So I wasn’t planning on doing this post, but one of my favorite readers and commenters asked me to cover this topic. The people or Affiliates that sign up for programs and only have sales when they buy the products themselves, and the second type which are people or Affiliates who buy the product through […]
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Loyalty and Cashback sites get a horrible wrap because of the heavy use of adware with some of the largest and some of the smaller ones, fraudulent orders and a lack of perceived value from them. The reality is that with loyalty and cashback sites there is a definite possibility that you will end up
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One of the things that many companies forget about is that it isn’t just the Affiliates which could be taking advantage of them. A lot of times it is the Affiliate Manager or Outsourced Program Manager (OPM). Often times the company hired someone or a company who thought they were or pretended that they were
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Before you read this, please understand that this is only my opinion. Networks and Adware Affiliates will disagree and argue out the other direction so please judge for yourself and form your own opinions on this topic and these types of Affiliates. So the very controversial subject of adware is here. Before we go into
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So in the second part of my series, Does Your Affiliate Program Add Value, I want to cover Trademark Bidders. They are those people that “only want to poach off of people who are already your customers, have seen your ads or are in your shopping carts but leaving to look for a coupon”….so can
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One thing that many merchants with Affiliate programs wonder is if their Affiliate program is actually adding value. There are tons of things to think about like coupon sites (remember that not all coupon sites are bad) that only send sales from people leaving your site when they see your coupon code box and search
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