Posts Tagged ‘Affiliate Marketing’

Hi Folks,

I’m working on the road map for IMC 2.0 and a few folks have already expressed some great ideas for what they’d like included.

Some of the new features will include :

• New Graphs, with more configurable data.
• Keyword level tracking.
• New, easier to use Interface
• More detailed documentation and tutorials.
• Integrated update engine.
• Better storage and management of Campaigns.

Let me know what else you want to see.

Cheers,
Shane

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Instructions on how to get started with IMC Lite. A 3 step plan to get you analyzing your data and increasing your profits.

The same instructions are on the front tab of IMC Lite and step you through how to get data into the program.

You don’t have IMC Lite? Well you should, it’s FREE and a great way to get started on tracking how your affiliate marketing business is going.

You can get it HERE and it’s available for both PC and Mac.

STEP 1
Start Here … Import your Adword file.

Click on the adwords button and point it at your report file.

Your report should only have 3 columns.
* Column 1: Adgroup
* Column 2: Clicks
* Column 3: Cost

STEP 2
Put your Affiliate Sales data in a file in the following format.

Merchant,Sales,Sales Amount,Commission,Site
000001,1,64.95,25.98,Click Bank

Once you have that, click on the Affiliate Button and point it at the file.
(Note: You can also enter the same data through the Aff Data Tab)

STEP 3
Now for the fun part. Click on Reports to start checking your data.

Something I’ve been working on for the next release of IMC Lite, Affiliate Branding.

What does Affiliate Branding mean? Well, in short you’ll be able to set your Affiliate ID in the program so that any folks that upgrade to the Pro version from the Lite version will garner you a 30% commission on Internet Marketers Companion.

This means you can offer a branded version of IMC Lite through your website and while providing your users with a great piece of software to help folks keep tabs on their PPC spend and income, you’ll also be able to pick up some nice affiliate income also.

Kind Regards,

Shane

IMC has been around quite a while now. It predates Vista and I’ve only just included support for Mac.

The Mac version of IMC Pro will be coming in the not too distant future.

As such some of the ways I used to do things need to be updated. One of these has been giving errors that are generally got around by running the program as Administrator on Vista.

I’ve got a few things coming in the pipe line but the next versions of both IMC Lite and IMC Pro will have the database moved to a more correct location which will stop some of the permission errors that have been cropping up.

Something else I’m trying to get in this next version is branding. This will allow folks who run their own sites and wish to promote IMC for fun and profit will be able to get a branded version of their very own to distribute.

This version will include their affiliate details and ensure they get a nice commission for every IMC Pro they help to sell.

Stay tuned.

Shane

Hi Folks,

I’ve noticed that the manual has become sadly out of date. Rather than rewriting the whole thing and taking time away from getting some of the exciting new features into IMC, I’m going to add a wiki to the site.

This will allow me to add documentation quickly and easily as things change and also have it quickly available from the website.

As soon as I find a nice Wiki addon for wordpress or at least something that will integrate nicely I’ll get it up and running.

Shane