Affiliate Network Selection & Management
You’re spoilt for choice when selecting an affiliate network for your affiliate program. With over 160 networks to choose from how do you know which ones are right for you? To guarantee success from your affiliate program you should ensure you have the 3 pillars of affiliate marketing in place:
- The offer must be compelling and be among the best in your industry.
- You need dedicated affiliate program management.
- Your launch & management must be high impact and error free.
As CJ, Zanox, Performics and Linkshare preferred partners Forge Affiliate Management is accredited by leading networks who know our reputation for driving value from new and under-performing networks.
Whether you have an existing affiliate network deployment and are looking for a management team to help recruit affiliates, activate affiliates or expand your program to new networks, we’ve got a solution to match your needs.
To grow your affiliate channel you need a dedicated affiliate team, a great offer, a stable affiliate network and cutting edge affiliate communications and recruitment tools. Our Outsourced Affiliate Management team provide round the clock best-in-market support and will ensure that your program outperforms your expectations.
What we do & what we deliver.
Performance Marketing Strategic Plan
We’ll do a Strategy Review of your current program, or build you a comprehensive affiliate marketing strategy if you don’t have one. This will enable us to develop a comprehensive aggressive strategy for targeting new Affiliates and partners, recruiting and incentivizing them. Included in your personalized affiliate marketing strategy are:
- Business Model Review & Benchmarking
- Sales Forecasts and Budget Preparation
- Consumer and Competitor Market Research and recommendations
- Ideal Vector Consumer & Niche Online Community development, segmentation and targeting strategy
- Compensation Plan Development / Review & Recommendations
- Technology / Network Evaluation and Recommendation
- Creative Review and Recommendation
- Publisher Base Research / Review & Recommendations
- Publisher Management Process Development / Review & recommendations
- Publisher Recruitment Process Development / Review & Recommendations
- Development of a 90 day action plan
Outsourced Management Engagement
We offer tailored affiliate management services, depending on the outcome of the needs analysis. Your Director team will work to develop relationships with targeted sites, e-zines and companies with large customer bases reaching your ideal consumer.
Business Support Services
- Well handle all regular day-to-day correspondences between affiliates and the program;
- Answer standard technical questions from Affiliates;
- Manually review and approve/deny Affiliate applications;
- Run and analyze transaction reports weekly;
- Maintain the content of your Affiliate FAQ and Info pages;
- Report issues with the program and project manage resolution of the issues;
- Turn in a written progress report to you on/around the 1st and 15th of the month detailing business support functions;
- Run an un-audited monthly commission reports and turn it into you by the 5th of the month.
- Marketing Services
- Using direct and indirect marketing channels engage with publishers and other potential partners to promote your affiliate offer.
- Identify, contact and recruit publishers into preferred ad networks using email, outbound contact center & direct mail.
- Develop new network relationships to expand the scope of the affiliate channel
- Activate dormant affiliates through phone calls, email campaigns and personal attention
- Write newsletters, develop creative, landing pages and special offers
- Develop seasonal promotions, coupons, loyalty, incentive and other offers as opportunities become available
Request your free analysis and proposal here
Our reputation speaks for itself
This is what some of our clients have to say about our work.
“…we made the right move by partnering with Forge Business and look forward, without hesitation, to our future affiliate endeavours” Mark Marovitch, BeckerSurf
“…Forge are great people to work with. We trusted Jonathan to work directly with one of our top clients and it has resulted in positive feedback, a growing initiative and some creative ideas. Take a look at some of his tools, meet his team, and listen to his ideas!” Ian Larsen, Digital River
“…it is rare to find someone with the expert knowledge, who is personable and who truly delivers on what they say. In Jonathan Miller, I got all three and them some!” Richard Wedmann
“…they are able to really deliver products that focus on the clients needs. I have found their approach to Performance Based Internet marketing to be very valuable and this has certainly given us the peace of mind…” Pieter Scholtz, ActionCOACH