Articles and blog posts that may be of help to affiliates
Coincidentally or not, but 3 of the 6 major US affiliate networks — and here I imply Commission Junction, LinkShare, buy.at, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network and AvantLink — announced holiday deals and offers of their merchants on November 17, 2010. These are: LinkShare affiliate network (in a blog post): ShareASale […]
Affiliate Networks Announce Holiday Deals and Offers Read More »
In case you haven’t seen Eric Nagel‘s tweet this morning, here it is: This affiliate is selling his ClubCouponCode.com website. In my opinion, this project/site of his is a great proof of the fact that affiliate marketing is alive and kicking. Of course, the coupon/discount focus of the website (a
Affiliate Site Goes from Zero to US Average Yearly Salary Read More »
Having surveyed more than 5,000 affiliates and merchants, and having conducted “dozens of discussions with industry experts and insiders”, Revenue Performance has announced the top ranked affiliate networks in the performance marketing industry. Some of the results may look surprising, others logical, but overall, it’s an interesting ranking, and I
Top 20 Affiliate Networks Chosen by 5000 Affiliate Marketers Read More »
An affiliate has emailed me the following question: Do you know any affiliate networks that operate in the Latin America region, and especially in Brazil and Argentina? Good one. I haven’t worked with any of them, but I know they do exist (focusing either on both US Hispanic audiences, and
Latin America Affiliate Marketing Networks Read More »
A friend, and fellow digital marketer, Michael Vorel, has just tweeted some good news for all of us dependent on the well-being of e-commerce: Michael is referring to comScore’s U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates for Q3 2010 which have been released just today, showing that “that online retail spending reached
Q4 2010: Promising Future & Product Categories to Watch Read More »
In the beginning of August 2010, I wrote about the 15 factors that influence affiliate choice in picking a program. Today, as I was looking through my previously-posted polls, I’ve come across this one, and was happy to see that we’ve had more votes roll in since the time of
15 Factors Detrimental to Affiliate Program Choice (Revisited) Read More »
I personally hate it — can’t help but recall how just recently I was explaining to my daughter that “hate” is a very strong verb (and she should be careful how she uses it), but here I mean it — when “affiliate marketing” is used in conjunction with words like “spam”
Affiliate Marketing Spammers — Disgrace to Industry Read More »
An affiliate has emailed me the following question: How do you evaluate affiliate programs against one another (e.g. how does Shareasale compare to Pricegrabber, etc.) First of all, ShareASale is an affiliate network (with 3000+ affiliate programs on it), while PriceGrabber, as far as I understand, runs an in-house-based affiliate
5 KPIs for Affiliates to Analyze While Evaluating Programs Read More »
An affiliate emailed me the following question about a program run on an affiliate network: I’d like you to send me a custom text link that I can modify as necessary — the html code in which I can plug in any web address and text. The answer will depend
Custom Linking on LinkShare, ShareASale & Commission Junction Read More »
Yesterday I discovered a cool tool, tweeted about it, and obviously wasn’t the only one who loved the idea: So what exactly does Domai.nr do? It helps you search for domain names, but in a way that’s very different from what domain registrars traditionally offer you. Domai.nr searches for all
Value-Added Affiliate Marketing – Domai.nr Case Read More »