Affiliate Marketing Blog by AMWSO

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

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Vancouver Affiliate Meet Up

This will be my third trip to Canada and the 4th Annual Networking Dinner is on at the same time again, great timing there Ian. It's strange to think that for first few years working in affiliate marketing I met no one from the business, not one. And then when I attended the Vancouver Networking Dinner for the first time it was stunning to find some many people in one location speaking about the affiliate business, from all kinds of backgrounds too!

This years event looks like being the biggest yet and we'll have the Western Union team as our guests too. Brian from Shareasale looks set to roll in , as do a good number of ABW folks that I have worked with for years and never met! That will be awesome!

For anyone in the area who'd like to attend but is short of a few dollars, let me know we're sponsoring 10 tickets to the event. Just drop me a mail, comment or post on ABW and I'll be more than happy to grab you a ticket.

I'll personally be looking for anyone with the insider news on how to skip over the border into the USA.... or has a large boot on their car :-)

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Baghaus Launched on ShareaSale

Launched just last Thursday on the ShareaSale Network, - AMWSO’s newest partnership with designer inspired handbag retailer, Bagahus.com.

We’re all very excited to be working with Baghaus, as the owner Jason has an excellent grasp on what affiliate marketing is, and is always open to recommendations. A fine demonstration of this followed a thread started by an affiliate over at ABestWeb regards potential leakages from the site. Jason understood the concerns raised by the knowledgeable folks at ABW and removed the offending items almost immediately. This is why I know we’ll all benefit from working with such a clued-up and open minded merchant ;-)

This program benefits from having two managers, Dave Oliver and myself Patrick Goodfellow, and we can be reached at affiliates@baghaus.com.

Dave, what don’t you chime in and let potential partners know why promoting Baghaus will be a financially sound idea….

Cheers,

Patrick Goodfellow

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Instant Valentine's Day Sale Page for Overstock Jeweler Affiliates

Hi Everyone,

Overstock Jeweler has just launched their Valentine's Day sale! Here are the details:

Coupon Code: LVS
Valid Through: February 28, 2007
Offer: 10% discount on all heart-shaped jewelry
Landing page: http://overstockjeweler.com/heshje.html

If you would like a fast and easy way to make an Overstock Jeweler heart-shaped jewelry page, just use the ShareASale Make-A-Page tool! Here are the step by step instructions.

1. Login to ShareASale and click the "Make a Page" link.
2. Under the heading "Keyword Criteria", type the keyword HEART in the box.
3. Change the results per page item from "15" to "30".
4. Click the "View Results" button

Voila'! An instant Valentine's Day sale page that can increase your conversions, in combination with our coupon code offer.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Affiliate Marketing, the only equal opportunities employer

It occurred to me the other day that affiliate marketing offers the opportunity to make money to everyone who wants to try. Yes you've heard that before, but think of it like this. In the offline world, when a person walks in for an interview for a sales job (or any job) , the person doing the interview already has an idea of the kind of person they want to hire, based on their own preconceptions or prejudice , or based on the target market they are looking to sell to.

Regardless of qualification a person can fail to get the job, based not on how good they are, but on a companies personnel preferences or dislikes. Sure most Western firms have rules on how they advertise jobs and how they say they hire people, but do they really follow those rules/laws once the interview process is in action? I doubt it.

On another front how many companies will take on a total novice to be a sales or marketing person for them... and let them market other companies products at the same time!

Affiliate marketing is the only business that I know where a person regardless of education, experience, race, location, physical condition, personal habits or fashion sense (or lack of) can get right to work with some of the top companies around the world and be looked upon with respect for their results, not who they happen to be!

If anyone knows another business that is truly an equal opportunity to everyone, then I've yet to hear about it.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007

"New Arrivals" Sale at Overstock Jeweler

Hi Everyone,

Overstock Jeweler is having a "New Arrivals" sale for the New Year 2007.

From now until January 31st, we are offering a coupon code exclusively for our affiliates to promote on their websites. Here are the details:

Coupon Code: NWYR
Offer : 15% off all New Arrivals jewelry
Valid through: January 31st, 2007
Landing Page: http://overstockjeweler.com/new.html

New Year Affiliate Bonus!! -- Earn a special cash bonus of $50, on top of your 15% commission, when you generate $1,500 in sales or more during January 2006!

Cheers,

Allen

Affiliate Manager
OverstockJeweler.Com
allen [at] partnercentric.com


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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Top Affiliate Programs for December 2006

The results of the Christmas sales are in and from the below data we can see that there were no great surprises from the top programs. Except perhaps GT Media which usually has an average Christmas and then powers up in Q1 as fitness and diet sales kick in. The GT Xpress was the big seller there.

As I mentioned above fitness and diet will be the big focus over the next two to three months, so we expect to see Gaiam, Waterfront Media and GT Media dominate the top places, especially GT Media with a brand new Billy Blanks fitness program about to launch. Drop us a line if you'd like the pre-launch marketing kit for Billy Blanks 2007.

On to the results.....

The following are the top Affiliate Programs for December 2006 based on the highest earned commission.

  1. Western Union

  2. Gaiam

  3. Forzieri

  4. WaterFront Media

  5. Panda Software

The following are the Top Affiliate Programs for December 2006 based on the best Average EPC for ALL active affiliate partners.
  1. Shopster

  2. Gaiam

  3. Panda Software

  4. Western Union

  5. Overstock Jeweler

The following are the top Affiliate Programs for December 2006 based on the best Average EPC for ALL Active Earning affiliate partners.
  1. GT Media

  2. Gaiam

  3. Overstock Jeweler

  4. Forzieri

  5. Western Union

The following are the top Affiliate Programs for December 2006 based on the best Average Coversion Rate ALL active affiliate partners.
  1. Western Union

  2. Gaiam

  3. Forzieri

  4. Overstock Jeweler

  5. GT Media
The following are the top Affiliate Programs for December 2006 based on the best Average Coversion Rate ALL Active Earning affiliate partners.
  1. Panda Software

  2. Western Union

  3. GT Media

  4. Gaiam

  5. Overstock Jeweler

See the full affiliate program directory of AMWSO managed merchants here

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