So you’ve launched your affiliate program and hopefully invested some time and effort into marketing it and recruiting affiliates. Now you can rest easy and let sales flow, right? Wrong! You need to focus on affiliate program promotion. It is the only way to make sure that your affiliates remain […]
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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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Holidays are great times for affiliate promotions, especially Valentine’s Day. Affiliate promotions engage the current affiliate base, plus running promotions properly can aid in affiliate recruitment. With Valentine’s Day (February 14) on the horizon, here are five tips for running a successful promotion. #1. Outline Promotion Goals There should always be
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It has been some time since I’ve last addressed the subject of email newsletter open rates, and today as I was analyzing the data of two different Commission Junction-based affiliate programs, I couldn’t help but notice the drop. 2009 In this post I wrote that the registered open rate was
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We’ve received 20 entries for the 400th Day Contest: Computer & Internet Jokes. It’s time to choose the winners, and I need your help with this. I’m posting a public poll below, and inviting you to vote for your favorite joke(s). The poll will be open from now until 02/25/2010,
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It seems like this has been just yesterday, but another 100-day period has passed, and since in the course of it I have consistently blogged at least once a day, I feel like it’s a good time to celebrate. Yes, we’re gonna have another contest!! This time we have over
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Today is the 300th day of 2009. My New Year’s resolution for this year was to produce quality blog content on a daily basis. Therefore, today marks the 300th day of my non-stop blogging (at least one post a day). To celebrate it I have decided to put together a
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—————————————————– Edit: 2 follow-up posts: (i) FTC Says the $11000 Fine “is Not True”, (ii) How to Word Disclosures & Agreements to Meet FTC Rules —————————————————– On 1 December 2009 the new Federal Trade Commission’s endorsements/testimonials rules are coming into force. I am referring to the “Guides Concerning the Use
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Many people come to my blog searching for “free affiliate tracking software”. There are a number of free (and inexpensive) scripts that merchants can install on their server to start an affiliate program. Here’s just a brief list: Affiliate Program Script Cosmic AffiliateClick SimpleAffiliate TigerTom’s Affiliate Program Software TWSC Affiliate
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All over the world the countdown to Christmas begins around this time of the year. In the U.S. today is, of course, the Black Friday. I am a firm believer that those who work hard deserve to play hard. Today I hope to bring in a little more excitement into
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