affiliate recruitment

3 Free Email Verification Tools for Affiliate and Link Outreach

Whether you are working on link building or affiliate recruitment, you want to know if the recipient’s email address is intact before sending out that message of yours. After all, unless one has valid contact information at hand, how can he expect to make the contact? There are numerous email […]

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Affiliate Networks Provide Infrastructure. Management is Separate

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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10 Avenues for Passive (Yet Highly Effective) Affiliate Recruitment

While surveying “more than sixteen hundred affiliates” for the newest 2013 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report one of questions asked: “How do you typically find out about new affiliate programs?” (p. 15) The distribution of votes was truly interesting: If you look carefully, you will notice that while some respondents mentioned

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Affiliate Recruitment Case Study: How to Find New CJ Publishers

A month ago I blogged about a new structure-based affiliate recruitment tool offered by Commission Junction (CJ) to advertisers who run their affiliate programs on their network. Since then CJ has improved the “Search” function, expanding it to include all affiliates (including new ones) on the network, and not only

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Commission Junction (CJ) Launches Affiliate Recruitment Tool (Beta)

One of the world’s major affiliate networks, Commission Junction (CJ), has launched an internal affiliate recruitment tool. If you are a CJ advertiser, you may now find it by going to “Manage Publishers” tab, and proceeding to “Publisher Recruitment (beta)” sub-tab: The two tabs to the left of this newest

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Recruiting New Affiliates – Tips, Tactics and Tools

Although any successful Internet business will automatically attract eager affiliates, we should not rest on our laurels and expect this to be enough. A good affiliate manager must not only work with these affiliates who seek out the merchant, but also apply proactive efforts to discover and recruit affiliates. Of

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Found a Good Affiliate? Look for Similar Websites (with Free Tool)

I know it sounds simple, but how many of you, especially among beginning affiliate managers, are using this extremely effective method of finding new affiliates? Looking for similar websites is especially important when you are searching for good content affiliates — yes, those with “unique content” which “suggests editorial credibility

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2 Hidden Gems for (Free) Affiliate Recruitment

Affiliate recruitment is (or should be) an integral part of every affiliate program manager’s routine. And while some managers get away with what I call passive recruitment (e.g.: having new affiliates join the program via affiliate program directories, or affiliate program description page), nothing beats active affiliate recruitment. There are

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20 Online Influencer Outreach Tools to Use in Affiliate Recruitment

Yesterday Ann Smarty tweeted: 11 Tools to Find Niche Twitter Influencers awe.sm/c4oAf — Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) September 10, 2012 …and her tweet (and link) gave me an idea for this post: With the plethora of influencer outreach tools out there, why not put together a list of them right here

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