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Techniques for
Keeping Track of Your Affiliate Referrals
The number of referrals you can generate for your affiliate marketing
program can range from a few dozen to several hundreds. Great
if
there are only a few names on your list so far since they would be easy
to familiarize with but what if you've collected enough names
equivalent to a mid-sized city's worth of phone numbers?
Without
an organized system, you could easily lose potential income from
referrals you can't monitor. Learn how to keep track of your
affiliate referrals offline and online so you'll never have to waste
your efforts.
Offline tracking techniques
Just because you're in affiliate marketing doesn’t mean all
your
affiliate referral prospecting methods are limited online.
Offline activities can be incredibly useful for generating
leads.
If you're the type of affiliate who has an active social networking
life, you probably make use of conferences, trade shows and meetings to
mine affiliate referrals. If you do, then make sure you are
organized enough to take advantage of all the prospects you get in
touch with during these occasions.
An excellent way to do this is to obtain a prospect's business
card. That piece of paper should hold enough information for
you
to use later to get in touch with that person. If you attend
multiple events or are constantly generating leads online, make a few
notes on the back of the business cards so you never forget important
information about the person, such as the event they attended, what
they said and other business-related stuff you might have discussed.
Keep all business cards collected specifically for your affiliate
marketing program separate from your other business cards.
This
will prevent confusion later when you begin communicating with these
people. Don't be afraid to use labels and to make notes
–
this will help ensure that you keep track of all your affiliate
referrals and never forget critical information and data.
Online tracking techniques
One of the fastest and most convenient ways to track affiliate
referrals is to use online resources. Some of these include:
An affiliate referral tracking application
Once your referral activities begin in earnest, you'll find it
difficult to manually track the number of referrals you bring to your
affiliate company's website. You'll need a reliable
application
to perform this efficiently. Some of these referral tracking
applications may be downloaded for free, although you might prefer
premium editions if your affiliate business is big enough.
These applications are quite easy to use so you can conveniently keep
track of the activities of your affiliate referrals. Many of
these applications even offer extras, such as features that allow you
to monitor your banner exchanges, start pages and affiliate links
– essentially the kind of activities you'll been doing in
order
to promote your website.
Your affiliate marketing program's tracking system
Majority of established affiliate marketing programs have their own
tracking system for their affiliate's referrals. Check your
program for this. You'll usually only need your own affiliate
ID
in order to gain access to your stats.
Your affiliate program is able to do this because the affiliate links
you post on your web pages are coded. This usually comes in
the
form of a tracking cookie. Each time your visitors click on
that
link and arrives on the affiliate company's website, their tracking
system will register the unique code coming from your site.
Activities related to this code will be kept in the company's system
which you can view at any time.
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