Should you care to know, today is already the 80th day of 2010 (seems like it’s been just yesterday that I’ve made my New Years resolutions, and we’re already that far into the year… wow). This being a nice round number, I have decided to analyze which of my 2010 […]
My Most Popular 2010 Affiliate Marketing Posts …So Far Read More »
In the course of this week two affiliate networks sent out newsletters: Google Affiliate Network (GAN) – to advertisers/merchants, and ShareASale (SAS) – to affiliates. Google Affiliate Network’s Newsletter to Advertisers I really like the way GAN is providing their merchants with a “monthly dashboard” report where Google gives a
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I am signed up with a number of affiliate programs for the purpose of monitoring their promotions and affiliate motivation methods; and the day before yesterday (on March 17 at 2:05 pm) one program manager has sent me a newsletter which started with the following text: I wanted to follow-up
Replace Temporary Commission Increases by Bonuses Read More »
A merchant who is planning on starting an affiliate program, has studied my Online Guide to Affiliate Marketing and emailed me this question: Can you please give me a quick overview of the pros and cons of running our program in-house or going with a network like Google’s Affiliate network?
Run Affiliate Program In-House or on Affiliate Network? Read More »
Five days ago Nielsen reported a 10.5% year-over-year growth in the number of online video viewers — “from 127.6 million unique viewers in February 2009 to 141 million in February 2010.” Two days ago I’ve found out about the birth of a new affiliate network — a video-centered network, founded
Interview with John Ferber, Founder of Video Affiliate Network Read More »
The easiest way to recruit affiliates into your program is to place a link to your affiliate program signup page on your website (this should be the very first thing you do as soon as your affiliate program is launched). Simple, and very natural, isn’t it? Yet this could possibly
Easiest Yet Most Underused Affiliate Recruitment Method Read More »
On more than one occasion I have heard marketers and web analysts bring up the subject of “conflict” between affiliate marketing and other online marketing channels. The primary area of concern has always been the attribution of an online sale. What really helps close that sale, or land this or
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In the U.K. an ad agency has developed a tool that seeks to leverage the growing popularity of Social Media introducing affiliate marketing to the wider masses (essentially, anyone who is on Facebook can use it, and earn money through it). Dan Clays of BLM Quantum that has created the
"Social Affiliate" Tool, Domino's Pizza, and Affiliate Widgets Read More »
Some of these have been announced earlier elsewhere, while others are really fresh baked, but here are the 4 new tools I haven’t yet blogged about, and want to mention them before I get swamped with other topics for blog posts: 1) NexusAware Database — it is a brand new
Four New Affiliate Marketing Tools Not to Miss Read More »
Brad Crooks, a Colorado-based photographer and affiliate marketer, has posted an important link on his Facebook wall — a link to Tax Foundation‘s new report on the harm and failures of the affiliate/advertising tax: I have purposely highlighted, Brook Schaaf’s comment which I echo 100%. I agree that calling it
How So-Called "Amazon Tax" Harms Thousands of Small Businesses Read More »