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Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter. Be sure to check out the AffiliateTip.com blog for the latest news and information at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/
Topics in this issue:
- Ask Shawn Collins: Sub-Affiliate Interface
- Global Affiliate Marketing and Viral Video Teleseminar
- Visitor Enhanced Optimization for Affiliates
- Affiliate Program News
- Want to Reprint Affiliate Marketing Articles for Free?
- Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates
1. Ask Shawn Collins: Sub-Affiliate Interface
My site is an affiliate of a number of large merchant sites. How can I structure it so that each of my sub-affiliates will have just one account showing his combined total commissions from all sales on those merchant sites?
If I understand correctly, you are providing cash back to members of your site. If that is the case, there are a few ways you could provide the reporting to those sub-affiliates.
There is a service called Mall Networks that enables affinity organizations to set up online shopping portals. An example of their service is the NASCAR RacePoints Online Mall.
Many companies in your position will also build the interface in-house, so that it has the exact functionality they desire.
This can be a tricky approach if you don't know which functionality you and your sub-affiliates will need. Also, home grown solutions run the risk of being inflexible to suit new industry trends as they emerge.
You might find what you need by setting up your own CPA network. A couple vendors to check out are DirectTrack and MyCPANet.com.
2. Global Affiliate Marketing and Viral Video Teleseminar
The second installment of the Affiliate Summit preview conference call series took place on November 9th, 2006 and it's now available via streaming audio or download.
Sean Crotty from Art.com chatted with host Marty M. Fahncke, Founder of Conference Call University, about taking an affiliate program global.
Marty then spoke with Todd Taylor from TaxBrain.com about viral video and how to achieve maximum ROI.
Download the second Affiliate Summit preview call.
You can listen to this and previous Affiliate Summit preview calls in the archives at http://www.cculearning.com/summitreplay2007.
The next call takes place on Thursday, December 7th, 2006 at 3pm Eastern Time. Featured speakers will be Kellie Stevens from AffiliateFairPlay.com and Wil Reynolds from SEER Interactive.
Space is limited, so register now at http://www.affiliatesummitpreview.com/.
3. Visitor Enhanced Optimization for Affiliates
I am a little late to the party here, but I just got around to reading The VEO Report by Colin McDougall, and found it to be very useful.
If you are not familiar with Colin McDougall, he's a super affiliate who has developed a method to obtain natural search engine traffic. The approach is known as VEO (Visitor Enhanced Optimization).
Colin's book, The VEO Report, details his method for building sites that won't get banned or penalized by the search engines.
These are not merely the musings of a pretender. Colin is a guy I've known for years, and his success is real.
Colin spoke with Senior Google Quality Engineer, Matt Cutts, and the information gleaned from their interactions is the foundation for the book.
According to Colin, the information he shares in the book enabled him to gain top ten Google rankings on very competitive search phrases in a matter of days or weeks.
If I were to simplify what I learned from the book, it's that you should create a site for people, not for Google. It's quite a bit more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
It's a read I would recommend for any affiliate to establish a sustainable business, rather than short term gains from gaming the search engines.
4. Affiliate Program News
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Join the Qwest Affiliate Program
Qwest sells DSL, telephone, and other services to consumers in all western states except CA and NV. We're offering a $50 Choose Your Own Gift card for consumers, a $1000 bonus for 50 qualified sales, a $43 payout per DSL signup, and free ppc landing pages. Visit telcoaffiliates.com or contact Brook Schaaf – brook@schaafco.com for more information.
Payless.com Affiliate Offer
Here's the latest offer: Save $6 off any order of $60 or more. Coupon: PSS6OFF60 - Dates: 11/1 - 11/20. Also, free standard ground shipping and handling with any order of $50 or more. No coupon required for the shipping deal. This is also running 11/1 - 11/20.
Visit http://www.paylessaffiliates.com.
5. Want to Reprint Affiliate Marketing Articles for Free?
Articles from AffiliateTip.com on affiliate marketing are now available for reprint.
The content you can reprint is targeted towards affiliates and affiliate managers and it's exclusively available through EzineArticles.com.
EzineArticles.com has terms of service for the use of the articles. So long as you follow those guidelines, you're welcome to use the material as you see fit.
If there's an article of mine you would like to reprint that isn't showing there, let me know and I'll add it.
Visit http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Shawn_Collins to choose from articles to reprint and then follow the process at EzineArticles.com to use the material for free.
6. Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates
Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates, a panel session moderated by Candice Nobles at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, is now available as a transcript.
Candice Nobles is the Senior Marketing Manager for Hewlett-Packard, Snapfish.
The session was an overview of topline issues that impact affiliates getting into affiliate marketing with the following panelists:
- Larry Adams, Affiliate Product Manager, Performics
- Stephanie Agresta, Vice President, Affiliate Marketing, Commerce360
- Patrick Gavin, President, Text Link Ads
- Brent Hill, Vice President, FeedBurner
- Choots Humphries, President, LinkConnector
Issues covered by the speakers were data feeds, e-mail, buying text links, RSS feeds, and getting higher commissions from merchants.
Read the transcript from the Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates panel.
The session is also available for download as an MP3.
Registrations are open for the next Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas on January 21-23, 2007.
As always, I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a line and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.
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Take care,
Shawn Collins
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