Affiliate Program Success
“To grow your affiliate program you need a dedicated affiliate team, a great offer, a stable technology platform and cutting edge affiliate communications and recruitment tools and methods.”
IT’S SIMPLE, WE MANAGE AFFILIATE PROGRAMS WITH A FOCUS ON PROVIDING AN ACTUAL RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI)
HOW REFRESHING IS THAT TO HEAR?
Regardless if you’re just starting an affiliate program, or need to supercharge your current program, Forge can help you. With our proven methodologies, expert management skills and years of experience managing some the web’s top brands, we know how to get it done right, the first time!
Years of experience managing successful programs has taught us to understand the basic principles to having a profitable affiliate program. Here’s what you need, and what Forge can help you with.
Our expert team would manage your program, overseeing all day-to-day operations, develop offers and creative, recruit top performing affiliates & motivate them and much more.
Our trained marketing experts will work with you to create proven, profitable strategies to work for your program.
They’ll independently consult with you on your choice of software platform and make the recommendation that best suits your business
They’ll work as your affiliate manager to take care of the day-to-day operation of
your program
What sets Forge apart? Team Effort!
We’ve consulted and delivered managed services to some of the leading and fastest growing online brands including Peapod, Lavalife, MyJewelrybox, BeckerSurf, ForexYard, CareOneCredit, Computer Associates and many more.
When you retain Forge you don’t simply hire an affiliate manager, you retain a company with 20+ experts and an infrastructure geared towards delivering ROI for your affiliate channel!
What Exactly Do We Do?
- Seek out and invite high-traffic, high sales sites to be your “Super Affiliates”
- Create special revenue-sharing deals with large partners
- Locate and Recruit new Niche Affiliates
- Design & implement strategies to increase conversion rates
- Motivate Affiliates with special promotions
- Develop incentives to retain top producing Affiliates
- Develop new linking methods and marketing material
- Write and send a monthly Affiliate newsletters
- Run regular activity and status reports
- Approve or decline Affiliate applications
- Answer all Affiliate questions
Depending on your company’s chosen service level, we’ll implement our Proven, Patented and Tested Business Methodologies to perform some or all of the following services:
Marketing Services
- Recruitment Database Building - The cornerstone of any program is the constant recruitment of new affiliates. We’ll define keywords & phrases, categorize & identify competitors, search & collect contacts for recruitment.
- Email Recruitment - We’ll develop compelling mail content & contact your prospects by email, as well as regularly follow up to remind them of your offer.
All mailing is strictly CAN-SPAM compliant. - Phone Recruitment - Nothing beats a direct conversation! We’ll recruit and follow up publishers and other prospective affiliates each month.
- Activation Campaigns - We’ll create winning Affiliate activation campaigns designed to Increase affiliate production, including non-performing and existing contacts, with follow ups.
- Newsletter Development - Successful affiliates need fresh content and constant communication. Each month we’ll Write and send a monthly Affiliate newsletter jam packed with content and performance improvement tips and suggestions.
Business Support Services
- Program Administration and Reporting - Depending on your requirements we’ll provide Weekly, mid-month and monthly metric reports with clicks, impressions, sales, leads and/or commissions as well as progress reports.
- Approving Affiliate Applications - Review new affiliate applications, phone each new affiliate and approve or deny their participation in your program based on your requirements.
- Approving Pending Transactions - Receive and review approved/declined transaction file from your company, approve or deny currently pending transactions.
- Affiliate FAQ Answering - Your manager will Answer incoming affiliate questions via email & phone, assist affiliates with routine problems and report questions we’re unable to answer to your team.
- Creative Development - Develop and create ideas for new banners, links and other marketing materials.
- Client Communication Time - Keep regular Phone and email contact with you. We cannot manage your program in isolation and will schedule regular feedback sessions to evaluate campaign and program performance.
To request your no-obligation consultation and learn how ForgeBusiness can add value to your Affiliate Channel, please complete our Free Business Case & Proposal Request Form.
We’ll contact you promptly!