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Forbes: How to Become an Affiliate

On the surface, affiliate marketing (also known as performance marketing) seems simple. Brands offer affiliate partners a percentage of every sale or lead the partners generate via their online promotional activity. Anyone can join these affiliate programs and easily monetize their online content and influence and get paid for promoting any brand they want.

If only it were that easy.

You can read the full article here

Yazing Reaches 50k Members!

Yazing, the influencer monetization and cashback shopping platform, launched by Adam Viener in 2015, recently announced that they have reached 50k members after a record breaking year in 2020.  Yazing now has over 3,600 brands on that platform that any member can instantly start promoting and earning cash rewards for generating sales.  Members have generated nearly $4 million dollars in commissions on the platform.

“Companies have long offered affiliate programs, but these deals can be difficult to navigate and out of reach for the average individual, influencer or blogger.” said Adam Viener, Founder of Yazing. “I believe that EVERYONE has influence and deserves to be compensated for the sales they help generate. I launched Yazing in 2015 with the goal of making these often elusive opportunities accessible to anyone looking to earn some extra money from home promoting and supporting the brands they love.”

Anyone with an email address and the ability to receive payments via PayPal is welcome to join Yazing for free and start earning money.

New Conference for Affiliate Managers - Imwave CEO speaking

There is a new conference coming in March 2012 that is geared specifically toward affiliate managers who are responsible for their company’s affiliate marketing strategy, management and operations.

The conference is called Affiliate Management Days, hosted in San Francisco March 8-9, 2012.

This is an interesting premise as its focus is on the affiliate managers and how to run an successful and effective program.

Normally I leary of first year events, but there are some really great speakers lined up and the agenda seems pretty solid.   Also, I will be presenting a session titled:  Is your Affiliate Program an Afterthought? focused on how managers can fight for respect among the other sales channels within their organization and will also be also participating on a panel titled:  Inside the Mind of a Super Affiliate.  Not sure I know what a Super Affiliate really is, but we’re going go inside their mind ;-)

If you haven’t checked out the conference yet, take a look

http://www.affiliatemanagementdays.com/

…it may pique your interest. Early bird registration ends tomorrow!

If you are going, we’d love to see you there. If you are planning to go, let me know!

How to Recruit Super Affiliates - From Affiliate Summit West 2007

Here is an old panel discussion I moderated in 2007 on how to Recruit Super Affiliates.  Enjoy!

Jumping on the Deep Linking Bandwagon

Attention Affiliate Managers.

If you haven't read this blog post from our good friend, Scott Jangro, then you should take a moment to go trough it.  Deep Linking is so important for top affiliates, if you don't have it, don't expect great results!

"Virtually every affiliate network supports deep linking in some manner, though not all merchants allow it."

Do you support deep linking in your program???

Will Overstock have to Close or Move their Affiliate Program?

According to Overstock.com's Press Release yesterday, the company has terminated more than 3,400 affiliates residing in New York:

Overstock.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSTK) announced today that it has notified its more than 3,400 New York-based affiliate advertisers that as of June 1, 2008 they can no longer provide advertising for Overstock.com until either New York changes its controversial new internet consumer tax law or the courts say the law is unenforceable. On June 1, the controversial new law will require internet retailers to turn off their New York-based ad partners or collect an up to 9.5% sales tax from all New York internet customers.

But wait, Overstock's entire affiliate program is with Linkshare, a New York based company, and Linkshare earns a percentage of EVERY OVERSTOCK AFFILIATE TRANSACTION!!!

So based on this, it would appear that Overstock would still be liable for the 9.5% sales tax from, as would every Linkshare merchant.

Perhaps pissing off your 3,400 new york based affiliates in a knee jerk reaction wasn't that best idea since it doesn't really solve the problem?

It's all about the O...  In this case, O crap...

Has Commission Junction lost faith in Affiliate Marketing?

We received a note today informing us that Commission Junction has decided to shut down their own affiliate program.  Many affiliate networks have affiliate programs that pay for new advertisers and publishers to the network.  Not CJ anymore, I guess I will have to remove their banner from Wiseaff.com!

Here is their note:

Dear CJRP Publisher,

The Commission Junction Recruiter Program has surpassed the goals set at the start of the program. We would like to thank you for being a part of the Recruiter Program. The business needs for the Recruiter Program have changed, and the decision has been made to close the account. The account is targeted to be closed December 14, 2007, with all publishers set to be expired on December 12, 2007 and final leads batched in prior to closure on the 14th.

Commission Junction wishes you much success in your future endeavors with your publisher account at Commission Junction.

Thank you,

CJFP Program Manager

Commission Junction

So the program has surpassed it's goals and is being shut down?  Is this the same kind of advice they give their advertisers.  "Hey, your program is doing great, better than anyone expected, time to shut it down!"

Not only does the cobbler's kids have no shoes, they are actually burning the ones they had!

Wrong message, wrong decision.  Sorry CJ, we still love you...