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Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Should You Pay Affiliates for Subscription Renewals?
Whether your business is in the SaaS / subscriptions area or you are thinking of turning your software products into subscriptions, your affiliate channel is an important vector to get more sales.
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Digital Alley: The Newest Attraction on the Vegas Strip
If you're attending Affiliate Summit West 2015 in Las Vegas, there are a slew of new attractions you'll want to visit while in town – the new “Las Vegas High Roller” ferri
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Add Some Summer-time Sizzle to Your Affiliate Program with These 6 Tips
Another beautiful summer is upon us, signified by long sunny days, BBQs with friends, fun on the beach, and affiliate program success. If your sales are lower than average during the summer, it doe
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Affiliate Marketing in Emerging Markets
From an international merchant perspective, after you have the "hottest" regions of the world already covered – North America and Western Europe – the next step is to look tow
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
3 Steps and 7 Tips to Turn Your Software Products into Subscriptions
I recently read an article on how shifting to subscriptions has affected Adobe products. Basically, the company saw a decrease in revenues in the short term, but current signs lead to a good progno
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
5 Steps to Better Communication with Your Affiliate Partners
Communication is one of the main pillars supporting any successful affiliate program. But you've probably found yourself in the situation where you sense that your communication with your partn
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Keep Your Affiliate Relationships Fresh with Retention Campaigns
Many vendors have encountered this problem: affiliates start out strong, with high motivation and great sales, but their enthusiasm for your products fades over time, and your revenue stream shrink
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Top 5 Considerations When Selecting an Affiliate Program Manager
Like any other sales channel, the affiliate part of your business needs plenty of attention in order to grow. The way you provide that attention depends on your company's current status, goals,
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
5 Things to Consider when you Take Care of your Affiliate Program
As any sales channel, the affiliate part of your business needs attention in order to grow. The way you provide that very much depends on your company's current status, goals and perspective i
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Use These 2 Factors to Improve Your Efficiency When Recruiting Affiliates
A while ago, I outlined some great ways to recruit affiliates and reviewed the ups and downs of each approach. I recently gave a presentation where I discussed the most efficient ways to get affili
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Help your Customers be Security Aware
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the US and this brings up people's attention towards the security issues related to their devices – computers, tablets, mobile, etc.
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Affiliate Tracking Challenges for Software Merchants
When software affiliates promote your products online, one of the most important aspects of this process is how you track the affiliate sales they refer to you. Accurate tracking is the keystone fo
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
How to Pitch Your Software Product to Power Affiliates
Every affiliate has its specific needs when it comes to promoting products online. The best performing affiliates will not waste their time with every merchant that approaches them. This is why it
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
3 minutes
6 Tips to Activate Stagnant Affiliates
There isn't a single merchant on this world selling through affiliate programs that hasn't got idle affiliates. These are affiliates that are not active, meaning that they don't generat
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
5 Ideas for Productive Affiliate Campaigns (part 2)
In the first part of this series we spoke then about promoting software to your customers on a try-before-you-buy model, converting the customers from your website and sending newsletters to your a
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
5 Ideas for Productive Affiliate Campaigns (part 1)
Every now and then we get questions from affiliates seeking our advice on successful affiliate campaigns for software titles. This is a subject that has no universal conclusions, since what may wor
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
How To's for Affiliate Program Managers
If you're running an affiliate program or at least considering to do so, I think you agree that education is very important – seeing the best practices, getting to know where and wh
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
5 Must Have Actions for Affiliates in 2011
Affiliate Marketing is not "as easy as 1,2,3". But I guess you know that by now. It needs constant efforts and taking advantage of all the opportunities in order to succeed in a significa
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Behind the Scenes: Tips from Affiliate Managers (2)
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 softwar
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
Behind the Scenes: Tips from Affiliate Managers (1)
How to make sure your affiliate partnership request is approved by the vendors
Before an interview for a job, university acceptance, membership to a super private club or whatever el
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Quick Tip to Increase your Affiliate Sales: Look at your Shopping Cart
Nowadays everyone is talking about increasing your conversion rate as the main driver for generating more revenue online. Well, it is, actually :) and it's up to all entities in the buying pro
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
3 minutes
What Does it Take to Sell Through Affiliates?
Part Two - PAD Files
This is the second part of a series of blog posts about making the affiliate sales channel bring revenue to software vendors. In the first post I focused on the
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
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Affiliate Marketing Tips from Geno Prussakov
Geno Prussakov Founder of AM Navigator LLC
I recently had the pleasure to interview Geno Prussakov, one of the most important voices in affiliate marketing, founder at AM Navigator LLC. He has be
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
What Does it Take to Sell through Affiliates? Part One – Affiliates Info Page
Lots of software vendors ask themselves this question and, unfortunately, I've seen cases when the conclusion they reach is that "affiliate marketing doesn't work" or as Joel Spolsky says, in
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
7 Tips for a Successful Affiliate Sales Channel
Affiliates Sales Channel Tips
I finally got some time to study in detail the new AffStat Report 2009. It offers a comprehensive overview of the affiliate business and, from my point of view, it&#
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Vendor involvement – key element in motivating affiliates
What do affiliates mainly need? I think you'll agree with me that this is a question with many possible responses. But, as you will see, there's one thing it really matters to affiliates a
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
New Sales Channel in Europe: Intel® Business Exchange Software Store
The Intel® Business Exchange Software Store in Europe has just been launched, bringing a new sales channel for selling software to European countries – with localized sites for the UK, Ge
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Incentives for affiliates joining your program
As I mentioned in my last post on how to recruit software affiliates, an important part of the recruiting process is the reason you give them to join your program. It may very well be a successful
Affiliate Marketing Trends
By Cristi Miculi
4 minutes
How to Recruit New Software Affiliates
OK, so you have the software products to sell and you want to extend your sales force with minimal costs. Using affiliates is a perfect solution, but where do you find them? This is the first
Network Contests
By Cristi Miculi
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Network-wide Contest for Avangate Affiliates
Promote top PC security and utilities titles and earn up to $2,000!
Since 2011, we've offered an annual contest for our affiliates. Now it's back, so get ready for the Avangate A
Network Contests
By Cristi Miculi
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Affiliates – Start Your Engines
Avangate is proud to launch its 2012 line of contests for affiliates that generate sales.
Software is a great niche to promote as an affiliate, no doubt about that: big commissions,
Merchants & Affiliate Programs
By Cristi Miculi
0 minutes
Norton by Symantec Affiliate Program - now in Avangate!
Big news in the begining of the summer for all you affiliates worldwide: Norton by Symantec has just launched their affiliate program in the Avangate Affiliate Network, the #1 global affiliate netw
Merchants & Affiliate Programs
By Cristi Miculi
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You Thought Your Affiliate Strength Is Just In Sheer Numbers? Think Again
Affiliate Marketing Works When Done Properly
Are you looking to increase Affiliate Network sales and not sure how? Have you connected to several affiliate networks and sales are still not picking
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
5 minutes
Celebrating 10 Years of the Avangate Affiliate Network
It gives me great pleasure to be able to write this post at this major milestone in our history. I've been involved with the Avangate Affiliate Network since 2009 and am proud to have helped it
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
ASW16 Event Wrap-up: What We Learned
As always, going to the Affiliate Summit, the largest global affiliate conference of its kind, is something everyone in the field should experience. For Avangate, it's a way for us to share our
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Affiliate Summit East '14 - Wrap-Up
"The digital goods market is growing, and Avangate is here to help" - in my opinion, was the most important takeaway from the recent Affiliate Summit East show in New York City.
Avangat
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Affiliate Summit West 2014 Chronicles
Another successful Affiliate Summit West is over. As always, the stats prove that the event continues to be a must-attend for any affiliate marketer. Kudos for Shawn and Missy for putting this one
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
The City of Affiliate Love: Affiliate Summit East Review
I have to admit I was somewhat reluctant when I saw the announcement that the Affiliate Summit East 2013 was being held in Philadelphia instead of New York (where it's been for the past few yea
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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Meet Avangate at Affiliate Summit West 2013
Another year, another conference. We’re coming to the US West Coast this time at the Affiliate Summit West 2013 event which will take place in Las Vegas, January 13-15.
Visit us on Su
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
ASE 2012 Wrap-up: Software & SaaS on the Rise
Here we are, back from Affiliate Summit East 2012: a good show with an ever growing number of attendees. But there's one thing that stands out: the software vertical is getting stronger and str
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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Join Avangate for Affiliate Summit East 2012
Avangate will attend this year's Affiliate Summit East conference in New York, August 12-14. This is the fourth such event we're taking part into and the largest one to date, according to t
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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Barcelona – here we come!
Following last year's successful Munich event, we're even more into A4U Expo Europe - this year in Barcelona. Starting from June 18th until June 20th, 2012, we will be available to meet and
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
2 minutes
7 Tips to Grow Your Business at Affiliate Events - the ASW12 Story
Another Affiliate Summit event went by and I'm happy to say that it was the most successful one so far for us - not only for the new connections we made, but also the number of folks to whom we
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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See You at Affiliate Summit West 2012
Affiliates in the Avangate Network already know this, but here's the "official" announcement: we're going to Affiliate Summit West 2012, set to be the largest event of such kind t
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
1 minute
Avangate at Affiliate Summit East 2011 - Epilogue
Yet another Affiliate Summit went by - the largest yet so far with almost 4,000 attendees. It had all the good stuff an Affiliate Summit would come with: interactive sessions, captivating keynotes
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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Avangate to Share Insight on Promoting Software at ASE 2011
It's go time again for the Affiliate Department here at Avangate – we're packing our bags and heading west to New York on August 21-23, 2011 to attend the Affiliate Summit East confer
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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Meet Us in Munich at A4U Expo Europe
We're heading off to Germany at the beginning of June 2011 to attend A4U Expo Europe – one of the largest European affiliate conferences.
I'm particularly excited because this year
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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Vote for Our Session at Affiliate Summit!
If you're reading this you're probably a fan of digital goods and you know that software is one of the verticals in which affiliates get the highest commissions in the industry. It can gene
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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See you at Affiliate Summit East!
We're preparing for a trip to the US during August 15-17 – to New York City, to be more specific. I'm pretty excited to attend Affiliate Summit East 2010, a major event of the affilia
News & Events
By Cristi Miculi
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Avangate Control Panel for Affiliates v 4.0
Are you already a member of the Avangate Affiliate Network? Then consider this post as "What's New" type information. If you aren't convinced yet, I hope you will become an affiliate after rea