Navigating your affiliate network: Impact

Program Description

  1. Login to your Impact account

  2. After logging into the account, click on the three dots in the bottom left corner of the screen, select “Settings”

  3. On the right side of the page, under “Program”, click on “Marketplace Profile”

    1. Here is where you can update your program description in relation to your affiliate marketing program. 

Keywords

  1. After logging into the account, click on the three dots in the bottom left corner of the screen, select “Settings”

  2. On the right side of the page, under “Program”, click on “Marketplace Profile”

    1. Scroll down to “Search Keywords” and update your keywords here. 

Text links

*A good rule of thumb is to have a text link for each of the following (or more): your homepage, shop all, best sellers, and links to any coupons you’ve set up

  1. After logging into the account, click on the three dots in the bottom left corner of the screen, select “Settings”

  2. After the login page, select “Content” then click on “Ads”

  3. In the top right corner, select “Create Ad” then click on “Text Link”

  4. Enter information into the “Name”, “Link Text”, “Description”, and “Landing Page”

    1. If applicable, use the drop-down menu “Deal” to select whatever promotion is added

    2. If the promotion has not been created yet, click on “Add new deal” to add

    3. If no promotion necessary, leave blank

  5. Click on “Save” at the bottom when finished

Coupon Links

*Make sure banners include branding elements and a call to action. Keep in mind affiliates use these images as their promotional materials without modification so they must be effective ads in and of themselves, not requiring additional design elements or text by the affiliate.

See examples of well-crafted banners here: https://instapage.com/blog/banner-ads/

  1. After logging into the account, click on the three dots in the bottom left corner of the screen, select “Settings”

  2. After the login page, select “Content” then click on “Ads”

  3. In the top right corner, select “Create Ad” then click on “Coupon”

  4. Enter information into the “Name”, “Description”, and “Landing Page”

    1. If applicable, use the drop-down menu “Deal” to select whatever promotion is added

    2. If the promotion has not been created yet, click on “Add new deal” to add

    3. If no promotion necessary, leave blank

  5. Click on “Save” at the bottom when finished

Banners/Images

*Make sure banners include branding elements and a call to action. Keep in mind affiliates use these images as their promotional materials without modification so they must be effective ads in and of themselves, not requiring additional design elements or text by the affiliate.

See examples of well-crafted banners here: https://instapage.com/blog/banner-ads/

  1. After logging into the account, click on the three dots in the bottom left corner of the screen, select “Settings”

  2. After the login page, select “Content” then click on “Ads”

  3. In the top right corner, select “Create Ad” then click on “Image”

  4. Enter information into the “Name”, “Description”, and “Landing Page”

  5. Select “Choose File” and upload the respective image

Product Feed

*A product feed is a CSV file of your inventory that gets uploaded to your network so affiliates can have a live view of what’s in stock and what they can promote

  1. After logging into the account, click on the three dots in the bottom left corner of the screen, select “Settings”

  2. After the login page, select “Products” then click on “Product Catalogs”

  3. From here, select “Create” 

  4. Input a name in the “Product Catalog Name” blank

  5. On this page, you can upload your product feed in a number of different manners

    1. Direct Upload (less than 1GB)

    2.  Impact FTP Server

    3.  Pull From URL

    4.  Integrated Shopping Cart Import

  6. When finished, click “Create” at the bottom to upload

Adjusting Commission Rates

  1. From the home page, click on the Partners dropdown menu

  2. Click on Partners

  3. From this list, search for the affiliate whose commission rate you want to adjust

  4. Click on the arrow under the Actions column

  5. Navigate to “Contract” => “Switch to new contract” 

  6. Configure the new terms of the affiliate’s contract in terms of commission rate here

  7. Adjust the per sale commission rate to your desired individual rate

  8. Be sure to click “next” to save your changes before refreshing or leaving the page!

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