Strong 7-day EPC

We've seen another great week with our program - our top text link has a 7-day EPC of $17.29!
Also, our Affiliate Blog has seen some good activity in the past few days due to the 'Top Spots' Widget on the Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins - thanks to all you Affiliate Marketers who have stopped by! If you have any questions about our program, feel free to drop me a line.

We are still working to set-up the Product Catalog and Pop-shops. Our expected launch date for the Product Catalog is next week.

PopShops

We have started set-up today for PopShops. This is a great web 2.0 tool for Affilaites to use to build their own online shops. PopShops integrates seamlessly with our Commission Junction Product Catalog, and allows affiliates to point-and-click their way to individual product placements on their website or blog.
This is a FREE tool, and is easy to get up-and-running in just three easy steps:

1. Pick the products you would like to promote
2. Customize your Shop
3. Pop it into your shop and start editing!

Your PopShops Account will automatically update product information if there are any changes in price or availability, so there is very little maintenance required. Also, you will get paid each month through Commission Junction just as you would with any of our text or banner links.

You can sign up for a PopShops Account here.

I'll post an update when PopShops goes live!

Performance Review: Week 1

After just one week our Affiliate Program is running strong! We now have over 200 Publishers in our program, and a steady stream of incoming sales from a few of our CJ Performers. In the first week our Affiliate's sales averaged around $60 per sale with our biggest sale so far at $137.70 - that was a $68.85 commission earning on just one sale!
Thanks to all the great publishers who have helped get our program off the ground.

Our First Sale!

We just received our first sale through our new Affiliate Program! Thanks to the CJ Performer who made the sale, and we're looking forward to many, many more.

Tutorial: Get Links and Publish Ads with Commission Junction

Here is a step-by-step tutorial for those of you that are brand new to Commission Junction. Simply register for our program, and then follow these instructions to get started.

Login:
You can login to Commission Junction for everything you need to get started.
Login by visiting www.CJ.com, or you can find a link to the login on our website www.Ascentive.com.
Use your email address and the password that you created during sign-up to login.

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Once you have logged into your CJ account, you will have access to all our
banner ads, text ads, links and more.

Get Links:
To get links from inside your CJ account, follow these steps:

1. When you login you will see your publisher home. CJ provides a rich account manager interface with options to run reports, find additional advertisers in the network, and much more. To learn more about these features you can see advanced tutorials provided by CJ through CJU.
2. For now, click on the 'Get Links' Tab.
3. From there, click on the 'By Relationship' Tab. Since you will have already been added to our program, you should see Ascentive here under your 'My Advertisers' list.
4. Click on 'View Links'

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How to Select Links:
From here, you can view all the banner ads, keyword ads, text ads, and advanced links that we are running. The columns display information about the ad, including the commission rate for each, and stats about how well the ad performs. To learn more about these terms you can click on the CJU link from inside your account.

A good way to start is to find an ad that is the right size to be published on your site that is in harmony with the look-and-feel of your site. If you don't see any banners that will work, you might want to start with keyword links (they appear as text on your site) or you can contact us by writing to affiliates (at) ascentive (dot) com to discuss your creative needs.

Once you have found an ad you would like to publish on your website, you can click on the ad for more information. A window pops-up that displays the ad, more stats, and the landing page that your visitors will see when they click the ad. After reviewing this information, click on 'Get HTML' at the bottom of the window to move on to the final step: publishing the ad.

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Publish Ads:
Whenever you click 'Get HTML' Commission Junction will generate code that includes your unique Publisher ID. This will ensure that all clicks and sales associated with your unique published ad will be recorded and tracked in your CJ account.
Simply cut and paste that code into your website, and the ad will be up and running!

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For more information about publishing ads to your website look for future tutorials for Blogger, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, and more.