How To Encourage This Affiliate To Promote You
One thing I really hate about affiliate marketing is negotiating deals. Firstly I don’t have time to go through the often laborious and painful courtship ritual of what you want versus what we want before coming out at some mutually beneficial (or not) commission level that gives a merchant carte blanche to annoy us every [...]
Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: Encouragement, Incentives
Musings About Affiliate Mergers and Makeovers
March 1st 2010 proved to be a momentous day in affiliate marketing. Not only did it signal the launch of the all new Affiliate4U it also brought news of Affiliate Window’s acquisition of Buy.at. It also saw the announcement that former Tradedoubler IPD Andreas Andreou has joined the board of Quidco. All very exciting events [...]
Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: affiliate window, Buy.at
Should Affiliates Be Concerned By Rebate Catchers?
Many content affiliates already lament the potential loss of commission to cashback sites and voucher codes, but surprisingly the threat of the rebate catcher seems to have bypassed many! This begs the question should we be concerned?
A rebate catcher is a piece of software or toolbar that activates when a user (who’s legitimately downloaded it) [...]
Categories: Affiliate Marketing
Tags: Rebate Catcher, Toolbars
Ineffective Affiliates Fail to Satisfy and Perform!
Culling inactive or even ineffective affiliates is back in the spotlight this week thanks to Ann Summers on Tradedoubler and an excellent discussion over on Affiliates4U. All affiliates who make one sale during February will be invited to remain on their program, whilst all others will be told adieu unless they can satisfy those in [...]
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Merchants, Are Your Product Feeds Leaving Affiliates Hungry?
An affiliate is in need of good product feeds as much as Portsmouth FC are in need of a couple of quid. The latter merchants probably can’t do much about (sorry Pompey dudes, hope it works out) but why the heck are product feeds still a flaming problem? Does anyone look at them? Check them? [...]
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