Back in late 2009 I ran a poll which revealed that only 38% of affiliates, generally, pay good attention to affiliate program agreements before submitting their application (24% always, 14% often). Here’s that pie-chart: Based on the above data, I’ve been strongly recommending merchants to include a Summary of their […]
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Yesterday afternoon a really cool news landed in my email inbox from China: Wiley has signed a contract with a Beijing-based publisher for the translation and publication of my Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day book! About half a year ago I keynoted a conference in China, and was
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Over the past two weeks I have set-up and launched several new affiliate programs. They all outsourced their affiliate program management to us. So, now that they’re up, we have hundreds of new affiliate applications to review. Looking through some of the newer ones this morning, I couldn’t help but
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Yesterday, Shopify has put together a good post on how to use “About” pages to increase sales. As I was reading through it I was reminded of how many merchants who run affiliate programs either (a) have lousy “Affiliate Program” pages, or (b) don’t have any such pages at all,
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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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We certainly don’t see this happen often — in fact, I don’t recall an affiliate merger/acquisition of this size ever (a year ago WhaleShark Media acquired VoucherCodes.co.uk for $40 (£25) million, while in 2010 they paid $90m for RetailMeNot.com in the U.S., and we thought those were impressive) — and
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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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Oh, affiliate marketing videos! There certainly is no lack of you online. However, not all videos are created equal. Neither are all of them worthy of a serious marketer’s time. Some promise you overnight riches (if you buy their tool or training course, of course), others plainly lack “meat on the
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An excellent question came from a director of a young Europe-based affiliate network (well, truth be known, from an affiliate on his network), and with his permission I’d like to answer it in public. Here’s what he wrote: We have received a question from an affiliate regarding a commission drop
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On Monday morning I tweeted: Affiliates, when setting up affiliate network acct do NOT put “None” into incentive program description. It marks you as incentive affiliate — Geno Prussakov (@ePrussakov) May 21, 2012 I have been getting questions about that tweet. So, let me elaborate on it, as I believe
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