... Affiliate Programs

• Affiliate Program Hell

Has anyone else found themselves dropped from affiliate programs with little or no explanation?

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• New Program - Hotelsinone.ie

Good Morning All I am extremely pleased to tell you about my latest merchant, hotelsinone.ie! Hotelsinone.ie is Ireland's newest hotel reservation company they are dedicated to booking hotel rooms for the public who are traveling to Ireland. They are a fast growing company and have key relationships with hotels in Ireland which ensures they get the latest hotel offers at the best available prices. They cover all of Ireland and are adding new products on a daily basis. Their aim is simply to find the best hotel deal in Ireland. Commission for this program is 5% with a 60 day cookie, please click here Webgains (http://www.webgains.ie/signup.html?programid=1510) to join this program. If you have any questions or problems please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards and good luck Nicky nicky@webgains.com msn nmarch@webgains.com 020 7269 1214

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• Marketing websites

Has anyone every heard of a website called web world marketing. I have not check it out yet. Would it be worth while looking at?:)

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• New Campaign at Webgains

Good Morning To quickly introduce myself I'm Nicky March, one of the fantastic account managers for Webgains. Here at Webgains each of the account managers is given a sector to champion this ensures we can give best advice to both our clients and affiliates, one of my sectors is travel. So I would like to take this opportunity to let you know about a new campaign I put live this morning, 1800 hotels. '1800Hotels is Ireland’s number 1 online hotel reservation company and we have been booking hotels for the public for the last 5 years. We are a fast growing company and have over 65000 hotels worldwide with fantastic availability and competitive hotel prices.' Commission for this program is 5% and there's a 30 cookie, to sign up for this campaign please use this link Webgains (http://www.webgains.com/signup.html?programid=1305) If you have any questions or problems do not hesitate to contact me on my contact details below. Best regards and good luck with this campaign *Nicky March* Account Manager Webgains Ltd t: +44 (0)20 7269 1214 f: +44 (0)20 7269 1249 e: nicky@webgains.com MSN: nmarch@webgains.com (ryan@webgains.com) www.webgains.com (http://www.webgains.com)

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• 50% Affiliate Program Whiteclub.

*Hi! Good % from WHITECLUB casino.* Join the White Club Casino Affiliate Program and Earn the Most Generous Affiliate Payouts in the Industry! Only till the end of May WHITECLUB offers 50% under the Affiliate Program. :rolleyes:

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• US Online DVD Feeds

Does anyone know of any US based DVD sites that have affiliate feeds?

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• What the best affiliate

I am a lit of bit confused..what's the best affiliate!! ?

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• Finance Affiliates

Hi all, I currently work as an Affiliate Manager for BLM Quantum, a digital agency based on Tottenham Court Road in London. I am really keen to speak to affiliates within the finance vertical to explore opportunities for a number of Irish, finance related products. If this applies to you and you are intersted in discussing this further, you can either reply to this post, private message me or email me on amanda.baker@blm.co.uk. I look forward to talking to you. Kind regards Mandy

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• www.greetingcardscafe.com

Hi All, We are a new and evolving website for unique* greeting cards and invitations (please try for yourself). It has a very unique and specific area for Ireland and Irishness, funny cards, landscapes, vintage Irish cards etc etc and we are looking for Irish minded sites (gifts, jewellery, t-shirts etc) to build links and also become affiliates for our site. We offer 10-20% commission on sales and we can brand the site to look like your site so that buyers think its coming from you. Really is an opportunity to create a genuine income from your site. Anyone interested, we'd be delighted to talk to them. Please send emails to the contact page on the website. Kind Regards Personalized Cards & Invitations - greetingcardscafe.com (http://www.greetingcardscafe.com)

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• Best tools for working with feeds

Which tools / scripts do people recommend for working with merchant feeds? I've been using PriceTapestry, but the performance is terrible - it takes forever to import updates

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• Introducing Webgains.ie

Hi everyone, My name is Kier and I'm an Account Manager at Webgains. We're an affiliate network, initially founded in London but we've now expanded across Europe (France, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden so far) and we've recently put live our Irish platform: Webgains.ie (http://www.webgains.ie/). Following a chat with Michele I've come here to say hi, explain what we're all about and start building up relationships with you guys. Currently there are two programs live for you to promote specifically on the Irish platform: Envirofone (http://www.webgains.ie/signup.html?programid=1206) and Electric Shopping (http://www.electricshopping.ie/) and we have plenty more that we're currently integrating so I'll be letting you know as and when new programs go live. You can of course also promote any of the other merchants that we have on the various regional networks should you have relevant traffic available. To tell you a little bit about what we're all about_: *Account Management - *Each account manager specialises in several sectors and deals with all programs within those sectors. This means if you're big in lead gen for example, you can quickly get recommendations on the best programs we have currently going and your AM will have a good understanding of the market in question. We also do not split our account management staff into separate teams for merchants and affiliates, we all deal with both sides of the relationship to ensure a thorough understanding of the issues involved. *Technology* - Our tracking is extremely reliable and can track orders even where cookies have been deleted or blocked. Affiliates have reported this can mean up to 10% more orders are tracked when compared with other networks. We always strive to ensure you have the best quality product feeds available and map all merchant categories to our own category tree for consistency. We've also recently introduced tracking functionality specifically to deal with voucher code promotions which offers a lot of flexibility in running exclusive offers for individual affiliates and can even be used for offline promotion. All merchant news, promotions etc. are published on our blog where you can get RSS feeds to stay up to date with everything that's going on. Naturally there's more I could say but I'll keep it brief ;) I'm very interested to get to know you all and build up productive relationships so please don't hesitate to get in touch and let me know what I can do for you.

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• Can I create my own affiliate program

Hi, I'm trying to create my own affiliate program. I would like to put links to companies and then count how many times they were clicked and sent the company a bill. Is there any way of doing this? Thanks

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• New Irish Dating Affiliate Enabled Site

Hi folks, Many thanks to BK for clearing me in advance to post on this. Some of you wil already know me, but by way of introduction I'm more of a "hobbiest" webmaster. Through marketing my Irish boating business, I picked up an interest in E Marketing leading me to set up an Irish online boat club which now has 1,500 members and 150,000 page views per month. Along the way I dabbled with building other community type websites and learning about other related subjects such as SEO,affiliate marketing etc. It's been fun and interesting. I've just set up an Irish dating site www.thirtyflirty.com aimed at Irish Thirty Somethings. I've added an automated Affiliate function to the site as a marketing tool. This is where I'd appreciate your collective advice! At the moment we have 300 actual members on the site and the dynamics are building slowly. I reckon that I really need about 1,000 members (critical mass) before it reaches an activity level that will justify charging for Premium membership. To start with, I am allowing the first 1,000 members to join as Free Premium members. After that, I think that affilliate marketing is the way to go. Would potential affiliates such as yourselves sign up for a short initial "no return" period ( advertising a free to join site - No comission) until we reached the critical mass when we could reward these founder affiliates with a more generous commission say (30%)? Or, would I be better of to market the site to critical mass level by using normal newpaper / magazine advertising ? I don't think that Google adwords are the way to go as the level of competition is so high and we'd end up losing a shed load of money in the great swamp. Kind regards, Stuart

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• Ebay Changing Its Affiliate Programme

Ebay's making changes and taking it all inhouse: Ebay Takes Affiliate Marketing Inhouse - Monetise It (http://www.monetise.it/affiliatemarketing/ebay-takes-affiliate-marketing-inhouse.html)

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