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Visit With Us In Austin At ShareASale’s ThinkTank OPM Party Wednesday!

Will you be at ShareASale’s ThinkTank this week? Come visit with us at the OPM Party Wednesday evening!

Prizes!

Affiliates have a chance to win tickets to Hawaii with the OPM Party Event Giveaway and at our Snow Consulting table, you can also leave your business card for our prize drawings!

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We’ll be on hand to visit about our programs, hand out some swag and show you how to take advantage of the things we do to help you promote our merchant clients.

Update! We’ve updated this post again to add another prize to the list below! Don’t miss your chance to win!

Enter to win a Casio G-Shock Alarm Watch from DiscountWatchStore.com, a New Century World Map from Maps.com, a store credit at Clava.com for up to $75 or a Blu-ray Player from PaulsTV.com!

ThinkTank is always a great event – hope we get a chance to visit with you there!

Here are the current standings for the Snow Consulting Hockey Playoffs Pool.

We have 16 teams in the Top 15 list – lots of ties!

We have ties for 2nd place, 7th place and 15th place, PLUS a 3-way tie for 9th! There are 31 points separating the top from the bottom of that list, but it’s pretty tight between the 6th place spot and the 12th, so it looks like just about anything could happen – in the middle of the pack at least.

Here are the games for this coming week, starting tonight: Playoff games: Week of May 4-11

And here are the current team standings:

• 1 Dilly’s Danglers 118
• T2 Coyotes 104
• T2 SmashMouth Brothers 104
• 4 Big Al Rap 102
• 5 Nordiques 101
• 6 K9 4nic8r 96
• T7 BiscuitIntheBasketPl… 95
• T7 TeamUSI 95
• T9 Joe Picks The Wings 93
• T9 biscuit 93
• T9 wewantthecup(2) 93
• 12 Hit Somebody 92
• 13 Quebec Nordiques 91
• 14 $$$$$$$$ 89
• T15 Blown Calls 87
• T15 Missy’s Puckheads 87

Enjoy the rest of the playoffs and good luck with the remaining games!

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You’ll find codes for all four programs (Neckties.com, Scarves.com, Ties.com, WildTies.com) AND Scarves.com has a special Mother’s Day sale, too! All in the Ties.com Merchant Information Center here.

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Providing The Right Tools For Affiliates

One important part of managing affiliate programs is providing the right tools to make affiliates more efficient and more productive with less stress. At the end of this post are a few questions to help us understand your process.

New tools pop up constantly and some affiliates (and merchants) are early adapters. We can look to them for reviews and advice, but we also need to remember this: By the time we implement a new process and tweak the bells and whistles to automate our workflow, the early birds will have already moved on to the next new thing.

Some basic business building actions stick around because they work. Example? Data feeds! Many of the new ideas we see are built on the idea of making data feeds useful for everyone, not just the experts.

Office productivity tools have been around as long as we’ve had computers, but the innovations in file formats, macro building, presentation sharing and even just editing can make your head spin! Managers can go a long way towards increased productivity by sharing techniques and answering questions.

It’s important that affiliates spend their time building traffic and creating quality content, not struggling with daily upkeep.

Merchants and Account Managers can go over the list of possible tools and talk about changes to policies or products that might change the way affiliate information is distributed.

Is it time to add a Daily Deal calendar? Should we be working more closely with a service like PopShops, GoldenCan or Datafeedr?
Do we need tutorials or webinars to make something more useful?

We have a few productivity questions today pertaining to the image URL in a data feed:

Do you use the images provided in a data feed?
Which size is the most useful to you? Least useful?
Do you use images in Daily Deal feeds?

Thanks for your feedback!

You can print out the first round schedule for reference:

First Round Hockey Playoff Schedule 2012 (PDF)

If you haven’t already created your FREE pool team – here’s the sign-up info:

Click the link below, pick your players and watch your points add up with each game!

Sign-up link

Whether you know hockey or not, the NHL Hockey Playoffs are great to watch and follow, especially if you are entered into a playoffs pool!

The 4th Annual SC NHL Playoffs Pool has been setup and it’s easier than ever to sign up and pick players.

Click the link below, pick your players and watch your points add up with each game!

Sign-up link

Prizes will be mentioned in the coming days. Let’s make this year the largest pool ever.

We have a cutoff date of April 11th, so get your entries in FAST.

Roger Snow & The Entire SC Team

OnlineSports.com

Winners Of The 3rd Annual Snow Consulting March Madness Pool

Brought to you by our sponsors: Maps.com and OnlineSports.com

1st Place: Mez Picks

The 1st Place prize is the winner’s choice of one of these three jerseys described here, courtesy of OnlineSports.com

2nd Place: Balzy’s Bouncers

The 2nd Place prize is a $50 gift card courtesy of Snow Consulting.

3rd Place: Daddyodeals.com

The 3rd Place prize is a beautiful College Sports Map from Maps.com.

Winners will be contacted via email from Snow Consulting. If you don’t hear from us, your email is hidden! Contact us here in the comments.

Major College Sports Map from Maps.com

Share Your Cutest Dog Photos!

Nothing has a better chance of going viral than a cute doggie photo!

Start digging out your best submissions or create some new ones and we’ll share them here!

Here’s how to share your photo!

Post the image on your own site and give us the url in the comments section. We’ll moderate and share, including a link back to your page.

OR

Upload your image to Facebook.
If you end up loading it on your own page, tag one of us or alert us on our page so we can grab it.

@JudiMoore @RandyNorton @SnowConsulting

OR

“Pin” your image at Pinterest and tag us there!

In all cases, we’ll try to share the images here on our site, with a link back to you on your site if you include it. We want to share some of the cutest ones on Pinterest and in our affiliate newsletters, too! Anything you submit might be shared publicly, so make sure you are the owner of the image!

CandyDirect

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HFL Solutions

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Maps.com Affiliate Program: Coupon Codes, Deals and Discounts For April!

Here’s a sample of the April deals posted on the Maps.com Affiliate Blog. Grab all four deals here.

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All 4 Sites in the Ties.com Affiliate Program have deals for April

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Transparent Language

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Snow 3rd Annual March Madness Pool Standings

Here’s how the Top Ten shape up this week in the Snow March Madness Pool!

We have a new team in the lead: Balzy’s Bouncers with a 7 point lead over 2nd place. And to add some overall tension to the standings, we have 2 teams tied for 9th and 3 teams tied for 11th place, which is why we went ahead and listed more than the Top Ten!

It looks likes places 2 – 6 could shake out any number of ways and the same is true for 7-11. They’re just too close to call for now!

The prizes (descriptions):

• 1st Prize, courtesy of OnlineSports.com: Winners Choice from 3 jerseys
• 2nd Prize, courtesy of Snow Consulting, Inc.: $50 gift card
• 3rd Prize, courtesy of Maps.com: College Sports Map

• 1 Balzy’s Bouncers 90
• 2 Steve 83
• 3 Benjamin’s Bracket 82
• 4 Sunshine’s Superstars 81
• 5 shwank 80
• 6 Checks Chick 79
• 7 WoopWoop 77
• 8 JayPo28 76
• 9 P-Daddy 75
• 9 Mez Picks 75
• 11 Elias Sports Bureau 72
• 11 Busters Mashers 72
• 11 Random Choices 72