Managing several affiliate accounts?

[Caz]

Hi, we're still new to the industry and have just finished signing up for all the various affiliate programs for all casinos

At this point we've signed up for around 70+ affiliate programs. This is going to be impossible to manage one by one. 70+ dashboards to keep an eye on is almost impossible—especially to have a real time view over how the programs are performing

Are there any services that make this easier? If not, how do you manage this task?

Feels like a trivial issue and that there should be a service that makes this easier, if not it'd be very curious to know if people actually visit all the dashboards every hour or so? As just that mere task would take 30+ minutes or so to finish (some sites list 150+ casinos which only makes it harder to manage)

Curious as to how the industry deals with this?

[universal4]

You might want to have a look at

http://www.gpwa.org/forum/nifty-stat...on-230187.html
http://www.gpwa.org/forum/binom-affi...rs-247712.html

Rick
Universal4

[PokCas]

I know a simple and very effective solution to your problem, send me a PM, will help you out.

[casinoportal]

I can recommend Nifty Stats, while it isn't free it is cheap and works well. It does have a 30 day free trial, so you can see if it is what your looking for.

[Cash Bonus]

You can also try out Remote Stats if you want.

[TheGooner]

You'll quickly find that there are only a handful of profitable affiliate programs worth checking for your site.
So you'll sign up for 70+ and quickly be focusing on just 4-5.

[drifter8]

I totallt agree with TheGooner. In the time being affililiate, you will realize that the number of good and paying program is always and always will be under 10.

[Strider1973]

I agree with Gooner and Drifter, 70 programs is an absolute overkill. Just pick 5-10 to work with, you will earn more than with 70 programs (because you will get a higher rev share).

[promotiontailor]

starting with 70 accounts is a true overkill.

nifty will give you a clear image about your account statistics and they very good at it, but its stats crawler. it depend on the program reports so if the program don't have a report of "best iPhone casino" you'll never know which casino convert better on iPhone and which convert better on Android.

a good example is rev-share accounts. lets say you work with a casino with rev-share account for few months:
month A you send 100 clicks with 10 Signups and 2 Depositors, total commission was $5,000
month B you send 200 clicks with 20 Signups and 4 Depositors, total commission was $10,000
month C you send 500 clicks with 50 Signups and 10 Depositors, total commission was $1,000
month D you send 500 clicks with 50 Signups and 10 Depositors, total commission was $0

you did well on month A so you increase traffic, on month B you see better results so you decide to send 90% of you traffic to this casino. on month C you "lose" some money but you're thinking "that OK. this is how rev-share works, next month will be better" and you send traffic for one more month. but what you can't see is that the commission was made by a single player that stop playing on month C.

Also iGaming affiliate isn't similar to any other affiliate business.
- monthly regulation
- new casinos on weekly basis and casino closure
- market closure and market opened
- slots provider that stop work with specific market
- payment processor X that stop working on Canada and now only casino with payment processor Y can convert Canadian traffic
- most casino offer free spins on starburst, but starburst is too competitive keywords, what if you got traffic to other slot? which casino offer free spins for your traffic?
- and more and more

so while you can work with general stats crawler like Nifty and stats tracker like Voluume or binom it won't have the benefit of iGamaing platform

[universal4]

70 accounts is easily reached after being in the business a while.

Also what is important, is utilizing a stats system where YOU are the only one in control of or can view your stats, and not providing usernames or passwords to ANY third party without working with a network.

Rick
Universal4

[promotiontailor]

after being in the business a while.

A while is the key... He said they just started.
While i agree with you about the security, there are ways to secure this data. For example i use LastPass to store all my user and passwords, this info is encrypted and decrypted with master password only i know. This is how store credentials for affiliates .

I disagree with you about the network. Unless you know exactly what you're traffic worth, network may pay better CPA than a program

[universal4]

Although some affiliates like to use a blended mix of CPA and revshare, the vast majority of affiliates will encourage that you can make far more with revshare then you could ever make with CPA over the long term.

Rick
Universal4

[promotiontailor]

Depend on market, casino, type of traffic and volume.
in some cases you better ask for high CPA (350-400)