How to Use The AWIN Affiliate Marketing Network
Some parts of the Aryan platform are hidden. Let’s kick off in the first thing you should see when you log into Aryan is the dashboard 0.1. We see the month first month, breakdown, which can also be toggled to year first year.
On point 2, we see some quick stats and statuses on free. We see the Aryan index score. It’s. Important advertisers pay attention to this because it’s. How affiliates will judge they want to work with some advertisers and on point 4, we have naturalist, where particular actions can be quickly accessed taken if it’s your first time using a win.
This may look completely different and may not be populated. It’s, not to worry as your program grows and scales. You will eventually have a dashboard that looks something like this, so we’ll start with how to set up your a win.
Firstly, what you want to do is go to accounts and then navigate to profile. You’ll want to upload the logo, and you ‘ Re then want to add a summary and a profile section. My recommendations are on summary and profile is to make them very appealing to affiliates and to talk to the right audience, which is an affiliate audience.
If you see here from my example, I’ve got how it works and who should apply reasons to join funded by bullet points, a link to the website and a small part and about us, and then how to contact me to work with this Particular client, there are other parts the profile, but the main one is the program terms within the program terms.
You’ll, find tabs for general PPC transactions, branding notice period, publishers and deduplication. Now these are all very specific to individual brands and I would say, to have a look and do what is relevant.
One of the most important things is that your program has terms and if you need any help with your program terms, just leave a comment or check the last portion of the video for how to get in touch with me.
Next, you’ll want to again go back to the accounts, tab and navigate the contact. Details fill in the relevant details, and is this is important for affiliates to be able to get in touch with someone at the business.
Next, you should check the partnership settings on public details. You’ll want to put a very catchy strapline about your business and its slogan and then a brief description. This is a consumer facing communication and not for affiliates.
This is just some reggae affiliates. We’ll use to communicate your brand to their audience. The welcome email is affiliate facing and is what is sent to each affiliate when they join your program, so I would recommend having, for example, for them to get in touch and speak to you.
So they can find out more about your brand, how to speak about your brand, but generally, if you just tell them to get in touch of you, you can cover up all the important things. Next, they’re tracking in domains.
This is something that you may not necessarily need to check all the time, but you should check it on point one. You have the tracking defaults point to you by domains and point free, any custom tracking.
If we look at point four, you’ll be able to see which URLs are being used. Point five may may be important if you want to use Google Analytics or another third-party software to also backup your alien tracking, and you can see what the click append will look right.
There you’ll, also be able to see what the validation window so the validation being the period of time before you approve an affiliate for a commission from a sale and in point seven I recommend taking email notifications, definitely on auto validation.
But you can also do it per transaction say, for example, if your programs started – and you wanted to know when cells are coming in, that could be a handy way of finding out, but you may want to turn that off.
If you have a lot of sales coming through next on to sector categorization, not something that you don’t necessarily need to check all the time. But this just allows affiliates to find advertisers that work in particular sectors.
So just make sure that the right sectors are selected for you and account users again. These part is just for affiliates to see who the point of contact is for your affiliate marketing account with a win, so just make sure the relevant people are toggled for show, and anyone else is toggled for hide and account permissions.
This basically just allows different levels of access in regards to your brand on the Arian platform. So you may want to have admin access for a more senior personnel and for a more junior personnel or personnel that may not necessarily need to have any sort of advanced access to Arian.
They could be set as viewer or restricted viewer contact permissions and again. This is just so affiliates concede name address. Telephone number generally recommend to have these all on show, so it’s, easy for affiliates to get in contact with someone advice then, on setting up Erin is make sure the profile is very catchy and the language and what has been said and sort Of the merits of working with, you are all catered towards affiliates.
Make sure that you have good program terms and that protect your brand and again, if you need any help on terms just leave a comment or get in touch. Make sure that there’s, easy points of contact and contact details are included and just double check, the again UTM and tracking.
So they click append that I mentioned earlier to make sure that’s, correct next on to finding affiliates and how you do that. So that is on the publisher tab and you navigate to your publisher directory.
You want to do is, as you’ll be presented with this screen and then, if we have a point, one make sure that you’re on the right tab. So you may want to begin your search with not invited if you’ve, never invite anyone to your program.
If not, you can then go to all which will display all affiliates you have or haven’t invited you want to untick incomplete, because I don’t recommend I’m trying to get in touch with publishers that couldn’t, be bothered to complete their profiles, usually not good indicator, and then you want to check the defaults under the promotional types and sector your sheet says: sharing my sectors or show all sectors.
You just want to make sure that the relevant toggles are selected and the relevant regions. Once you’ve done that, then you can then, and you could then actually begin a search by using the search bar.
It’s, important to note that the search bar searches for keywords or names or titles that the affiliate has so just bear that in mind. When you’re performing a search. You’ll want to make sure that the correct a philip type is selected.
For example, you may not want to work with a particular type of affiliate, so you could always one select those again check sectors and locations to make sure those all make sense. When you’ve done that then, and you’ve got some results.
You can then increase the results per page, so you could go from 10 per page to 40 per page. You want to check the partnerships there as toggle to make sure that makes sense, and I’ll point to you could also change the view, so you get more information about the affiliates.
So this is an example of the detailed view. As you can see in point one, we have the type of affiliate. We then have the advertisers that they worked with, which is usually a good indicator. So this person works.
We have 140 different advertisers, it’s generally positive, and you then see different actions can be taken, such as be more information or inviting the affiliate or sing them a message. If you want to find out more before you invite them, you read it for its profile, information on four and then five.
You can see, for example, how they ranked in terms of different arena sectors. So, for example, they are very sick for online gaming. So those are finding a Philips again make sure that you know what you’re doing with the search functionality by following those instructions just shown.
If you’re, going to send a message to an affiliate persona, nice generally not advised to send BCC or blanket type messages that appreciate it. A lot more, if you personalize a message and say, give a reason why you want to work or approach them, make sure it’s.
Easy for you to get in touch by having a phone number and included in your message as well, and I would also say to keep a record of audio Philips that you’ve approached. If you go on their profile pages themselves, you can actually start to harvest their phone number or email.
If those provided those and again, you could put those into a spreadsheet and begin to people concert them through your email rather than using a one or though a win is a it’s, probably the best way to get in touch with them, and But you know just keep a record of human speaking next on monitoring, affiliate performance and there are ten reports – and this is in the reporting tab before we go on to the process themselves, just a tip and understanding how a win reporting works.
The yellow line e4 pending just means that that sale, hasn’t been validated. Yet a proof means a sale has been validated. A bonus is where you, for example, pay an affiliate, a lump sum, perhaps for some media or for something else and is displayed by by the white line, and it’s.
Important to note that a bonus is always approved. So a bonus has a proof status, total vely, which will be the total value of your pending and approved, and bonus transactions and declined will be the amount of transactions that have been declined and their value represented by the red line.
So the report, your property’s. The most is publisher performance point one you see you get a pie chart split for how they’re performing. I’m point to you, can cut off various filters. One point free: you can customize the amount of results that are shown and you can do other things.
Sort of changing the columns 0.4 on options allows you to export an Excel or Google Docs friendly report and on point five. You can see a breakdown of performance within the dashboard itself, the other most commonly used report or one.
Your problem use the most again this performance over time. Now this doesn’t, give a view of individual affiliate performance. This is performance of the program. However, you can use the filters to look at individual affiliates as well.
I’m point free again. You can use options to export an excel friendly report and a point for you get a breakdown again. Publisher performance comparison. This allows you to compare publishers over different periods of time again use the filters from point one you can then export one point to or use is pretty easy and simple to use for just within a one dashboard itself.
So you’re, probably just going to use the filters and then point three and to view breakdown. But if you do want to have a more detailed look at things, you can export the transactions report again would be the third thing that you use.
The most and again it has a series of filters just want to draw attention to amended only so there is a view where you can view any cells that you have amended um and again just make sure that you understand the different transaction types when you are Viewing this report, for example, you may only want to look at sales or you may only one look at bonuses that have been paid.
It depends on what you want to do on point two. You can then export this report and on point three. You can again get a breakdown of what is going on and the transactions report is generally used. I would say, for example, if you wan na check, spend Commissioning group performance, so if you have different, Commission grips other than just the default, so the standard amount of Commission groups is one which is got the default, that a one offer, but you could have different Commissioning groups say, for example, on different products or different categories or, however, you need to do things, and this report will just give you a breakdown of that.
The advertiser summary is pretty self-explanatory. It just provides a summary of transactions, spend, for example, over a different period of time and can also be done by publisher or transaction type product performance.
So again, if you have a different products tracking into area, you can get a breakdown of how say, for example, t-shirts or jeans, or how different things are performing for you. Device performance is where you can view how computers tablets, smartphones or, if you have cross device tracking, enabled how that is performing as well.
It’s, maybe interesting. If you, if you want to see sort of cell split or you need to optimize for affiliate traffic, for example, on desktop versus smartphone, you may want to look at any variances in conversion and use that to sort of guide you in terms of optimizing.
Those experiences for consumers, creative performance, is where you can view the performance of different banners and gifts. So there’s, a static or gif creatives that you upload into Erin and you get a range of data and again, as per usual, you can use the options to export that data and the filters to change dates and the year and year.
Comparison is where you can get a really good breakdown of how you’re performing over various years and again, you can to filters and options to export and change the view of the data. So, in terms of monitoring a fillip performance, top advice is to get used to using the export function, because you can use that to create your own or detailed reports on Excel or within.
Google Docs Explorer have a play and get to know. While each of the reports can do and how they can help, I’d, say to keep it simpler. There are 10 reports, so you may, you know not want to be harvesting loads and loads of data from a renal training.
Is all these reports at once just stick to what’s, the most useful and then use any other reports when you feel they can be helpful and just keep in mind that the reporting generally has a 24 hour leg.
So it’s advised to report on the day before and not to report on the current day. So next we’re, going to do an overview of the publishers tab. The opportunity marketplace is great: it’s where affiliates post different opportunities that advertisers can access.
You shouldn’t use the relevant filters to get different types of opportunities that are suitable for you and your budget. For example, there are CPA, only opportunities that you could access and then you can review the different opportunities in their fullness by just clicking on that.
They make offer button, but you can also, in this section, hidden parks. There’s, different information that the affiliates are saying about the offering themselves. Publisher management is good for keeping track of affiliates that I run your program right now.
You can use the export function to get a list of the affiliates that you currently working with, and also their contact details as long as they’ve provided does, and you can also use the COG symbol to change the CPAs and other things.
In regards to individual affiliates publisher approvals, it’s good. It was recommended to keep an eye on this. This will show you different affiliates that are applying to work on your program. You can use the appropriate tools to either accept or decline them.
I never recommend you always provide a message if you’re, going to decline, an affiliate just as a courtesy and just a bit polite and to maintain positive relationships with all affiliates, probably should so.
What you can do is apply a tag so, for example, you could label all your voucher code, affiliates or cashback or editorial or influencers, and what you can do, then, is the you can incorporate a tags into different alien reports as an additional filter on performance.
So top tips are use the opportunity of marketplace to find you know different opportunities for your brand and take advantage of those get used to using the card function and in regards to just viewing the affiliate and also, if you need to change their CPA.
For anything. Always be polite and friendly, even if you are going to do flock decline, an affiliate make sure you know send them a message say thanks for applying and we’re not going to preview for such-and-such a reason and also met use of the tag Function that makes it easier to filter reports.
Next, we’re, going to do an overview of the tool box cap. So, first of all the link builder now this is great for when you want to send affiliates a specific product or something else for them to promote, you simply put the URL in the destination URL the format, so it’s, not a fixative email.
You just make sure the formax toggle to URL, and then it will populate the tracking string in the deep link box below and what you want to do is either have you or the affiliate where it says explanation mark times, free ID exclamation mark where I’ve got.
It underlined in blue make sure that their six digit affiliate ID is there instead of that. Otherwise, the link will not work and make sure you test the link or have them test the link to make sure that it’s.
Working in the my creative section, you can upload banners simply go to add creative or you can batch upload creative as well, and that’s, pretty satisfactory. It’s where all your creative will be housed in the different dimensions etc.
And you can either set the status of creative to active or inactive depending on what you want, Philips to use my offers – and I highly recommend this. So what this does is allows you to put all the voucher codes or sales or promotions, or maybe anything cough that you want the finish to promote what this actually does.
Is it acts as a feed for the affiliate, so what they can do is they can export it on to their website and have it automatically update on their website, depending on changes that you make adding a promotion is like adding a sale, adding a coupon require.
You to have a code such as a voucher code and what you can also do is use the exclusive function. So if you wanted to give a coupon code just to one affiliate, you can put it to them and mark it as exclusive and then even if another affiliate, you know, is a bit devious and decides to steal it and promote it on their website.
Only the affiliate that’s, a lots of exclusive or we credited for any sales, and then you can go about policing any affiliates that are being devious and doing that. My product feeds again depending on what you’re selling.
For example. If you’re a clothing retailer, then it’s highly recommended that you have a product feed and the my product, feed section will allow you to upload feed for affiliates to automatically pull onto their own websites and environments.
The news, manager and email campaigns approvals what works as a way for you to communicate to affiliates on mass, quite simply through a win and in a similar way, the news manager, email campaign approvals and the a win hub and work also in the same way, the Difference being that the hub is somewhere where you can post an article or an offer or whatever it may be, and you know affiliates are on there looking for different things that merchants offer.
So it’s, definitely worth getting on the hub and also making use of these tools to communicate to affiliates. So it’s. All about stab overview. Make sure you test any links that you’ve created, make use of the a in my office upload a product feed where applicable and use the tools that are provided to communicate with existing and prospective affiliates.
Now we look at the Commission’s, tab the validate pending transactions and batch process, Commission’s. Options are in a nutshell, how you’ll pay. Affiliates validate pending transactions is the more manual way of doing it whereby you can see each line for each sale.
That’s tracked through a ring from affiliates, and you can even manually approve or decline. I’d, recommend expanding the rows per page to the maximum, depending on how many cells you need to get through.
The batch process, Commission, is where you can actually upload an excel doc, with all the sales that you have and it will automatically either approve a decline or amend those. So if you have hundreds and hundreds or thousands of cells, then it ‘
S definitely recommended that you do it this way. I just want to point out on point one. There is a way to automate this process that’s. A conversation you’re need to have with a win, and I recommend you have that conversation, because this process can be very time-consuming and they’ll, be good to get it automated.
Firstly, you want to make sure that the locale and format are relevant. You want it and number three check out the different templates, so there’s, one template when you want to approve one. If you want to decline and one if you want to amend cells and those do have an example in there make sure you delete that before you upload the file so use the templates to figure out what to do.
And it really is a case of just copying what a winner already put in from the examples field name. So if the first row has naming conventions then make sure that box is ticked, otherwise the farm and it go through.
If you have any amended Commission. So an amended Commission is just where, instead of being declined, you change the commission amount to be paid. There is an option to leave amended Commission’s as pending, so I’m, not necessarily going to be validated now so use that accordingly, I’d, recommend taking to automatically remove any duplicates and also to have a point.
Seven, an email notification for in the validation file has been processed, so you can check that all the lines have been through correctly so on to transaction queries. A transaction query is only relevant if you work with, I’d, say cash bracket Phillips and it’s, usually where a customer raises a complaint because they’ve made a purchase via a cash back, affiliate and haven’t received their cash back now to process these transfers.
Again, you can use the manual method or you can use the batch method. If you say have a lot of queries you need to get through. I would highly recommend having a conversation, the cash back site before doing any transaction queries and just making sure you have enough information.
So you can make a decision on if a customer should receive any compensation on missing cash back next onto quite an important thing. Actually, adding a manual Commission: this is how you ‘ Ll pay affiliates for any pre payments.
So again you can do it as a batch or as a single. I tip. If you do it as a single on commission type 4.2. You want to use the toggle and change that to typically for the bonus. So again, you can also use this to put through a sale, for example, that hasn’t tracked correctly.
You can use this tool to put that through. So the affiliate receives a commission, but generally it’s used to pay bonuses to pay for any prepayment so again, toggle type to accordingly. Next, you want to add the affiliates ID you want to add the amount of sale.
So if you’re doing it prepayment, I typically just use the amount of sale at 1 pence and then the amount of Commission is actually what you’re gonna pay, the affiliate so, for example, for the prepayment of a thousand Pounds for a particular piece of activity set that to a thousand pounds.
You then on stay. If I tip eclis, have it as confirm so confirmed means it’s paid immediately pending means, you may want to go and pay at a later date. So do that, according to you know your Buuren budgeting and what makes sense for your business.
I’ll talk to the affiliate about your order, reference and the click ref, so the io number to make sure those makes sense for the affiliate when they need to check their own records to see that you’ve paid, and I’d, also tick to make sure that publisher gets an email that the bonus has gone through.
The bonus manager can be used to you basically set up criteria right. Affiliates can receive a bonus Commission, for example, if they make hundred cells within a particular. Given time they could get a bonus, 100 pounds or 500 pounds or whatever it may be.
You set the criteria according to what makes sense for you. The Commission manager is where you can go and view your default commission and that you have for your affiliates or the commission that you have for different Commission groups.
So, for example, you may have different Commission’s on t-shirts or jeans, or on different sorts of broadband packages or TV packages or whatever it may be. This just gives you a view of that and how to make any changes, and you can also amend the cookie window.
So, for example, it’s typically 30 days. You can change it to whatever you need to change it to. You may need to get in touch of a win because they may need to action any of these changes on their end as well, for them to take effect, commissioned by basket value and assist, are just two different ways through again, your Center five affiliates for different Things so again on varying degrees of basket value and what customers spent an assist just means.
For example, what Erin could do is allow you to pay a one-pound Commission to the first affiliate within a consumer journey that a when it’s wrapped, whereas the left affiliate so the one that converted them will get the four CPA it just allows.
You to reward the the first person or the third person or whatever it is. If you want to have some sort of affiliate attribution just for your affiliate channel and from a we can track, and you can use the assist and taught to do this schedule.
Commission changes it’s quite important. There are five steps to this process and you start it by clicking on schedule of Commission change. Whatever I’d like to do is if I was to agree something with an affiliate for 30 days from now, and what I can do is I can set that as a scheduled Commission change.
So then I don’t have to remember to do it a month from now. The system will just do it automatically. One thing to know is that you ‘ Ll have to contact a win. If you want to reverse or on do a scheduled Commission change, so just be careful and just double-check everything you’re doing you’re in this tool.
Aaron also offer a cost per click campaigns. If that’s, something you want to test and is relevant for you, an advice is to again double check every drink and make sure that you’re sure about everything that you’re, doing just make sure to query And any changes, so if you haven’t made a change for able.
If then, on your behalf, just again query everything can make sure that that’s all correct and you can test different rewards. So, if CPC, your commission by different average order value source pens, software, you think could be appealing to your affiliates, then definitely test that out.
But I’d, say overall, just keep it simple, some of those tours quite powerful and it’s, important that you know I would get used to using them, maybe one at a time and or maybe seeking some help from Aaron or You know you can drop me a comment or ask me a question or email me and if you need any tips or advice so that wraps up how to use Aaron.
If you have any questions, my email address is here and if you have you know any curiosities around wider affiliate marketing, you can get my book the advertisers guide to affiliate marketing. As ever.
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