No matter how attractive your commissions are, the software that powers your affiliate program can make it or break it. Not only should affiliate marketing software accurately track all conversions, but it should also have an array of functions and features that allow you to efficiently manage your various kinds of affiliates and product promotions.
1. Comprehensive Affiliate Reporting
To best analyze your campaign performance, you’re going to need information on affiliate traffic, conversion rates, revenue, and commissions. You will also want to be able to run specialized reports that let you easily monitor account balances and transaction details.
2. Customizable & Brandable
If you’re going to white label an affiliate marketing software solution to set up your own standalone affiliate program, then that software needs to reflect both your brand and your business model. On the customization side, you should be able to control what functions, features, and fields are available to which affiliates. On the branding side, you should be able to skin it to reflect, well, your brand.
3. Advanced Marketing Tool Support
For your affiliate program to succeed, you need to help your affiliates succeed by offering them pre-made marketing materials such as banners, text links, datafeeds, and HTML mailers. Being able to also group marketing tools into banner groups that point to specific landing pages will optimize the process: it will increase conversions which mean more sales for you, and more commissions for affiliates.
4. Flexible Commission Structuring
The software powering your program should be able to handle a variety of commission structures so that you can retain your top-performing affiliates. Whatever software powers your affiliate program should be to provide for hybrid commission structures, product-specific commissions, and special commission groups.
5. Solid Tracking and Transaction Processing
If you’re going to enjoy real-time tracking, you’ll need a combination of cookie and pixel tracking is necessarily. This will both prevent fraud and support your tracking reports. Your affiliate managers should also be able to review and approve/decline transactions through the software.
Sales Driving Software
Like any online initiative, an affiliate marketing campaign is only as effective as the technology behind it. The software you choose to run your affiliate marketing program not only has to track conversions and provide analytics, it also has to be usable for both you and your affiliates. After all, if you’re spending too much time trying to make sense of whether or not an affiliate program is worth it, it’s probably not.
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- What Affiliates Need from Affiliate Software
- Discussing Transparency in Tracking Software at the Affiliate Summit—Part II
- Discussing Transparency in Tracking Software at the Affiliate Summit
- Discussing Transparency in Tracking Software at the Affiliate Summit—Part III
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