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Affiliates

The Affiliate Health Check

The skill I use to run my affiliate program. Nine checks, top to bottom, on any network. It interviews you once and after that it is one command.

What is inside

  • 1Works on Awin, ShareASale, Impact, CJ, Rakuten, Refersion, GoAffPro, PartnerStack, or an in house program.
  • 2The nine questions it asks once, from commission rate to the highest rate you can approve without asking, then saves so later runs are one command.
  • 3Check 1, account health, with the hard line: approval rate under about 70 percent means partners are not being paid, and it gets flagged every run until it is fixed.
  • 4Check 4, promotions and codes. Every code must exist in the network and the store. This is the single most common quiet failure in affiliate programs.
  • 5The named red flags on pending applications, from brand name paid search bidding to coupon sites that only intercept customers already at checkout.

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