Performance Marketing News

What commission amount should I pay my affiliates?

A:  As much as you can B: As little as possible C: As much as your biggest competitor D: As much as you need to get attention E:  I have no idea that’s why I sent you this question in the first place   I’d love to say to you that it is A or […]

What Merchants Want from Affiliates

I’m now working on my 13th year in the online marketing field. I really don’t feel that old, but wow, in this online world that sure is a long time. I remember a few colleagues of mine were joking at the last affiliate summit that one online marketing year is worth 7 brick and mortar years.  So […]

What is JEBCommerce Reading, November 29th Edition

Today’s meeting was filled with news of our upcoming 2012 planning, our company off-site meeting in January, conference schedules, team travel and even oil towns in North Dakota!  We had some real interesting reading from the team, although I didn’t see the spying and exploding grenade article coming (thanks Danielle) :). Without further ado, please […]

3 Reasons Your Affiliate Program Should Have a Written Communication Plan

I tend to consider myself a bit of an entrepreneur, always have.  I can remember reading my dad’s business magazines growing up and dreaming of some grand adventure I’d have in the business world, running my own show.  I remember thumbing through quite a bit of franchise magazines, Entrepreneur Magazine, Money and others that the […]

MusicFactoryDirect.com Select JEBCommerce's Outsourced Affiliate Management

Tuesday,  September 21st, 2010. JEBCommerce, a leading outsourced affiliate management agency, today announces that MusicFactoryDirect.com, a leading musical instrument and accessory retailer, has selected JEBCommerce to optimize and manage their affiliate programs in Linkshare, the Google Affiliate Network and now Impact Radius! Experienced and knowledgeable instrument buyers at MusicFactoryDirect.com search the globe to find the […]

Using the "same store" concept from retail in affiliate marketing

One of the things I learned from working at and with several large, national, multi channel retailers, was the concept of same store sales.  Now, don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a complex metric that I came up with, it’s only something I have found useful when managing affiliate programs.  Whether retail programs, lead gen […]

Affiliate Summit East 2010 Un-Recap

JEBCommerce wasn’t able to attend the Affiliate Summit in NYC this year.  We very much wanted to, but we are working on some big things here, launching a few new clients and hiring new people, so a journey across the country was not in the cards.  If you haven’t attended an Affiliate Summit and are […]

3 mistakes you may be making in developing your forecasts

Sunny with a slight chance of failure?  Does that sound like a forecast you have been putting together for your affiliate program?  With the fourth quarter running rapidly at us, our team is working on their forecasts for each of our clients.  It’s an extremely important aspect of affiliate management, and one that drives the […]

Stephen Robinson Featured on Relevantly Speaking

Stephen Robinson, Director of Affiliate Relations for outsourced program management agency, JEBCommerce, talks to MediaTrust about the concerns big brands have in affiliate marketing.

Why are you making it hard for your affiliates???

Guest Post – Joe Sousa “From time to time, we have the good fortune of having a well respected, successful and knowledgeable individual provide a guest post for this blog.  Today is one of those special days. Joe is a close friend of ours and his opinion as an affiliate is one we rely on […]