We are thrilled that you have joined the ShareASale affiliate marketing network. Below, we will provide you with all the necessary resources to be fully prepared to drive your affiliate efforts to success. We will cover lots of important information, including how to get started, how to search for new Merchant partners, how payments work, which reports are most helpful, and even an introduction into some of our favorite tools.
Be sure to click through to each training subject for more information.
Let’s get started!
Familiarize yourself with your new account
Following the approval of your affiliate application to ShareASale, it is time to explore your publisher homepage and take a look at some tips to finding partners on our network.
| Publisher homepage Get familiar with the affiliate interface as we highlight the critical places to regularly visit. Find the knowledge necessary for a successful program. |
Partner with brands
With over 6,000 retail programs to choose from, the concept of finding the right one can be daunting! Our merchant search experience is designed to help you easily and intuitively identify and join relevant programs through various filters, popular search options, and a marketing calendar for upcoming holidays or seasonal events.
| How to search for merchants Learn how to use our merchant search tool to find the partners who are going to be the best fit for your platform and audience. |
Promote relevant products and services with affiliate links
After establishing relevant brand partnerships on the ShareASale network, it is time to start using affiliate links! Each brand provides an array of creatives for their affiliate partners to grab from. Or, if you can’t find the specific link you are looking for, create your own affiliate tracking links to direct your audience to the exact product or category page you’re referring to.
| How to grab affiliate links Get a detailed guide on how to retrieve a merchant’s creative, grab an affiliate link, and how to create custom affiliate link. |
Get paid for your efforts
For all your promotional efforts through ShareASale, rest assured that we not only track which transactions earned you commissions, but we also send you one, combined payment each month. Our trusted network provides easy-to-read reporting that displays exactly how much you can expect to be paid based on your performance each month.
| Affiliate payment settings See a detailed status of your funds as well as which campaigns drove the most transactions with our comprehensive selection of payment reporting tools. |
Take advantage of our user-friendly affiliate tools
Our network provides custom tools to help you promote brands and products more effectively and convert sales faster. Each has been created for you and by you. By listening to the requests of our clients, we develop tools to combat the changing needs in the industry. No matter your publisher type, you can find the right tools to help you drive more conversions and propel your affiliate efforts to success.
| Promotional tools Find and curate relevant products and turn any page into an eCommerce experience or create a dynamic creative to display. |
Track your affiliate channel performance
Our robust reporting capabilities provide insight into all possible information you’d like to track for your affiliate efforts. Find out which merchants are performing best, easily find and replace broken links, or create tracking of your own with aff-tracking, which can provide added information across all your reports.
| Overview of our affiliate reporting Get a sense of which reports are most commonly used and which ones you should pay most attention to. |
Ensure compliance – disclose, disclose, disclose!
It is crucial for all our partners to remain compliant by properly disclosing their affiliate activity. All partners are responsible to ensure that paid promotions are fully disclosed, honest and not misleading. All disclosures should be very clear and transparent. Regardless of which platform is used to promote a product or brand, disclosures are always necessary under FTC compliance requirements.
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FTC compliance 101 & resources Take a look at some disclosure basics and more information about why it is important for your brand to disclose. We also provide a number of resources to assist our publishers in your efforts. |