In over 7 years of managing affiliate programs I have never seen this happen, and when I did I simply loved it, and surely took a screenshot to share with other affiliate program managers and affiliates. After approval into an affiliate program, an affiliate emailed me the following text: While […]
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There’s no merchant that hasn’t ever wondered what makes an affiliate pick one program over another. Is it commission rate, conversion, EPC, or a combination of all these? Or maybe there’s a significantly larger number factors? There is. I believe that there is a set of 15 factors all of
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Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? It shouldn’t, because we’re talking Compete.com’s affiliate program here. Compete is paying 20% commission on all affiliate-referred sales, and their products aren’t exactly inexpensive. But here’s what happens when an affiliate refers a customer that prepays 1 year in advance: I must
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I have just received the news of a new big acquisition in affiliate marketing. Seeking to strengthen its positions on the market of outbound traffic monetization VigLink has just acquired Driving Revenue. The official press release (to be circulated online in just a few hours) will read: Both companies provide
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If you’re in affiliate marketing, you’re more than likely already aware of the fact that Tim Storm, the founding CEO of FatWallet has been named finalist for Entrepreneur of 2010 awards by Entrepreneur Magazine. That’s a huge achievement for an affiliate marketer, and congratulations are certainly in order. There is
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A couple of days ago I’ve received an email from Google Books informing me of an upcoming launch of Google’s new project — Google Editions — and inviting me to submit PDF files of my books “to sell digital access” to them once the project is open to public. Here’s
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Are you participating in the Fast Company’s Influence Project yet? Launched just 26 days ago, it already has 21,784 people registered, and the number is growing quickly. The slogan of the campaign is “You’re more influential than you think”. The project’s website clarifies the idea: ABOUT THE PROJECT We started
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It’s Friday again, and in the best traditions of Twitter’s #FollowFriday list sharing, today I’d like to turn to email marketers. So, ladies and gentlemen, I now bring you a list of 10 email marketing experts and/or companies/projects to follow on Twitter (bios taken from whatever each of them listed
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<!…and it is now available for a free download! Scary, isn’t it? 100 million Facebook users essentially means every fifth account. A couple hours after the publishing of this database, BBC picked up the news writing: Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not
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I know the title of the post may sound banal and obvious, but it wasn’t such to me when after 500+ days of daily blogging I decided to take a break, and write only Mondays through Fridays. I had heard some old-time bloggers argue that regularity is no longer the
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