Affiliate-Driven Customers Are 8 Percent More Valuable Than Average

In a new research devoted to e-commerce customer acquisition Custora has analyzed how people shop online when referred to e-tailers via different marketing channels. Having studied “72 million customers from 86 U.S. retailers across 14 industries” (over the past four years), they have found out that the top [tweetherder]3 most […]

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I Don't Work for Coffee (or Food)… But I'll Make an Exception

If you know anything about me, you know how I react to the hey-lemme-buy-a-coffee/beer/dinner-to-pick-your-brain type of requests. But in the coming few days, I am happy to make an exception (or a few!) Tomorrow I am traveling to speak at Search Marketing Day in Poland; and looking at my schedule

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Want Super Affiliates to Place Your Link on Homepage? Bad Goal

<!9 out of 10 prospective affiliate management clients with whom I speak see super affiliate recruitment as one of the principle objectives for their affiliate manager(s). Furthermore, over 50% of them believe that the key to success is in having these newly-recruited super affiliates place the merchant’s banner(s) on the

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10 Avenues for Passive (Yet Highly Effective) Affiliate Recruitment

While surveying “more than sixteen hundred affiliates” for the newest 2013 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report one of questions asked: “How do you typically find out about new affiliate programs?” (p. 15) The distribution of votes was truly interesting: If you look carefully, you will notice that while some respondents mentioned

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Run a Login-Based Affiliate Website? Provide Access to Get Approved

User-authenticated websites are commonplace these days. And many affiliates — from such power players as Bank of America and ShopDiscover to smaller websites — make their offers available only to registered users, putting most of the website behind the login form. And such strategy absolutely understandable. However, if you run

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Lori Weiman of The Search Monitor on Affiliate Paid Search Compliance

Last week The Search Monitor, creators of the Affiliate Monitor tool, announced: The Search Monitor analyzed the compliance level of all affiliates found advertising across The Search Monitor community to create a snapshot of affiliate behavior. The analysis found that 71% of affiliates using paid search are following the program

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Evangelism Marketing versus Affiliate Marketing

Last week I held an affiliate marketing seminar at the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University). Regardless of the fact that the MBA students just had an exam before it, the seminar produced a lively discussion [pictures here] with multiple good questions asked. One of the questions was: Is affiliate

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