I have been in touch with several new affiliate managers and I have been asked again and again to give some tips on affiliate management based on my personal experience. As we all know, Affiliate Marketing is a young but fast growing industry so it is not uncommon that we have related professionals migrating their career to affiliate management. With the growing demand, we should expect more people jumping to our fence.One of the basic advise to newbies I give is that they should learn to ... Read more »
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Getting Noticed By Publishers
Posted on 18 June 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
If you are new in affiliate management, it is easy to be discourage by lack of response from publishers that you are trying to recruit or even those that have already joined your program. As is the common expression among affiliate managers, affiliates have a short memory, so you have to constantly take steps to get your affiliate program noticed for recruitment and later re-noticed for retention. Understandably, affiliates are themselves busy with their own endeavors and it is normal that they ... Read more »
Google Sites: Free Websites with Unlimited Pages
Posted on 15 June 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
As affiliate manager, I meet a lot of affiliates who have been interested to take their campaigns to the next level BUT are limited by their budget and their limited web design ability. I was recently introduced to the Google Sites feature and I think this site addresses some of the basic needs for affiliates who have the above mentioned concerns.With Google sites, you can minimize your web site building budget as it somes FREE. It is a tool that doesn’t require any web design or html know... Read more »
Planning your June Affiliate Promotion
Posted on 22 May 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
It may be a bit late to plan for your June affiliate campaigns this deep into May. But it's better late than never.Most affiliate networks are going into the Father and Graduation theme for their campaigns so most consumers promotions you would find will be in this concentration. If you subscribe to your participating programs' newsletters, I am sure you would find great consumer promotions which you can use to drive sales. Most networks also have coupons and deals database which you can access ... Read more »
So what exactly is happening in the consumer brain nowadays?
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
In the last blog I made, I mentioned that there is an increasing number of online consumers who are honing their shopping skills. This skill is usually perfected by doing online research which helps them make intelligent decision on what to buy, when to buy, how to save and which product provides added value. A year or two ago - this reality was not the prevailing sentiment for online shoppers. The recession had such an appaling impact on consumers. People are now aware of dire consequences of s... Read more »
Building Network slowly and steadily...and Some Tips 4 ya!
Posted on 14 May 2009 by Kelly Chen Lian Na, Affiliate
Okie...I am taking over RINA now. I can't change the name but yep, this is my picture. (AffiliateBot Administrator, please change my name to Kelly.) The Kittymail.com is no longer but it's still teh same one used for PayPal payments. THANK YOU! Now....where were we?Time to Get OFF my butt (so to speak)! Just realised I FORGOT I signed up here!! Time to make use of AffiliateBot cos I have not been monetizing my blog for YEARS!! I only started ... Read more »
Online Consumer Trends for 2009
Posted on 08 May 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
Consumer trends are showing signs that ecommerce sales would come out flat for 2009. eMarketer forecasts that continued recessionary pressure will cause online sales to contract by 0.4% in 2009. Online retailers are toning down their spending on inventory, ads and customer service. Consumers on the other hand had started to change their buying habit. To cope up with the economic realities, consumer spending had been reduced as a rise in consumer bargain research surged. This confirms that recess... Read more »
Mother's Day Affiliate Sales Forecasts
Posted on 21 April 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
As a gloomy sales forecast for the upcoming Mother's Day event was released by the National Retail Federation, several merchants have started to rethink their strategy to maximize sales. There will always be the gift-givers who would be sticking to the customary flowers and jewelry items, but this year it would be be wise for mechants and/or affiliates to target consumers who are searching for interesting alternatives in an attempt to save some cash.To make the best of what is at hand, it is tim... Read more »
New Affiliate Conference - June 17-20th - Denver - Free to Affiliates!
Posted on 13 April 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
This is something NEW in affiliate industry - a conference for affiliates - FREEIf you are an affiliate, this is YOUR event. The industry is very young and it does not help to be charging exorbitant cost for affiliates to join such conference. Affiliates are the one bringing in revenue to the companies that attend/exhibit on these conferences and they should be paying such venues where can they can meet with you. I believe it is fundamental that an affiliate should not pay to attend such event. ... Read more »
Affilate Tax Law
Posted on 31 March 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate
Affiliates tax law, aka E-Fairness Legislation, has become the battlefront between the brick and mortar businesses and online retailers as both struggles to survive the current economic crisis. Independent retailers are lamenting the current phenomenon wherein an unfair disadvantage exists as many out-of-state businesses reap the benefits of a large consumer base, while simultaneously putting local stores out of business. The online retailers who are opposing affiliate tax bill contend tha... Read more »
