With great excitement we bring you the first-ever guest post at AM Navigator’s blog. We loved Graham Jenner‘s approach, and happily accepted his contribution. Should you want to contribute to this blog as well, email us. I read with interest Geno’s recent post about a drop in open rates on […]
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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, 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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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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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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It seems like only yesterday — with a butterflies-in-my-stomach type of excitement — I announced the launch of the world’s first affiliate program management conference. In case you missed the San Francisco one in March (which turned out to be a great success), here are the recaps of all 29
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Earlier this week HasOffers announced their integration with UnsubCentral, a partnership which brings suppression lists to affiliate offers (not something I’ve seen elsewhere in quite this form). The official press release summarized: HasOffers’ integration with UnsubCenteral is innovative in the way it creates a seamless experience for HasOffers’ customers. Affiliate
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A few minutes ago AvantLink has officially launched AvantMetrics as a standalone affiliate marketing analytics product and brand [announcement here]. Apparently, this “click stream intelligence” functionality has been available to AvantLink clients for a while, but only directly within the network, and this has just changed. Being extremely excited about
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Outsourced program management is frequently misunderstood; and explaining what an OPM (outsourced program manager) does is not any simpler than describing what affiliates do, or what affiliate marketing is. In fact, it is a little more complex of a task, because you first have to explain what is affiliate marketing, who are
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