In one of “The Future of Performance Marketing” sessions at the Affiliate Summit today, Larry Adams, the product manager for affiliate marketing for the Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick Performics), has brough up an interesting observation. He has mentioned that upon analyzing statistics, they have discovered that a vast majority of affiliates on […]
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I have mentioned this in my presentation at the Affiliate Summit today, but let me reiterate it here again. I believe that there is no such thing as “affiliate management”. If such a phrase (and moreover, such an approach) exists in your organization/team, it’s time to get rid of it!
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Yesterday’s “A Case for Inspirational Leadership” blog post by Roshan Thomas did my heart good. Even though “inspirational leadership” normally has a slighly different undertone, posts like his motivate us all to become better leaders, thereby creating a healthier and happier working environments for those that we are called to lead.
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Nearly every prospective client that calls me – be it a small one-man-show business that has just started a website, or a large corporation with years-long online presence – asks the same question: “How many affiliates will you recruit for us; and how quickly?” The desire behind the question is clear. The belief is that the
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Jeremy Schoemaker’s recent post which included definitions of what super affiliates are, with its link back to his September Twitter poll on the same topic, encouraged me to entertain the question of super affiliate definition in my own blog. As an affiliate program manager, I would define super affiliates in
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Maharashtra is a state located on the Arabian coast of India, covering an area of 307,731 km2 (118,816 sq mi) or 9.84% of the total geographical area of India. [source] Its capital is Mumbai (Bombay) – the largest city in India, which is also rightly considered the country economic capital. Besides
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When doing research for my affiliate program management book, “A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing”, I looked at 100 affiliate programs in the same vertical, and analyzed their program agreements. The results were literally shocking: 51% of the merchants lacked Terms of Service agreements altogether, 36% had extremely generic ones,
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It is not unusual for an online merchant to wonder if they really should have a dedicated affiliate program manager, or if the responsibilities of the affiliate manager can be handled by an already employed member of their staff. To answer this question, you need to know what exactly an
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Several times a month an affiliate receives e-mails where merchants are threatening to remove him/her from their affiliate programs if the affiliate does not become “active”. Another thread was started on this topic at ABestWeb [see it here] just today. And while I could write up a whole post on
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I have started a new group at LinkedIn today – one devoted to affiliate program management, one where affiliate managers (in-house and OPMs) can network, and discuss issues pertaining to affiliate management. If interested, you may join the group here. It’s been live for less than a day, and we
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