Interestingly enough, in late 2011 when blogging about “affiliate manager education in San Francisco in March” (implying the first Affiliate Management Days) Affiliate Summit’s Shawn Collins (coincidentally) antedated what is going to happen in early Spring of 2014. As you may have already heard, in March of 2014 (just like […]
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Last month Cynthia of Marketing Pilgrim urged us to get ready for the 2013 “holiday shopping season” to start sooner and be shorter (25 days versus 31 in 2012). Yahoo! picked up the topic, reminding us of the key shopping dates, again comparing 2013 to 2012. Well… last year “some
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Encouraging advertisers to treat their affiliate marketing programs appropriately I’ve always said: “They are serious marketing campaigns and must be treated with all seriousness.” To prove affiliate marketing’s “seriousness” a good starting point would be an analysis of the ROI it yields. Yesterday my “in UK affiliate marketing’s ROI is
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Today’s major industry news comes from Russia. The country’s largest and most popular search engine Yandex (which is by far more popular than Google there) is transforming its product-search service Yandex.Market to encompass a Cost-Per-Action (CPA) model. Until today Yandex.Market was operating solely on Cost-Per-Click (CPC) basis. The new CPA
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If you are looking for new customers, affiliate marketing is one of the most cost-efficient ways to land these. Whether you are looking for sales, leads, calls, subscriptions, downloads, free trial requests, or anything else… B2C or B2B… you must look into promoting your business via an affiliate marketing program.
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It’s been 16 months since Convertro released their “Affiliate Cookie Stuffing 2.0” report revealing their list of the top 10 cookie stuffers to be aware of. Looking for more up-to-date information on the subject, I was pleasantly surprised to learn the company’s co-founder and CMO, David Perez, actually has substantial
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Last week an interesting Tweet came from Commission Junction University: Less than 1% of affiliate transactions had another affiliate in the click path across @cjnetwork #cju2013 #attribution — Trisha Lyn Fawver (@TrishaLyn) September 11, 2013 It stirred some interesting reactions (and discussions). The industry’s veteran, co-founder of Impact Radius, Todd
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Not too long ago I announced my newest book — Quick Start Guide to Affiliate Marketing, a practical reference guide for aspiring affiliates. Just 4 days after the launch, the book became an absolute bestseller in all three Amazon’s sections where it was placed: E-commerce books, E-commerce eBooks, and eBooks
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For advertisers that take orders over the phone a pay per call program is a must. It will draw impressive conversion rates (always higher than what affiliate click referrals will yield) and higher average order value (1.5 to 2 times higher than purely click/online-oriented campaigns), complementing your PPS and/or PPL
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In May of this year the inaugural European Affiliate Management Days was held in London. It was a success. Here is a video on it where you may find testimonials from Matthew Wood of PerformanceIN, Graham Jenner of TopCashBack.co.uk, and Andrew Warren-Payne of Econsultancy, as well as a brief conference
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