [...]
Continue reading about Art of Soliciting Affiliate Feedback & Raising Interest
Today I’ve read an good article by Nigel Nicholson in the Harvard Business Review 81 (1) of 2003. In it, the author looks into the question of motivating “problem people.” Looking at manager-employee relationship in the traditional management context, he described his recipe for working with employees that are neither showing progress, nor benefiting the [...]
Continue reading about Nicholson’s Motivation Method & Affiliate Context
After my previous two posts on motivating affiliates [Introduction to affiliate motivation and Intrinsic motivation as ultimate goal] I have been reading a lot about different models and frameworks, approaches and interpretations. But today’s reading from Haslam’s Psychology in Organizations: The Social Identity Approach summarized them all too beautifully for me not to blog about [...]
Continue reading about Focus on Personal Advancement, Needs and Goals
I was researching more on motivation in the course of the day today, and at one point while I was reading Frederick Herzberg’s article “One More Time. How Do You Motivate Employees” (Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2003) I realized that making all things go right within any given affiliate program — having a 100% affiliate-friendly [...]
Continue reading about Intrinsic Motivation – Ultimate Goal of Affiliate Manager
Today I have been reading articles on motivation and emotional intelligence published by the Harvard Business Review over the past four decades. I was looking at all of them from the perspective of how I, as an affiliate program manager, could better motivate affiliates; and one of them especially stood out from the pile. It [...]
Continue reading about How to Motivate Affiliates – Introduction
Several times a month an affiliate receives e-mails where merchants are threatening to remove him/her from their affiliate programs if the affiliate does not become “active”. Another threat was started on this topic at ABestWeb [see it here] just today. And while I could write up a whole post on why I believe that affiliate [...]
Continue reading about Motivating Affiliates by Threat: Dead-End Strategy
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