Wysong affiliate program now offering Pay Per Call

The affiliate program for Wysong has just incorporated Commission Junction’s Pay Per Call solution to its affiliate program, which is being managed by PartnerCentric. CJ’s Pay Per Call solutions enable affiliates to include a dedicated phone number in their affiliate marketing promotions and earn commissions for all sales that result from those calls.

In developing your Pay-Per-Call program, you will receive unique, trackable toll-free phone numbers that drive calls to our own call center. You can implement these phone numbers on your website, in keyword information, and offline! Commission Junction will even place your unique toll-free number in any creative you request for this program. This will enable you to drive calls right off of a banner!

All commissionable calls are tracked through the Commission Junction Pay-Per-Call platform, and will be credited to you at the beginning of each month. Commissions will appear as a “bonus” within your traditional CJ Account Manager.

If you would like to participate in the Pay-Per-Call program, please sign up for a Pay-Per-Call Publisher Account here. If you already have a Pay-Per-Call account, you may apply to our program through your existing account platform. Prior to applying to our Pay-Per-Call program, please ensure that you are actively joined to our traditional affiliate program through your CJ Account Manager.

Please note that, in order to receive commission for calls driven on the Pay-Per-Call platform, you must belong to our affiliate program through your standard Commission Junction account.

To learn more about Commission Junction’s new Pay-Per-Call platform, please click here. Alternatively, you may contact our Client Support line at 1-800-761-1072 Mon- Fri 6am-5pm PST.

PartnerCentric was an early adopter of the new PayPerCall platform that CJ started offering in late summer 2009. Get more information about PartnerCentric’s experience in outsourced affiliate porgram management.

CJ launches publisher training program

We received the following news from our friends at Commission Junction this week:

Commission Junction is proud to announce the launch of our Keys to the CJ Marketplace Publisher training program. We have offered training to Advertisers for quite some time, but now there is a publisher series.

The program consists of a series of recorded sessions that publishers can access anytime from www.cj.com/keys/publisher. What does this mean for you, our agency clients? Well, a more knowledgeable publisher base means better results for you and your advertiser clients, which means more sales and more revenue! Be sure to let your publishers know about the training in your next newsletter communication.

And don’t forget about yourself. We continue to offer free, live online seminars for agencies and advertisers. The seminar descriptions, dates, and times can be found at www.cj.com/keys/advertiser. Utilize the training to educate yourself or any new team members.

Good news for the affiliate marketing industry

We just got another indicator of the continued growth of affiliate marketing even in the face of a sputtering U.S. economy. ValueClick, Inc., which owns the Commission Junction affiliate marketing platform, has just reported that for the fourth quarter of 2009, the company’s display, affiliate marketing and technology businesses performed above the Company’s expectations with sequential revenue growth from the third quarter of 2009 of 30 percent, 20 percent, and 13 percent, respectively.

We take that as a sign that jibes with what we’re seeing industry-wide – confirmation that online sales continue to grow month over month, quarter over quarter, year over year even as brick and mortar sales continue to suffer.

PartnerCentric is a preferred agency that has worked with CJ since our company’s founding in 2004. At present 19 of the affiliate programs that we manage are part of the CJ network.

For more information about our top-performing affiliate programs, visit our Affiliate Resource Center.