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 […]
Run a Login-Based Affiliate Website? Provide Access to Get Approved Read More »
Did you know that Facebook is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica? Neither did I. But at the first glance the below affiliate application makes it appear just like this: While many affiliate managers and merchants/advertisers are still very cautions about affiliates who use social as their primary method of promotion (and
Tips (for Social Media Affiliates) to Get Your Application Approved Read More »
Earlier this morning, as I was going through affiliate applications into one of our clients’ affiliate programs, this one really made me raise an eyebrow: I’ve known Anita Campbell for years, and have personally been active on her BizSugar.com website/aggregator. And what affiliate manager wouldn’t be happy should a resource
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Back in late 2009 I ran a poll which revealed that only 38% of affiliates, generally, pay good attention to affiliate program agreements before submitting their application (24% always, 14% often). Here’s that pie-chart: Based on the above data, I’ve been strongly recommending merchants to include a Summary of their
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Over the past two weeks I have set-up and launched several new affiliate programs. They all outsourced their affiliate program management to us. So, now that they’re up, we have hundreds of new affiliate applications to review. Looking through some of the newer ones this morning, I couldn’t help but
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It appears that while I do my best to take note of positive news and developments in the industry it is when I blog about problems (read: a negative news/issues) that I get most interest and participation from my readers. And unfortunately this is natural… But today I’d like to
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I am currently training an in-house affiliate program manager who has been hired to manage an affiliate program in the Flowers & Gifts vertical/category. As we’re going through the process, she is asking some good questions. Her following ones about affiliate applications inspired this blog post: What type of affiliates
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Affiliate fraud can take can take different forms. Most of them as well as the ways to prevent these from happening were discussed here. Today I’d like to draw affiliate program managers’ attention to one particular feature available to merchants on one particular network. I am a strong believer that
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A regular reader of my blog has emailed me: I am new to the title of “Affiliate Manager” and I’m having a hard time discerning what classifies an affiliate as a “good” or “bad” affiliate. Do you have a “list” of what to look for when it regards accepting/declining affiliate
Affiliate Application: Watch Out for These 10 Red Flags Read More »
In the manner of my recent experiment with LinkShare premium advertisers, today I have conducted a similar test with the top affiliate programs on Google Affiliate Network. Having sorted advertisers by “Payout Rank”, I have applied to 100 4-bar ones (since each bar “represents one quarter of the advertisers payout
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