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Affiliate Marketing Merchants Survey from E-consultancy

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

 
E-consultancy is an online publisher of best practice internet marketing reports, research and how-to guides. E-consultancy, named Publisher of the Year at the 2006 AOP Awards, also publishes buyer’s guides and has a directory of 100,000+ third party internet marketing white papers. More than 700 E-consultancy users responded to the research email.
The merchants [...]

Affiliates Appreciate Phone Tracking

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Phone tracking for Affiliate sales is not an all too common practice for merchants presently.  It isn’t necessarily difficult to implement, it just requires a script added to the merchant’s site.  The biggest hurdle is getting the phone representatives to ask for the code from customer.  You can also set up an exclusive “800 number” [...]

Sharper Image Affiliate Program Update

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Sharper Image may not be doing well financially but they are still doing all they can to try and get people to visit their stores online and offline.  Sharper Image is using their Affiliates to drive online traffic to their stores.  They are currently offering a number of specials right now to entice Affiliate [...]

Free Trials - Affiliate Tool?

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Affiliates use a number of different methods to market their websites. Advertising products is very important, even if through a free avenue, such as search engines.
The question is … when the customer arrives at your Affiliate site, are they going to make you money or are they going to leave?
Is your Affiliate page captivating [...]

Choice of Affiliate Networks for Merchants and Affiliates

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Each major Affiliate Network has something different to offer both Merchants and Affiliates. In this article I will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of three of the major four Affiliate Networks: Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Share a Sale.
Commission Junction (Merchants)
Merchant Pros

Ease of Recruiting - large number of Affiliates associated with CJ makes the [...]

Key to Affiliate PPC Success

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Affiliates who rely on Pay per Click campaigns to drive their revenues must be dedicated to the products/services they are selling.  Pay per Click can be a dangerous game if proper research and testing isn’t accomplished.  If you go into a PPC campaign with no prior thought, get ready to watch the money fly out [...]

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