I am a huge fan of automation. Anything that ultimately saves time and money, offers flexibility, and works properly when you use it, is a friend of mine.
That being said, I’d like to introduce you to a few of my friends.
Bounce
Bounce is a link management system that automates the monetization of links throughout your forum, blog, social network, or content site by converting direct to merchant links to commissionable affiliate links on the fly. Bounce is easily installed via plug-in or JavaScript code. Once links are passing through the system, users can also view URL’s of merchants that they currently aren’t monetizing. More information on Bounce can be found at Bounce.cc.
ForMeToCoupon
ForMeToCoupon offers an automated affiliate coupon feed which consolidates deals from merchants across all major affiliate networks in the U.S. in a standard format. The feed is easy to integrate and is very flexible. Customization is available and U.K. and Canada affiliate networks are coming soon. More information can be found at ForMeToCoupon.com.
GoldenCAN
GoldenCAN data feed integration enables affiliates to add millions of products, thousands of coupons, recent price drop products, and search on the affiliate website with only one line of HTML code. Affiliates can create stores with single or multiple merchants across networks without knowing any programming or database language. The data feed is maintained and hosted by GoldenCAN and serves the affiliate site in real time which ensures that product availability and pricing is always accurate. More information can be found at GoldenCAN.com.
PopShops
PopShops is the largest searchable collection of affiliate products in the world; featuring over 44 million commissionable products that span eight networks including Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network, LinkShare, and ShareASale. Their dynamic toolset is known for being so easy that “a 3-year old could use it”. Their solution for the data feed headache won the ABestWeb award for Best Affiliate Tool of 2007. More information can be found at PopShops.com
Hopefully, these tools will become some of your good friends as well. Send me an email to let me know how you like them at missyward@feedfront.com.
Missy Ward is the Co-Founder of Affiliate Summit, the premier conference for the Affiliate Marketing Industry and Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine. She is also an active affiliate.
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