State of Affiliate Marketing in 2009

[pharmaboy]

Hi Friends,

An interesting article from a veteran affiliate Shawn Collins about the State of the Affiliate Marketing in 2009.

http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/pages/state-of-the-affiliate-marketing-industry-2009.aspx

You will like it.

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[Sara PSP]

Thanks for the link to an interesting article.
Personally I find cookies an old way of tracking and 30 days is not sufficient. The article is talking about a wide range of affiliate programs not just OP.

Interesting comments about Twitter as a source of affiliate recruitment - very early days so a definite growth area. Please follw me http://twitter.com/SaraPSP and I will follow back. Particularly if you can recommend a great affiliate program.

Also good to see recognition of affiliates owning many domains. So often joining a program one is asked to list the domain where links will be used and space is given for just 1.

Message boards (forums) are a good way for affiliates to select programs - 'An affiliate manager who is active on message boards (12 percent)'

Some good point on the importance of responsiveness by affiliate managers.

[dalpaythorsten]

Hi Friends,

An interesting article from a veteran affiliate Shawn Collins about the State of the Affiliate Marketing in 2009.

I had hoped it would be a link to an article specific to Rx affiliates, but it is instead a fairly interesting overview of general affiliate marketing based on a sample of 450 general affiliates, in Q4 2008.

In anticipation of changes that are expected to ripple through the marketplace during 2010 here is a poll My experience and attitude to moving from Rx to Herbal (http://rxaffiliateforum.com/showthread.php?t=6339)...

(Poll answers are:

* I have not considered herbal before,
* I have tried herbal and it does not convert as well,
* I have already moved all of my traffic to herbal,
* I have recently moved 50% or less of my traffic to herbal,
* I am waiting to see if my payouts continue from Rx first,
* I will never move my traffic to herbal.)

[traveller]

I work as an AM for 2 programs currently NONE RX.
Am seeing an increase in the amount of people starting uop new sites and working at home.

[bigznet]

I have tried herbal and it does not convert as well... therefore...

I will never move my traffic to herbal

[dalpaythorsten]

I have tried herbal and it does not convert as well... therefore...

I will never move my traffic to herbal

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Would you mind sharing what levels of conversions you found - for the period you tried - of herbal compared to generic pharmacy?

It will be very interesting to see what the overall result of the poll is after more people have taken it here:
http://rxaffiliateforum.com/showthread.php?t=6339

[dalpaythorsten]

I work as an AM for 2 programs currently NONE RX.
Am seeing an increase in the amount of people starting uop new sites and working at home.

So, what was your answer to the poll? :)

[traveller]

I tried and will not try again. People want the real thing

[pillzz]

Herbal doesn't convert as well, but it sure lets you sleep at night knowing that a knock on the door won't be forthcoming along with a visit with the prosecutor.

I've been running an herbal program for a couple of years and the conversion is about 1/16 after they hit the cart ( don't have stats as to ratio of unique visitors that actually reach the cart), according to affiliate software that we use. From the old days I know that the real deal converted better than this, but that's to be expected.

[BuzzWeb]

does someone know about herbals for ‎Diabetics ?

[RxRev]

thanks for sharing the article :)