As the year comes to an end I wanted to take this time to talk to our entire affiliate base. It’s been a great year for our company and I have you to thank for that. We’re all dedicated to improving the network each and every day. I speak for all of our employees when I say that we love this industry and we love working with all of you guys.

We’re excited to start another year, and we’re working hard on our plans for 2012. Over the course of this year we’ve expanded the company in an effort to continue to provide more and more service to our affiliates. We’ve made a lot of changes this year in an effort to make our network better and I’m always looking for more suggestions.

Earlier this month I created a survey and asked all of you to fill it out. I’m getting lots of responses and they’re all extremely helpful to know exactly what you want. If you haven’t yet, I’d like to see every one of our affiliates fill this out -> http://www.surveybuilder.com/s/KKaHCkunYAA?source_id=3&source_type=web.

I’d like to take this time to explain some changes we’ve made over the year and other changes that we’re implementing in 2012.

Approvals Guidelines

As the year has progressed we’ve really tightened up our approval restrictions. We’re focused on working with our growing affiliate family and making sure that we are spending our resources in the best way we can. If you have a referral or a friend that has applied to our network and was denied please let me know. Shoot me an email to JCooper@wolfstormmedia.com and I’ll take care of them for you. As long as you’re an active affiliate with us we generally have no problem approving your friends. While we do not require a referral for affiliates to be approved into our network, it does make the application process a lot easier for them.

Transition to the Cake Marketing Platform

In the middle of this year we made a switch to the Cake Marketing platform. We’ve been using this platform now for six months and I can officially report that it was one of the best moves we’ve made as a company. We’ve gotten a ton of great feedback on it and Cake continues to update our platform so that affiliates will see even more features and options in the coming year. Cake is constantly updating their software, and they are doing a great job at filling feature requests that we have. I see Cake Marketing as being a strong strategic partner for us in the coming years.

New iPhone Application

I’m excited to announce that there’s now an iPhone application that you can use to log in to your stats. It doesn’t cost you a dime and you can use it to stay logged into our network on the go. For those of you that have an iPhone, simply go the the application store and search ‘Cake Marketing’. Once you have it downloaded it’s real simple to get logged in.

URL – login.wolfstormmedia.com
Your Username
Your Password

Improved Business Development Processes

One of the biggest and most beneficial changes we’ve made this year is in our business development department. Bringing on offers is our job, and it’s our job to make sure that we only bring on the best offers for you to promote. Initially we were cataloging a lot more offers than we were able to really work with. We tried to get the largest diversity for our affiliates and that resulted in a lower overall quality in our offers.

It shouldn’t be a crap shoot when you log into our system, you should know that each and every offer that is listed is working properly and converts well. We are working day in and day out to bring in more direct offers that our affiliates want. Our offer requests list is always evolving as we bring more and more offers in. If you have a request please let us know and we will get the offer direct with a payout to beat what you’re currently getting.

We’re constantly evaluating our strategy here and we plan to improve on this even further in 2012. We will be running a lot more traffic internally so that we can provide you the best up to date guides in the industry. Our goal is to give you the basics of running every offer in our system so that you can utilize your knowledge and creativity to take the offer to a new level.

Brand New Web Site

Over the past month we’ve been working on a brand new site that should make navigating it a lot easier for you guys. I’ve paid careful attention to make sure that all of the important pages are easy to get to, and that you can find out all of the information you need through our outside site. If you guys have anything you’d like to see on our site content wise, please let me know.

I also plan to start blogging a lot more when we introduce the new site. What types of blog topics would you guys like to see? How can we help you make more money using our blog? We’ll be releasing our new and improved site in the first quarter of 2012!

Affiliate Summit West

We will be attending Affiliate Summit West and we’re looking forward to meeting as many affiliates as possible. I’m going to keep updating our company Twitter as we roam Las Vegas during the show. We’ll be at the show all day both days and we’ll be attending plenty of industry parties. I (Jeremiah Cooper) will be there along with one of our account managers Sam Rafferty. If you’d like to schedule a meet up with either of us we’ll be at the show all day. I’m excited to spend some more time with the affiliates I’ve already met and meet a lot of new affiliates. We will both be checking our email on our phones constantly so just email us if you’re trying to find us. (Jeremiah Cooper – JCooper@wolfstormmedia.com, Sam Rafferty – SRafferty@wolfstormmedia.com). CC us both in on the email and we’ll come find you.

Happy New Year – Let’s Start it Off With a Bang!

We’re all on hand and ready to help you guys make 2012 the best year you’ve ever had in affiliate marketing. We want to work with all of our affiliates and take their business to the next level. While many affiliates are one man shows, you can really take your business up a notch and have an entire staff on board if you want. One of the benefits of this business is a low overhead, so some affiliates may be averse to bringing on additional staff (local or outsourced) and we can help you transition into that. As an affiliate myself I have a team of people that helps me with my business, and I couldn’t have taken the business up a level without them.

Wherever you were as an affiliate in 2011, let us know how we can help you take that business up to a new level in 2012. Every affiliate is different, which is why we strive to offer the absolute best one on one assistance that any network can provide. Reach out to your account managers as we ring in the New Year and they will be happy to show you why affiliates consistently rate our customer service as one of the best out there!

Happy New Year from all of us at Wolf Storm Media!