Affiliate inactivity is a very common problem. In fact, in most affiliate programs, as much as 90 percent of activity is attributed as little as 10 percent of onboarded affiliates, if not less. So, in managing an affiliate program it is imperative that you devote time to activation campaigns – […]
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Stagnant affiliates are a common problem. It isn’t unusual to see affiliate programs in which at best about 10 percent of affiliates are responsible for 90 percent of all activity in the program. I would go as far as to say that 99% of all affiliate programs experience this problem at one
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Stagnant affiliates are an ongoing problem of the vast majority of affiliate programs out there. Not that the inactive affiliates themselves pose the problem. It is the very fact that they are aboard the program, but not doing much that makes many CMOs and CEOs scratch their heads. There is also
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Earlier this morning affiliates of a program — which positions itself as one lead by a “full-time affiliate manager” — received an interesting email. Here is an excerpt from it (with sensitive information removed): In attempts to make our group of affiliates stronger and to provide a better experience to
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An interesting question came to me from a student who is working on a thesis where he compares affiliate marketing to (direct) social media marketing. He wrote: I am trying to find what will be the average cost of recruiting an affiliate (general) and what are the costs for keeping
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———————————- UPDATE [of 8/23/2012; 7:32 pm ET]: By the end of Day 8, we’ve had 2 more affiliates react to the follow-up email which bumps success rate to 42%. ———————————— As an outsourced affiliate program management agency we have recently took aboard an aged affiliate program. Having analyzed their current
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It’s a fact: in the vast majority of affiliate programs only 5% of affiliates (or less!) generate 95% of action. Sounds familiar? It should. Part of the reason is that very few affiliate managers pay proper attention to the second pillar of affiliate program management — the activation of their
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I think there are three types of calls to action which affiliate program managers and merchants should be using with affiliates. The vast majority of managers and merchants use only one type (the first one, which also illustrated on the left), and this hurts the development of their affiliate program
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