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Behind the Scenes: Tips from Affiliate Managers (2)

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Continuing our first article on this series, in which you found out how to make sure your affiliate partnership request is approved by the vendors, let’s see some tips on how to promote software products online and the ways in which vendors motivate affiliates to sell more (we hope this post is also helpful to software vendors who are starting to use affiliate marketing).

A big thanks, once again, to the people we got the answers from:

Claire Waledisch, Commercial Manager at VSO-Software,Frank Chang, Marketing Manager at DVDFab,Keros Tudos, Relationship Manager at IObit andAlex Lamba, CEO at RSJoomla!

1. What is your number one advice that can help your affiliates be more successful?

VSO: Once the vendors products have been put on a website or have been promoted in one way or another, send this information to the vendor so they can check out your integration.  A vendor might have some comments that may help your conversion rate.  If you have a big PAD based website, this might not be worth it, but if you have a site where you are only promoting particular products or plan to do an emailing or AdWords campaign, the vendor can provide you with extra tips to increase your conversion rate.  If you take this first step, it could change dramatically your potential success.  Also, do not hesitate to ask for help, coupons, a personalized banner, keywords, or software keys to try out the product yourself.  Vendors cannot just offer everything or imagine the needs you maybe have as an affiliate, so ask for it:).DVDFab: Try to use the promotion material from vendors to offer your clients a professional look and feel when purchasing.IObit: Keep in touch. When you keep in touch with us, we can inform you of the latest information and promotional marketing material of IObit products and we can provide you with our professional suggestions and instructions. In this way, you can improve your conversion rate and in the end generate more sales.RSJoomla: Involve the community in commenting and reviewing the products to attract more clients.

2. How do you incentivize best performing affiliates?

VSO: Affiliates making the most sales get the highest commission. In reality, the best performing affiliates are clever and use innovative ways to promote products. They reward themselves by promoting in smart ways, choosing quality products and negotiating the best commission rate they can with each vendor.DVDFab: Through higer commission rates, promotion advice.IObit: First, we will consider to increase their commission rate accordingly. Second, more resources and dedicated support will be provided. Third, possibilities to develop a deeper business relationship in ways of exclusive promotion on their websites, generating a custom-build version for them, a faster response and support and more.RSJoomla: Top affiliates get higher commissions on our products. In order to be one of our top affiliates, you must earn at least 150 EUR/month – this way, you will get a higher payout.

3. Suppose an affiliate requests a bigger commission – how do you deal with these situations?

VSO: If an affiliate asks for a bigger commission, we evaluate their sales and the manner in which they are promoting our products. Perhaps just changing the way they are promoting our products will result in more sales which means more income, and eventually getting higher commission. We also ask why they need higher commission, maybe it is to cover certain fees or experimentation. How well we know the affiliate prior will be a factor in our consideration of their request.DVDFab: We have conditions for every level; if an affiliate fits the requirements, the affiliate will get the corresponding commission rate.IObit: Yes, actually we are giving bigger commission to better performing affiliates. When saying better performinge I mean more sales or more exposure through the affiliate’s channels. Commission raise is possible but also limited, as we are already providing a very attractive starting commission rate which is 60%.RSJoomla: We are open to discussions, but the affiliate has to prove the first 2 months that he is really doing a good job in selling our products.

So, to wrap this up, constantly communicate with the software vendor and ask for their advice & support when promoting their products, even if you’re experimenting with new ways of promotion. After all, they should know how to outline the benefits of their own products :)

Also – if you’re performing well, most of the vendors will offer you increased commissions and, of course, more attention and support. But remember – you first have to prove that you are able to earn more.

Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliates, incentives, selling software

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Behind the Scenes: Tips from Affiliate Managers (1)

Welcome to the Avangate Blog, the place to hang out if you have a software business.
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Before an interview for a job, university acceptance, membership to a super private club or whatever else you may want to obtain, it’s always ideal if you can talk to an insider, to properly prepare yourself for success :). In a similar manner, this article aims to offer you inside information about top vendors that are open to partnership requests from Avangate affiliates.

We asked some of the top vendors in the Avangate Affiliate Network about their expectations from new affiliates: how can they be convinced to accept you, what turns them off and what is their number one advice to you as affiliate to sell more of their products.

We got some great answers from:

Claire Waledisch, Commercial Manager at VSO-Software,Frank Chang, Marketing Manager at DVDFab,Keros Tudos, Relationship Manager at IObit andAlex Lamba, CEO at RSJoomla!

So, here are their tips on how to make sure you will be accepted as an affiliate (can be applied to most software vendors):

1. What are 3 qualities you look for when analyzing a partnership request from an affiliate?

VSO: The main thing we look at is the website associated with it.  Does it look clean, does it have any traffic and would the targeted traffic be interested in our products?  This means nothing however, as we have good affiliates in the past that either do not have a real website or haven’t yet finished it at the time they requested to be an affiliate.DVDFab: Affiliate website; Affiliate IDs (normally – the smaller, the better); Potential.IObit: We will firstly analyze his website based on three aspects:  the  category, the traffic rankings and the source of the traffic. This will allow us to provide the best suitable plan accordingly and calculate the affiliate’s earnings prospect.RSJoomla: The website has to be related to IT/software. Creating your own text about our products rather than copying it from our website really improves the chances to be found by greater audience. Product reviews and blog posts usually are the best ways to do so. Targeted communities or local communities that use our products usually get the most of the affiliate partnership.

2. What are the most common reasons for rejecting an affiliate partnership request?

VSO: We do not reject affiliate partnership requests, we have not yet needed to.  However, if an affiliate does not go by the rules we have outlined, we will lower their commission.DVDFab: Spam promotion or violating our affiliate policy.IObit: Websites containing inappropriate content, malicious websites and illegal websites will be rejected. Affiliates without clear profiles will also lead to a rejection.RSJoomla: Websites that share false discount coupons or warez get rejected.

3. Do you have any special policies regarding pay-per-click advertising done by affiliates?

VSO: We request affiliates not to use our brand name when doing pay-per-click advertising, i.e. VSO or VSO-Software. Eventually this will also be applied to product brand names. Affiliates should have the role of making the product known, offering it as a solution when user is looking for a tool to use to do a certain task. If a user is looking for “Product Name XYZ” because they already know of it, then the affiliate here does not really have a role in terms or advertising unless of course that vendor site is not appearing in an organic search. If the affiliate is providing added value then this argument could be contested. Added value content would be landing pages in specific languages that do not exist on vendors site, guides, coupons, etc.DVDFab: Currently, we don’t allow our affiliates to use PPC program on search engines to promote DVDFab productsIObit: Our affiliates can promote our products through PPC, but it is not allowed to use our trademarks or any IObit product names as PPC keywords, for this is against our policy and the law.RSJoomla: We don’t have any special policy on the pay-per-click thing. Affiliates can use any politically correct marketing strategies to get more sales.

So, to put this in a nutshell, when requesting partnerships with software vendors, make sure your website has relevant content and it doesn’t violate the vendor’s affiliate policies, especially if you’re running pay-per-click advertising campaigns. If you don’t use a website for your affiliate marketing business, let the vendor know this.
Also, always communicate with the vendor – let him know how you’re promoting their products and ask if you have certain requirements.

We have more to share: stay tuned for the next part of this Behind the Scenes series!

Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliates, partnership request, software

This entry was posted on Monday, November 1st, 2010 at 7:00 pm and is filed under Affiliate Marketing.
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"I have gone through the Training that I purchased from you and it is really great. Your CDs are better than the Total Training ones I have gotten with the Adobe Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS software."

"I would like to tell you what a wonderful training program this is!   I am in the process of branching off into video production and thought George did an amazing job with the training videos"

"Sir, I have purchased your training videos for the Photoshop and Dreamweaver programs and Id like to say thank you for your experience. It made wonders to my web site."

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Ronald C

"I have gone through the Training that I purchased from you and it is really great. Your CDs are better than the Total Training ones I have gotten with the Adobe Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS software."

"I would like to tell you what a wonderful training program this is!   I am in the process of branching off into video production and thought George did an amazing job with the training videos"

"Sir, I have purchased your training videos for the Photoshop and Dreamweaver programs and Id like to say thank you for your experience. It made wonders to my web site."

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