What is the quickest path to Q4 failure? We posed this question to several influential industry affiliates to gain perspective from the front lines. Across the board, we heard from our affiliates that advertisers failing to prepare and share their holiday offers in advance is detrimental to affiliate success this time of year. Read More...
Over the next two weeks, we will be keeping a close eye on the revenue generated by LinkConnector merchants and affiliates, and what may be contributing to various spikes and drop offs in their numbers. Each Tuesday between now and the 8th of November, we will refresh our affiliate marketing electoral map with cumulative revenue data in the four weeks leading up to Election Day. The current map represents online revenue generated by LinkConnector merchants and affiliates between 10/10/16 and 10/23/16. Read More...
The three largest online shopping days of the year, Black Friday, Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday are consistently demonstrating significant YoY growth. Are you prepared? Read More...
mThink Blue Ribbon Panel Member, Jackie Bates, along with LC's Directors of Merchant and Affiliate Relations, talk with mThink on the process from launch to optimization of performance marketing campaigns. What are some keys to success? Read More...
The LinkConnector API gives affiliates the ability to pull reporting, campaign, promotion, link and feed data related to their account. It can return data in CSV, JSON and XML formats, and supports many input parameters, which allow affiliates to filter the results based on only the data they desire. Integration with the LinkConnector API allows you to pull data into your platform to automate previously manual data aggregation tasks, track commissionable events and gain instant feedback on A/B testing, post new promotions as soon as they are available, and many other useful applications which can help to increase your commissions. Read More...
Trendy Halloween is kicking off its peak revenue season with online consumers top of mind for Halloween. This Southern California based merchant is a popular pick among LinkConnector affiliates heading into the end-of-year holiday season. LinkConnector’s Merchant Support team recently spent time with Dora Alfaro, Director of Ecommerce & Marketing at Trendy Halloween, to gain insight into the success of its growing affiliate program. Read More...
Receiving automatic and immediate notifications pertaining to your conversions is often times a ‘Wish List’ item for affiliates, most especially for affiliates specializing in paid search. Did you know that LinkConnector’s Conversion Pixel Plugin makes this possible? Here’s how… Read More...
For many, school is back in session. And, that means checklists and credit cards are out. If you are a merchant, here are a few 101s to be sure you maximize Back to School revenues. Read More...
LinkConnector Co-President and CTO, Ernie St. Gelais gives Affiliate Summit East attendees an introduction to Cross Platform Tracking, and explains how it can significantly impact affiliate programs for merchants and affiliates alike. Read More...
mThink Blue Ribbon Panel Member, Jackie Bates, recently sat down with Revenue to discuss trends in performance marketing today. Here, a Q & A on three key trends in performance marketing. Read More...
Ensuring proper code implementation to prevent duplicate crediting across multiple networks may seem like basic account management knowledge, but that isn’t always the case. LinkConnector has observed that on average, 20% of affiliate events have multiple affiliate clicks involved in the same transaction – this can lead to a substantial leakage of marketing dollars covering the same conversion. Read More...
Adaptive Attribution encompasses the multitude of attribution options available within the LinkConnector network. Learn about the advanced technologies that work in cohesion to make this unique attribution method possible. Read More...