I’ve been looking through a lot of merchant sites lately in a quest to find some good cost per sale programs to promote, and am amazed at what a terrible job many merchants have done with their websites at attracting affiliates like me. Many of these programs I’ve run across have the potential to be pretty amazing, yet they are poorly managed.
Not only does a poor website deter affiliates from promoting your program, I guarantee you are losing money through your other marketing channels as your site isn’t converting as well as it could be.
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Since the recent launch of WordPress 3.1, I’ve seen quite a few people who don’t like the admin toolbar that shows up on top of all pages and posts. While I think it’s great as it gives me quick access to what I use most often, other people don’t care for it to much.
Here’s how to remove it in a few easy steps.
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First of all, let me preface this post by saying that I’m not claiming anyone is racist, I’m just putting this out there and letting you decide since there may be something I’m missing or not seeing.
This weekend I quickly setup a new Facebook campaign for a vision related offer. I didn’t spend a lot of time on it, but I just wanted to get it up and start seeing some traction.
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Earlier this week I got the feedback people wrote about the panel I was on at Affiliate Summit West 2011 about building the affiliate & affiliate manager relationship. For the most part we had some pretty good feedback and I think it went fairly well. However there was one comment that I’ve been thinking about from someone who either wasn’t paying attention to something I said, or I didn’t explain myself well enough.
I was talking about how affiliate managers need to understand their affiliates and know that each one is different. As affiliates not all of us like the same things or work in the same way, so affiliate managers need to understand what motivates each of their main affiliates, how they prefer to be contacted, etc.
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