Are you thinking of turning to affiliate marketing in order to promote your products or services and boost your sales? Now is the best time to do it, and Rosemarie Spiher did a great job explaining why in this recent post of hers. Of course, before you get started, you want […]
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In e-Commerce, product feeds or data feeds are used regularly especially when you are exchanging large amounts of information or data. But what exactly is a product feed? Why do you need it? And what are some best practices when it comes to creating and using them? What is a
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There are lots of affiliate marketing events each year. Along with network conferences, trade shows and expos, there is no shortage of events to attend. We have a detailed list on our blog of the 2018 conferences and we will be updating you soon with a list of 2019 conferences. While
Today we’re going to talk about how to create the ultimate tool kit for your affiliates. The tool kit we describe today will be in the form of a PDF info packet. This tool kit, or info packet, will contain information to help your affiliates write better content promoting your
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Most marketers nowadays are very data driven. In our current world we have managed to break almost everything down and use analytics to make informed decisions. Sports, like baseball, have become so analytically driven that professional clubs are hiring data scientists left and right to work for them and help
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Q4 is the most wonderful time of the year. According to Adobe Digital Insights, the online holiday shopping season in 2017 topped expectations. The Thanksgiving weekend saw shoppers spending over $19B dollars during the days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. Over $7B was spent on tablets and smartphones over the
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Your online business is doing well. You have good traffic, a strong following, yet you feel like you need another jolt to keep growing. This means it might be time to launch an affiliate program, but where do you start? Today I’m going to go over several mistakes to avoid
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There are lots of blogs and articles about what it takes to be successful in affiliate marketing and business. For me, the most important element of success has always been supported by relationships. It’s true that people do business with the people they like. Therefore, it is extremely important to
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So you are ready to take the affiliate world by storm. The first big hurdle is to decide what you are going to pay your affiliates. Affiliates who refer sales to you get a commission once a sale (or a different conversion action) is completed. Payments can be either (a)
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For many years I have been following how Amazon uses affiliate marketing (through their Associates Program) to grow its business, drawing attention to noteworthy changes within their affiliate program, analyzing Amazon’s approach in my writing and conference presentations, and even trying myself as an Amazon affiliate. Yesterday afternoon I was excited
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