Deborah will be presenting a session that will appeal mostly to new merchants. We welcome comments and questions in advance if you want to leave a note on this blog post.

Monday August 22, 2011
Merchant Basics – Launching a New Affiliate Program
Session 5d
Location: Sutton (South & Regent)
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm

This session will combine the fresh perspective of a new merchant with the seasoned perspective of a pro that has advised many companies on how to get started.

Experience level: Beginner
Target audience: Merchants/Advertisers
Niche/vertical: Merchants

Deborah Carney, CEO, Merchant ABCs (Twitter @loxly)
Jeff Grill, VP, Marketing, Mimeo.com (Twitter @JeffGrill)

We also have a Meet Market table fror Party Beans with some fun stuff, so be sure to come over and say hi! We hope to see you there!

If you aren’t going to ASE, but are thinking about attending Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas in January, you can score a Gold Pass and support a great cause by purchasing the book It’s All About the Cookies, a great cookbook compiled by Missy Ward with all the proceeds going to Affiliate Marketers Give Back, which supports Breast Cancer research, awareness and treatments. Go to this website to find out more and order your book. Coupon for Gold Pass needs to be claimed by August 31, 2011.

Team Loxly would like to announce a new client. The Expand2web affiliate program is now live on Shareasale. With many companies setting up websites aimed at local traffic this theme is great for local optimization.

WordPress Small Business Theme

Are you a consultant or web developer serving small businesses?
Save yourself time and money by using the Expand2Web SmallBiz WordPress Theme when you build websites for your clients.

This theme was developed based on experience building and optimizing hundreds of small business websites. It allows you to spin up and customize a professional, search engine optimized website in less than 1 hour!

This SmallBiz WordPress theme costs $117 per site, and the developer license is $247. As an affiliate, you get 30% of the sale price for each one you sell!

Benefits of Joining

**30% commission on sales of the SmallBiz Theme and SmallBiz Theme Developer License

** Great variety of creative banners, text, keyword links.

** Expand2web is on autodeposit at Shareasale.

** 60 day tracking cookie

** Dedicated affiliate team management by TeamLoxly

** Video tutorials and support for your customers

**Knowledgeable and responsive affiliate manager, accessible by phone, email, Skype, IM and Twitter.

This SmallBiz WordPress theme costs $117 per site, and the developer license is $247. As an affiliate, you get 30% of the sale price for each one you sell!

Click Here to join the Expand2web affiliate program

If you have any questions regarding our affiliate program, please send an email
to Affiliates@expand2web.com.

Thanks to all of our hardworking affiliates, Viator Travel and Tours affiliate program has hit #3 in the Shareasale Top 100 and it isn’t even high season yet!!! That means they are the 3rd best rated affiliate program out of the over 3000 programs that run on the Shareasale network.

If you want to be part of this growing program, please join us. We are on manual approve and require your site to have a privacy policy, so be sure to note that you came from the Team Loxly site and that you have a privacy policy in your site before you apply.

Join the Viator Affiliate Program

Shoppers LOVE free shipping, so be sure to highlight that these merchants offer free shipping for their purchases. These are also listed in the Shareasale Deals Database, so you can grab the codes there to promote them. Or just make a text link with your tracking code that lands on any page on the sites, with your own anchor text that includes the wording “free shipping” (hint: use the Shareasale Make a Custom Link feature).

Free Shipping at TechEngraver
Free shipping on all orders placed at TechEngraver . Laser engraved personalized iPods and USB drives, great gifts!

Free Shipping at JournalEngraver for orders over $50
Free shipping on all orders over $50 placed at JournalEngraver . Laser engraved moleskin journals, great gifts!

Join the Tech Engraver and Journal Engraver Affiliate Program

Free Shipping at Loxly Gallery for orders over $200
Loxly Gallery – Free Shipping on orders over $200 Art and Photography prints on fine art papers by select artists and photographers. Decorate your life with prints from Loxly Gallery!

Join the Loxly Gallery Affiliate Program

Not your average “poster” affiliate program, Loxly Gallery sells art and photographic prints that are a step above the normal online offerings. Artists and photographers featured on Loxly Gallery are presenting images that your shoppers will love, unique art and photography that your shoppers are looking for. Not department store everyday images, but truly unique images that shoppers looking to decorate their own homes and offices, or to give as gifts, will be excited to see and purchase. And don’t forget the B2B market as well, hotels, hospitals, businesses are all looking for something new, fresh and different to feature on their walls. You can help them find it at Loxly Gallery.

Loxly Gallery will be running their affiliate program exclusively through the Shareasale network. As an affiliate you will be able to promote all the art and artists on Loxly Gallery using a variety of creatives that will include, but not be limited to a <a href=”http://www.reviewbuilders.com/buttonmaker.php]review page builder, datafeed, banners and other graphics, videos*, pdf catalogs*, text links and third party tools such as PopShops.

*15% Commissions

*Cookie Duration: Unlimited This means that once an affiliate sets a cookie, it stays until the consumer clears cookies or it is replaced by another affiliate cookie (last cookie in)

*Consolidated payments from Shareasale

*Creatives and tools to help you sell

*Artist profiles, featured products, promotions that you will be able to use on your site to drive us traffic

*Dedicated Affiliate Management from Team Loxly

*Affiliate support forum at ABestWeb

*Sales and specials to be available via the Shareasale Deals Database

*Free shipping on orders over $200 ongoing

*Blog of news and artists profiles that is available for affiliates to link to and to use content from.

*Dedicated Affiliate Support Site that is available for affiliates to link to and to use content from.

Click here to join the Loxly Gallery Affiliate Program

Incentives and Loxly Loot to be posted shortly!

Other notes:

*Artists have already approached me to offer special commission upgrades and bonuses on *just their own work* so watch for incentives and commission bumps on special artists and photographers. They have already supplied artist specific banners and will take requests for additional creatives.

*to be available shortly