Affiliate Marketing Network

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

What's Advantage of Launching Program At Affiliate Network

Before launching affiliate programs at the affiliate network, get to know what such networks are and how these work.

Merchants willing to tap benefits of affiliate marketing for branding and increasing sales revenues have myriad options for announcing their affiliate programs. They can do it through their website, by creating altogether a separate web site or web page. Or else, they can launch their programs on the online platform of affiliate network. However, advantages of uploading affiliate programs on affiliate or merchant affiliate network are plenteous.

An affiliate network is a place where affiliates and advertisers join in to exchange affiliate-ship. This is a place where advertisers can launch programs in order to get marketers to market their products and services on the basis of pre-settled percentage or amount of fees. Such networks house web based resources of affiliates, website owners in collaborating each other to actualize their financial gains.

These networks allow all types of business owners find their suitable marketing agencies and individual online marketers. Whether it is a small, medium or big business enterprises operating locally or at the level of multiple states, countries or continents get equal space on this platform of affiliate network. Moreover, whatever be the niche of merchants from retail, real estate, gaming, lifestyle, software download, educational – such affiliate network welcomes all merchants to find affiliates as per their niche and target.

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Friday, May 30, 2008

Which is The Best Program In An Affiliate Program Network

Take account of the compensation model, standard of products, sales records of the programs before you select one program from affiliate program network.

If you are a beginner, you might get baffled by hundreds of programs that affiliate program network contains. It is a fact, that selection of the right and the most appropriate affiliate program or programs from the network is the first step in affiliate business. It is also a very crucial step in determining your performance in affiliate marketing business. Therefore, to make your tasks easier, here are some proven tips -

The program must be intriguing to you so that you can intrigue your customers to it. The best way to check traffic pulling potential of the products is through asking yourself if you will be interested to buy it.

Next, check if the standard of the program you are choosing from affiliate program network matches your expectations. In this regard, look for the programs that include greater number of affiliates and experts to ensure the standard.

Pick the one that are offering feasible and useful products. By conducting researches on the existing consumers of products or users of the services, you will get a clear picture of feasibility of products. Customers' testimonials, reviews, users' opinions posted at the forums, blogs etc. sites are helpful for this purpose.

Finally, track down some of the records related to growth, sales records, commission payments etc., in prior to signing up with an program from the affiliate program network.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

How To Earn Profits In Affiliate Network Through Email Campaigns?

Follow effective email marketing campaign rules to make consistent flow of money at affiliate network.

An email marketing campaign can be a compelling marketing strategy in affiliate network. It is proven to be one of the most powerful promotional tactics as it can be used to send newsletters, auto responders, act as a please mailer that closes several sales leads, announce special promotions, invitations or new products and many more. Here are the secrets how biggies use email marketing campaigns and have been successful in affiliate marketing network.

Make sure the email marketing messages for affiliate network are written in either HTML and text, at the same time. Several clients may not accept concepts of HTML based email messages. Do not forget to create one or a few and unique auto responder messages to follow up your prospects automatically. As email campaigns are likely to be perceived as spams, so ensure you have spam checked your email contents before shooting them. You can use the Spam Filters or ISP Blocks software dedicated to check spam quality of email messages. In this regard, be sure get your email campaign be complaint to Spam Laws.

To make email messages more personal and authentic, associate the mail with your email signature. You may use your email messages as a short article or product descriptions elaborating how the benefits can make life better of your consumers. At last, keep in mind that, email messages written for affiliate network should not be long enough to make your readers lose interest. Make it as long as five lines for the best results.

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Affiliate Network – Affiliates Beware!

There is no way of checking the credibility for a network or merchant based in a different country. Affiliates seldom talk to their clients and whatever happens is through mails and messages only.

Website publishers – Beware! There are many online scams that have come to surface recently. Many merchants and affiliate networks have been exploiting the web site owners by promising them great money for promoting and selling their products.

Merchants and networks have been making a lot of fuss with the returns and have kept web site publishers waiting for their due payments. There is no guarantee whether the money will reach you on time or not. There is no security cover, no legislation that can help you if things go wrong. However, cases like that does not happen quite often. But, the site owners and web experts need to be cautious about tricks and deceptions that have been reported.

It would be very helpful for everyone in the online field to share information and unmask the tricksters. People who are deceived seldom write about it and site owners continue to get exploited. With active participation and sharing on discussion forums and blogs we can create awareness about the popular scams and the people responsible for such acts.

There is no way of checking the credibility for a network or merchant based in a different country. Affiliates seldom talk to their clients and whatever happens is through mails and messages only. Many affiliates do not even try to find out whether the merchant has any web site or contact details at all.

Networks and agencies that provide support are still better. But it is recommended to speak at least once in a week with the service provider and know the status.

What we want is a fair and transparent system. Such a system is least abused and the high claims made by the merchants and networks are put to test, before being accepted.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Affiliate Program – Hot Pursuit

At present, almost all major service providers are engaged in developing the tracking systems to make their programs more effective.

Recently there was news about some affiliate marketing agency developing an advanced tracking system based on cross cookie correlation. It may sound Greek to many, but its advantages can be comprehended easily and using minimum of the jargons. The function will help the network or merchant who provides the program to keep track of buyers that visit different web sites of the affiliates.

At present, almost all major service providers are engaged in developing the tracking systems to make their programs more effective. Advanced tracking software may become the unique selling proposition for the service provider and can take the service to the next level of success.

As of now we have tracking services that are being provided by third party. Most of these service providers give a different URL, which monitors the stats on the page. In this case the affiliate or whosoever avails the service has to pay, usually on monthly basis. There are also softwares that you buy and install directly on your web site.

Free web sites often do not qualify for many tracking software solutions. It is because certain tracking softwares need access to the cgi-bin, which is not possible in case of free sites. Also one of the requirements is the disk space on the server. The reports have to be shared so that you can access them or share them at any time you want. Since the tracking happens on daily basis and the records are maintained, one must have disk space allocated to the software utility.

With better tracking solutions, affiliate programs are becoming all the more valuable.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Affiliate Marketing Network - Bulls Eye

The publisher’s web site has suddenly become a valuable asset and different agencies are trying to lure the web site owners.

I can see the tug of war between affiliate marketing networks and advertising networks in the online industry. The publisher’s web site has suddenly become a valuable asset and different agencies are trying to lure the web site owners. There is a reason to give a green signal to affiliate marketing network.

You know, the major issue that worries all small and big online advertising players is the efficacy of online advertisement program. Since there are hundreds and thousands of pages where advertisements are to be placed, they have come up with different automated services. An online advertisement would be affective on the right page. It is same as saying that the right advertisement put before the right audience can enhance the efficiency of the program.

As of now, the automated services have not been entirely successful in placing relevant ads on certain pages. In case of affiliate marketing, the networks ensure that such a thing does not happen with the affiliate. The wrong ad, say that of jackets if put on the web site with content on trendy watches, won’t bear anything either to the advertiser or the one who advertises.

Affiliate marketing also has different models for display advertising, lead generations and for sales. The program may be customized to help the publisher and affiliate get better results.


I personally won’t advise anyone to go for advertising, unless they are fairly paid. Thousand impressions for a couple of dollars do not make sense in many ways. Although some web sites with good traffic may be able top generate great money, but for web sites that have average or lesser number of visitors advertising is a bad choice.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Three Cheers for Indian Affiliate Networks

Indian affiliate networks have proved that information technology is at its best in the country. With such services, the country is counted as one of the early adopters of new technology.

In web services, online marketing and affiliate marketing are running the show. Affiliate marketing particularly has opened the doors to the site owners and I can see the poor dejected souls assimilating their strength again to beat the time.

More than ten years ago, web was like a treasure trove. I still remember the time when domains where registered without having second thoughts, web sites serving no particular purpose were hosted and I also saw people abandoning the practice after some time. The wonderful media and the much hype about it plummeted into anonymity.

However, there is a revival phase that can be marked by diverse operations and new business models that have come into existence. We now have agencies provide email marketing, search engine marketing, social media marketing, affiliate marketing; in addition to the old time search engine optimization.

I have also observed Indian affiliate networks and it makes me ponder for a while. Are we really prepared to take up such tasks as provide marketing services to the foreign brands and clients?

A quick look at the popular activities in web industry reveals that we are actually ahead of time and in fact the scene here better than some of the developed nations in the world. It may also be that the activities or the status of online industry of these countries is invisible to us. Still, there is much evidence to prove that we are active participants and have experimented with almost everything in the web space.

Indian affiliate networks, for instance, have proved that we are not laggards but the early adopters. The way I see it, Indian affiliate networks is a clear sign or proof that we can provide the services that very few people can think of in the web world. Three cheers for affiliate marketing providers.

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