Focus on… Online Voucher Codes

Earlier this year VoucherCodes.co.uk asked Forrester to conduct a study analysing the impact online voucher codes had on advertisers and the digital marketing space. Over 500 UK-based advertisers were surveyed and interviewed to paint a picture of the market’s dynamics and its stance as an affiliate. Incremental revenue, customer conversions, shopping basket behaviour, customer loyalty and a company’s brand reputation were all in the line of questioning; and results were very much in favour of voucher codes, which were summarised into three key trends.

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Performance Marketing Guide 2013 Unveiled

We recently lent a hand to the A4u to provide the Performance Marketing Guide 2013 and we are pleased to announce its publication today. The guide, which offers explanation and insight into all areas of performance marketing, was originally written in 2011 and has been a huge success.  However, as the industry continues to grow and flourish as such a rate it was in need of updating to include the innovations and revolutions of the past 18 months.

Innovation has been prominent in the technology of the industry and so this section of the guide has undergone the most amount of work. Evolving areas of performance marketing can be found in video, call tracking, tag management and attribution; so therefore it’s well worth a read if you want to be ahead of the game. Continue reading

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Weekend away with IHG

It’s that time of year when CJ are at their busiest, and this year is no different. At the weekend we were invited to one of IHG’s top hotels in the capital, along with 17 publishers from overseas.

IHG have been a global partner of CJ’s since 2007, and bagged themselves advertiser of the year at CJU 2012. Hosting this event is all part of our plans to further IHG’s success in the affiliate marketing space, by increasing revenues and ramping up work within the mobile space. Continue reading

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The key to becoming a successful business person

Commission Junction’s President, Kerri Pollard recently spoke with Forbes magazine to give advice on how to be a better business person.  She pulls out a series of key character traits that underpin many successful people.  The article is well worth a read, and from the video you can see why Kerri herself has been so successful.

These traits are things we look for in our staff, and I think there are plenty of people here at Commission Junction in the UK that can demonstrate such prowess.

1. Humility: Never have the arrogance to think you can solve everything and always learn from those around you.

2. Passion: Make sure you enjoy what you do, it might not be a typical ‘passion’ like sports or literature, but could be something like ‘management’ or ‘operations’.  Finding this out will make you far more productive because you enjoy what you do.

3. Communication: This is at the heart of all businesses, bad communication with colleagues, peers, clients and suppliers will create more work and make things more difficult, clear, concise communication is integral to success.

4. Integration: They key is to tie all of this together, it’s the hardest thing to do but combining humility, confidence, passion and communication will make for a fantastic professional and entrepreneur.

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Meet…Sri Sharma at Net Media Planet

In our series of ‘meet’ interviews, we sit down and talk to some of our publishers to understand more about their business, what drives them and how they help brands across the internet.  We met with Sri Sharma, founder of Net Media Planet to get his perspective on the affiliate industry.

Tell us a bit about NetMediaPlanet, who you work with and what your main focuses are? 

Sure! We are an award winning specialist in paid search and display advertising. We started out in 2004 and have been working as a paid search publisher with Commission Junction ever since.

Running campaigns across over 70 countries and in over 55 languages, our sole aim is to help ambitious advertisers maximise their revenue potential.

We put a lot of focus on trying to stay ahead of the curve. 3 key areas that we are currently focussing on are driving revenue from new channels such as mobile, helping advertisers grow their international sales and driving performance through display using real time bidding. Continue reading

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Meet…Joel Tobias at netvouchercodes

We speak to our affiliates on a daily basis and many are always offering great advice on how the industry is evolving and how publishers and advertisers should be innovating.  JoelTobias, head of business development and general manager at netvouchercodes is one such affiliate, CJ Blog caught up with him to share a few insights with our loyal readers.

Tell us a bit about netvouchercodes: 

NVC is owned by parent company 4DXMedia Ltd which was founded in 2006 and is based in North West England. We are a technology company first and foremost and we use our skill set to help us compete successfully in what is an extremely competitive marketplace. Our mission statement is very simple – help consumers “Live Life For Less”. Continue reading

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Fright Night with Mark Warner

CJ girls getting in the spirit...

Last week we pulled out the witches hats, fake blood and pumpkins to celebrate Halloween with Mark Warner, CJ style.  They opened up a free bar and had a zombie hand deliver some scary nibbles to a group of affiliates in the Phoenix pub in Victoria.

We invited along 20 affiliates, all with varying business models, to meet and learn more about opportunities with our trusted travel partner. After partnering with Mark Warner in July of this year, we’ve had a huge success building their brand across a range of affiliate sites; and it’s events like this that help us to flourish even further. Continue reading

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RingRevenue jumps on board for our PayPerCall solution

In less than a year we’ve seen continuous growth and success with our PayPerCall affiliate programme, which allows advertisers to convert more consumers, and publishers to gain the commissions they may have otherwise lost. By marrying offline and online channels, the reach for consumers extends and as does the conversion rate; calls have a 30-50% call-to-conversion rate compared to only 1-3% with clicks. Continue reading

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CJ goes exclusive with Gap and Banana Republic

Here at CJ, we are very pleased to announce that we have been appointed as the exclusive affiliate network for the fashion retailers Gap and Banana Republic, after over two years of working together. We successfully won the bid over competitor, Affiliate Window, after the brand decided they wanted to team up with a single network in order to enable closer and more productive relationships. Continue reading

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Global brand building – What to consider

Last week Florian Gramshammer, CJ UK’s Country Manager, led a panel discussion at the A4UExpo on global brand building. He was joined by Simon Bird from Savoo.co.uk, Luke Judge from Net Media Planet, Javier Ildefonso from Symantec and Alexander Bock from Arvato representing Microsoft.

It was a heated discussion where some of the key issues with international trade were highlighted, and everybody was reminded of how different cultures act differently within business transactions. Did you know Russians pay cash on delivery?!

Here are the top five tips that we learnt during the debate: Continue reading

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