At the past Affiliate Management Days conference in London I met a bright gentleman from Germany who was (and still is) working for one of the country’s major e-tailers. Today, nearly a year later, I have a pleasure of welcoming him as AM Navigator’s newest guest author. Meet Julian Henrichs and read his first […]
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Note from Geno Prussakov: I am excited to welcome our newest guest blogger, UK-based Simon Swan. Enjoy his first AM Navigator post below. As affiliate marketing continues to mature as a key digital channel to support an organisations acquisition strategy, it is important to have an actionable plan in place to support
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I always talk about affiliate marketing as a business that relationships are important. Getting to know your affiliates, speaking to them regularly while taking an interest in their business, results in better performance for everyone. But can you talk too much? Like most people it can get very busy when
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<!1986 was a bad year. In January there was the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Do you remember that one? I turned 9 just the day before it happened, and even thought we were following it from behind the Iron Curtain, I still remember that day well. But did you know
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Earlier this week I participated on an exciting Affiliate Summit East 2012 panel [announced earlier here] where Eva Klein, Tony Pantano, Brook Schaaf, and yours truly discussed the importance of building high-impact relationships in affiliate marketing. Tony was looking at things from an affiliate standpoint, Brook was focusing more on
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Affiliate Summit, the industry’s major conference, is only 45 days away. I am, of course, alluding to this year’s East Coast conference which is set to take place in the already-traditional Hilton New York on August 12-14, 2012. I will be speaking at the conference, participating in a panel on
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With great excitement we bring you the first-ever guest post at AM Navigator’s blog. We loved Graham Jenner‘s approach, and happily accepted his contribution. Should you want to contribute to this blog as well, email us. I read with interest Geno’s recent post about a drop in open rates on
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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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Earlier this morning thousands of affiliates received a newsletter that looked like this: And while it is fairly easy to figure out who the merchant was, it is not any particular brand that I would like to draw your attention to. There is an affiliate program management (or more specifically,
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A few months ago, at an affiliate marketing conference in Israel, while discussing foundations of affiliate marketing success I touched upon the subject of proactive affiliate program management. I’m afraid that we hear (and use) the phrase so frequently that it is quickly turning into a cliché (or a phrase
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