Affiliate Marketing Blog by AMWSO

Affiliate program Tips, support, bonuses and news from merchant affiliate programs managed by the AMWSO Affiliate marketing team.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Jewelry for Christmas - Mondera Bonus Up

Christmas tradiontionally sees 40% of all industry jewelry sales. It's a huge time of the year for fashion jewelry, gits for mum and of course the higher end items like solitaire pendants and diamond earrings. It's a time of the year when Mondera affiliates look to earn 30% - 40% of their of their yearly Mondera commissions, and of course grab a slice of Mondera's weekly bonus opportunities.

This year things have been simplified a bit but there are still 4 prizes every week, 3 more with monthly targets and one grand prize to be won. Please click here to get the details and then visit Mondera to learn more about their very generous commission package.

I've always preferred weekly bonuses over monthly, more winners, faster to win and faster payouts!
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

CJ's new Publisher Service Agreement

In case you missed it, or are not quiet sure what all the fuss is about then it's worth a click to visit ABW and learn what has many affiliates rather upset about the changes that go into place on Oct 20.

The whole event takes me back to when LinkShare also made changes to their agreements (though not as far reaching as the CJ ones) and had affiliates up in arms, at that time LinkShare listened to their partners, decided that some of the copy and definitions were indeed ill phrased and made changes. Winning friends and praise for being strong enough to make those changes.

So will CJ also react to the questions and concerns that have been raised on a wide range of issues...or is Oct 20th a date cast in stone when the new Commission Junction Publisher Service Agreement will go into effect... without listening or reacting....

Issues that have people concerned are mainly
  1. Merchants can reverse orders going back any length of time
  2. Affilates are bound to defend, indemnify and hold CJ and Advertisers harmless
  3. CJ not allowing itself to be held responsbile for down time and lost tracking
  4. That all affilate sites must have a privacy policy.
  5. Changes to the conditions under which an account can be deactivated.
  6. ...and more...
There's a good summary of the changes posted here on jangro.com. If you've not read the new PSA yet then you'd be well advised to do so
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Monday, October 10, 2005

Christmas Is over?

Here's something I ponder on and push my team on.

"When do Affiliates stop working on Christmas, when is it too late to send core info to opur partners?"

My personal thinking has always been that our partners need to have all our Christmas info in their hands by the end of October by the latest and after that it's all about re-enforcing that info and building on it.

However this thought process was in part based on the fact that search engines used to be a lot slower to index and update. Are affiliates able to launch into Christmas later now? When is the day when everyone looks at their site and says "Yup it's too late now Christmas is over?"
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