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 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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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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Every email sent to an affiliate threatening them with “termination” unless they do something (and here it doesn’t matter what the affiliate manager is asking for — putting up links, traffic referrals, or lead/sale generation) is a big thick nail in the coffin of the affiliate program. Even in traditional
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Remember my Puma Affiliate Program Manager Doesn’t Get It post on 1/7/2011? Well, checking my affiliate account’s email box today I’ve found a follow-up message which reads as follows (highlighting mine): At first, when I just started reading it, I thought: “Awesome!! They finally get it!”… but as I read
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Affiliates of Puma.com who haven’t generated a sale in 2010 have just received an email from the program’s manager. Here’s an excerpt from it: I’ve checked my records, and it looks like I personally applied (and got approved) into this particular affiliate program 2 months and 1 week ago: Looking
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Those who follow my blog, magazine articles, and conference presentations know how fascinated I am with the subject of motivation, especially when it comes to effective motivation of such a unique “workforce” as affiliates. Needless to say why a post published on Econsultancy.com yesterday has immediately drawn my attention —
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A speech given by Dan Pink at the RSA and later animated by Cognitive Media was uploaded to YouTube last month, and has already received close to 400,000 views, and a storm of accolades from marketing and management professionals around the world. No wonder why. Dan talks one of the
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Have you ever wondered if there are any other motivators available to affiliate program managers besides cash bonuses, prizes, and other extrinsic means of affiliate motivation? There are! It has also been proven that the more cash bonuses you give out, the more the per-bonus amount is expected to increase
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