It’s easy to let happen–you do the initial work of uploading creatives, testing tracking and writing a description–and vavoom, you’re active! The problem is, though, that very few campaigns (if any) thrive on auto-pilot. You’ve already done the hard work of establishing your presence in the network. You might as well reap the rewards of your effort with further investment. For Self-Managed Accounts, here are a few ways you can give your campaign a quick check-up, and places can you tweak to increase your returns.
The Power of Your Promotions
Most shoppers are on the hunt for bargains today. Consumers are waiting to use their credit cards until they have a coupon in hand. Our current economic climate has created exceptional opportunities for merchants to run promotions. When you arm your affiliate partners with a coupon code or free shipping offer, they are much better equipped to close the sale and increase revenues.
LC ATID
While this technology is not new, in fact, in place since 2006, it is a powerful resource for LC affiliates. So, we thought we’d get this information out again.
What is an ATID?
The Affiliate Tracking Identifier, or ATID, is the portion of the LinkConnector (LC) tracking code that belongs to you—the affiliate. You can use the ATID variable to track anything you wish to track starting with the initial click to LC all the way to the final sale with a merchant. This optional variable can be used (by you) to track simple things like click source (e.g., homepage, site map, newsletter, Google, etc.) to complex, multi-variable codes that are meaningful only to you and/or your personal optimization efforts (e.g., 0019f3c4tt52la09912). LinkConnector stores the ATID variable value you pass to us in each click and records this value as part of every transaction related to this click. Then, through LC reporting, you can filter and sort your promotional results by the full ATID value or by specific segments of the ATID values.