AvantLink’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Merchants, we’ve added a configuration option for HTML ads, in addition to banner and text creative. This new option will allow you to add advanced creative for Affiliates like merchant site-search tools, content displays and various other advanced link creative that you may want to configure. It’s just a matter of pasting HTML code that [...]

Another great promo from another great merchant in the Outdoor/Recreation category! Greg T and the Altrec Affiliate Program are offering a killer sale on The North Face. Back to school deals are on! Here are the specifics of this promo, hot off the press:
Back to School means people are shoppin, North Face on the cheap [...]

Affiliates take note. Backcountry just announced a couple of sales today so I wanted to be sure you were aware. One is for Backcountry.com (Backcountry.com Summer Shoe Clearance) and the other is for Dogfunk.com (Gotta Haves Sale at Dogfunk.com).
Details are available on Brian’s ABestWeb threads, which I’ve linked to above accordingly. Some of the brands [...]

Brian and Backcountry.com have been running weekly exclusive coupons for their outlet store. These are product-specific discounts with a minimum of 50% off retail. Not too shaby. Here is this week’s Affiliate coupon:
Vestal Maxell Jr. Watch, 55% discount!

Get 55% Off The Regular Price On The Vestal Maxell Jr. Watch
Your customers can use Coupon Code: 1QZ-1-GACS6
Starts: [...]

Affiliates, please take note that we now have Direct Deposit (U.S. banks only) and PayPal payment options now available. To configure one of these new payment options follow these simple steps:

Login and click on ‘Account’ from the main menu.
Click on ‘Contact/Payment Information’.
Under Payment Preferences, select either direct deposit or PayPal from ‘Payment Method:’.
Depending on your [...]

A couple days ago we rolled out a few minor upgrades to the Product Display Builder that should make it easier for Affiliates to build displays around the specific products they would like to target.

We’ve added an ‘All Categories’ option to the Filter By Category selection. This will allow you to start with a broader [...]

On June 13th we quietly rolled out a new Affiliate Network API that compliments perfectly our existing tool set. Now, Affiliates are given the ultimate choice! They can either take advantage of our existing feature set of industry leading tools, or they can use the AvantLink API to create an unlimited number of creative displays [...]

BackcountryOutlet.com is currently offering a coupon that’s exclusive to their Affiliates. I thought I would post the details in case anyone was interested in testing out a product-specific promotion. By the sheer nature of the discount (50% off) there is a good chance it will convert. Here are the details:
We have an Affiliate Exclusive coupon [...]

We’ve posted time and again about the value of PRWeb in terms of news/content distribution around the web. We were happy to see that the GourmetStation Affiliate program recently posted an article on the new partnership between their leading food gift store and our network. As a reminder, there are several distribution companies that will [...]

In addition to the Hit Trail visibility I mentioned yesterday, we’ve also upgraded to give you the ability to customize your report settings. This functionality is there for both Affiliates and merchants. Follow these simple steps to customize your report settings in AvantLink:

Login and click ‘Reports’ from main menu.
Click ‘Customize display settings for this report’ [...]