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  Question Datafeed

Hi everyone,

I kept being told this forum was very helpful, so I finally got round to posting on it!

I am the Affiliate Manager for Bernards Door Furniture Direct through Affiliate Window www.doorfurnituredirect.co.uk.

I have quite a simple question to ask about datafeeds - how do I get affiliates to use it? We have a mapped datafeed of around 4000 products, however no-one seems to use it?

Is there anyway to encourage the use of the datafeed?

Thanks

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Threats involving a gun and a kitten seems to work.

But seriously what you could do (even in the short term) is set the feed up as a seperate program and offer affiliates a higher rate of commission to use it compared to just normal banners - nothing like a good bit of bribery.
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lol, going for the non-cruel option..

I like that idea would work well, but setting up a second affiliate programme could get expensive!

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Threats involving a gun and a kitten seems to work.
Do you mean like this:



Or like this:

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I don't know about you, but I think i'd rather be holding the gun than the kitten!

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The fact that you have been proactive enough to post here has meant that we are now using your datafeed.

I think you will find that many affiliates will be more willing to work with you just because you have made an effort to communicate with us!

Good luck with the programme.
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lol, going for the non-cruel option..

I like that idea would work well, but setting up a second affiliate programme could get expensive!

Cheers

Simon
Depending on who you use as your network you may be able to set up several programmes under your same account with no extra cost to you (this is what we do with affilite future)
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Ok thanks guys - I will post here more often then

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  Images incorrect in feed

Simon,

Just tried to process your feed and found one major reason why affiliates may not be using it, your image URLs are wrong!

E.g. http://www.doorfurnituredirect.co.uk...0.jpg&width=90

You need to remove everything after the ".jpg"

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Simon,

Just tried to process your feed and found one major reason why affiliates may not be using it, your image URLs are wrong!

E.g. http://www.doorfurnituredirect.co.uk...0.jpg&width=90

You need to remove everything after the ".jpg"

Chris.

Quit being lazy chris and strip anything after the .jpg
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You could direct them to our script when we make it available in the shop.

The demo of it is here

http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/demo/Ber...tureDirect_aw/

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Chris,

Thanks for pointing this major error out.
The image URL's are now all sorted, so they will work!

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