Affiliate Program Management

Amazon.com Fails to Adjust Affiliate Program for New Technology?

Joshua Odmark has published a post on A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing and Amazon.com where he talked about posting an earnest product recommendation via Twitter, using an affiliate link condensed with a URL shortener, generating sales for Amazon.com, yet receiving no commissions for the customers he referred. “After realizing

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Tools for Affiliate Program Management

While the work with affiliates does involve a lot of one-on-one communication, relationship building and other non-automatizable components, there are tools that can help you streamline your affiliate program management. This is the topic that my most recent article in the Website Magazine is devoted to. Here’s an excerpt from

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Affiliate Newsletter Template | Tips on How, When and What to Include

If you are looking for a guide on how to format your next affiliate newsletter, you’ve come to the right place. I have been asked this question just today, and it occurred to me that this would make up a helpful blog post, especially for new affiliate managers. There are

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3 Ways to Be a Happier Affiliate Program Manager

Having read through one of Harvard Business Publishing’s management tips of the day, I have decided to elaborate on the same topic but in a more narrow context — that of affiliate program management. Are you managing your affiliate program(s) staying continuously motivated and happy? Here are my 3 tips

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How to Attract Super Affiliates: Big Fish – Small Fish Illustration

Every time I launch a new affiliate program for a client, and affiliate-referred sales start rolling in, the client gets happy. Then a few weeks into the process, clients start getting impatient. “So when, when will we get the real super affiliates to start pushing us?” — they ask. I

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Most Frustrating Thing About Affiliate Marketing is . . .

An affiliate I know tweeted a phrase that underscores something that you will not hear mentioned in evangelistic presentations on affiliate marketing. Here’s his tweet: As an affiliate program manager, this statement makes me ask myself: what have I personally done to make it less frustrating for my affiliates? While

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North Carolina, 7% of Zero is Still Zero

Yesterday evening @MattEnders, a North Carolina based colleague of mine, tweeted: Having been one of the people to blog about the problem a week ago, I have gone online this moring to try to find the interview. Couldn’t find the recording itself, but got to this page on MSNBC.com: The

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Transformational Leadership for Affiliate Program Management

I have been comparing different theories of leadership over the past few weeks, and while many — if adjusted and adopted to the affiliate program management context — do fit, it is the transformational leadership that, in my opinion, is best suited for new affiliate program managers to keep in

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