New Merchant Report: Year in Review

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

ShareASale has added a new report that merchants will be able to use to analyze big picture data about their affiliate program. The Year in Review report provides the same data that is found in the Weekly Progress Report, however it is summarized by month. So the new Year in ...

Presenting Your Best Self – Part 6

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Welcome to the sixth and final part of our Presenting Your Best Self series. This last section is all about presenting your best self through solid communication. A common question I receive from merchants is, "How can I keep my affiliates engaged and active in the program?" Answer: Keep them in ...

Presenting Your Best Self – Part 5

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Part 5 of our "Presenting Your Best Self" series looks at how affiliates find merchant programs. The most common way affiliates will seek out new programs to join is by utilizing the search keyword function in the affiliate interface. Today we're going to discuss effective ways to ensure affiliates can ...

Presenting Your Best Self – Part 4

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

For our fourth edition of "Presenting Your Best Self", we are going to discuss the Approve Reply email. In each merchant account, there are three reply emails that can be created that will be automatically sent out when an affiliate: Applies for the program Is Approved into the program When an affiliate is ...

Presenting Your Best Self – Part 3

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Welcome to the third installment of the "Presenting Your Best Self" series which focuses on topics related to making a great first impression with Affiliate prospects. Today, we're going to talk about how to best manage transaction reversals. Affiliates expect and understand that voided sales are a part of normal business ...

Merchant Timesaver: Ask and you shall receive….Tags!

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Inspired by feedback we received, ShareASale has launched some new features to the Affiliate List page in the Merchant Interface (Affiliates >Your Affiliate List) that are sure to make affiliate program management a little easier! The first, is the ability to batch update an affiliate's status and / or group ...

Presenting Your Best Self – Part 2

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

For our second installment of Presenting Your Best Self, aka "Making a good first impression to Affiliate prospects", we're going to talk about Uptime History. Uptime History is a report available in the Affiliate Interface which shows a time stamp of when a specific Merchant is either “Low Funds”, “Temporarily Offline”, ...

Who are your Notable Affiliates?

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Today we launched a couple of new Merchant Timesavers inspired from the ShareASale ThinkTank "Things We Need to Fix" session. The new reports are the "Affiliate Comparison Report" and the "Notable Affiliates Report". Both reports are based on the idea of comparing affiliate performance over two different time periods. I ...