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 ...

Affiliate Interface Timesavers - Quitting Programs

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Hey everyone, just a quick post complete with video on a new addition to the "Activity Summary" report on the Affiliate side which is designed to help you save some time when you need to remove yourself from multiple affiliate programs at once. There is a filter added for "Closed" Merchants, ...

Pay Per Call - Open and Ready

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

For Merchants and Affiliates who are interested in opening a Pay Per Call program, the time has come.  ShareASale's Pay Per Call platform, which has been running in a testing mode for the past few months, is now open for any Merchant. Here are some highlights: You control who, in your program, ...

Things We Need to Fix

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Today we launched a new mini-site to allow everyone to drop us anonymous feedback ... called "ShareASale Needs to Fix This". As part of our "Fix It" campaign - we will be posting some of the things we fix as suggested by everyone here as comments on ...

Affiliate API

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Greetings everyone, just a quick post to let you know of the initial sections of the Affiliate API being released today for use. You man run an API request by directing your server to make calls to ours accompanied by a list of parameters. These parameters are required to run reports ...

Proposed Toolbar Policy

Monday, February 16th, 2009

As mentioned in my previous post, we have developed (with the help of a lot of folks in the industry) a modified policy regarding the allowance of toolbars and other extensions of the browser such as FireFox extensions, etc... Thanks to everyone who helped! Here is the proposed policy ...

Affiliates: Viewing feedback from your Merchants

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

A few posts ago I wrote encouraging Merchants to leave positive feedback for their Affiliates when things were going well - not just negative for bad events. A bit of a loophole in our system was that Affiliates were only able to really view any "Negative" feedback so that ...

Gift Cards Database

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Thanks to a wonderful suggestion from our annual ShareASale Think Tank held a few weeks ago in San Diego, we've created a Gift Cards Database. Merchants are able to upload specific creatives that direct consumers to specific landing pages designed to sell Gift Cards - a popular item this ...