MONDAY, MONday, Monday, monday.....

The week begins and so do the energy levels. As you move into work mode, we decided this week to give you, not a double boost, not a triple boost, but 4 times the push to get the week started with.

And to go with the theme of energy, our first campaign is Actipril. There are many contributing factors to lowered energy levels - stress, inactivity, diet and lack of sleep. Fatigue and exhaustion are the body’s way of telling you that enough is enough! It means that the energy in your body has been depleted by stress or by the struggles of everyday life.

Actipril is an invigorating blend of all-natural herbs to help give you the boost you need to help kick your body’s energy levels into overdrive.

The second campaign is a Celladerm Self-Tanning.

INCENTIVIZABLE, perfect for Summer. Free trial for anti-aging, self-tanning product. Two page form, bronze and summer-oriented. Pays on ALL submissions.

And then there is Madonna Confessions Tour: Free Tickets.

Answer a few simple questions and get FREE* tickets to Madonna’s “Confessions” concert tour. Most shows are already sold out, and tickets are selling for hundreds of dollars over face value on eBay and other sites. But we’re giving them away at no cost, just for completing a quick survey. Madonna’s current tour runs for only a limited time, so take advantage of this fantastic offer today!

And lastly, Robert G. Allen. "My simple, yet proven strategies for generating multiple streams of unlimited income work - now let me take you by the hand and prove it!..." "On live TV I promised the world I would make $24,000 in 24 hours, and... I failed - instead I 'cracked the code' and made $94,532.44 in 24 hours."

All 4 campaigns can be promoted via email and contextual marketing and there are no PPC restrictions. All camapigns want US traffic and allow for third party tracking. All 3 campaigns (just not the Madonna one) can be incentivised.

End of the Weekend

It is the end of the weekend and the end of the Campaign Bruce Berman Shows You How. I have just been watching the movie Alive. Wow, it makes you realize how precious life is, and how important it is to enjoy every minute of it.

Thus the ending of this campaign is more an annoyance than a tradegy as all it actually means is that you need to log into your TrafficSynergy account and pick another campaign. BabyMoneyTree would be an excellent replacement as it is currently showing fantastic conversions.



We also have a full handful of unbelievable campaigns about to be launched on TrafficSynergy, so watch this space as it could be as early as tomorrow!

The 5 Top Reasons why Affiliates join an Affiliate Network

An affiliate network is a meeting ground for advertisers and affiliates to “meet”. There are possibly 100’s of good reasons why both advertisers and affiliates can benefit from signing up to a network, but in this article we will focus solely on the 5 top reasons why affiliates benefit from being part of an affiliate network.

1. Campaign Selection: An affiliate network gives affiliates access to 100's of niche merchant's products and services. The network uses it’s time and resources to find the clever publishers who have figured out new ways to drive converting traffic. It also provides a greater variety of top performing, reputable campaigns. In this way, affiliates will easily get exposed to upmarket products such as banner rotations. With a single affiliate network, affiliates can easily work with multiple advertisers, multiple offers and multiple payment style options such as pay per click, pay per lead, pay per impression, etc. all under one umbrella, the affiliate network.

2. One Single Relationship: The relationship between the advertiser and the affiliate is of utmost importance. These relationships are necessary for structuring increased commissions (if the affiliates volume increases), in advertisers delivering affiliate-specific content, and in the advertiser and affiliate working together to assist the affiliate in maximizing the traffic to his site. The affiliate only deals with one advertiser, namely the affiliate network, rather than each of the merchants individually. This frees up a lot of space on the affiliates calendar since the affiliate does not have to use any time building relationships with anyone except their affiliate network manager. Affiliate marketing is about relationships, and that is then all taken care of by the affiliate network. The affiliate network will provide top quality support and a great training area for the affiliate to build up their skills, learn and grow.

3. Real Time Tracking: Testing and comparing each and every change and idea is fundamental for taking an affiliate’s business from strength to strength. The most important tool for testing is real time tracking. This allows the affiliate to know immediately how their new idea is translating and helps to guide the affiliate as to whether it is an idea worth pursuing. The software to track impressions, clicks, leads and sales for each campaign can be both pricey and require a lot of upkeep. The network will provide this service for free to their affiliates. The network will also provide affiliate with advanced reporting tools for checking their stats, graphs for analyzing trends, and even cookie testing capabilities for monitoring fraud.

4. Risk of Payment: Every advertiser has an element of risk as to whether you will actually receive the payments from them. As many companies can be virtual or on the opposite side of the world from where the affiliate is based, it is often very difficult to avoid doing business with dishonest advertisers. This means that no matter how much revenue the affiliate generates, some advertisers will never pay the affiliates. Joining an affiliate network gives the affiliate much stronger protection. The network will have built strong relationships with a number of the advertisers it works with and thus there is minimal chance the affiliate will not get paid.

5. Monthly, Correct Payments: Affiliate networks ensure all payments are checked and paid monthly (or as alternatively agreed). This means that the affiliate does not have to waste valuable time checking and reconciling the advertisers’ figures.

The role of an affiliate is to maximize the traffic to their site and provide rich and useful content to their site. This keeps an ever growing visitor base arriving at their site, and ensures the visitors look around the site before exiting the site. An affiliate network encourages the affiliates to concentrate on these vital functions by assisting the affiliate in maximizing the spend of each visitor the affiliate attracts.


Eric Edelstein is CEO of TrafficSynergy.com, an affiliate network that has consolidated payments, affiliate managers ready to help affiliates with any questions they might have, multiple offers, and a team that loves to lie on the beach (but only on weekends...with PDA's). To find out more, visit www.TrafficSynergy.com

Another DISNEY campaigns

The weekend has finally arrived, and in the spirit of fun, we have another great new campaign featuring the DISNEY theme.



MyScratchCard.com: Disney World Vacation for Four pays on a scratch – which is any movement of the mouse – for a FREE Vacation to Disney World. Creative shows the Magic Castle. No incentivization, US Only.

Log into your TrafficSynergy affiliate account, download the cheerful imagery. Get your campaigns working, and sit back and enjoy the weekend, knowing you are making money.

Lots and Lots of Amendments

Hello TrafficSynergy Blog Readers

The end of a week and the end of a few campaigns. But that is not all, our advertisers have also made a couple of changes, some good, some bad, but read on.....

Campaign Belisi Ties and $$$ MY DISH SYSTEM (EXCLUSIVE) has been set to inactive as of June 22nd due to the publishers setting the campaign to an inactive status.

Unfortunately, due to advertiser request, Tag World Affiliate Payout will be reduced to
$0.40 as of June 22nd.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Good news! Your payout for Vonage, has been increased to $6.60!

The Proactiv Solutions Email Submit campaign has had a number of its creatives updated by the publisher.

And we have acquired a fantastic new campaign Disney Vacation Email Submit



Get a FREE Vacation to Disneyland or DisneyWorld. Pays on each email submit. Let me tell you, this landing page and these creatives are absolutely gorgeous. I mean, DISNEY gorgeous; clean, wondrous, dreamy. . .featuring Goofy & Tinkerbell against a blue sky. Not incentivizable, US traffic only.

Dont forget to log into your TrafficSynergy account as often as possible as we are obtaining fantasic, new campaigns every day.

And yet another exclusive....

TrafficSynergy has just acquired a really hot campaign. This is a once in a life time opportunity. Get your visitors to fill in a really simple lead form, not much more than name, email, address.... and you the lead is completed. *Exclusive - Medical Hair restoration is paying out at an awsome rate.

*Exclusive - Medical Hair restoration is more than just getting your hair back, it’s getting your confidence, your swagger, and your youth back as well. One page (5 field) lead form with no credit card details needed.

With over 40 locations around the country, the Medical Hair Restoration team has helped thousands of men and women re-grow their own hair naturally and permanently.

No bidding on the term "medical hair restoration," anything else is ok. Incentivisation is NOT allowed, but the use the fact that they offer a free DVD to your advantage.



*Exclusive - Medical Hair restoration can be promoted by email and contextual marketing and allows for third party tracking. This campaign only wants US traffic

Log into your TrafficSynergy account, select campaigns and look through the exclusives, *Exclusive - Medical Hair restoration is definately a campaign you will not want to miss out on.

MONDAY MINDFUL

The start of another week, and we have decided to start it off with a double bang! We have 2 new campaigns with absolutely nothing in commen.

Personalized Disney Products (Cars, Nemo, Pooh, & more)
Proactiv Solutions Email Submit

Can the campaign be promoted via email marketing? Yes Yes
Can the campaign be promoted via contextual marketing? Yes Yes
Are there any restrictions for ppc marketing? No no
Is incentivisation allowed? Yes No
Is the campaign US only and/or international traffic? US US
Do any of the campaigns allow for Third Party YES YES

Personalized Disney Products (Cars, Nemo, Pooh, & more) is definately as the brand says, DISNEY. Personalized Adventure Books, Stories, Clocks, Placemats, Poems, Growthchart – offered direct from Disney, and INCENTIVIZABLE.


We are paying on ALL sales. This has some very nice creative and the landing page features the movies Cars, Finding Nemo, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story and more. Great from/subj lines too.

The second campaign, Proactiv Solutions Email Submit, is a first of it's kind, a SkinCare Freebie. From a Brand-New Advertiser, with a clean database and a high payout on ALL Email Address Submissions – a brand-new BRAND for the email submits. Proactiv Solutions Email Submit is widely used by both adolescents, young adults & adults alike and is repped by Jessica Simpson. The best known of all Acne products, this thing is a surprising winner. Not incentivizable, US Only.

Inactive Campaigns

The following 2 campaigns are now inactive

Ancestry
LASIK Short-Form (new)

Please log into your TrafficSynergy affiliate account and choose an alternate campaign.

Inactive Campaigns

The following campaigns have ended

!Email Submit: Starbucks Giftcard
American Idol '06 - Vote for Your Favorite
Email Submit: M& M's - Chocolate vs. Peanut
SecretCashCard
Martha vs Rachael: Favorite Domestic Goddess?

Please log into your TrafficSynergy account and view the many new campaigns which have been added to your account

Finally the weekend....

After 5 grueling days of work the weekend has finally arrived. Any other job I am quite sure I would not ever contemplate staying 1 minute extra to finish something off.... but life is definately very different when working for an affiliate network (I have to say it, like TrafficSynergy :) )

We have just got on board some really hot offers, they are called scratchcards. They are classified as lead campaigns but are far from the norm. Scratchcards are offers used in emails and newsletters which, if the user opens the email and then moves their mouse, it converts. This means that the user does not need to insert any infomation and the lead is still paid for. There are 7 new ones which have been added to your TrafficSynergy account.

MyScratchCard.com: Laptop
MyScratchCard.com: T.J. Maxx
MyScratchCard.com: Flatscreen TV
MyScratchCard.com: PS3
MyScratchCard.com: Old Navy
MyScratchCard.com: XBox 360
MyScratchcard EXCLUSIVE: 1 Year Supply, Gerber BabyFood


MyScratchCard can be promoted via email and contextual marketing and there are no PPC restrictions.

Similarly, login to your TrafficSynergy affiliate account and you will see the OneClick: Dell vs. Apple (pays on click) campaign. As the name suggests it is a click campaign. Sound confusing... well it is, as the lead is created when a click takes place.

And then there is also the easy, credit quote offer, My FICO Credit Quote. It is worth looking at the html creatives. They are flash but done very well as although the picture is moving, it does not do it so blatently that you get the feeling you want to close the email before you have seen what it has to offer.

So, now you are probably feeling really inspired.... but no. Dont be tempted to login to your TrafficSynergy affiliate account. It is the weekend, close your computer, go for a walk and spend some time relaxing. It is your time. Use your sleeping time wisely and dont use it, wandering how much money you could be making if you were rather bettering your portal site or emailing another 500 000 people.

Have a great weekend!