Greetings everyone… a quick note to tell you about how we are helping a Los Angeles charity – LA’s Best – with a fundraising drive. The short story is that they lost funding during budget cuts that affected their ability to provide transportation for things like fieldtrips, after-school activities, etc… ShareASale is matching donations in […]
ShareASale Performance Awards 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 presented to a single affiliate (which is hard […]
Ad-Tech NYC, the Affiliate Thing Podcast, and the PPC “3 Strikes” policy
I was able to get away for a couple of days and attend the New York Ad-tech show, which I’ve made it to I think just about every year. It is one of my favourite shows because the volume of companies exhibiting is so substantial – and one can really get a good idea as […]
PPC Violation Reports – Now Available
Merchants who login can now report PPC Violations for ShareASale review. Please note that this process is seperate and independant from any action that a Merchant wishes to take on an individual affiliate. There are some instructions in there on how this report should be used, as well as the information that we will need, […]
Fighting perceptions – The SmartMoney article
Recently there was an article in SmartMoney Magazine which a lot of you are familiar with… The article was very negative in its assessment of the industry, and there were quite a few discussions The article is here http://www.smartmoney.com/toughcustomer/index.cfm?story=may2008-affiliate-marketing With industry discussion on it at Affiliate Tip from Shawn Collins Mike Allen’s Revenews Blog Sam […]
Couple of little things…
1. We changed the “Feedback Expiration” from 30 to 120 days. For merchants, this means that within the interface you will now be able to see feedback posted on affiliates (and the corresponding rebuttals) for a period of 120 days. 2. Follow us on “Twitter”. I have recently created a “ShareASale” specific entry which […]
ShareASale Pledges and Expectations…
Over the next few weeks I will be posting a series titled the “Pledges and Expectations”. The goal of this series is to set out what we pledge to our clients, as well as what we then expect from them. The series will be about 5 posts long and will start with one regarding Outsourced […]
Marketing with Respect
I just returned from Las Vegas and the Affiliate Summit West (which was phenomenal again – thanks to the founders Shawn and Missy and all of their staff!) – and actually was able to take a couple days vacation directly following in order to wind down and reflect on all the business that occurred during […]
Merchant Focus: WonderfulBuys.com
Keeping up the trend, today in the “Merchant Focus” is WonderfulBuys.com – ShareASale Merchant # 8305 – who was recently listed in Internet Retailer’s Top 500 retailers doing business through ecommerce. Yesterday, we focused on a new merchant to the ShareASale Network – but today’s selection has been with ShareASale since August of last year […]