Not too long ago I announced my newest book — Quick Start Guide to Affiliate Marketing, a practical reference guide for aspiring affiliates. Just 4 days after the launch, the book became an absolute bestseller in all three Amazon’s sections where it was placed: E-commerce books, E-commerce eBooks, and eBooks […]
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For advertisers that take orders over the phone a pay per call program is a must. It will draw impressive conversion rates (always higher than what affiliate click referrals will yield) and higher average order value (1.5 to 2 times higher than purely click/online-oriented campaigns), complementing your PPS and/or PPL
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In May of this year the inaugural European Affiliate Management Days was held in London. It was a success. Here is a video on it where you may find testimonials from Matthew Wood of PerformanceIN, Graham Jenner of TopCashBack.co.uk, and Andrew Warren-Payne of Econsultancy, as well as a brief conference
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It seems like only yesterday I conceived the idea of creating a niche conference — one dedicated to all things affiliate program management and affiliate program optimization. I called my brainchild Affiliate Management Days (or AM Days in short) and since our very first conference in 2012 we’ve already had
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Earlier this morning affiliates of a program — which positions itself as one lead by a “full-time affiliate manager” — received an interesting email. Here is an excerpt from it (with sensitive information removed): In attempts to make our group of affiliates stronger and to provide a better experience to
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Much has been happening in the affiliate marketing world lately. Even though August 2013 isn’t over yet, I think it is safe to presuppose that the below 7 news are definitely the ones that you do not want to miss. So, here they are in chronological order: 1. Affiliate Marketing
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The day before yesterday I spoke at Affiliate Summit East 2013 (ASE13) in Philadelphia. The title of my presentation was “Affiliate Program Performance – a Shared Responsibility.” Why “shared”? Because I am a firm believer in the fact that unless all parties involved in the equation are working to their max,
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I hate the word “dummies.” I’d much rather hear newbies call themselves “aspiring affiliates” or “beginning affiliate marketers.” And I can’t count how many times I have been asked to write a book for people like these — those who are interested in learning how they can earn money as
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Earlier this morning Affiliate Window, an affiliate network that prides itself in tracking “over 90% of mobile activity” [more here] posted some truly impressive data on their Facebook page: in the month of July 2013 they registered 13,000 affiliate-referred mobile sales each day. This means over 400,000 mobile sales driven by
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I got an email from a prospective client who wrote: We have an existing program on [Affiliate Network Name here] for our ecommerce company called [Advertiser’s Name here] but are looking to outsource affiliate recruitment. After digging a little deeper, it got apparent that this advertiser believes (and expects) the
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