When asked about the avenues via which they like to find out about new affiliate programs, affiliates repeatedly point to affiliate network websites (and network-based directories) as one of their preferred methods of what I call “passive affiliate recruitment” (i.e. when they find you, as opposed to you reaching out to […]
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Let me start by saying that Fiverr is a great platform used by multiple upright affiliate marketers on a multitude of reasons. Some are finding affordable help (copywriters, web designers, coders, video production services, etc), others are earning money with Fiverr’s own affiliate program, but the group to which I
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It’s that time of the year when we think of New Year’s resolutions to make, and with the first day of 2014 just a few hours away I thought of putting together a list of resolutions for affiliate managers to consider. Clean Up Your Affiliate Programs There has been much
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Two weeks ago I started a contest asking you to submit “some of the more innovative and effective ways to find affiliates, reach out to them, or convince them to sign up with affiliate programs.” The prizes at stake were 2 passes to the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2014 (where
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Have you heard of the Internet Retailer’s new Top Tech 2014 Guide yet? This is an eBook based on their 2012 research of “the leading solutions providers to America’s top 1,000 retailers.” Among the providers analyzed they also looked into “affiliate marketing vendors” used by North America’s leading 1,000 e-retailers.
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Autocomplete is a function “built into Google Search designed to make searching faster and easier.” It “predicts and displays queries to choose from. The search queries that you see as part of Autocomplete are a reflection of the search activity of users.” [source] Try typing in “affiliate management” and Google
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Whether you are working on link building or affiliate recruitment, you want to know if the recipient’s email address is intact before sending out that message of yours. After all, unless one has valid contact information at hand, how can he expect to make the contact? There are numerous email
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Earlier this month an interesting email came to me from an advertiser whose affiliate program we started a few months ago (edit: on an affiliate network). Here’s the gist of it (with parts of the text re-worded to hide sensitive information): Recently, both of our main websites got hit by
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Encouraging advertisers to treat their affiliate marketing programs appropriately I’ve always said: “They are serious marketing campaigns and must be treated with all seriousness.” To prove affiliate marketing’s “seriousness” a good starting point would be an analysis of the ROI it yields. Yesterday my “in UK affiliate marketing’s ROI is
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It’s been 16 months since Convertro released their “Affiliate Cookie Stuffing 2.0” report revealing their list of the top 10 cookie stuffers to be aware of. Looking for more up-to-date information on the subject, I was pleasantly surprised to learn the company’s co-founder and CMO, David Perez, actually has substantial
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