With common regularity both affiliates, and merchants wonder what is a commission locking period. Let’s take ShareASale (SaS) for one example. On this affiliate network for every transaction in their reports merchants see a “lock date” (see example below): Affiliates, on the other hand, see both the “lock date”, and […]
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Building a successful affiliate program is in many ways akin to lawn mowing. The mower symbolizes your affiliate program, whereas the lawn is the market. There are three integral elements without which the lawn cannot be mowed effectively, even with the presence of the mower. They are: (i) fuel, (ii)
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This is one of the most frequently asked questions by merchants that are deciding between different affiliate networks. Today it came to me in the following form: Which network was the highest number of strong affiliates? My answer is twofold: (i) most affiliate networks do not disclose such information, but
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Some of you may remember my “Back to the Question of Affiliate Newsletters” post made earlier this month where I expressed my gratitude to an affiliate that called my newsletter “personal, intriguing, well written,” and one which she has never received from any other CJ-based merchant. Yesterday this same affiliate
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Really interesting results of a study on cookie retention have been published in one of the Sun Microsystems blogs yesterday. In his “Web Analytics Analyzed” blog Paul Strupp has revealed the following chart which demonstrates “what percent of users returning after X days on the same computer still have the
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A fellow affiliate marketer and affiliate program manager, Matt Enders (on Twitter: @mattenders), broke the news yesterday: Missouri is joining the crowd of states which are considering what I like to call selective advertising tax. A North Carolina-based e-tailer, friend of Enders, “received a letter in the mail from the
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The question of link building and improving SEO simultaneously with the development of an affiliate marketing relationship is one that merchants ask me quite frequently. Here’s the text of one such email: In our next newsletter we would like to push an extra 1% commission for anyone who puts some
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An affiliate wrote: I am one of your affiliates and have an affiliate link on my web site www.hisURLhere.com for your store. My site is new this month and I’m working on building traffic (which would benefit both of us) by getting others to link to my site. I was
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Today I have received the following email: I have an affiliate management question for you in regards to recruiting with SAS, and was hoping you could provide some guidance. One of our clients recently launched in the SAS network (late June). We’re seeing ok numbers but I feel we can
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After testing their new affiliate payment model with select affiliates for over three months, the eBay Partner Network (eBPN) has made an official announcement of it yesterday. The model bears a name of Quality Click Pricing (QCP), and is essentially a CPC (cost per click) model. It is called to
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