AvantLink’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Here is another Affiliate testimonial. Thanks Matt and team! You guys are truly class acts over there…
As the throws of holiday shopping are upon us, I wanted to take a second to thank your team for everything. After switching from years with one of the largest networks* over to the AvantLink platform, the tools and [...]

Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:

The Watch Co

The Watch Co is an authorized watch dealer of every brand they offer, so your customers will receive the full manufacturer’s warranty and an authentic factory-direct watch each time they make a purchase. The site is dialed, their average order value exceeds $200 and they have a dedicated management [...]

Introducing a new, exclusive AvantLink merchant:

IPAINT.US

We’re exicted to launch the IPAINT Affiliate program in our growing “Home and Garden” category. IPAINT.US is the ultimate online paint and coatings superstore, and there are a lot of reasons to get them added asap to your home improvement site or shopping category. This merchant has a 60,000 square [...]

Here we go, it’s full speed ahead Q4 2009! A few weeks ago we solicited promos from merchants specifically for the Black Friday (Nov 27th) and Cyber Monday (November 30th) shopping days. A number of retailers came through and submitted the following list of KILLER deals and coupon codes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Be sure to observe the [...]

Introducing a new, exclusive AvantLink merchant:
PhoneAndBeyond.com
Phoneandbeyond.com is one of the largest internet retailers of cell phones and associated products (and services) in New York. And now you can promote a wide variety of GSM unlocked cell phones with no contracts (and a lot more!) from their impressive, and very high converting website. Phoneandbeyond.com offers free [...]

Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:
Calendars.com
The Best Selection of Calendars in the Known Universe!™
This is an exciting opportunity for Affiliates to earn up to 15%! Calendars.com brings together the latest Internet technology with the world’s largest calendar inventory to create the Web’s best calendar store. Sign-up now and earn 10% baseline payout for the busy holiday [...]

The Product Content Widget is a powerful tool for pulling up product information for a given product, including product details, comparison pricing, videos, product reviews and more.
It can also be used as a simple way to a pull up a comparison style product pricing/availability widget. The following screencast covers the product pricing/availability widget functionality.

Scott Kalbach
AvantLink.com [...]

On October 20th we announced the program launches of Mountains Plus (mpgear.com) and TinyTrekker on AvantLink. These are SOLID Outdoor/Recreation programs with an Affiliate powerhouse reputation, and you should definitely be sure to get their links or feeds added asap this Q4.
To facilitate communications and distribute promotions, Mountains Plus and TinyTrekker recently sponsored a dedicated, [...]

In this screencast, we provide a basic overview of the tool that allows you to get pre-configured merchant banner (image), text, HTML, Flash and video ads.

In an effort to build out our affiliate support center and make sure we have screencasts that cover each ad tool, we’ve produced this simple overview of our Custom Link tool. The Custom Link tool allows you to build an affiliate ad link that lands on the merchant website URL of your choosing.