Friday 19 December 2008

Using Affiliate Programs to Boost Web Site Traffic

I received the following advice in an email from AddMe.com and I thought I should share it more widely.

It addresses why merchants should use affiliate programs as part of their online sales drive and well thought through.

Have you ever heard of using affiliate programs to get a boost in targeted visitors to your web site? This can be an excellent web site traffic promotion to put visitors in touch with the products or services you have available on your site.

Let’s say you have a product you have created and are selling on your website for $97 (In this example the product will be an e-Book).

Visitors arriving on your site, pay $97, and can then download the e-Book. Your profit is $97 less any payment processing fees (credit card, etc).

With an affiliate program, you pay a commission for every sale of your product or service that is made by a referral of your affiliate. You pay for results only, no sales means no payment.

This means you are getting someone else to market and promote your web site for free!

What does this mean? More targeted visitors of course as more visitors are sent to you by the affiliate.

It's highly likely that a large portion of the visitors may never have found your web site, so in many ways these sales could be thought of as bonus sales, above and beyond those you would ordinarily have made.

The downside is you need to share a percentage of the sale with the affiliate but you should also remember that it is quite possible the customer will buy more from you in the future.

This is the power of affiliate programs and affiliate marketing in general. Not having an affiliate program is an area where lots of marketers fall down.

Assuming you have an opt-in in place, then not only have you made a sale, but you now have a customer you can promote more products to in the future! One of Marketing 101’s golden rule is that it’s far, far easier to sell to an existing customer than to a brand new one. After all they loved your product enough to buy it, right? You have established a relationship with them at this point, and provided that your product has great relevant content they will be hooked!

The other thing to keep in mind is that it’s likely that you will have a higher percentage of sales from your affiliates visitors because (hopefully) the affiliate has already pre-sold his customers on your fantastic product. More than likely the affiliate has built up a solid reputation with his customers (who more than likely have purchased from him in the past) and because he has recommended your product, they come to your website already pre-sold that your product is a decent and worthy one, and at this point you have a visitor who already trusts and believes in your product because of the relationship they have with the affiliate recommending your products.

You need to think beyond the commission you are paying the affiliate and look instead at the long term relationship you have the potential to build with your new customer.

Make sure you look at using affiliate programs to maximize web site traffic. Payment is only required if the visitor purchases an item, so you have no upfront costs.

Sunday 30 November 2008

Christmas Promotions

As previously posted Christmas comes but once a year and this year it comes right in the middle of a worldwide recession. Many retailers are expecting tough times and here in the UK it doesn't look like Woolworths will make it to Christmas. The result of all this is retailers desperate to shift their stock even if it means reducing their margins.

This is all good news for affiliates as lower prices usual mean more sales and more sales mean more commissions. Some retailers have realised this and started offering affiliate incentives.

Here are some examples. I'm sure to post more through December. These are things that really should sell this season.

Customers at Play.com can save 10% off any of their fantastic clothing range which includes brands such as Quiksilver, Animal, Bench, RipCurl and more! Code: CLOTHES08 , Valid until December 22nd.

BeCheeky have opened the BeCheeky Christmas Shop and at the same time are offering 20% off Chemises and Babydolls, and FREE UK Delivery on all UK orders.

PC World have extended their 5% commission offering on all Digital Photoframes until 5pm Xmas Eve (24th December 2008) for all online sales. (Standard commission 2.5%).

Batteries.com have announced their Holiday Bonus Program. From now through December 18th, each affiliate who reaches $500 in sales will receive an additional $25 in commissions. Doesn't everything need batteries at Christmas and yet never comes with any - sales here should be good.

Throughout the month of December, WBTVShop.com is holding an affiliate contest for a chance to win a $200 gift certificate to shop any of the WB sites, including WBShop.com, MGMStore.com, CartoonNetworkShop.com, MarvelShop.com, NewLineShop.com and of course WBTVShop.com! Any affiliate who generates 50 sales combined throughout the month for any of the WB accounts will be entered into a drawing. At the conclusion of the month, a winner will be picked and they will win the $200 gift certificate to shop!

So as you can see there's lots of offers to push and commissions to make.

Thursday 20 November 2008

Grace Rebecca Ellen

Close observers of Global Affiliate Programs will have noticed that there haven't been many updates in the last couple of days. This has also been true of Sleep Easy Loans and Cathie's Cars.

This is because on Tuesday 18th November at 11.45pm Grace was born, weighing 5lbs 3 ozs. She joins her sister Lucy, her brother Mark, her step-sister Abigail and her step-brothers Jacob and Toby.

Mother and baby are now home and are both doing well.

As you can imagine, my priorities have been very different in the last couple of days. If you have sent in a request for your program to be added to Global Affiliate Programs or for a link on any of these sites, don't worry, I will get back to you shortly.

George

Great American Smokeout

It doesn't matter whether you are a smoker or a non-smoker; you deserve a Free Gift in honor of the 'Great American Smokeout', which is the third Thursday of the month, November 20th. Keep reading and I'll tell you how you can actually receive over $8,600.00 worth of free gifts.

The Smokeout is the American Cancer Society's way of motivating smokers to give up the noxious habit. Unfortunately quitting smoking, losing weight, building confidence, or making any kind of change can be very, very difficult unless you can get some powerful help.

Starting in 1958, The American Medical Association (AMA) recognized hypnosis as a powerful tool for eliminating bad habits and quickly modifying feelings and behaviors. Hundreds of studies have proven that the success rate for making these types of changes is many times higher with hypnotherapy, than without it.

For quite some time now, I've been following the work of a world famous hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner, Alan B. Densky, CH. This man is one of the world's foremost experts on the use of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP for stress related symptoms like weight loss and smoking cessation.

He also offers other programs that cover a full range of symptoms like: Stress; depression; headaches & migraines; pain; phobias; self-confidence; along with many more.

For over 30 years, Alan B. Densky, CH has been known for producing some of the most unique and effective programs available anywhere in the English-speaking world. His Neuro-VISION Video hypnosis technology is the only one of its kind to have ever been awarded a U.S. Patent!

As I inferred in the subject line, Mr. Densky offers a FR.EE Power Relaxation MP3, and you can download it right now with no purchase necessary.

But more importantly, in honor of the 'Great American Smokeout,' he has made a long list of powerful bonus materials worth over $8,600.00 available to everyone who purchases any program from his Neuro-VISION website.

This content came from an "A-List" of success experts, best-selling authors, pioneers, and leaders in several fields who are generously contributing their bonus gifts to support Alan in achieving his goals to create a happier and healthier world.

To receive the Free Hypnosis Power Relaxation MP3, no purchase is required. So click the following link to visit a special page on Alan's Neuro-VISION Hypnotherapy web site because there is a time limit on this offer.

http://www.neuro-vision.us/promo/pr.php?pr=9040&a_aid=1fd51b92

IMPORTANT: To receive the additional $8,600.00 worth of bonus materials, when you place your order, you must remember to type a note in the comments field on the order form: 'Smokeout - please send link to free bonuses'. This may be the best decision you will make all year!

http://www.neuro-vision.us/promo/pr.php?pr=9040&a_aid=1fd51b92

Participation in this offer will bring you a return beyond belief, but the time is limited, so act now! By the way, Hypnosis & NLP programs make great gifts for the people that you love, and this is a wonderful time to start purchasing Christmas and Chanukah presents.

George

Friday 14 November 2008

Early Christmas Promotions

Ok, now that US election, Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes night are out of the way we can all start work on the annual celebration of spending known as Christmas. Don't get me wrong I love Christmas; I even almost never log on to find out if I've earned anything during Christmas Day - I get up early on Boxing day and check it then.

Seriously though, if you're going to run a Christmas promotion, allow for the time it can take to get new pages or updates registered with search engines and start now.

But wait I hear you say, no-one is supposed to have any money so Christmas spending is expected to be down this year. This is true so expect the more forward thinking merchants to start running their promotions early. Promotions can come in all kinds of ways, for instance the Early Learning Centre has got some great Christmas promotions including up to 1/3 off selected toys and FREE Delivery on orders over £50, PC World are offering Double commission on all Digital Photoframes (this runs out on 25th November so buy early), John Lewis have produced a RSS feed you can add to your site which list their Christmas offers, and for the more grown up amongst us Ann Summers have launched their Christmas creatives which includes of course a pretty model in a Mrs Christmas outfit.

So you see the things we're going to end up buying anyway like toys and gadgets can still be sold, with savings for your visitors and commission for you.

Another big event that's just happen is the launch of the Blackberry Storm exclusively for Vodafone. I think either this or the Digital Photoframes will be the gadget of the year this Christmas so get your order in early.

Merry Christmas (I will be back before then).

George

Thursday 6 November 2008

Well Done, America !!!!

I had been planning to blog about how the credit crisis seems to have triggered a rush by merchants to bring forward their Christmas sales programmes with many announcing promotions which include affiliate incentives, early price reductions and so forth but the events of Tuesday have forced that of the agenda until my next post.

I just want to say to anyone from the USA that it looks like this time you have chosen a president that the rest of world can welcome and with whom we can do business. You have chosen hope over fear and for that I wholeheartedly congratulate you all.

Well done.
George

Tuesday 4 November 2008

PepperJamNetwork Store Builder

What would you think about a tool that could fill a virtual store with goods that priced up live and are ready to sell?

I know what you're thinking. You're think 'George lots of affiliate networks use widgets or storefronts from the merchants on their books to make selling online easier so what are you on about.'

Fair comment. It's true that Affiliate Networks such as LinkShare and AffiliateWindow use single merchant storefronts and widgits and you can see examples of their use here for Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts and Cadburys Gifts respectively. PepperJamNetwork's Store Builder tool is different because you can compile into one store items being sold by different merchants.

My example is a store selling merchandise from the recent Batman film, The Dark Knight. In theory the content of this site could come from MGM Store, New Line Cinema, or WBStore. It will however only come from the studio that made the film, but if your store was more general, say a ladies clothes store, you could easily populate it with thousands of items of stock in minutes.

The process is simple.

1. Join PepperJamNetwork.
2. Pick you merchants and apply to join their programs.
3. Go to Store Builder, select the merchants you want to include in your store.
4. Configure the colour and size of the store builder so that it fits seamlessly into your site.
5. Start selling.


This tool is so simple you could build a new store every day. The only difficult part would be thinking up new domains to host them.

George

Friday 24 October 2008

Affiliate Programs and the Credit Crunch

Judging from some of the reaction I've read about in the press to the downturn in money supply that has become known as 'The Credit Crunch' you think the world of commerce had come to a full stop.

Friends who know that I'm heavily involved in Internet Marketing have been asking what I'm going to do now that no-one is buying anything. Everyone seems to assume that the online marketing industry has ground to a halt.

Nothing could to be further from the truth.

OK, I've seen a few programs in the financial services sector cease in the last few weeks but there's a high churn in that sector at any time. My advice to anyone involved in a business that might be at risk is 'Don't cut back on advertising. This is your opportunity to steal a march on your competitors who may be cutting back.'

So the money supply has dried up has it? No, it hasn't and neither has people's need for the things they buy. Unless you are in a business that's directly affected your income most likely is unchanged. If you own your home with a mortgage you may have seen your equity fall and in some cases it may even be a nominal negative figure right now. All that means is that if you sold your house you wouldn't raise enough money to clear the mortgage on it. So if you don't have to sell, then don't. It's not rocket science. Negative equity can really be a problem if you're having to move but if you don't just stay put.

I had this situation with a flat I owned when the market crashed in the early 90's. Prices had fallen to the point where I could buy, so I did. All the experts said the market had bottomed out. It hadn't- prices continued to fall. I paid £47,000 for my flat. Eighteen months later it was worth half that. Four years and one child later with another on the way we had to move and the property still wasn't worth what I owed on it. So we rented, and rented the flat out to make up some of the shortfall, and we took in a lodger and I took a second job, working online. Times were tough and I had more outgoings each month than I had incomings and debt started to mount.

The key aout this was it was all planned. Four years later I sold the flat for £75,000, clearing the mortgage and all my debts and leaving a nice balance for me.

So if anyone if worrying - Don't Panic!!!

These things go in cycles but they are so slow in turning that people forget the last time we were at this point.

Anyway back to Internet Marketing. Just this week I've added some new programs to the directory on Global Affiliate Programs. Familiar names such as WH Smith, Yahoo and Wicked Lingerie. Direct Agents have also justed launched their own referal program. They've been running as network fr a while now but have just launched their own program so hopefully I'll start getting paid for the affiliates I refer to them.

I can also confirm that PepperJamNetwork who I have blogged about before do pay on time, through PayPal, as I received my first payment from them since joining a few months back.

I'll leave with a final thought. There's no money around so we're all doomed? Not in this life , we're not and here's why.

On Tuesday a campaign that I support started. It had been planned a few months ago quietly, on the web, between people who knew about it. I've added a link on this blog. It's the link named Atheist Bus Campaign.

A bit of background. There was an article the Guardian newspaper in June which was reproduced in their online discussion forum 'Comment is Free'. It was written by the comedy screenwriter Ariane Sherine and was about how she had been so shocked by a pro-religious ad on a London bus that she had checked out the ad owners website only to be told she was damned to eternal suffering and fire, or words to that effect.

As a throwaway line she suggested that maybe atheists should advertise on buses as well. The small online community that is CIF thought this was a great idea. It was soon discover that a bus ad campaign would cost £11,000. The idea therefore was to raise 2,200 donation of £5 each, the sum which had earlier been suggested as a fair donation.

Ok, so how long should a small atheist online community give itself to raise 2,200 donors?

Firstly in the meantime the biology professor and author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins heard about the campaign from somewhere and promised to match any donation up £5,500, so the target was halfed and the blue touch paper lit.

The idea was to run the ads on buses in Janaury, so the campaign launched itself through the justgiving web site at 7.30 am on 21st October, plannning to raise the £5,500 by January 2009.

The target sum was reached at 10.06 am. It took only two hours 36 minutes for word to get around and for people to donate the amount needed. By lunchtime that sum had doubled. By the evening Christian Voice, an extreme right wing Christian group (actually one bloke as far as we can work out but he's very vocal) had started to condemn the campaign and the speed of donations increased.

After just four days the Atheist Bus Campaign has raise a staggering £102,770.93. The largest donation, excluding that of Professor Dawkins being £3,250 paid in two installments from the one person.

So in January if you are in London you may see buses running around with the line "There's probably no God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life."

So anyone still thinking there's no money out there? You just have to have something people will be willing to part with money for, like a rational view that doesn't scare you with fairy stories.

So in conclusion, as this has gone on longer than I though it would.

There's probably no shortage of money, so stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Thursday 16 October 2008

Nokia Comes With Music

The Carphone Warehouse has today announced that it will be offering the ground-breaking Nokia Comes With Music service exclusively on Pay As You Go, with a range of exclusive Nokia 5310 XpressMusic handsets this autumn.

This fantastic offer will attract a double commission bonus, but only while stocks last! For every
handset sold, you will receive a £5 bonus (on top of the usual £5 PAYG commission) for each
completed sale, paid as one lump sum at the end of the month.

The Nokia 5310 will be available with the unique Comes With Music service for a one-off cost
exclusively from over 805 Carphone Warehouse stores and online. Furthermore, the handset will also
be available with eight colour variants, exclusively at The Carphone Warehouse, ensuring that all
customers are catered for.

More information is available on the Insider Page;
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/commerce/servlet/gben-server-PageServer?ARTICLE=MAIN.UK.INTERNET.THEINSIDER.NEWSANDINFO.CPWNEWS.MAIN

This should sell out fast so get in on the selling.

There will lots of Christmas Offers coming soon as well.

Sunday 28 September 2008

Still Here and Active

Sorry the blog has been a bit quiet recently. I've been rushed off my feet with work and just haven't found the time to post. There are loads of new programs available and you can find them on Global Affiliate Programs at the New Programs page.

I'm also still working through my audit. The next section to be done will be Software so as you see some progress has been made.

I'll be back soon.

Wednesday 27 August 2008

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Tuesday 26 August 2008

The Best and the Worst things about Affiliate Marketing

The worst think I've found so far about affiliate marketing is that some merchants completely ignore the needs of the affiliates.

As I think I mentioned on a previous post I'm currently auditing Global Affiliate Programs by going through each page and clicking each link to each program making sure that they still work. I know the links worked when they were first added but now can be a different story.

The first thing you find is that some merchants re-organize their sites so that the page you were sending visitors to is no longer there. So the first thing visitors see is an error message which is far from professional. The worst thing they do is shut the site down altogether or in some cases throw up a hosting company page saying the domain is now for sale.

Would it really have been too much trouble for them to send a quick email to all affiliates letting them know?

My audit has just reached the "Entertainment" section but the worst offenders by far were in the the sale of ebooks. I had to delete almost a third of the listed programs because they were no longer live.

Anyway that's enough gripping from me. Only a small minority of merchants do the things above and when they do I drop them like hot bricks. Decent merchants let you know when they are changing affiliate network or taking it in-house, or stopping promotions or ending the program altogether.

On a much happier note I can say that the best thing about affiliate marketing is when something you thought would be a success starts paying off. As George Peppard use to say in The A Team "I love it when a plan comes together".

Back in June I was contacted by CarTrawler who wanted me to promote their program. The key thing here was that CarTrawler offer an interactve booking agent as their means of attracting business.

You can see it below (if IFrames work here) and you can see how it can be integrated into a page on you site at http://www.cartrawler.com.globalaffiliateprograms.co.uk/ .






I put that page together in late June and linked it up through the pages on my virtual shopfront at http://www.globalaffiliateprograms.co.uk/goshopping.shtml and waited. My first sale notification came in on 10 July. By the end July there had been another 3 and there have been 4 so far in August. I can almost hear you thinking "8 sales, that's not much George", but let's take a step back and think what CarTrawler do. They act as a search mechanism for people who want to hire a car while they are on holiday. The customers books the car whilst in the UK, picks it up at the airport they arrive at for their holiday and drops it back when they are flying home. So the price per sale is high AND SO IS THE COMMISSION !!!!!

CarTrawler work in Euros and the payment threshold is €200l whcih is a high threshold. Commission is shown as 'pending' until the car is picked up ans presumably the customer confirms payment. I will be due my first check at the end of August (7 sales) with one sale for September already in the bag because that is when the customer is picking up his car.

If you all rush to join CarTrawler - remember to mention me.

Saturday 23 August 2008

Latest Deals from The Link

The Link have a number of new deals and bank holiday specials at thelink.co.uk which will be sure to drive some interest and sales!

NEW - Sony Playstation 3 80GB Console Deals

First up, The Link have the New Sony Playstation 3 80GB Console. Sony have kept this sudcessor to the 40gb version pretty quiet & haven't really hyped the launch of this new version however its not only better value for the customer due to the twice the size hard drive but also the inclusion of the Dual Shock 3 controller which vibrates as well as sensing movement unlike the SixAxis controller in the old pack which didn't vibrate.

Its available now on a range of great deals on Orange & Three pay monthly.

As a special launch offer, Whilst stocks last The Link are offering the Sony Ericsson K770i for Free on Three Texter 35 18 months with an 80GB PS3 console plus Motorstorm Game

NOW IN STOCK - Nintendo Wii + Wii-Fit Console Deals. The Wii-Fit craze shows no sign of slowing down and these items are still highly sought after especially as supply is still limited with worldwide demand being so high. The Link have had 2 deliveries in this week which puts us in a strong stock position for the bank holiday weekend so grab one now whilst you can.

With deals on Three available free from Mix n Match 1100 18 mths (£27) & Texter 35 12 mths (£35) on selected handsets plus from free on Orange Dolphin 35 18 mths, there are great deals to be had.

NEW - Xbox 360 Premium 60GB Console Deals

Not to be outdone by Sony, Microsoft have launched an higher capacity Xbox 360 premium with a 60GB harddrive so you can make full use of the Xbox live service with its game, music and movie downloads as well as large online gaming community.

Its available now on a range of great deals on Orange & Three pay monthly.

Improved Deals - Samsung U900 Soul & Soul Midnight Deals. The bestselling U900 Soul in either its orginal silver/grey or the new Midnight Black has now got even better with a range of improved deals on this high spec slider.

Now you can get a Nintendo wii with Mario kart on Dolphin or Canary 40 18 mths, or 60GB Xbox 360 / Wii with Wii-fit on Panther 45 18 mths, or a 80GB PS3 on Panther 55 18 mths!


New CashBack Deals - 18 months 1/2 price line rental on Canary/Dolphin 40 18 mths or 12 months 1/2 price on Dolphin/Racoon 35 18 mths!

New Mobile Broadband + Free Laptop Deals - 17" Dell Dual Core Laptop Deals + Vodafone mobile broadband now available

Check out the top deals on mobile broadband + free laptops including a top spec Acer with 3GB memory or the 17" Dell!

Wednesday 20 August 2008

A Couple of New Promotions

New Promotions this week include Girls' Night In from Play.com who are offering a wide range of chick-flick DVDs at bargain prices.

There's a new range of Banners and a Content Widgit to help you sell.

Here is an example of the Content Widget.




The promo runs until 5th October.



Of course if you're not a chick you may be more interested in the news that Metallica have a new album out next month.

Death Magnetic is the upcoming ninth studio album by Metallica. It is scheduled for release on September 12, 2008 by Warner Bros. Records. The album will also be the band's first to feature current bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first to be produced by Rick Rubin. It will also be their first studio album released through Warner Bros., although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which also owns Elektra Records, the band's previous label. The album will be promoted by the preceding single "The Day That Never Comes", released in August.

The album is available to pre-order on Amazon.co.uk now and the pre-order Price Guarantee applies: order now and if the Amazon.co.uk price decreases between the time you place your order and the release date, you'll be charged the lowest price.

The Standard edition :-Metallica Cover








The Deluxe version -

Metallica Cover

Wednesday 13 August 2008

Another Summer Offer

Luggageonline are trying to push for sales during the summer holiday period.

Their offer is very simple. Receive a $15 bonus on top of their normal 10% commission if you achieve your first sale by the end of September.


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To take advantage of this deal sign up with Luggageonline at LinkShare and make your first sale.

With everyone trying to get away this summer sales of luggage should one iof the growth areas you can count on to deliver sales.

So get selling!

George

Tuesday 5 August 2008

Summer Offers

Well, the lucky people will be going away on their summer holidays soon and there's lots of promotions out there to help you help them spend their cash.

Petsmart are offering $5 off their orders of $30 or more. Just copy and paste the link below.

PetSmart

HansunSurf are offering an extra 10% bonus on their total commissions for the months of June, July and August and consumers can save 15% OFF their next purchase using the coupon code: LCSUMMER15.
Offer expires August 31, 2008.

Surf Boards

It might be a bit early but the new Book by Harry Potter author J K Rowling is now available to order on the Waterstones website; The Tales of Beedle the Bard for £3.49 (RRP £6.99) and will be released on the 4th December. Time to get those pre-orders mounting up.

George

Sunday 3 August 2008

Bulgarian Properties

Hello,


One of the programs I promote on Global Affiliate Programs is Bulgarian Properties.com.


Every week they send out a regular newsletter with the latest ads and hot offers of properties for sale and rent in Bulgaria added to their website www.BulgarianProperties.com over the past week. This time I thought I'd share it with you. If you have a property, travel or Bulgarian related web site you can enhance your content by offering residential and commercial property for sale or rent in Bulgaria.


If you have any specific questions or need assistance, please send your enquiry. Bulgarian Properties will be pleased to give you all the information you may need and help you go through the whole purchase process. You are always welcome to their offices around the country for consultation and viewing trips!


New! Watch their COMPANY FILM


Read about their 2008 SUMMER PROMOTION


This week Bulgaria Properties have 33 new offers and 43320 newsletter subscribers.

Tuesday 29 July 2008

Wall-E Toys from Early Learning Centre

Timed to coincide with the release of the latest Pixar / Disney Movie, Wall - E the Early Learning Centre are offering free delivery on all sales over £75.00.



I saw the film on Sunday with my stepson and it's great. Kids will love the cute robots and adults should pick up on the basic environmental message that we create too much rubbish.

I won't ruin it by giving away the plot but for the first 15 minutes or so it looks as if they shared a set with the Will Smith film 'I am Legend'.

Kids are going to want a Wall-E or an EVE (the other robot) so you should be able to promote these toys with ease.


George

Monday 28 July 2008

Fogdog Sports Back to School Promotions

Fogdog Sports is a sporting goods store that stocks sports equipment, apparel, and footwear in a variety of brands. Its mission is to provide the best online shopping experience for sporting goods enthusiast.

The affiliate program offers a competitive commission structure. See below:

Up to $2,000= 6%
$2,000.01 - $6,000.00= 8%
$6,000.01 & up= 10%
Plus, 14 Return Days


Back to School Promotions!

Get 25% off any Single Item for Back to School!
Get Free shipping on daypacks over $24.99!
Get Free shipping and Free return shipping on Footwear!
Get Free Shipping on Bats and Gloves over $49.99!
Get 50% off Shipping on all orders over $79!


FogDog Sports


FogDog Sports

FogDog Sports

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The SES series operates under a variety of formats around the world, from large-scale multi-tracked conferences and exhibitions to more intimate forum-style events and in-depth training courses drilling into the detail on specific topics — but each event shares one thing in common:

An absolute commitment to deliver the very finest speakers, the latest market intelligence and clear, actionable tips and tactics that delegates can apply the moment they get back to the office. By attending an SES event, you give yourself a competitive advantage over your fellow marketers that can transform both your business and your career.