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Outdoor Affiliate Meet & Greet

Attention Outdoor Affiliates

We’re going to have a big day on January 23rd at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010! We already posted about the Outdoor Retailer Educational Seminar we’re sponsoring that day. But in addition to the educational seminar we are also having our second Outdoor Affiliate Meet & Greet at the Salt Lake Hilton’s [...]

Video Ad Improvements

We recently completed an overhaul of our video ad support here at AvantLink.
First and foremost, we’ve switched over to using the Flowplayer video player for displaying our videos.  We feel that Flowplayer provides a better user experience than our previous player, and it offers a few more features than we had access to previously, like [...]

PointBanner is now live in AvantLink!

Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:

PointBanner

We have added another merchant to our “Marketing” category! Earn 15% on the order total by promoting custom banner design services from PointBanner. Check out their site & packages, and we think you’ll agree that if you have the traffic…this program is definitely worth joining. Here is a snippet from their [...]

Outdoor Retailer Educational Seminar

We are sponsoring an educational seminar at the 2010 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market on January 23rd. It’s an introductory session for retailers and direct-to-consumer brands in the Outdoor/Recreation category. Although anyone can attend. Here are the seminar details…
Intro to Affiliate Marketing (for Outdoor Retailers)
Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 – 12:00PM to 1:00PM

Type: Seminar
Track: Retailer Seminar
Location: Salt [...]

Affiliate Datafeed Image Preferences

A while back we did a review of our merchant datafeeds to see how consistent product image sizes are from one merchant to the next.  The results were less than impressive.  There were huge variations in both width and height for small (a.k.a. thumb/thumbnail) and large images between merchants, and in some cases within single [...]

Suburban Blend is now live in AvantLink!

Introducing a new, exclusive AvantLink merchant:
Suburban Blend
Suburban Blend has provided 11 years of great products, prices, quality, selection, and outstanding service…and more recently a killer online shopping experience featuring some of the best brands in the board sports industry. Promote Suburban Blend’s snowboard or skateboard gear and apparel exclusively on AvantLink, which means no toolbars, [...]

Saratoga Wine Exchange is now live in AvantLink!

Introducing a new AvantLink merchant:
Saratoga Wine Exchange
Saratogawine.com is the source for wine lovers and collectors alike, offering over 15,000 wines available online. Great opportunity to promote Rare Bordeaux’s, Burgundy, California Cult wines and much more. In addition to all those wine choices, they have the technology to allow customers to narrow their selections by appellation, [...]

Screencast: Affiliate Link Encoder

The Affiliate Link Encoder (ALE) automatically turns merchant direct links, keywords and text on your web pages into affiliate tracking links.
In this screencast we cover how this tool can be useful to bloggers, forums, community content based websites, or affiliates who would just rather not worry about logging into their affiliate account to get tracking [...]