An interesting question came to me from a Europe-based consultant who is now focused on affiliate recruitment for a client. His current focus is U.S. affiliates. After describing his situation, he asked: Do you know where I would be able to find a list of the biggest 15-20 partners on the average […]
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No week passes by without someone reaching out to me via social media about their “great” affiliate program. Somehow Twitter and LinkedIn end up being the top platforms preferred by most of these recruiters. Having received another one of such invites via Twitter, I thought of putting together a blog
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Stagnant affiliates are an ongoing problem of the vast majority of affiliate programs out there. Not that the inactive affiliates themselves pose the problem. It is the very fact that they are aboard the program, but not doing much that makes many CMOs and CEOs scratch their heads. There is also
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When I audit affiliate programs, one of the first things I analyse is how diversified their affiliate base is. It isn’t unusual for the chart to look something like this: Does the above pie chart look familiar? Keep reading then… No affiliate program has to be this heavily dependent on any
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It isn’t every month that affiliates of Amazon Associates program receive emails as strongly worded as the one that they have sent out on the afternoon of October 26, 2015. But the situation called for it and all Amazon.com’s affiliates who have not yet taken action to declare their websites as non-targeting
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Following up on my previous post (where I summarized my findings on the top affiliate niches based on a research we’ve conducted across six U.S. affiliate networks), today I am bringing you detailed breakdowns of the categories into which the top affiliate programs fall on each of the analyzed networks. Together with
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Among questions most frequently asked about affiliate marketing, queries about “hot niches” and “best affiliate programs” always abound. There are various ways to reflect an affiliate program’s comparative ‘bestness’. CJ by Conversant utilizes a 5-bar scale, ShareASale places their top advertisers into a Top 100 PowerRank, Affiliate Window scores merchants according to their AWin Index. In some instances we enjoy
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Data feed — a file (.CSV, .XML, .XLS or any other type) that lists a merchant’s product information which merchants provide to affiliates enabling them to feature the merchant’s products right on affiliate-built websites [more here]. Cleanup — the act or process of cleaning up [source]. Unclean data feeds have been an ongoing problem. Once
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Today I received a message from an affiliate marketer who is interested in joining one of the affiliate programs that my company manages. Among other (good) questions he asked: What exactly are you looking for in an affiliate? It isn’t every day that you receive a question like this. In fact,
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At the past Affiliate Management Days conference in London I met a bright gentleman from Germany who was (and still is) working for one of the country’s major e-tailers. Today, nearly a year later, I have a pleasure of welcoming him as AM Navigator’s newest guest author. Meet Julian Henrichs and read his first
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