Todd Farmer had just relaunched his AffPlan with a new Affiliate Strategies session: Good to see the good project being reborn. I still remember greeting their very first podcast a year and 29 days ago. I’ve just noticed that the AffPlan.com website profiles the top 4 US affiliate networks, listing […]
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Earlier this week, while listening to David Szetela’s and Brad Geddes’ How Adwords will be Affected by Google Instant podcast I’ve learned about a cool tool which lets you compare Google Suggest results — Web Seer. As we know, it is precisely Google Suggest (with its autocomplete function) that is
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Having analyzed how affiliates see links on 5 affiliate networks — Commission Junction, LinkShare, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network, and AvantLink — I have noticed that 2 of these 5 (CJ and AvantLink) offer data on link performance. Commission Junction shows link’s 3-months and 7-days EPC: AvantLink, in their turn, displays
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Not too long ago I’ve given ShareASale credit for a convenient mass banner upload function for merchants. It is convenient, and makes complete sense, saving affiliate program managers a lot of time for more fun things (than banner upload) to do. Just like the mass banner upload, I personally could
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I manage an affiliate program for a merchant who is simultaneously utilizing two affiliate networks: Commission Junction and ShareASale. I’ve just had to upload 6 new banners to each network, and in one case it took me 8+ times longer than in the other. Here are the details: Commission Junction
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A good question came to me in the email yesterday: Is there a certain metric you use to predict revenue potential for a site? I have a potential client with a blog that gets as many as 75k uniques and close to 200k pageviews per month… He can’t understand that
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A few days ago Clarke Duncan, one of the co-founders of Paid On Results UK affiliate network, sent me the following tweet: Paid On Results (POR) were the first affiliate network to create a deep-linking tool for affiliates, and this was back in 2005 [see the way it used to
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<!”It is interesting that we do not see much written on affiliate marketing analytics, whereas if there is one industry that relies on analytical data especially heavily it is affiliate marketing” — this is how my newest article starts. It is one of the feature articles in the Summer 2010
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Communication failures abound in affiliate marketing. Every day merchants are mistreating their affiliate partners but failing to keep them informed on what’s going on in their affiliate marketing programs. And here I’m not referring to keeping affiliates up-to-date on the customer-oriented promos and bestselling products, sales and discounts, new affiliate
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Direct deposit is by far the most preferred payment method among affiliates. Almost two-thirds of affiliates choose it over all other possible payment methods [more here], and out of the remaining one-third the majority has to look into other options, because they are located outside of the U.S. or Canada.
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