Home Truths of Affiliate Marketing

If you’ve just started out in affiliate marketing and you are looking to build a new revenue stream for yourself, there are a few truths you need to know.   Click here to get in touch with us for a free consultation. Let us know how we can help you.

COVID-19 Response

Effective the 17th of March until at least the 30th of March the majority of our company staff will be working remotely, to ensure we mitigate against the spread of the Corona virus and to make life a little easier for those of us with families and kids who are home from school. As a predominantly digital business, our infrastructure and systems are perfectly aligned and many of our staff remote work often, so business should not be affected or interrupted. We will however suspend travel and in-person meetings for the next few weeks. To reach any of our team you can still use our phone numbers (SA) 087 231 0377 and (USA) +1844 223 0224.

EXCLUSIVE: Ads that approve your visitors for loans, on your site.

In another first, we’ve launched dynamic loan pre-approval ads for MPOWA Finance. Now your site visitor can check if they qualify for a loan, without leaving your site. This means you’ll be adding useful content to your site and your visitor stays on your site longer. Only pre-approved borrowers will click away from your site, hugely improving your chances of a conversion. HOW THE LOAN PRE-APPROVAL WORKS We have a Leaderboard and Large Format Box ad available, so you can choose whichever one fits your site best. HOW TO ADD BANNERS TO YOUR SITE. STEP1:  In the MPOWA offer card, click on CREATIVE and browse to the bottom.  Find the creative named “embedded form”. STEP 2:  Click GET CODE and the CUSTOM LINK popup will appear (example below). You can add optional sub-id’s or just click on DONE. STEP 3: Your tracking code will appear.  Copy the code snippet and…

Affiliate Payments Explained

Affiliate networks like OfferForge.com and many others pay affiliates monthly for delivering conversions, sales or any other commissionable results. What’s a commissionable result? Good question!  Let me explain…. When an advertiser joins our network, they determine the conversion point at which they will pay a commission to you, the affiliate publisher. Examples of commission points include cost per click (CPC) for driving qualified traffic to their site, cost per lead (CPL) for delivering approved leads or cost per aquisition and sale programs which can be either a percentage of the sale or a once-off bounty for acquiring the customer. When do you pay affiliates? OfferForge settles publisher commissions on a nett 45 basis.  This means you can expect payment in the middle of the month each month for the period preceeding the last month.  For example, December is paid in February.  January is paid in March and February is paid…

Video Tutorial: Adding affiliate links to your site

Getting started in affiliate marketing can be daunting, but we’re here to help and guide you, every step of the way. This short video introduces you to the affiliate interface and shows you how to search for banners, copy code, use subid’s and embed links onto your site. It’s a short video, so it should only take a few minutes to watch. When you’re finished with this tutorial you’ll confidently be able to: Browse the OfferForge interface Search for offers search for links embed subid’s copy the code place code on your website test the tracking If you have questions, post them in the comments, we’ll answer them in the thread or record an answer.

Who manages your affiliate program?

Alright, so you have launched your affiliate program last month and you were expecting a massive uptake by affiliates which was going to result in sales flying in. Rather, quite the opposite has happened. There has been little-to-no uptake from affiliates and as a direct result the sales figures are as unflattering as an elephant in a Speedo.