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An Affiliate Marketing Action Plan: The 5 Cs Approach

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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What Influences Affiliate Banner Performance the Most? Surprise Ahead

As an affiliate manager, one of the most frequently asked questions I receive is “Which one of your program’s creatives performs the best?” When running links/banners performance reports, I noticed that text links perform almost always better across all networks in our affiliate program. Monthly publisher performance when using text

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uCubd Mashups – New Way to Engage and Monetize

Not too long ago I’ve learned of a Los Angeles-based company called uCubd, and got really interested in it because of two things: (i) cool technology, and (ii) the fact that their technology is already integrated with at least one affiliate program, the Amazon’s one. So, I sat down with

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Affiliate Networks, Give Us Mass Banner / Link Edit Function

Not too long ago I’ve given ShareASale credit for a convenient mass banner upload function for merchants. It is convenient, and makes complete sense, saving affiliate program managers a lot of time for more fun things (than banner upload) to do. Just like the mass banner upload, I personally could

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Comparison of Affiliate Creatives and Importance of Assortment

When setting up an affiliate program, each merchant/advertiser gets to a point when they need to decide which creatives to offer affiliates to use for the promotion of the merchant’s products/services. If I were to rank merchant creatives in order of importance (to affiliates), and it were a retail-oriented web

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Beat Your Competition Using Dynamic Affiliate Banners

I have just received an affiliate-geared newsletter from the affiliate program manager at FootballFanatics.com, and it instantly reminded me of the topic I’ve wanted to talk about for a while. It’s the topic of dynamic affiliate banners. Are you using these in your affiliate program? If you aren’t, you should

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How to Convert Other Affiliate Links into Text Links

It is no secret that in affiliate marketing text links generally convert significantly better than banner links. Also, when it comes to text links, it is easy for an affiliate to split-test different text variations (improving conversions) on their end without getting the merchant involved in the process at all.

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