Tag Archive for "Affiliates"
The Official Store of Speed Racer offers their Affiliate program exclusively through AvantLink.
On October 2nd we announced the launch of the Speed Racer Affiliate program. I’d like to post a follow up to that announcement to let Affiliates know that Speed Racer is offering a $100 cash bonus to the first 20 Affiliates who send $1000 in sales! Great opportunity to earn an extra $100, in addition to the generous 10% you’ll be paid on each referred sale.
Remember, the Speed Racer Affiliate program has a number of effective promotions available right now for you to push out to your customers…including a site-wide coupon and some great deals for the coming holiday shopping season. Happy converting 
As some of you may be aware The-House.com is currently running a bonus program for the month of September. ProBoardShop.com is now offering a bonus program of their own through their AvantLink affiliate program. Any affiliates which are currently active with ProBoardShop or considering promoting a new outdoor gear merchant, check this out!
ProBoardShop.com is currently running a contest for their affiliates for the month of September until the 30th. The first five affiliates to reach $500 in sales will receive $50 cash bonus. Cheers and happy converting.
Apply now to the ProBoardShop.com Affiliate Program.
Mark Kalbach
ActiveSports@AvantLink.com
The-House.com
ProBoardShop.com
Here is another recent Affiliate testimonial we received from one of our valued partners:
I have several great merchants I deal with on older affiliate networks, that I would really like to see move over and use AvantLink. You guys have by far the best interface and tools, without all that marketing hype the other affiliate managers fill pages with. I also like how well your statistics are presented, and your datafeeds are top notch. Do you offer a program for paying out when we get merchants to sign up? If so, I’ll try my hand at it.. if not, I would be happy to refer some merchants to you, because the shoddy services they use now directly affect the quality of information I can present on my sites.
Thanks, and keep up the great work!!
Stefan
BikeDex.com
AnglerDex.com
Thank you Stefan, for your continued support, and the value you bring to our merchants!
BTW yes, we do offer a Merchant Referral Program <– click that link for more info.
We have some exciting news coming to you live from 2008 Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas (where there was a great session we just attended this morning about the demand and effectiveness of video marketing!).
Introducing a new Ad Type on the AvantLink platform: Merchant Video Ads!
With the Video Ad Tool, merchants can now upload any video ad or product tutorial for their Affiliates using the following formats: .avi, .flv, .mov, or .mpg. Once loaded, the video ads will be available to Affiliates through the Affiliate tool center.
Affiliates, to access video ads follow these simple steps:
- Login click ‘Tools’ from the main menu
- Under Ad/Link Tools click on ‘Get Merchant Ads’
- Select the merchant, then ‘Video’ on the Ad Type drop down
If the respective merchant has video ads configured, the campaign will be returned with a preview selection and the ability to get html. Video ads will be served through one line of JavaScript that should go on your web page(s) where you want the video to display.
See live Video Ad Tool examples below from the merchants who now offer this advanced campaign functionality for Affiliates:
Backcountry.com
Moosejaw.com
ToolKing.com
Here is a summary of our Video Ad Tool functionality:
- Merchants can upload their own videos (any .avi, .flv, .mov, or .mpg formats)
- The videos are then converted to Flash format and hosted on AvantLink’s servers
- Merchants can specify a banner image to be displayed prior to the video playing (or we default to their merchant logo if they don’t specify one)
- All of the standard ad attributes (title, destination URL, keywords, expiration dates, etc.) apply to Video Ads just as with any other AvantLink ad campaign
- Affiliates will be able to select a video ad and embed it into a page with a single line of JavaScript (just as they would an image ad, for example)
- While the video is playing, clicking on it will send the user to the ad destination URL and set the appropriate tracking information to give the affiliate credit for any subsequent sales
- When the video finishes it comes back to the merchant logo or banner. If/when the player is clicked at that point the end user will go to the merchant site as well
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments. As always, we welcome your feed back.
You may have already noticed, but we rolled out some improvements to our already robust reporting tools in AvantLink. These improvements include visuals for an array of charts, sale item details & hit trail data.
Look for this icon: 
in our reporting interface to access available charts/graphs. Charts/graphs now available include:
- Daily Ad Impressions and Click Throughs
- Daily Sales (# and Dollar Amounts)
- Breakdown of Ad Impressions by Tool Type
- Breakdown of Click Throughs by Tool Type
- Breakdown of # of Sales by Tool Type
- Breakdown of Sales by Tool Type
Look for this icon: 
in our reporting interface to access report details. The detail icon shows up if there are detail/sub-reports available for that report.
Two more things to take note of:
- All mentions of “Page Views” in our reporting interface are now now labeled “Ad Impressions”.
- There is new row hover/click functionality that is a combination of stylesheet and some PHP code changes. These formatting changes makes reading your report data easier.
Let us know if you have any questions or comments.
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