His skills will enable us to reach into areas previously untapped and he will be instrumental in moving us into new areas of recruiting and managing.

Join me in giving him a warm welcome to the Team

Contact vinny at:
vinny at teamloxly.com
Twitter: @nyfalcon

We have a datafeed and text links to all of our categories. Our average order size is $500, and the most popular (and bestselling) category is networking. Not only do we have great B2C products, but we have a great selection of B2B products as well.

Please visit our Affiliate Support Forum at ABestWeb.com where you will find helpful information and can ask questions about the program, or about affiliate marketing in general.

We also have a series of podcasts to assist you to be a better affiliate right here.

• Engraved Crystal Shoppe - the best selection of quality crystal products that you can personalize for the special people in your life, whether it is the bridesmaids or groomsmen in your wedding or that co-worker that deserves a gift, or your Mom or Dad, or that special someone at Christmas, we have what your visitors are shopping for.
• Custom Signs and Plaques - a wide variety of personalized signs and gifts for around the house and in the office.
• Custom Ceramic Stoneware - personalized ceramic and stoneware gifts and keepsakes every family wants.
• EngravableGifts2Go.com - more variety, more personalized gifts, not limited to ceramic or crystal, but encompassing engravable personalized gifts of all kinds.

Our affiliate program is on the ShareASale network, click here to join or here for more information.

Your host Deborah Carney is joined on this series of podcasts by Esty seller Karen Helmrich, Unkamen Gifts. Follow along as Deborah gets started at Etsy setting up Cool Clay Jewelry, an Etsy shop to sell her own canvas, fabric, and prints on clay pendants and jewelry. Not much to see yet! But will be building over the next several weeks.

Some urls mentioned in the show:
Etsy’s Blog
Karen’s Twitter
Deborah’s Twitter
Karen’s Blog
Our Handmade Gifts Blog and Community

Be sure to leave questions or comments here, follow Make Your Mark on Twitter or email us any questions to makeyourmark at teamloxly.com

If you’ve read my posts on various affiliate forums, I have strong opinions about what’s wrong with our industry. And I’m frustrated that we can’t agree on what constitutes a click, what constitutes a forced click, what’s a parasite. I’m frustrated that merchants don’t think they need to pay on the 20th of the month, and feel no obligation to respond to an email. C’mon! We’ve reached the point where Staples can tell us they’ll pay us ZERO for the summer, and they are still allowed to be a merchant!!! Aargh!

So I want this program to be fun… for everyone involved. To be profitable for everyone. I want affiliates to KNOW they are considered an EQUAL partner. That every penny that comes in is due solely to their efforts. I want you to know that we’re accessible 24/7 for any questions. We’ll help with custom landing pages, custom banners, custom coupons.

So I’ve hired an Affiliate Manager to deal with any and all affiliate issues. I’ve set the commission and cookies above the industry standard. So I hope our program isn’t the typical pain in the butt program we all deal with every day.

Good luck and welcome aboard,

Billy

MY PLEDGE TO AFFILIATES

1. To treat you with respect, courtesy and as an equal partner. To show that YOU are the reason the program exists.

2. To listen to you: comments, complaints, suggestions, compliments, special needs, whatever.

3. To have the best commissions, cookies and TOS we can make.

4. To not send numerous “We’ve changed our terms again/please log in and accept” emails.

5. To make the program as personal as possible. I’ve asked my Affiliate Manager to maintain TWO mailing lists. One for people that want to be left alone. And one for people who want suggestions, tips, etc.

6. To maintain banners in all sizes and styles. To insure we always have Seasonal banners available, also in all sizes.

7. To insure the graphics in the datafeed maintain the same size, as a pet peeve of mine is merchants whose product images are all different sizes.

8. To always be parasite free and ethical.

9. I will stay out of the program personally. I don’t even want to know who my affiliates are. My Affiliate Team is charged with handling ALL affiliate matters, while I just concentrate on processing orders.

10. To recognize affiliates that go above and beyond with above and beyond commission rates.

11. To make ourselves available to our affiliates - whatever it takes.

This is a very basic podcast, if you already have a site that focuses on your art branding you might not want to listen, but if you are new and need direction, you are involved in sites like CafePress, Imagekind, Etsy or eBay, you will want to hear this.

After you listen to this podcast, I recommend you listen to:
Affiliate ABCs - Website Basics. This podcast talks about basic pages every website needs, whether you are an affiliate or an artist/photographer starting a website.

For those of you just joining us here is the intro podcast. And be sure to follow us on Twitter!

What would you like our next topic to be? Drop us a comment. Let us know if this podcast was helpful and what you need to know next. We have several planned topics, but we are flexible and want to hear what *you* have to say.

Your host for Make Your Mark is Deborah Carney, former Affiliate Manager for POD (Print on Demand) companies CafePress and Imagekind, that currently has her own startup POD that specializes in art and photography prints.

To kick off we are going to be starting with the basics, like building a website and using that as a base for all your marketing. If you have questions you would like answered, if you would like to be interviewed for the show, either as a provider of a service for artists/photographers or as an artist/photographer that would like to learn more, send an email to makeyourmark at teamloxly.com.

Shortcuts to Make Your Mark “stuff”:
Podcast
Twitter
Facebook

Some of the pages still are being constructed, it’s a “work in progress” Be part of the construction by leaving us comments and letting us know what *you* want to hear about.

Links mentioned in the show:
MySpace Account for Awesome Wreckage Website
Facebook
Orkut Social Network
Loxly’s Twitter
Awesome Wreckage Twitter
Roboform - Keep track of all your logins
Knowem.com - Check on and register all your social media identities
TwitterFeed - Feed your blogs to your Twitter accounts

A couple of show notes:
Viator Affiliate Program is now Shareasale exclusive, not at CJ as noted in the show.
James Martell on Twitter
Loxly on Twitter
Arlene on Twitter (Epilepsy Moms)
And links to join our Clients, including Loxly Gallery and Cool Card Shop, plus a couple new ones to be added in May