Managing Email Marketing Affiliates: Many businesses engage with affiliates — (i.e., third party partners) — to extend the reach of their digital marketing efforts. Also referred to as publishers, affiliates receive commissions for promoting offers and driving traffic on an advertiser’s behalf. One way they do this is through email. Some advertisers find affiliate [...]
For price-conscious shoppers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are practically holidays themselves. They’re big days for consumers, and they’re big days for email marketers too. After all, whether people shop online or brave the crowds, the first place they look for a deal is their email inbox. In fact, email is the channel consumers [...]
Managing unsubscribe lists is a huge part of any company leveraging email marketing. There are countless reasons why an individual or business may request to be taken off a contact list. What’s most important is for that request to be honored 100% by anyone representing the brand. While this may be understood by your [...]
Brand protection is on the minds of a lot of advertisers and marketers lately. From advertisements showing up alongside objectionable content to fears about influencers dragging their name through the mud (or whatever messy challenge is making the rounds among YouTubers that week), brands want safety. But email is a pretty safe [...]
Like many people, odds are you probably set a New Year’s resolution at the turn of 2018. But have you kept up with it? If not, then don't feel bad: only two-thirds of people maintain their New Year’s resolutions after two weeks. If you’re in that one-third of people who have decided [...]
Happy Halloween! Okay, fine, it’s barely even October, but admit it: Halloween isn’t just October 31. It’s a month-long affair. People start preparing for Halloween the second the calendar turns to October. After all, there’s a lot to do. You’ve got parties to plan. Costumes to create. And those skeletons aren’t going to [...]
It’s the season of giving, and savvy advertisers are taking that context to heart. By dedicating more time and analysis to their affiliate email marketing programs, many are improving conversions and ROI. Whereas old-school affiliate marketing included link-building and traffic grabs, today’s partner campaigns are more collaborative and better coordinated… Here are five ways in [...]
Affiliate Email Marketing Terminology Oh, vocabulary, everybody's favorite subject. We all know how frusturating it can be to attempt to communicate with a client, affiliate, partner or colleague - only to be misunderstood due to a terminology difference. In the interest of making sure we are all on the same page, below is a list [...]
CJU Recap: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Attribution Like we mentioned on Friday, we’d love to share a few key takeaways from some of the sessions we attended at CJU. The best session of the conference, in my humble opinion, was ‘Avoiding the Pitfalls of Attribution.’ Dave Osman of CJ Affiliate by Conversant and Natasha [...]
What is CAN SPAM and how does it affect me as an advertiser? The CAN-SPAM Act was instated in 2003 in an effort to set and enforce rules to protect consumers from commercial email messages. While most advertisers are very aware of CAN SPAM's requirements as it relates to the emails they send out directly, [...]
