In an effort to further help both affiliates and merchants on the ShareASale network – we’re experimenting with a new method in organizing merchant listings. Starting today, we’ll be allowing merchants to indicate which holidays throughout the year are most effective for the different types of products that they market. For example, a merchant who […]
PPC Bidding by Affiliates
Recently, there have been a lot of questions about how to manage both a PPC search campaign and an affiliate program. Affiliates can be very valuable partners in PPC search, however, if you – as a merchant – wish to place certain rules on which terms are allowed, and which are not, there are two […]
Hurricane Relief Effort
All, Firstly, to those affected by the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina, we have you in our thoughts and wishes that you are safe, and that you can hopefully return to your homes and lives as soon as possible. To that end, we know that the American Red Cross will be assisting people and families in […]
Summertime is a time for Golf….
As a Midwesterner here in the great city of Chicago, IL – we look forward to the summertime as the only real time to enjoy all of the outdoor activities that a city presents… Since one of my favourite hobbies is a good ol’ round of golf – I thought I might share with some […]
Two-Tiered Programs
It was brought to my attention that a blog containing some instruction or explanation of “Two-Tiered” programs could be helpful…so here it is: A two tiered program is designed to incentivize your current affiliates, to go out an recruit more affililates for you. There are two basic ways to do this: 1. Provide them with […]
Cool Product + Affiliate Program + National Media Coverage = Profits for you!
Ok – so this product is really cool, I wanted to let everyone know about the new program they have launched on ShareASale. According to their program description – “Since we launched in December ’04 we have generated significant sales, and media coverage from BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, Fortune, Stuff, Cargo, FHM, Fast Company, The […]
Interesting program with a Bonus for May.
From time to time I come across programs that seem to have a lot of potential, and I would like to detail one of those today. As timing would have it, this specific merchant is also running a May bonus program so acting quick could get you a good bonus. The program is called TinyTotDressShop.com […]
Return Days Analysis
I wanted to make you aware of a report recently available to you in your ShareASale account. It is called the “Return Days Analysis” and it is designed to give you a good idea as to how shoppers are buying through your affiliate links. We created “buckets” in the report for sales that were completed […]
Summer Gatherings…
Greetings to all, we have really appreciated and enjoyed all of the recent feedback on our new Blog. We hope to provide some unique and important content here over the coming months to help both merchant and affiliates get the most out of their relationships with ShareASale. I wanted to take a brief moment to […]
Things Affiliates Want – Auto-Deposit explained….
One of the issues that we hear the most about from affiliates involves merchant programs that go offline due to lack of funds. Early on, we decided that it was important to make sure that any generated commission had funds to back it up, so that no affiliate would be denied a commission that they […]