Paid On Results - Network Blog

Wednesday 2nd of July in London, Affiliate Pub Meet. A number of Affiliate Networks including Paid On Results have clubbed together to organise this Affiliate Pub Meet. There will be a BBQ and some cash behind the bar, if your interested in coming along email your name and company to affiliategettogether@googlemail.com (please note that this email address is monitored by ALL Networks for this event only) spaces are limited. If you have already put your name down via another Network then you don’t have to do it again.

Venue: Dust Bar, 27 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RN. Time: 5pm to 11pm. Date: Wednesday 2nd July.

Two of the Paid On Results team will be flying down for this event, so we hope to see you then. If not you can always catch up with us at one of the up and coming A4U Events this year.

Paid On Results are proud to announce the latest version of our Merchant Control Panel Interface. We believe it is important to listen to Merchants. As a result of feedback we have received, we have created additional tools that will provide Merchants with even more functionality.

Highlights include features such as:

• Affiliate Bulletins – communication tool
• Affiliate Groups – management tool
• Basket Data – product reporting tool
• Batch Validation – increased options for processing sale validations

Existing Paid On Results Merchants just need to login to their control areas to start using these new & improved features.

If you have not yet joined Paid On Results as a Merchant and would like to find out what we have to offer you, then get in touch with us today. We are an Affiliate Network that is constantly innovating in all areas, helping Merchants and Affiliates achieve their targets.

Paid On Results has been shortlisted for “Best Network Innovation 2008” by the Judges for the A4U Awards, only 4 Networks in total have been shortlisted so well done to everyone. The team here at Paid On Results are pleased to be shortlisted and wish everyone shortlisted in this and the other categories the best of luck on the 5th June 2008. More information on who was shortlisted can be found at a4uAwards - Judged entries shortlist announced.

A quick note to let you know that Look Again, it now live again on the Paid On Results Network, you can find out more information but looking at the Merchant Information page.

Paid On Results has been nominated as “Publisher’s Choice Of Network 2008” by the Affiliates on the A4U Forum, everyone on the team would like to thank all the Affiliates that nominated us and wish everyone who is nominated for an award in all categories the best of luck for the 5th June 2008. More information on the nominations can be found at a4uAwards - 2008 Community Choice Shortlist.

Paid On Results is proud to announce the release of the latest version of our highly regarded Affiliate Control Panel. The new Affiliate Control Panel hosts a number of new and improved features and reports, including the release of our upgraded Content Creator – making it simple to create your own custom designed product feed content.

The launch of this control panel will also see a change in how we plan to introduce future upgrades and new releases. Rather than holding the launches of our major upgrades until we have several new features all available at one time, we will be introducing minor changes and new features thought the year.

We always listen to feedback we receive from our active affiliate base so please be sure to leave any ideas or suggestions via the feedback forum when you logout of the control area. Many of the upgrades you see today are as a result of such feedback.

The Affiliate Control Panel was developed fully in-house by Paid On Results.

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Paid On Results is proud to announce the forthcoming release of our new Affiliate Control Panel which is due to be released this Thursday. The new Affiliate Control Panel hosts a number of new features and reports, along with the release of our new Content Creator - for creating your own custom designed product feed content. To whet your appetite, here is a summary of the key new features.

Content Creator - our first Content Creator was highly rated by Affiliates, and the new version is even better. With an integrated in-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor, you can create truly customised product content. Everyone from the techie to the tea boy will be able to use this system to create product content. The content is served dynamically keeping it up to date.

Basket Data Report - see which products are being purchased by your visitors. Merchants need to support this feature, however, already a number of our Merchants have integrated the necessary advanced tracking code. We already have Basket Data going back to 2005 for some Merchants! You can even grab links and product images for any product listed in the report.

Bulletins - every Affiliate knows the feeling of an ever increasing Inbox full of emails from Merchants with their latest promotions and offers. Our new bulletins system gives Merchants the platform they need to effectively get that information out to Affiliates. Like our Voucher Manager, you can subscribe to the latest bulletins and receive emails which can be personalised to give you exactly the information you require. You will also receive the Affiliate links you need.

Improvements to the Merchant Directory make it even easier to select Merchants to promote by providing the following detailed performance data for each Merchant - Conversion Ratio, Average Commission and Approval Rate. Additionally, a number of other improvements have been made to each report incorporating a fresh new design across the whole Affiliate Control Panel.

We look forward to your feedback following the release this Thursday.

Paid On Results launch a unique way for Affiliates to deal with expired links. In the ideal world, as Merchants close a program, Affiliates will nip on and remove the links replacing them with relevant new Merchants. However, we are very aware that the time involved in just hunting down the links over a number of sites can be very time consuming and, as one large affiliate pointed out, some times a few links get lost in the mix and are very hard to track down.

In steps the Paid On Results Expired Merchants System. Affiliates can pre-select how they deal with Merchants when their links have expired.

Choices include:

- Display the standard expired Merchants page, with related Merchant links.

- Display your own customised expired Merchants Page. You design it and we automatically insert the most relevant Merchants from our Network.

- Continue to redirect to the expired Merchant as normal. Of course no commission will be paid.

- Redirect to any URL of your choice. You can even show related Merchants links with the cut and paste in code that we provide.

So we have something to cover everyone. By default, if you do nothing, we will display the standard expired Merchants page, with related Merchant links.

If one of the related Merchants we have chosen on the expired Merchants page is not one you’re an Affiliate of currently and if you make a sale via this Merchant you will be sent an email inviting you to join the program. If you do so within 7 days of the sale and are accepted (note currently we only show Merchants with an auto-join policy) then you will be rewarded with the sale. You should consider removing and updating your expired link with this new Merchant as clearly your customers are interested in buying via that Merchant should a sale happen.

The new system doesn’t just do all that, we will also email you every day with a list of expired link locations that have been clicked on (note that you do not get an email if nothing was clicked on). This will allow you to more effectively find and deal with old links on your website, and will hopefully lead to greater conversion as your site is full of live Merchants you can actively make money via.

Paid On Results have always prided ourselves in offering all Affiliates technology that is both easy and quick to use, so it was great delight that we read on the Existem website that Chris Johnson (Marketing Executive) has rated our system the best after trying to add content to use on the cash back site FreeFivers.

What made it even more interesting was that our content system is now 2 years old having first been made live in 2005 was up against many newer system from several bigger networks that launched their offering just this year.

Well I can exclusively reveal that Paid On Results has been working on an improved system that is due to go live in the coming weeks. While it is high praise to get 9/10 from Affiliates actually using the systems we have also been listening to feedback that has recommended changes, as well as studying the users interaction and the usability of the current system to come up with changes that once you see them in action you will agree have improved the system even more.

Read the full article here.