- Brand story - a reason to believe
- Key value prop + pain point it solves
- Tracking Platform e.g. impact, commission junction
- Cookie Duration Window - e.g. will credit commissions driven within 30 days of click
What should your offer look like when reaching out to affiliates?
- Search Policy
- Brand Guidelines
- Earnings Per Click EPC
- Payout / Commission Rate
- URL and landing pages to use
7. Thinking long term and having great relationships can unlock big upside via optimization. At ebay we did this delivering an added $40M in one quarter utilizing smart optimization techniques
What potential does your eCom brand have with affiliate marketing?
1. Diversification: It gives you another viable lever in performance marketing diversifying away from Paid Search, Paid Social, even Email, SMS, Amazon, and Organic Search/Content.
8. Set key goals for CAC/CPA, ROAS, and Revenue and track planned initiatives toward those.
9. How is their performance?
Monitor declining and increasing revenue partners over time to determine optimization opportunities
6. Choose an attribution tool
Recommend utilizing an attribution tool like TripleWhale or Northbeam.
7. Time to communicate
In house team should coordinate with their internal database numbers to compare data sets