I, first, got my feet wet in affiliate marketing in 2003. That was when I created my very first affiliate program – one an online store I owned at the time. It grew and succeeded as I won a prize after a prize for doing “affiliate management” well. With time […]
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Affiliate recruitment is one of the most important aspects of affiliate management. Nearly 80% of any affiliate manager’s time will be spent on affiliate recruitment. That 80% will be broken down differently for each individual, however, the most successful affiliate program managers spend a significant amount of time on follow
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With today being Valentine’s Day, we must remember to show our affiliates some love! Any successful affiliate program must include include proper relationship management. As a merchant, or affiliate management agency, one of your goals is to have as many publishers promoting your products as possible. For that to happen,
As affiliate marketers, we’re always trying to lock down the elusive content publishers. These affiliates are the holy grail of any merchant’s affiliate program. They are so valuable because they are seen as an expert in their niche. Their traffic is highly targeted and these users are on their site
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As we all know, affiliate recruitment is one of the five key pillars of affiliate program management. While all the pillars are important, most affiliate managers will devote at least 75% of their time toward recruitment. After all, if you’re not recruiting affiliates then your sales force isn’t growing and
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Affiliate inactivity is a very common problem. In fact, in most affiliate programs, as much as 90 percent of activity is attributed as little as 10 percent of onboarded affiliates, if not less. So, in managing an affiliate program it is imperative that you devote time to activation campaigns –
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In this week’s Affiliate Marketing Tip of the Week we tackle a situation faced by countless affiliates and affiliate managers – that of competing with Amazon’s stellar search engine rankings. Amazon, the company whose affiliate marketing program is in many ways exemplary of leveraging affiliates for growing a business, is crushing
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We are excited to introduce Affiliate Marketing Tip of the Week – a new section in which, on a weekly basis, AM Navigator will spotlight a useful tip to help affiliate marketers and/or affiliate managers optimize their work, handling things in a more efficient and, hence, more productive way. Below
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IMPORTANT: If you’re a competing agency or intend to submit fake data, don’t bother reading on. The quality of results yielded by an affiliate program is always correlated to the overall health of the marketing program itself. Having audited over a hundred of affiliate marketing programs throughout the years,
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Over the summer we had learned of Amazon’s decision to retire their aStore affiliate product. For many it came as a bolt from the blue. Various speculations (on the reasons behind the move) have been floating around the Web, and I’ve decided to throw in my two cents too. Introduction
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