Let me start by saying that Fiverr is a great platform used by multiple upright affiliate marketers on a multitude of reasons. Some are finding affordable help (copywriters, web designers, coders, video production services, etc), others are earning money with Fiverr’s own affiliate program, but the group to which I […]
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We are now working on setting up an affiliate program for a client, and it is going to employ both a pay-per-sale, and a pay-per-lead model. The Internet Marketing Director of the company has emailed me a very good question which I would like to quickly address for the rest
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Remember my post on picking my brain for free? Today is one of those days when someone is doing it, and, hopefully, for the benefit of others, as his questions are pretty broad and answers to them should address not only in this particular case, but help many others in
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For ages there has been an inherent disconnect between the promotional method an incentive affiliate uses, and the end goal of every pay-per-lead program — or that of generating “potential sales contacts“. After all, when the chief end-user motivator is cashback, points, virtual currency, or anything of this kind, it
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A new OPM has emailed me: I may start working soon with a large company that deals with generating leads in a specific vertical in the medical field. This would be my first time managing a lead gen affiliate program. I’ve done some research into this, but I wanted to
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One of very few theoretical and more academically-written books on affiliate marketing (if not the only one) is the Strategic Affiliate Marketing by S. Goldschmidt, S. Junghagen and U. Harris published in 2003. While discussing the basics of affiliate marketing, the authors spend time looking at “Affiliates’ Characteristics” (p. 51-52).
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I’ve noticed several people searching my blog for average PPL/CPL (pay per lead / cost per lead) rates, and decided to do a bit of research to publish those here. I have identified 13 service categories, and analyzed PPL payouts in each category across such networks as Commission Junction, LinkShare
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Affiliate marketing is essentially a Cost Per Action marketing. When there is performance/action — you pay your affiliates. Performance can be of several types, but the most frequently valued ones are sales and leads. Therefore, online businesses either pay a percentage (or a flat amount) of every sale an affiliate
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