Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

ShareASale Performance Awards 2009

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

This marks the second year of the annual ShareASale Performance Awards. Congratulations to all the winners, we had so many great choices this year and it was a pleasure (yet a difficult task) to go through them all. 1. Exceptional Affiliate of 2009 - This award is ...

Cyber Monday Year Comparisons

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Wanted to give you all an idea of how things went for Affiliates and Merchants on ShareASale this past week on Cyber Monday. Here are some highlights: Overall, Black Friday was nearly a 100% jump from last year (measured on overall Gross Sales) About 35% more Affiliates participated - which is great - ...

Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Moments for this Decade

Friday, November 27th, 2009

I realized recently that I had been working in Affiliate Marketing for about a decade or so... which, along with reading some other "Top 10 decade moments" recently, had me thinking about the Top 10 moments in our industry. I've comprised the following list which, I admit, is just my own ...

Affiliate Interface Timesavers - Checking when Datafeeds are Updated

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Hey everyone, we added a quick feature to the FTP Datafeed server, that will hopefully save you a little time in determining which Datafeeds have been updated, etc... 1.  In the root directory of your FTP account, there is now a file for every day - named yyyyMMdd.txt 2.  There will be ...

Upcoming things you can do to help re: #advertisingtax

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

There are a couple of initiatives currently ongoing that offer you a chance to help out on the issue of the #AdvertisingTax. The efforts of the legislature in various States are sure to increase with the upcoming New Year - and we need your help. What is the Advertising Tax? Many ...

Deals Database - Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2009 Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Prior history has shown that the weekend following Thanksgiving (which falls on November 27 - November 30 this year) is one of the strongest retail time periods of the entire calendar year. So in preparation for this, we went out to all of our ShareASale merchants and collected over ...

Merchant Timesaver - Multiple Email Addresses

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Hey Everyone, just a quick video to show you how to setup, as a Merchant, multiple email addresses where important notifications can be sent such as "New Affiliate Signups" and "Low Balance Notifications". Here is a quick video to show you how to get it done... (Click here to open a new ...

ShareASale ThinkTank Golf Video - A Tutorial Bonus!

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

We hosted a golf event at the most recent ShareASale ThinkTank (#thinktank09) and shot a really fun video that was shown later in the event. I decided to take the opportunity to teach everyone a little bit about the ShareASale Make-A-Video and how Affiliates can use it to take their own ...