From the category archives:

Evaluating Merchants

Affiliate Voice Education Call: How to Evaluate a Merchant Program

September 22, 2009

As I announced at Affiliate Voice LLC, we are holding another Educational Conference Call. This webinar is part of a series called “Affiliate Education and Protection”. The title for this call is “How to Evaluate a Merchant Program”. During this call we will discuss the variables affiliates use in choosing which programs to join and promote. We’ll [...]

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Do You Deserve Better

January 28, 2009

One of the nice things about January is that sales are usually still pretty strong.  Good sales might be due to merchants having clearance sales, the spending of holiday bonuses or people simply buying what they didn’t get. What ever the reason, I find January is a little less stressful, not as much pressure to sell [...]

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Is The Merchant NY Affiliate Friendly

January 9, 2009

This post is another installment in my series on ‘Finding and Evaluating Merchants to Promote’. If you are not a NY Affiliate, you can of course, skip this step. With the likelihood of other states enacting similar tax legislation, it might be a good idea for all affiliates to familiarize themselves with this information so [...]

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How to Find New Merchants

December 29, 2008

In my last post, Finding New Merchants Part One, I listed some of the criteria affiliates might want to look at before they sign up to promote a merchant. I realized I should start at the very beginning. Before you can evaluate a merchant you have to find them. This can be accomplished in two main ways. You [...]

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Finding New Merchants – Part One

December 29, 2008

As a result of a question from John, a new NY Affiliate, I will be writing a couple of posts on how to select new merchants. Every affiliate has a different method of finding and evaluating merchants to promote. I really don’t think there is a right or wrong way, it is just important that [...]

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