Coupon banners and text creatives will be changed to sale creatives the rest of the month. If you’re using these nothing needs to be done but if you manually create links, you’ll need to update your site accordingly.

Contact me if you have questions.

The sale will be featured on product pages and on the home page. Start promoting the offer now to take advantage of higher conversions on the three sale days. Visit CJ or SAS to grab the creative or create a trackable link yourself with this banner:

Good luck selling!

Bob

This tutorial will describe exactly how to add a limited product set from ACLens.com on your site via Pop Shops.

First, you will need to sign up for an account at www.popshops.com. There are several options to choose from but for our purposes, we’ll use the free version. Once signed up, you’ll need to make sure your CJ PID and SAS account numbers are entered in their system. To do this, go to “account” at the top of the page and scroll down to “Default Affiliate ID’s” where you can then enter that information.

From there, click on “Dashboard” at the top of the page where you will now be on the “create new shops” page. Click “Go” where you will be prompted to enter a shop name – we’re using AC Lens as our name.

PopShops will now bring you to a page with all the merchants on their network. In the left hand list, scroll down to “CJ AC Lens” or “SAS ACLens.com” depending on your network of choice. Clicking on the plus signs will drill down to the product line of choice.

Alternatively, you can type in a keyword at the top left side to bring up any product that you may wish to add. For instance, typing in “Acuvue Contact Lenses” would bring up all Acuvue Contact Lenses from ACLens.com.

Once you have your product line, choose the number of rows and columns you’d like in your product page. We’re going with a 2×2 list of products from Acuvue. In the center column, click on the “ADD” button to put any of those products into your product page.

With all your products added, you can now customize the look of your product page. Click on “Customize” at the top middle part of the page. Pop Shops has several different templates which you can choose for your look. Find the one that works best for your situation from the drop down. Click on “Styles” to make changes to color, font, add “No Follow”, and several other options.

Once you have the look and feel set, click on “Pop It In” to copy and paste the code into your site. Here’s the product page that we designed:

PopShops™ affiliate stores

 
We hope the PopShops tutorial helps you create vibrant, high selling pages.

Please contact us if you have any questions or for more detailed PopShops related issues, contact the PopShops team directly through your account.

Good luck selling!

Bob

1. Landing Pages – Don’t send every link to the homepage. Visitors looking for Acuvue products are more than likely to order if you send them to the manufacturer or product page. Price and description are a click or two away from adding to cart and starting the order process. Make it as easy as possible for buyers to find what they want, order, and leave.

2. Copywriting – Copywriting doesn’t receive enough attention. Good clean sales copy is easily the best way to get existing traffic on your site to click through and place an order. Great copywriting has multiple benefits for an affiliate site. First, it qualifies the buyer by making sure they’re interested in contact lenses. Secondly, you can help pre-sell the buyer before they even reach our site, which has a big impact in the buying process. You can find numerous copywriting resources on the Internet and in any bookstore. A few good Free online resources include Copy Blogger and Copywriters Board

3. A/B testing – If you have the means, A/B testing will allow you to use a combination of links, copy, or any other combination of metrics to find what turns a viewer on your site into a buyer on ours. Multivariate testing will show your conversion rates for different types of presentations. You can then compare the numbers across several test campaigns to decide what your viewer’s want. Here’s a good A/B article to get you started:
Marketing Experiments A/B Testing

I hope these few simple ideas help get you started on a higher converting campaign with AC Lens. If you’d like us to review your current site or advertising campaign for conversion increase suggestions, feel free to contact us at affiliates@aclens.com

Limited Time Offer! Save $10 off a $100 order of Toric Contact Lenses. Use coupon TORIC at checkout. Expires 9/30/08.

Good luck the rest of the month!

Bob

Acuvue Rebates expire at the end of this month. Promote these offers from the #1 manufacturer in contact lenses before it’s to late

Coupon Code: ACLS5
Expiration: 12/31/08
Description: Order contact lenses online and save $5 off any order over $50 at ACLens.com. Enter coupon code ACLS5 at checkout. Offer expires 12/31/2008.

Coupon Code: ACUVUE
Expiration: 9/30/08
Description: Save $15 off a $150 order of Acuvue brand contact lenses. Choose Acuvue Advance, Oasys, and more. Enter coupon code ACUVUE in the instructions field of our order form. Offer expires 9/30/2008.

Coupon Code: DAILY
Expiration: 9/15/08
Description: Limited Time Offer! Buy Focus Dailies Contact Lenses and receive $10 off your $100 order. Enter coupon code DAILY in the instructions section of our order form. Offer expires 9/15/2008.

As always, Free Shipping is available on all orders over $89.

One big advantage in an AC Lens partnership is our international capabilities including easy currency conversion. ACLens.com converts currency from USD to British Pounds, Euro’s, Japanese Yen, and Canadian Dollars. This type of flexibility allows our affiliate partners to promote all over the world in the currency of choice. It works great for sites with international sections and PPC affiliates can easily link right into the currency of the country they’re promoting.

Converting currency with affiliate links is quick and easy. For the homepage, all that needs to be done is the addition of a parameter at the end of .com. Affiliates would add /default.asp?NCurID=X where X is the currency being used so that the URL now looks like this: http://www.aclens.com/default.asp?NCurID=2.

Product URL’s are almost the same. Instead of /default.asp, only add &NCurID=X at the end of the URL so that it now looks like this: http://www.aclens.com/displaylens.asp?LensID=148&NCurID=2

Here are the current X value’s for all of our currencies:

Creating a custom link with Commission Junction and ShareASale.

Now that we’ve converted the link to your required currency, you can use that link with CJ or SAS links to track sales.

In CJ, append ?url= to a tracking URL and then add the currency converted AC Lens URL at the end. Your link should now look like this (XXXXXX would be your PID):

http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-XXXXXX-10300402?url=http://www.aclens.com/default.asp?NCurID=5

ShareASale affiliates can take any currency converted link and enter it in the custom link creator. Login to your SAS account and click on “Create A Custom Link To A Page”. From there, choose ACLens.com from the merchant drop down box and copy the URL, minus http://, into the website line. The link will convert to something similar to this (where XXXXX is your affiliate ID):

http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?u=XXXXX&b=58985&m=7335&afftrack=&urllink=www%2Eaclens%2Ecom%2Fdefault%2Easp%3FNCurID%3D2

Please test all URL’s when converting to ensure proper tracking. Datafeeds can be converted in exactly the same fashion but prices will not be in the required currency. Contact us if you need a custom currency product datafeed with both URL and Price conversions.

-Sunglasses earn a flat 5% per sale. Contact lenses and other items will earn 10% with the threshold to 25% like normal.

-Due to manufacturer restrictions, coupons may not be used on any item in the sunglasses department.

-Sunglasses are eligible to ship in the USA only at this time. International affiliates will want to pull those items out of the product feed. If you need help with this, please contact us.

-Sunglasses are still eligible for free shipping over $89.

-The new terms with sunglasses have been extended to all affiliates. Simply accept them in CJ or you can wait the 7 days to automatically roll into the it.

Creatives have been added in CJ and the datafeed is updated and ready to go. If anyone has problems or questions, feel free to drop us a line.

Good luck selling!

Bob