Introducing a new exclusive AvantLink merchant:

Brociety.com

“One killer deal one item at a time.” Brociety gives you a shot at one piece of seriously sick, seriously cheap snowboard gear. When that sells out, a new object of shredlust pops up. The first deal drops every night at midnight (MT) and sells ’til it’s gone (which doesn’t take long, so stay spry). Then another deal drops and sells out, then another, then another. You become hopelessly hooked, and eventually your eyeballs start to bleed.

The Brociety affiliate program is unique and unlike any other affiliate model out there. Brociety will pay affiliates a $5 bounty for any new customer they refer to Brociety. Brociety’s $5 new customer bounty will not be extended to Backcountry’s retail sites which includes Backcountry, BackcountryOutlet, and Dogfunk despite there being leaks to these sites.

Here are some of the benefits of the Brociety Affiliate Program:

• 100% parasite free
• Coupon Feed with the current deal
• Deal Of The Day Tool
• Dynamic HTML banners
• RSS subscription tools
• $5 new customer bounty
• Detailed reporting
• SEO friendly tools
• Banner/text/flash ads
• Network support from qualified professionals

SIGN UP for the Brociety affiliate program in Avantlink!

After I posted about Tahoe Mountain Sports’ new Deal of the Day offering earlier, I started wondering how well known our Deal of the Day tool actually was out there.

A good number of people already know about our growing list of merchants who offer daily deals because I see the network conversion and sales statistics for this unique tool (available exclusively from AvantLink, BTW). And the data is good, real good! So I wanted to bring some attention to it, in case you didn’t know already.

All products featured on dynamic Daily or ODAT deal campaigns are qualified at minimum 30% off the retail price. Take a look at some examples..

Basically, the Deal of the Day tool allows merchants to offer a “Daily Deal” or “One Deal at A Time” (ODAT) dynamic campaign for their Affiliates. We offer merchant specifications (and free support) on the automated process and set-up for populating this daily deal feed. Once it’s good to go, Affiliates can use Javascript, RSS or flat database file integration methods to publish this deal/product info to their sites or blogs.

Note: Affiliates, you can even syndicate these deal feeds using RSS. Effectively promote the deal itself, and then RSS subscriptions (with your tracking links embedded within) to the deal feed!

The way it works is that if you’re active with a merchant program, and they offer a dynamic daily deal campaign, you’ll see this merchant in the drop down list on the “Tools” page under “Deal Of The Day Tool”. Here is a list (current as of date of this post) of all merchants in AvantLink that offer daily deals or ODAT campaigns (click merchants names to apply):

• 800-Ski-Shop.com
• Alpaca Direct
• Altrec.com Outdoors
• BackcountryOutlet.com
• BonkTown.com
• Brociety.com
• Chainlove.com
• Dogfunk.com
• FetchDog.com
• MasseysOutfitters.com
• Patagonia.com
• ProBoardShop.com
• RamseyOutdoor.com
• RedTagSports.com
• REI.com
• RockCreek.com
  
• SteepandCheap.com
• Tahoe Mountain Sports
• The House
• TheDailySteal.com
• theflipflopper.com
• ToolKing.com
• Tramdock.com
• WhiskeyMilitia.com

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Merchants, if you’re interested in offering Daily Deals through your Affiliate channel in AvantLink, login to your account and click “Tools” from the main menu, then click on “Deal of the Day Configuration”. When/if you have questions email support/at/avantlink.com

Tahoe Mountain Sports went live with their Daily Deal offering this morning. If you’re already active with this program, just click “Tools” from the main menu, then “Deal Of The Day Sign-up”. Tahoe Mountain Sports will be in the merchant drop down list. Select your integration method and there you have it. A Dynamic Deal of the Day Widget available for your site…

Two things to note about this unique, integrated network tool:

• All products featured through daily deal offers have been qualified with a minimum 30% off the retail price. Once you add one of the dynamic widgets to your site or blog, you’ll never have to perform manual updates.
• Promote subscriptions to the deal feed itself on your site, in addition to the actual daily deal. Select any of the RSS integration options for the Deal of the Day, and we’ll provide you with an RSS feed and subscription icons for standard RSS and some popular feed reader services. Syndicate your Affiliate links!

Merchants, if you’re interested in offering Daily Deals through your Affiliate channel in AvantLink, login to your account and click “Tools” from the main menu, then click on “Deal of the Day Configuration”. When/if you have questions email support/at/avantlink.com

Haiko announced nomination threads are open for “The Best Of” Awards 2008, so drop in to nominate and/or vote through the process! Seems a lot of folks, including myself, look forward to the best of awards on ABestWeb.com.

Hint, I already nominated Mark as “Best *NEW* Affiliate Manager or OPM ‘08” …so there’s one vote you’re committed to

Gary M

The following is another Affiliate testimonial we would like to share. This time from the team at InfoGears, Inc. These guys are a true class act, and an outstanding partner for us. Thanks Craig and Rusty!

As we continue to build the Affiliate end of our business, we have quickly come to appreciate the quality of merchants on the AvantLink network, the ease of use of the Affiliate tools, the consistent and usable product data we can retrieve, and the responsiveness of the entire AvantLink team.

To sum it up we are big fans of, and benefiting financially from, a strong partnership with AvantLink.

Craig & Rusty
GearBuyer.com

Affiliates, please note the featured Valentine’s Day Promotions below. If these campaigns aren’t in the respective merchant’s ad list yet, they soon will be. Happy converting!!

• Altrec.com Outdoors has a promotion for Valentine’s Day called “Gear For Your Diva”. Brands include, Lole, Prana, North Face, Nixon, Roxy, Patagonia and more.
• HaberVision.com has a “Sale for Her” and “Sale for Him” campaign called “Haber’s Velentine’s Day Sale!”.
• Check Tahoe Mountain Sports for the “Valentines Gift Ideas” campaign. Brands include Black Diamond and Cloudveil.

Great Valentines Day Promos from great merchants in AvantLink. Click store names above for more information, and how you can apply to these Affiliate programs.

Merchants, for more info on how you can feature your promos in future posts like this, as well as newsletters, click here.

The goal of the AvantLink screencasts are to help current (or prospective) Affiliates and Merchants learn more about our network, and the technology we offer.

This screencast focuses on our exclusive Deal of The Day tool, and how Affiliates can publish auto-updating widgets and tracking embedded RSS feeds populated with products at least 30% off the retail price. AvantLink is the only platform where you’ll find a network-integrated Deal of the Day tool for Affiliate marketing.

Take a look at the Deal Of The Day screencast below, or CLICK HERE to view the full sized version.