March 2009

Focus on Personal Advancement, Needs and Goals

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 […]

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7 Things A Coupon Affiliate Can Do To Stand Out

Largely due to the current economic climate, and partly because of the very psychology of humans, coupon websites (majority of them – affiliates) are rapidly multiplying — new ones springing up every week. But how could a new coupon website stand out? First, let’s look at the commonalities of coupon

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Intrinsic Motivation – Ultimate Goal of Affiliate Manager

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

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How to Motivate Affiliates – Introduction

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

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How to Kill an Affiliate Campaign With a Landing Page

Today I would like to show merchants that run affiliate programs how a landing page could kill an affiliate program’s campaign. Unfortunately, most merchants do not do a thorough enough job when putting together landing pages for promos and coupons they offer through their affiliate programs, and I feel like

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Rockefeller's Advice for Affiliate Marketers: Put Your Soul Into It

I’ve just bumped into this quote by the legendary change leader of the American petroleum industry, one of the richest men on earth even to this date, John D. Rockefeller: The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what interests you and you can do well, and put

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