Santa’s not the only one who should be making a list and checking it twice these days. With the countdown to the holidays officially on, digital marketers need to double check their programs to make sure everything is wrapped up for the season. To help you do this, Rakuten Advertising created The New Rules Holiday Checklist, a comprehensive guide to ensure you’re making … [Read more...]
11 Ways to Optimize Your Affiliate Website for Conversions
You’ve created a website with valuable, sticky content and you still don’t have as many conversions as you would like? We can offer you 11 ways to help you get closer to your target. Your goal as an affiliate is to make as much money as possible by selling the products you are promoting on your affiliate website. In order to achieve your goal, you have to drive traffic and … [Read more...]
Lead Generation Campaign Best Practices
Lead generation campaigns can be incredibly beneficial for brands looking to boost customer acquisition and engagement. With U.S. spending on digital lead generation campaigns estimated at $2.6 billion in 2019 and projected to grow to $3.2 billion by 2023, it’s clear that more and more brands are launching and expanding lead generation campaigns. In order to create a successful … [Read more...]
Ten Tips on How to BE A CONTENT CREATOR in Affiliate Marketing
Content creators are taking the lead. After 20 years of affiliate revenue being dominated by the coupon and loyalty space, power is shifting to content creators. A content creator is any person or company that creates content to inform and attract an audience and shares that content through a variety of distribution channels, usually on their own website, blog, … [Read more...]
What’s Driving The Creative Destruction In Affiliate Marketing?
One of my biggest takeaways from Affiliate Summit was that we are well and truly into an era when VC and private equity money dominates the industry. If a network hasn't brought in new owners or investors already, there's a good chance they're out there looking. And if investment funds are already in place, then it is likely that they are actively searching for new … [Read more...]
10K in 30 Days – 4 Tips for High-Performance LeadGen
Within the performance marketing industry, there is a small set of advertisers, publishers, agencies, and service providers who consistently outperform all the rest. These are the players I like to call ‘high-performance’ performance marketers. To put this in perspective, let me give an analogy: a ‘“performance’” automobile might go from 0-60 in 6 six seconds, while a … [Read more...]