We’ve been asked, here at JEBCommerce, for some time to offer a training, coaching and mentoring program for new and veteran affiliate managers alike. Many of our clients, especially those that have used our Affiliate Assessment and Success Roadmap services, have been looking for an on-going program to help their affiliate managers become better, more efficient and run high performing programs and continually improve their program’s success.

Our clients also requested a program designed to make sure their affiliate managers, whether new or experienced, were using all the best practices in affiliate management and simply not missing any vital training and information.

It’s always been something dear to me personally as well. I love to teach, mentor others and see them grow, improve and advance in their careers. There is just nothing else like it. So today is pretty exciting for me and the rest of the team here at JEBCommerce.

Today, we are announcing the launch of our MyAffiliateCoach Affiliate Manager Coaching and Mentoring program!

Here is how it all got started:

You can also read how it all got started here.

What is it exactly?
The MyAffiliateCoach Program is a 12 week mentoring and coaching program designed to raise up solid, high performing and innovative affiliate managers, delivered one of two ways:

• Live and On-Demand - Each lesson is delivered by myself, Jamie Birch and available online. Each week we walk members through a specific lesson, allowing ample time for their questions and our assistance with their unique and specific problems and situations. Members get a fully interactive experience with access to myself and our coaching team 24/7. It’s truly not only a comprehensive program, but customized to your needs each week as you access our years of experience in affiliate marketing to grow your program and career.
• Or simply On-Demand - Available online and at your own pace. You receive all 12 modules up front, with weekly reminders and bonus modules delivered over 12 weeks. It’s perfect for someone who wants to go through at the speed they choose.

You choose the method of delivery that works best for you. It is comprised of 12 distinct modules, outlined below, plus several bonus modules.

* The Ideal Affiliate Manager – A Profile in Greatness
* Forecasting, S.M.A.R.T Goals and KPI’s
* Performing a Comprehensive Affiliate Assessment
* Quick Start Guide to Administration, Terms and Conditions and Regulations
* Building Strong Relationships That Last and Are Profitable
* Affiliate Recruiting and Activating
* Effective Affiliate Promotions and Incentives
* Creative and Advanced Affiliate Tools
* Developing a 6 Month Plan for Success
* Paid Search - What is best for me?
* Trouble Shooting – What to do when problems arise, and avoiding them in the first place
* Creating and Using an Affiliate Management Scorecard to be a better manager every single day

And we’ve already begun! Our first crop of members have completed the live and on-demand course. Here is what one of our members, Shane from Dean & Deluca, had to say about the program:

We are truly excited to offer this service along with our complete outsourced affiliate management and our affiliate assessment and success roadmap services .

Learn more about our Affiliate Manager Coaching and Mentoring Program.

If you’d like to speak with us directly about this, feel free to email us today to learn more.

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 JEBCommerce, a leading affiliate and performance marketing agency, today announces that Roots Canada, Ltd., a leading lifestyle brand, has selected JEBCommerce to grow and manage both their Canadian and US affiliate programs on the Linkshare Network.

Roots Canada Ltd. is known around the world for its quality leather goods, active athletic wear, yoga wear, accessories and home furnishings.  Roots now has more than 120 retail locations in Canada and the US and more than 40 locations in Asia.  Both the Canadian and US programs are poised for growth in 2010 and now affiliates can count on even more resources and time devoted to their success with both the Roots affiliate programs with the addition of the team at JEBCommerce.

“We feel that JEBCommerce has the right combination of tools and skills to take the Roots affiliate program to the next level”, says James Connell, Sr. Director, eCommerce, Digital Marketing and New Media at Roots Canada Ltd.

Jamie Birch, founder and CEO of JEBCommerce (an outsourced affiliate management agency), looks to leverage JEBCommerce’s extensive experience in the clothing and retail affiliate marketing space with Roots strong product lineup and brand reputation: 

“We couldn’t be more excited to be working with such a great and well known brand and add another Canadian program to our stable of affiliate managed programs.  We are looking forward to using our past experience and our unique and proactive affiliate management methodology to, not only increase sales through both Roots programs, but also increase overall profitability and new customer acquisition.  We want to encourage affiliates to join the programs in the Linkshare Network today, contact us at DigitalMarketing@roots.com or 1-800-208-6215.”

JEBCommerce is excited to add Roots to its current list of clients that includes philosophy, Elance, LiveChime, iFloor, 1800Pharmacy.com, Dean & Deluca, OverstockDrugstore, AmyAdele, drop.io and more.

If you are an affiliate or website owner who is interested in working with the Roots.com affiliate program, please contact JEBCommerce at affiliates@Roots.com.

JEBCommerce, a leading affiliate and performance marketing agency, today announces that Ligonier Ministries, a leading Christian resource organization, has chosen JEBCommerce to launch and manage their upcoming affiliate program.

Ligonier Ministries at Ligonier.org, makes complex biblical truths easy to understand. Their founder, Dr. R.C. Sproul is known by Christians from all walks of life for his ability to clearly communicate, deep, practical truths from God’s Word. This has led to hundreds of education series and resources on a broad range of topics, including the popular and respected Reformation Study Bible and the monthly, award-winning magazine, Tabletalk. Along with this, hundreds of other hand selected books and resources will soon be available for affiliates to promote through the Ligonier Ministries affiliate program.

“We’ve wanted to launch an affiliate program for a number of years and are thankful to have found the right fit with JEBCommerce. We can’t wait to see what new markets and ministry opportunities this will open up.”
~ John Cobb, Director of Ministry Outreach

Jamie Birch, founder and CEO of JEBCommerce (an outsourced affiliate management agency), is looking forward to the team assisting Ligonier Ministries in furthering their mission through affiliate marketing: “We are excited to be working with such a unique organization and individual such as Dr. R.C. Sproul. It is not often when you can merge two passions, affiliate marketing, and faith, into one endeavor. We want to encourage affiliates to contact us at Ligonier@jebcommerce.com to receive updates on the progress of this program’s launch. ”

JEBCommerce is excited to add Ligonier Ministries to its current list of clients that includes Roots, philosophy, LuggagePoint.com, Elance, LiveChime, iFloor, 1800Pharmacy.com, Dean & Deluca, OverstockDrugstore, AmyAdele, drop.io and more.

If you are an affiliate or website owner who is interested in working with the Ligonier Ministries affiliate program, please contact JEBCommerce at ligonier@jebcommerce.com.

Last week I had the good fortune to sit down with a good friend, super affiliate, and overall great guy, Matthew Bredel.  Matthew runs The Web Reviewer and MatthewBredel.com, among other sites, and we have worked together on several different affiliate programs over the years.

Last week we jumped on skype to catch up with each other.  I wanted to see how he was doing, see the new things he had going on and mostly to see what he thought about the affiliate industry and it’s current changes and obstacles.

We chat about how Matthew got his start in affiliate marketing with his site TheWebReviewer.com, how we moved to being an affiliate full time, and some of his new product launches. Matthew also recently did an awesome review of one of our clients’ products, LiveChime. You can read his review here.

Take a listen below, I hope you enjoy our talk and check out his projects below.

MatthewBredel.com
TheWebReviewer.com

The Performance Marketing Association (PMA)  just announced new working group structures.  I was fortunate enough to work on one of the initial working groups during the forming of the PMA, membership fees I believe, and it was a fun experience.  I got to work with some great people and brainstorm ideas on how to make the PMA great.

From their site:

“The Performance Marketing Association is a not-for-profit trade association founded in 2008 by the leaders of the performance marketing industry, to connect, inform and advocate on behalf of this rapidly growing field.

The Performance Marketing Association (PMA) strives to raise the profile of performance marketing by demonstrating the value of this multi-billion marketing channel, which comprises more than 200,000 businesses and individuals. Continued growth of the performance marketing space is expected as advertisers, facing small budgets and big expectations, increasingly look to performance-based marketing initiatives to expand their business.”

The restructured working groups are as follows:

• Anti-Fraud/Anti-Abuse, sponsored by Online Intelligence (an Epic Advertising company)
• Advertiser Practices  to Avoid Fraud, sponsored by Adperio
• Data Feed/Content Standards, sponsored by Ebates
• Industry Pledge to Ethical Practices, sponsored by Ebay
• Convergence with Offline, sponsored by MediaTrust

To learn more, check out their blog.

The PMA has done some great work, and along side some amazing affiliates/affiliate managers/network, they have lead the amazon tax initiative and had some huge wins.  They have proved to be very valuable and a needed resource in our industry.  If you’d like to learn more about membership, click here.

Early in 2009 I believe, I wrote a series of blog posts regarding one of my favorite shows, Hell’s Kitchen. We love watching that show and Chef Ramsey is a favorite at the Birch household. One of the reasons I love watching this show is because there are real lessons you can learn for your own business by watching Ramsey work. He commitment to a superior product each and every time he steps in the kitchen is incredible.

We were watching the second episode tonight and something dawned on me. The self evaluation he requires of his chef’s is amazing. If it isn’t perfect, superior, and better than everyone else, that risotto is going back to the kitchen. Each and every plate is reviewed and evaluated. Before it goes out it is measured against their standard, their expectations.

Isn’t that so amazingly important? It is vital in a service business like JEBCommerce. Every deliverable to our clients has to live up to our standard, has to be better than our clients expect and exceed their expectations. Our affiliates need to know that the product coming out of our shop on behalf of our clients is complete and beats their expectations.

At our agency, we are very clear with our standards, what we expect, the quality of our deliverables to both affiliates and clients. We’ve taken some of the concepts, and definitely the passion, that someone like Chef Ramsey shows in his kitchen and apply and focus that in our affiliate management.

Have you taken a good look at the work you are doing? Have you put your work on “the pass” and reviewed the speed and quality before it went to your customers, whether they are clients, affiliates or consumers? Have you been able to take a real good look at the work that you are putting out. Have you asked yourself how it stands up to your expectations and standards. Should you send it back to the kitchen.

I love that this show not only is entertaining, I mean who doesn’t love when he kicks a garbage can across the kitchen, but it inspires me to go back to all the work that we do and look at it objectively. It moves me to ask myself and my team, is this good enough? Are we meeting our standards? Are we as good as we can be? Are we as fast, efficient, comprehensive and innovative as we can be? Are you? I’d love to hear what you think and would enjoy your sharing any stories you have. Do tell…

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
JEBCommerce,  today announces that OfficeFrog, an online vendor of earth friendly products for the office, has selected JEBCommerce to grow and manage their affiliate program on the ShareASale affiliate network.

OfficeFrog.com seeks to become the leading online vendor of choice in eco-friendly products for the office with a compelling product selection, competitive price points, and strong stewardship toward bringing natural earth replenishment and sustainability practices to the everyday workplace. OfficeFrog.com will be unique in it’s approach, product offering, awareness message, and marketing style.. Very soon affiliates will be able to promote these “green” products through the OfficeFrog.com affiliate program on ShareASale, managed by the JEBCommerce team.

“We’re excited to be working with JEB Commerce” said David Conner, CEO of OfficeFrog.com. “As a new niche brand in a market with a number of large established players, OfficeFrog.com needs a strong performance marketing approach that delivers results. JEB was recommended to us by one of their clients as a knowledgeable player in affiliate management with experience in working with online retailers like OfficeFrog.com. We have complete confidence the team at JEB will help us grow our business.”

Jamie Birch, founder and president of JEBCommerce (an outsourced affiliate management agency), looks to leverage the increasing demand and need for environmentally sound and sustainable office products and JEBCommerce’s experience in retail and business to business affiliate management sectors to grow this program quickly. “We are very excited to be working with Officefrog.com. Conservation and proactive stewardship has always been something dear to our hearts and we are excited to help bring these products to customers around the country. This provides a truly unique opportunity for affiliates. We want to encourage affiliates to join the program in the ShareASale Affiliate Network today or contact us at affiliates@officefrog.com or 1-800-208-6215.”

JEBCommerce is excited to add OfficeFrog to its current list of clients that includes philosophy, LuggagePoint.com, Elance, LiveChime, iFloor, 1800Pharmacy.com, Dean & Deluca, OverstockDrugstore, AmyAdele, and more.

If you are an affiliate or website owner who is interested in working with the OfficeFrog.com affiliate program, please contact JEBCommerce at affiliates@officefrog.com.

We are excited to announce that the Elance Affiliate Program has re-launched on the Commission Junction network.  Elance, the world’s leading marketplace for online talent, helps small businesses hire and manage freelance and contract professionals.

Here you will find out about our new commission payouts, fantastic creatives including custom creatives and much more.

Sign up for the Elance Affiliate Program today!

Commission Structure

Earn more with the new Elance commission plan.  You can now earn commission on four actions:

• $50 payout on a First Time Post
• $5 payout on a Repeat Post
• $5 payout on a Paid Provider Membership
• $1 payout on a Free Provider Membership

Creative

We have created a variety of static banners, flash banners and text links to support the program. We are also developing additional tools which will be announced as they become available.

Contact us if you have any specific creative requests and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Top Verticals

Over 100,000 businesses use our service to find rated and tested Programmers, Designers, Writers, Marketers, Customer Service Agents and Virtual Assistants.

Here are the top verticals of employers that convert the best. Promote these categories to increase your earnings:

• Web & Programming
• Design & Multimedia
• Writing & Translation
• Admin. Support
• Sales & Marketing

To keep up-to-date with everything going on in this program follow us on Twitter.

We’re here to help you succeed. Please feel free to contact us if you have questions or if you need anything.

JEBCommerce is growing rapidly and needs more talented people right away.  We currently have two positions open.

Assistant Account Manager - Affiliate Program Management

JEBCommerce is growing rapidly and we are looking for someone with great people and organizational skills that is looking to join a high energy team and start a career in online marketing.  This position will assist the affiliate and account managers in:

* executing strategy on a selection of accounts
* day to day management
* develop and continue relationships with key affiliate partners
* develop and execute promotion, activation and recruiting plans
* optimize clients’ affiliate programs

We are looking for someone who can help us continue to grow our clients’ campaigns.  The following are desired qualifications:

* 1-3 years account management experience
* demonstrated success in relationship building
* must have strong communications skills
* ability to work independently
* strong ambition and drive to succeed
* ability to interface directly with clients
* creativity in partner development
* proficiency in excel, word, powerpoint and other online tools and networks is necessary
* exceptional written and verbal communications skills

To apply -  upload your resume and a short (less than 2 minutes) video cover letter at http://drop.io/hidden/arjfewaaor8rhq/upload . No applications will be considered without a resume and a video cover letter.

Internet Marketing Intern

We are looking for an intern!  If you are passionate about the internet space and social media and want to learn and work at fast paced online performance marketing agency, submit your resume and a short video cover letter at http://drop.io/hidden/lpphkszdll937u/upload .

These positions are also located in beautiful Coeur d’Alene Idaho and we are currently not looking for telecommuting candidates.

Recently, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward of the Affiliate Summit released a new book - Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, now available at Amazon.com.

“Internet Marketing from the Real Experts” is a collection of affiliate, email, blogging, podcasting, video, search engine, and social network rock stars that break down the how and why of Internet marketing in a clear, easy to understand way.”
JEBCommerce is fortunate to have two individual authors in this book!  Jamie and Stephen have an article each.  We are both excited and honored to be included in this publication.

The book is a great compilation of short and actionable articles from experts in the online marketing space.  Not only that but all net proceeds will go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Get your copy today!