This week’s affiliate training webinar focused on learning the basics of the AvantLink API, our robust and very powerful platform that nearly all of the AvantLink tools you use everyday are built on. The webinar included live examples of API calls and two complete demonstrations on how to set the API up and put it on a website, all on top of the usual account interface training segment.

And that would be what you’re watching today, but it’s not. That’s because our webinar software randomly decided to delete the webinar recording after the training concluded. Thanks webinar software!

But fret not- below is a new and way better recap recording of the webinar and our webinar software wasn’t able to delete this new copy. In this consolidated recap of the API, we look at what it can be used for, how to set it up, and what it actually looks like on a website. So download the webinar recap video using the big blue button below and set aside 20 minutes to get through the whole video. Don’t forget that the live examples of the API tool are still available at chadwaite.com/avantlink/api.

If you’re looking for training on the affiliate account interface, this webinar recap doesn’t cover it. Any of our archived affiliate training webinars, however, will have the account interface training portion, so feel free to browse those.

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Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:

Soldier City

Soldier City is one of the largest military shopping sites on the Web. Founded in 1998, Soldier City offers more than 11,000 items including military and camouflage clothing, outdoor gear, insignia, and other quality products. 60 day money-back guarantee on most items.

Join the Soldier City affiliate program and start earning today!

Program highlights include:

• Earn 7% for every sale
• Cookie return days: 60
• AffiliateTraction™ program management
• Regularly updated creative

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting Soldier City. Contact anyone at AvantLink or the program manager Matt Lim, matt.lim@afftraction.com.

Category: Fitness

Introducing a new, exclusive AvantLink merchant:

Gnarly

Gnarly Nutrition offers a full line of all-natural, pre-workout, during workout, recovery proteins and meal replacements that don’t just boost performance, but taste great as well. By bringing together an extremely impressive roster of wholesome, natural ingredients, such as New Zealand Whey Protein (the cleanest whey protein on the planet), green tea extract, and special blends of probiotics, prebiotics, and immune system boosters, Gnarly designs nutrition for athletes and individuals who pay attention to what goes inside their bodies.

Gnarly Affiliate program highlights include:

• 10% commission
• 45-day cookie
• Average order value $100
• Free shipping orders $125 and over
• Dedicated program manager
• Regularly updated creative(s)

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting Gnarly . Contact anyone at AvantLink or the program manager Jessica Orwin, jessica@triunaturals.com.

Introducing a new, exclusive AvantLink merchant:

Four Lights Tiny House Company

Company founder Jay Shafer is leading a movement to change the way America views housing. His “Small House Book” and “DIY Book of Backyard Sheds and Tiny Houses” have sold more than 50,000 copies in print alone. His best-in-class tiny house designs have earned him appearances on the Oprah Show and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and articles in The New York Times, as well as features on yahoo.com and msn.com, just to name a few.

Four Lights Tiny House Company sells Jay’s house designs to Do-It-Yourself homeowners for $299-$699 per set of plans. They also offer e-books for as little as $12.95. Finally for $249-$349 per ticket weekend-long workshops to teach people how to build their own homes are available.

Four Lights Tiny House Company Affiliate program highlights include:

• 20% commission
• 60-day cookie
• $73 AOV

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting Four Lights Tiny House Company. Contact anyone at AvantLink or the program manager Alicia Feltman, alicia@fourlightshouses.com.

Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:

Outfit Additions

Outfit Additions is a California-based jewelry and accessories store featuring a fun collection of necklaces, bracelets, belts and more. Most styles come in bright colors and bold designs. This store features many small indie designer lines that aren’t available at major retailers.

If you have a female audience that loves to shop and is design oriented, Outfit Additions would be a great fit!

Outfit Additions Affiliate program highlights include:

• 10% payout
• 30-day cookie
• $20-$30 average order value
• 2% site conversion
• Exclusive codes upon request
• Free Standard Shipping (all orders!) to 50 states
• Hamrick.biz program management

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting Outfit Additions. Contact anyone at AvantLink or the program manager Chuck Hamrick, outfitadditions@hamrick.biz.

Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:

Modern Furniture Warehouse

Since 2006, DA Stores, LLC has offered the highest quality furniture and the widest selection available anywhere. The Modern Furniture Warehouse group of buyers scours the world over to find the latest in design trends, the finest materials and the most cost-effective way to get these furnishings to loyal customers.

Modern Furniture Warehouse Affiliate program highlights include:

• 6% commission
• 60-day cookie
• Promote over 200,000 products
• Build your own links
• Average order value: $600
• Free shipping orders over $75

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting Modern Furniture Warehouse. Contact anyone at AvantLink or the program manager Akmal Hodjaev, marketing@dastores.net.

New Reporting Feature

We’re happy to announce some new functionality added to the reporting interface that we feel will be very helpful in giving additional insight into your marketing efforts. In your reports, you can now see statistics on sales made from mobile devices, which includes sales made from smartphones and tablets.

For both affiliates and merchants alike, these new stats can be most easily seen under the “# Of Mobile Sales” line item in the Quick Stats Box on your account home page. Also note that the “# Of Sales” number listed above is an all-inclusive number and includes both mobile and non-mobile sales.

In addition to the Quick Stats Box, mobile sales can also be found in any performance summary and performance trending reports. If you do not see these mobile sales in your reporting section, it’s likely the stats have been hidden by default. To change this, click on the “Customize Display Settings For This Report” link at the top right of the report, find the mobile stat option and then uncheck the “Hide By Default” checkbox.

Mobile Sales Are Growing

In looking at the past four months in sales as well as the sales for May at the time of writing, mobile sales have clearly become increasingly more common. Here are the percentage of sales network-wide that were mobile over the past four and half months:

January: 14.43%

February: 14.77%

March: 14.99%

April: 15.2%

May (1-16): 19.49%

While we’ll need to wait another two weeks to get a full report of the mobile sale percentage in May, several factors may attribute to the month’s sharp rise, including a large number of early Memorial Day sales started this week.

How To Get Involved With Mobile Sales

Affiliates: If you’re looking to increase your efforts on mobile devices, try searching for ads that have been specifically configured as mobile ads. To do this, start by searching for merchant ads and then select “Mobile>Phones” or “Mobile>Tablet” from the Categories drop down box. This will take you to all ads from your merchants that have been configured as being mobile optimized. 

Merchants: Start providing your affiliates with mobile-optimized ads! When configuring a new ad that has been designed for a mobile device, make sure to complete these three steps:

1. Configure your ad based on our mobile banner ad size recommendations.
2. Mention the device the ad is designed for in the ad title. (eg. “iPhone 5 Spring Blowout Sale Ad)
   
3. Flag the ad as being mobile in the ‘Ad Categories’ section. Once flagged choose whether it’s a phone or tablet optimized ad. 

Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:

JCLU Forever

At JCLU Forever, you will find comfort gear and accessories anywhere from stylish sweatpants to sassy sweatshirts. All of the items you will find at JCLU Forever are made with, love, quality and the best intentions to spread a constructive and optimistic message. Join the JCLU Forever affiliate program and support the cause today!

Program highlights include:

• Earn 12% for every sale
• Cookie return days: 30
• AffiliateTraction™ program management
• Regularly updated creative

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting JCLU Forever. Contact anyone at AvantLink or the program manager Matt Lim, matt.lim@afftraction.com.

Introducing a new, exclusive AvantLink merchant:

Affordable Diabetes

AffordableDiabetes.com offers a huge selection of popular diabetes testing and management products. As the delivery of healthcare products shifts to a direct to consumer model with greater emphasis on cash purchases, AffordableDiabetes.com is positioned to serve customers who are in need of diabetes supplies.

They carry all of the most popular products from leading brands/manufacturers like Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer and Abbott. Their goal is to provide the best prices and best customer service in the diabetes healthcare ecommerce market.

Affordable Diabetes Affiliate program highlights include:

• Earn up to 10%
• 60-day cookie
• Easy to use, simple to navigate website
• Conversion rates have doubled in past 6 months
• Average order value of $60
• Popular diabetes testing and management products from top manufacturers
• Free shipping on most orders over $75
• Affiliate only coupon codes available
• Industry leading website & user experience

Let us know what we can do to help you get started promoting Affordable Diabetes. Contact anyone at AvantLink or the program manager Alex Gross, agross@keyvive.com.

Some of you may have seen news about this already last week. We sent out an email drop to Affiliates, posted to social media (here and here) and announced @ABestWeb this exciting news: Prosperent is now fully integrated at AvantLink!

When asked on the ABW forum last week how Affiliates can benefit from Prosperent, here was their very fast and thorough answer…

Our mission is simple. We help affiliate earn more money from their traffic. We do this by working with the best networks and merchants out there, we aggregate millions of products into a single fast, searchable system and provide tools to access that data.
* Performance Ads: Dynamic ad units that display relevant products to your visitors.
* WordPress & vBulletin Plugins: A product search engine and/or price comparisons.
* API: Programmable lightning fast access to all Prosperent data.

All of our products are designed to optimize your traffic. By that I mean, we leverage our size to show the products and merchants that are the most likely to convert into a sale and earn you a higher epc. If a merchant drops out of a network or changes terms in an unfavorable way, traffic is instantly rerouted to the next best merchant with no intervention on your end! Along the same lines, we are always negotiating higher commission rates with merchants!

We are completely FREE to join and give unlimited access to our data. In return we have a simple 70/30 revenue share model (70 to you 30 to us).

Merchants that work with Prosperent gain instant access to over 8,000 affiliates and more than 2 billion monthly visitors.

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