fat cat rewards affiliate panel(2)
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Greg Simon from Fat Cat Rewards' Presentation from the 'Power Affiliate' panel at affili@syd - Australia's first affiliate marketing conference, which was run in Sydney in May 2009TRANSCRIPT
Greg Simon – Co-Founder – Director
Quick Snapshot
Lead Generation & Customer Acquisition Specialist
7 Years Experience Online
About FatCatRewards.com
• Less than 6 Months Old
• Delivers over 200,000 Leads each Month to Advertisers
• International Reach
• 250,000 + Members – growing by over 3,000 daily
Introduction
- Inside the Mind of the Super Affiliate
- How to Attract & Retain Super Affiliates
- International Opportunities in Affiliate Marketing
The Mind of the Super Affiliate
- Always testing offers, but will very quickly cut losses on campaigns if not performing
- EPC (Earnings Per Click) is the most important metric!
Top 3 Ways to Attract Super Affiliates
#3 - Provide Flexible promotion options (e.g. Pay Per Call, Pay Per Lead, Co-registration, Pixel placement/Hosting)
#2 - Have the Highest EPC in your Vertical (minimum .50c)
#1 - Constantly Improve Conversion Rates!!!
Impact of Poor Conversion Rate
• Bad reputation amongst Affiliates for having poor performing offer
• Affiliates tell each other what offers are working and those which are not
• Your poor converting offer is driving the Super Affiliates away
Tips for Advertisers
• Always Optimise before & not after placing your offer on Affiliate Networks
• Have the best EPC in your Vertical
• Keep making your EPC go up – and not down
• Always be split testing (conversion rate testing) landing pages
• Provide tried and tested Creative & constantly be refreshing creative
Overseas Opportunities for Affiliates & Advertisers
UK & Canada best converting English speaking markets outside of AU & NZ
- Large amounts of Ad Budgets Moving Online
- High Traffic Value
- Email very responsive
- Large amounts of Social Traffic
- Finance and Travel Verticals very Strong