Due to a small maintenance procedure there will be an outage of ShoppingAds between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. US Central time on Saturday, May 3. For that duration, no ads will be served; it will be blank in the space where your ads normally reside.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you all for your patience!
Jason Cohen
Founder and President, MediaWhiz
When online advertisers think about affiliate marketing, they frequently think of the larger affiliate programs such as Linkshare or Commission Junction. These programs typically act like application service providers (ASPs), where the advertiser interfaces with and motivates affiliates.
In recent years, a plethora of cost-per-action (CPA) affiliate networks have evolved. CPA networks place the burden of managing affiliates and driving traffic squarely in the hands of dedicated affiliate managers. This approach enables advertisers to leverage the expertise, relationships, and resources of their CPA partner.
Since CPA networks are closed networks, advertisers do not directly communicate with their affiliates. If you select more than a single network partner, it is important to understand that affiliates — even underperforming ones — may appear more than once during a campaign without you knowing about it. This is due to the fact that affiliates frequently join multiple CPA networks at a time, each of which identifies that affiliate in a different manner. Selecting one partner will enable you to permanently remove affiliates driving lower quality customers or sales.
If you cannot decide between CPA networks you like, identify a key strength for each. Some programs have very strong distribution through e-mail, while other programs work very closely with search publishers. Test firms by giving each a piece of your affiliate program, so that one partner manages search, while the other manages e-mail, for example.
Remember to establish different price points for different forms of traffic, as all sales are not created equal. See which firm does a better job with reporting, optimization of underperforming affiliates, and, most importantly, servicing you as a client. With all of this in mind, you will be well on your way to finding a quality long-term CPA network partner and embarking on some great affiliate marketing.
See this artilce in DMNews: http://www.dmnews.com/Mix-it-up-with-affiliate-marketing/article/108633/
Many of you have already been made aware that eBay has begun migrating their affiliate program from Commission Junction to an in-house affiliate program, the eBay Partner Network. This is great news for all ShoppingAds users as their new solution is more flexible and efficient in helping us deliver more income for everyone! We will continue to run just as before, but please be aware that there may be a possible slight reporting delay as eBay finalizes this transition.Also, just a friendly reminder that effective February 2008, payouts will take place on the 4th of every month and include all the earnings from the entire previous month.
Thank you for your continued business and support!
Michael Brown has just released on ebook focusing on ShoppingAds and how to make more money with our program. I had a chance to review the ebook and he did a great job detailing our program and giving tips on optimization. The ebook can be purchased at EasyShoppingAdsProfits.com Thx for your work Michael!
ShoppingAds Publishers displaying CPA ads will notice blank ads being shown. We are aware of the issue and are working it out as I type. Update coming soon when everything is back in order. Thanks for your patience!
Update: this has been fixed if you were seeing issues with the ads they should be working now or will be shortly, thx again!
We are excited to announce that we have merged our AuctionAds and ShoppingAds products into one product that will be located at http://ShoppingAds.com. ShoppingAds is a hybrid product that serves both CPA (cost per action) ads provided by eBay and CPC (cost per click) ads provided by our shopping comparison engine partners. For existing AuctionAds users the only change you will see is the “Ads By AuctionAds” displayed on your ads will change to “Ads By ShoppingAds”. The other significant change is the ability for you to become a Premium Publisher.
By becoming a premium publisher you will have the opportunity to be paid on a CPC (cost per click) basis for all your US and Canadian traffic while you can monetize your international traffic on a CPA (cost per action) basis. Standard publisher’s traffic will be monetized 100% on a CPA basis. Here is a graphic of how this works. Your account will be reviewed for Premium Status in the coming days and you will be notified if you qualify. By having one central system it will allow us to focus on building one great product. If you have ideas on how we can improve please let me know below and please subscribe to our blog for news on ShoppingAds and our other MediaWhiz publisher solutions to make your website more money!
For all you who have been peppered with rss updates on various feeds over the last few days sorry about that! You have found the new home of the one central blog for all of MediaWhiz’s properties:
Text Link Ads - Static Text Ads
ReviewMe - Buzz and Social Marketing
AuctionAds - CPA Product Ads
ShoppingAds - CPC Product Ads
Filinet - Affiliate Marketing
AdNet - Display Advertising
Coregistrations - Custom Lead Generation
MonetizeIt - Customer Acquisition
WhiteDelivery - Email Marketing
MediaWhiz Search - Search Marketing
Here at MediaWhiz we are striving to be the #1 performance marketing company and are well on our way. Please stay tuned as we have lots of exciting new features and products launching in 2008 and we are committed to doing a great job of communicating with our Publishers and Advertisers on our blog starting now!
Throughout the past couple of weeks, we have been working closely with Commission Junction to ensure that reporting was in sync with their records and our records. Last weekend, we unfortunately had some issues with the server network that operates and publishes the ads, so some of you may have noticed your ads with no thumbnails or bids. We are sorry about that. We fixed the problem as fast as we could identify it.
This transition from one set of hands to the next has been a long journey, but we are glad that you have stuck with us. We have been working day and night to get this service back to where it once was. We want, more than anything, for this service to be a huge success and for it to really benefit you, our publishers. We are working on new features, new ad blocks, and trying to expand functionality on a daily basis. We have a committed development team working together to pin point any issues, resolve them, and get the system back on track.
We want to extend our deepest gratitude to you, our publishers, the reason we are even continuing this service, and want to thank you for sticking with it. We know there have been some issues, we know there have been some downfalls, we know that there have been click-tracking issues, but please rest assured that you ensure that you get paid for every cent you earn. Thanks again!
AuctionAds Publishers,
AuctionAds Publishers, we have a great way for you to promote AuctionAds and earn 5% affiliate referrals. Spread the word (using your affiliate link) that we are offering an instant $25.00 balance to all new publishers who sign up for AuctionAds! New publishers just need to sign up and they will receive a balance of $25.00 automatically.
Please note if you signed up with us previously and have never earned a payout we will bump your current balance to $25 too! Our minimum payout is also being raised to $50 but everyone who hasn’t earned a payout to date will be halfway there already! By publicizing this promotion on your blog using your affiliate link you can take advantage of receiving 5% of all revenue generated by new AA publishers you refer for a full six months. Thanks again and look for more AA news soon.
AuctionAds Publishers,
we are happy to announce a nice raise in our affiliate payouts. Effective immediately you will receive 5% of all revenue produced from publishers you refer with your affiliate link to AuctionAds for the first 6 months of the new publisher’s earnings!
Please note that our affiliate link is built directly into the “Ads By AuctionAds” link in your ads and if you want to promote our program in a blog post you can login here to find your affiliate link information. More exciting features coming to AuctionAds very soon. Thx again!
