Earlier this week I participated on an exciting Affiliate Summit East 2012 panel [announced earlier here] where Eva Klein, Tony Pantano, Brook Schaaf, and yours truly discussed the importance of building high-impact relationships in affiliate marketing. Tony was looking at things from an affiliate standpoint, Brook was focusing more on […]
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I wrote last month about the need for clients to share their objectives with affiliates to get the most from their programme. Objectives are also important when planning and measuring your promotions. You could have a number of different objectives that you want to achieve but it can be best
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Affiliate Summit East 2012 is just around the corner, and looking through the conference’s agenda I couldn’t help but highlight affiliate management-related sessions on it. There is a number of really promising ones to look forward to, and today I’d like to bring you my (chronological) list of the top
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Up until this year I haven’t seen much quality material put together on this subject; and I’m glad to see more good content being put together as time goes. Today I’d like to draw your attention to three such comparisons of the two ways to manage your affiliate program. 1.
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A few hours ago Priest Willis who manages BuyCostumes.com affiliate program (yes, a direct competitor of our client, but he does deserve the mention for spotting it) tweeted: Wow! OPMs, affiliate mgrs, affiliates, what do you think about this? tcrn.ch/Md6zW1 — Priest Willis (@priestwillis) July 10, 2012 He has
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Earlier this morning thousands of affiliates received a newsletter that looked like this: And while it is fairly easy to figure out who the merchant was, it is not any particular brand that I would like to draw your attention to. There is an affiliate program management (or more specifically,
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It seems like only yesterday — with a butterflies-in-my-stomach type of excitement — I announced the launch of the world’s first affiliate program management conference. In case you missed the San Francisco one in March (which turned out to be a great success), here are the recaps of all 29
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Yesterday afternoon, a friend, foodie blogger, and fellow marketer, Patrick Vesperman — who also happens to be the senior marketing analyst in charge of Target.com’s affiliate program — posted an amusing thing on his Facebook wall. Here it is (with his permission): I have no way of knowing whether the
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An good question came from a beginning affiliate program manager: I have been in the affiliate marketing industry for 5 years and I know your expertise in the industry very well. I wanted to ask you about the industry standard for affiliate manager compensation. I have been approached by a
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Earlier this week eMarketer tweeted: 79% of US marketing professionals plan to increase spending on social media in the next 12 months – ow.ly/atWqm — eMarketer (@eMarketer) April 24, 2012 And among the first accounts to ReTweet my mention of the above was TicketNetwork’s affiliate program‘s Twitter account. Their RT
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