A unified affiliate tool?

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by Torafox, May 10, 2009.

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  1. #1
    Hello,

    can anyone recommend a unified management tool (web or clientside) for affiliates? I.e. one that automatically pulls sales data from CJ, CB, LinkShare, SAS, Azoogle, etc and shows it all in some unified fashion, perhaps with statistics, realtime Outlook-style notifications of sales, etc? It's kind of tiring to log in to 10+ aff accounts each day manually.

    And if there is none, is there demand for it? I am a professional developer and writing something like that wouldn't be a major problem for me. It's just a bit surprising that I didn't find anything like that in like 30 mins of looking.

    Regards,
    Michael
     
    Torafox, May 10, 2009 IP
  2. lambda1

    lambda1 Well-Known Member

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    Yes such a tool very useful , but i dont think there are such tools existing :(
     
    lambda1, May 11, 2009 IP
  3. James Woon

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    If anyone find that tools please share with us. Thanks.
     
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  4. rogeriolidango

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    i think if you're talking about a web services type thing, you'd run into the problem of affiliates providing their credentials to the service. If you're talking about a windows app then that could fly. Of course, the issue would be that you'd have to page scrape the information, and it would require constant updates. The prospect of being able to get XML data from each network is probably unrealistic. If you can make this all work, then hell yeah, it would be a great service for affiliates all across the world. (btw, I'm also a web developer)....
     
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  5. Torafox

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    hmm I see. yeah the issue of people not wanting to share their important credentials is something that's certainly a major question here.

    i'm curious, what do affiliates think in general? what of the following best describes what you would be willing to do with your CB/CJ/etc logins/passwords, in exchange for the functionality described above?

    1) I would be ok with storing my login data at a remote webservice site
    2) I would be ok with storing my login data locally in a file belonging to a program running locally on my PC
    3) I would never store my affiliate network passwords anywhere, I always type them all from memory
     
    Torafox, May 12, 2009 IP
  6. rogeriolidango

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    BTW there's a similar thread on a different affiliate forum discussing this same thing. It seems there's a web service built out there already....but competition is always healthy!
     
    rogeriolidango, May 14, 2009 IP
  7. Torafox

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    could you give a link to that?
     
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  8. Torafox

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    As an update, I've found something that pretty much covers it all:

    statsjunky.com

    Somewhat expensive though, at around $100 a month.
     
    Torafox, Jul 2, 2009 IP