AvantLink’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Introducing a new exclusive AvantLink merchant:
CitizensBlues.com
You can now promote authentic, and brand name designer clothing one deal at a time with Citizen Blues! Shoppers will find designer denim labels that typically sell for 50% lower than retail. Take advantage of dynamic daily deal widgets from AvantLink to promote this merchant. And we can tell you [...]

Introducing a new exclusive AvantLink merchant:
National Pool Wholesalers
Promote wholesale swimming pools and pool supplies with National Pool Wholesalers. This retailer offers a 7% payout on every referred sale, with a 120-day cookie. Folks, there is easy potential to convert sales of complete inground and above ground pool kits with a price point in the thousands! [...]

AvantLink Newsletter
September 22, 2009
Vol 1, Issue 3

Merchant Newsletter
Now that summer is behind us it’s time to start focusing on Q4, and the busy holiday shopping season that’s quickly approaching. From now through the end of 2009, some web retailers will drive 30%-50% of their Affiliate revenue for the entire year. Get started now optimizing your [...]

Due to some early design considerations, AvantLink.com historically has had a “one login per affiliate account” policy. Over the years we’ve received a few requests here and there from affiliates who wanted to have additional logins for their account, but with restricted access, e.g. without the ability to configure payment information. We always [...]

Merchants, we offer a communication  channel that allows you to reach beyond your existing Affiliates. Have a look at our company blog at AvantShare.com. Although the network email tool is effective, functional and easy to use…it’s only reaching your existing Affiliates. You could (and there are times when you should) use our integrated Affiliate Recruitment [...]

Merchants, you may have noticed we have been publishing a series of program management tips recently. This is not a coincidence. With the quickly approaching 4th quarter and holiday shopping season, now is the time to start getting your Affiliate program dialed in and ready for strong sales.
Note: If you’re a retailer who has an [...]

Attention Merchants: Be exceptionally prepared for Q4 and the busy holiday shopping season by signing up for one of three free sessions designed to help you take full advantage of the Affiliate management, organization and communication tools available in AvantLink. As of today, there are 15 slots open on each of the following dates & [...]

For the last five or six weeks we have been developing a tool that offers merchants the ability to monitor specific keywords/phrases Affiliates are using in paid search marketing campaigns. The Paid Search Review tool is available in the Notification Center and as a standard reporting option with performance summaries, sales/commission details, etc. Program managers [...]

Sometimes we nail a good way to explain some of our tools and Affiliate technology while emailing folks during the course of the work day. So we thought why not start adding good Q&A’s/excerpts to the blog. So here’s our first, and it’s in a new category called “Merchant Q&A“.
Merchant asked: “Are there internal communications [...]

Affiliates, did you know that in addition to publishing promotional-related (dynamically updated) content on your sites, you can also promote RSS subscriptions to those feeds? Think about that for a second. If you’re site visitors subscribe to one of these RSS feeds from AvantLink that you promote, then your tracking details are embedded in all [...]