We’re delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting at this year’s a4uexpo, which will be taking place on 14th and 15th October at ExCel, London. The a4uexpo is the UK’s leading affiliate marketing event and a networking opportunity not to be missed, so if you’d like to come and say hello, you’ll find us at stand 15!
AffiliateFuture will also be sponsoring the “Ignite” pre-networking party on the evening of 13th October, which is taking place in the Upper Deck Bar @ Novotel. The Ignite party is the perfect warm-up to the main event, giving guests the opportunity to network in a relaxed environment before the conference begins, so we’re looking forward to meeting some of you there!
A few months back we launched our patent pending tracking technology called Veracitag. Without going into the details of it too much (more on it here) the reason for its development was the seemingly increased reluctance of customers to accept or to retain cookies, ultimately ending in less commission for our affiliates.
Veracitag adds another level of tracking if the standard cookie or flash cookie (another piece of tracking technology we use) doesn’t drop or is subsequently deleted from their browser, and since its launch we are happy to say that we’ve tracked up to an additional 7% of sales/leads!
We strongly believe that since the launch of this technology, our tracking technology is one of the most robust solutions available in the market today.
When you add this technology to our 5 day cancelation period (something that is unique in the market), our auto-accept on all programmes and the fact that we act as a financial buffer, paying affiliates before being paid by the merchant, it goes a long way to showing why a number of affiliates prefer to use AffiliateFuture links when a programme is on dual networks.
If anyone has any questions on this tracking (or any other aspect of AffiliateFuture) then please get in touch.
AffiliateFuture, the leading network with a reputation for innovation has appointed Justin Thomas in the newly created role of Sales Director. Thomas’ arrival at the network is the latest in a raft of senior appointments undertaken to support the network’s aggressive growth strategy.
Justin’s remit is to devise and deliver the sales strategy for the network, coordinating sector specific sales with the communication of AffiliateFuture’s technological solutions to its community of merchants and publishers. He will seek to increase yield for existing clients and secure the business of others as he positions the network as the intelligent choice for serious affiliate marketers.
Thomas joins fresh from EDR where he spent six years culminating in the role of Sales Director during which time he won various high profile accounts including LOVEFiLM, Credit Expert and Capital One.
Justin says: “In addition to my proven track record in winning new business, I am hoping to bring my experience of implementing successful sales strategies within a competitive and fast moving marketplace. I believe the current financial context is one of real opportunity for the sector as many brands will increase the share of marketing budget to accountable disciplines like affiliate marketing. I intend to turn this trend to our advantage.”
Justin’s appointment begins with immediate effect.
Monday, August 18th, 2008
New Code 10% off the basket value for any order placed until the 30th of September. Please apply it before checkout, by clicking on 'Click to use a coupon' on the right hand side.
Code: A10DX
Start Date: Aug 18, 2008 End Date: Sep 30, 2008
Log in to the new AffiliateFuture tools to access the voucher manager and view all available codes.
We’re just added to our portfolio of merchant videos with a brand new video from sunshine.co.uk! Giles Parnwell, Head of Travel Marketing here at AffiliateFuture, interviewed Alan Gilmour, Technical Director at sunshine.co.uk and I’m sure you’ll agree they both have promising TV careers!
The merchant videos are designed to arm affiliates with key programme information, along with seasonality and target audience facts and figures, making the videos an invaluable and innovative resource.
sunshine.co.uk is a discounted holiday specialist, offering holidays, hotels and flights at prices well below the market average. Designed by affiliates with affiliates in mind, sunshine.co.uk offers a winning formula, keeping prices constantly low and providing affiliates with resources and innovative incentives every step of the way.
To view the Happy & Giles show, simply login to the affiliate resource centre, view the video on the sunshine.co.uk site or click play below!
Over the past few weeks our developers have been beavering away and re-developing our voucher code system for the new v2 interface.
For those that were unaware, AffiliateFuture were one of the first network to introduce a Voucher code system back in 2003, allowing merchants to publicise their codes for affiliates to distribute. Back then affiliates using Voucher codes was not as popular as it is today and because of the way it was developed only certainly merchants and affiliates had access to this functionality.
So to bring things back into 2008 we have redeveloped and now re-launched this tool within our new interfaces.
Merchant Tools
For Merchants, adding a voucher code is a quick and easy process that is done on a programme level basis. Just browse to the Programmes section (make sure you use the new tools) and select Voucher Manager (see screenshot).
Select “Start Adding Vouchers” and you will see the Management tool in action! In this section you can add the Name, Description, Code, Landing Page, Start/End Date and even make it exclusive to one of the affiliates signed up to your programme.
Clicking Add will automatically make it available to affiliates.
Affiliate Tools
To access the new tool you’ll need to login to version 2 of the interface and select Programmes > Voucher Manager.
There are a few different ways to browse through codes here - either by the Directory, View all, View latest or View Expiring.
Below is the directory view:
To view the vouchers for any specific category just click on the links and you’ll see something like this:
Within this section you can take the codes & your affiliate link. It also lets you directly sign up to programmes that you may not be a member for currently (and with our auto-accept policy you’ll be able to promote them straight away).
You can also export all the vouchers for merchants that you are affiliated with and within the next few days we’ll be launching an XML file and webservice which means that you can integrate this technology to automatically update your site. An RSS of all the codes will also be available soon.
A few months back we launched our patent pending tracking technology called Veracitag. Without going into the details of it too much (
