AvantLink’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Merchants, one of the most effective promotion ad management tools we offer is the Dynamic Coupon/Deal Feed, available in your account. This is a deal feed that you control, and it gets distributed via RSS and content feeds on Affiliate sites. Larger programs have hundreds of Affiliates using their deal feeds. Since you [...]

Just a quick post to say we’ve recently completed implementing a few more of the suggestions we received from our AvantLink Feature Requests survey on Facebook.
One change that affects all levels of AvantLink users is to our add-on for Firefox:

If you have configured custom display settings for a report (e.g. a particular sort order or [...]

If you’re an AvantLink user and have an Android mobile phone, well this one’s for you!  We recently released a new application, creatively named “AvantLink Mobile” to help you keep in-touch and up-to-date with AvantLink wherever you go.
To install, search for “AvantLink” in the Market app on your Android phone, or just scan the barcode [...]

I’ll be honest: I was a bit skeptical when we first released our Firefox add-on for displaying real-time reporting results as part of our Notification Center tools back in December 2007.  At the time I didn’t think very many of our affiliates or merchants would choose to use the QuickStatsBar, as we called it.  But [...]

We’ve added functionality to our merchant interface to allow scheduling version changes to banner/image and Flash ads.  This allows merchants to prepare updates to creative assets for existing ad campaigns, while keeping the current campaign configuration intact for affiliates.  Of key importance in the solution is that affiliates won’t have to obtain new HTML to [...]

Just a quick post to let you know that we released some updates to the affiliate email tool for merchants. Here’s an overview of the changes to this tool.
1. The first thing you’ll notice is that the interface has been simplified significantly.

2. We removed the text email option. Instead, all emails will contain a standard [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Everyone on your team worked hard to meet the AvantLink tracking and datafeed specifications, perform the appropriate test measures, collect collateral and program materials, etc. Now your Affiliate program is open for business on the premiere Affiliate network, but you are a little confused on what comes next. Let’s discuss the first 100 days of [...]