15 Reasons Why Your Affiliate Campaign Isn’t Attracting Affiliates
We run the Profitistic affiliate network, and come into contact with many merchants/advertisers who are looking to start an affiliate marketing campaign, or who are looking to expand an existing one. They want to further their marketing reach, generate additional sales/leads, and make their brand as popular as possible, so one of the first questions [...]
Voucher Codes: The Advantages And Disadvantages From A Retailers Perspective
The voucher code debate – are genuine voucher codes simply a cheap and effective marketing tool or do they harm your brand? Having a ‘voucher redeem’ area on your site could be looked at as eating away at your profit margin and allowing all customers the opportunity to get a discount. The customer may have [...]
11 Great Reasons Why You Can’t Miss The A4U Expo
For anybody involved in affiliate marketing in the UK, the A4U Expo is the event to be at. It’s staged over 2 days (18/10 and 19/10) in London and will this year be held at the Hilton Metropole, a new, improved venue following last years venue which comprised of an endless tube journey (from St Pancras) [...]
Interview: Kirsty McCubbin (UK Super Affiliate)
Recently, I caught up with Kirsty McCubbin from Affiliate Stuff, a leading UK affiliate (now residing in the land of OZ), internet marketer, and all round good-egg. Lovely as Kirsty is, she agreed to a short interview relating to her dealings as an affiliate. Here is the interview in full… Welcome to the Webtistic [...]
SEO Tips – Post Panda Update
Assuming that you have at least some knowledge of SEO and that you haven’t been living under a rock for the last 3 months, there is a good chance that you have heard of the “Panda” Update which Google recently released. Basically it was a fairly major update to the search engines algorithm and it [...]
Affiliate Network Fraud : Top 10 Things To Consider As A Merchant
If you’re thinking about joining a network and you’re concerned about how affiliate networks prevent fraudulent activity then here is a list of important questions to consider. Are all affiliates individually vetted before being approved onto the network? Does the network use a fraud management filter? Is there the option to control exactly which affiliates are [...]
The Advantages For Merchants Joining Affiliate Networks With Zero Fees And No Set-up Fees
Profitistic is a zero fee affiliate network owned by Webtistic as a means of providing additional marketing reach to Webtistic clients. For smaller merchants many networks can charge in excess of £3000 which is usually non-refundable regardless of performance and success as a merchant. Zero fees provides a great platform for merchants to try affiliate [...]
‘Tis (Nearly) The Season To Be Jolly, So Sort Your Creative Out!
Ho. Ho. Ho. Christmas is coming and the goose is becoming decidedly plump (and more than a tad worried). This is the time of year that Uncle John Lewis and Auntie Dorothy Perkins compete to see who’s stores can most closely resemble National Lampoon’s with decorations fit for a king (or Simon Cowell). They do [...]
