Keep On Top Of Your Commissions With Affiliate Widgets

If you are any thing like me then I am guessing you like to be kept up to date with your latest affiliate commissions and transactions. There are various widgets and gizmo’s that can save you time and deliver news, transactions, latest commissions and other info straight to your desktop as you are working!

Many of the larger networks including Affiliate Window, Buy.at and Paidonresults offer this service and I have taken the time to test them for functionality. There is also a service offered by affmeter that allows you to view stats from most of the major networks in one place. Here is a run down of what each network offers (in no particular order):

Affiliate Window Desktop Alerts

Affiliate window have designed a simple yet effective desktop alert that delivers your latest transactions straight to your desktop automatically. The software only takes a matter of seconds to install and once up and running delivers vital info via an unobtrusive (and small) pop up window.  There is even a sound effect when you receive a commission - Ker ching!

An added feature which I like is that the desktop alerts include the latest messages from the network and merchants, this means I can usually get the latest offers up on my sites as quickly as humanly possible - this is a nice touch that can prove useful in competitive markets.

The Buy.at Widgat

The buy.at widgat may have a kind of corny name but it is a really useful tool for checking up on your commissions. The widget integrates with yahoo widgets which is free to install and integrates with windows XP and vista and OS. It displays latest transactions,total transactions for that day, EPC plus a few other useful stats - the widget is useful but could be made more useful if it could send you messages from merchants, this on the whole is something buy.at could do better anyway.

Commission junction (CJ) also have a similar widget that uses the yahoo widget engine.

Paid on results desktop software

The paid on results desktop software is similar to affiliate windows, I have not used it really so can not comment further until I have tested it out - so watch this space.

Affmeter

Again this is not something I have used so can only report what I have been told or have read. The affmeter software is not free so that is a negative as as you have seen networks do offer free widgets and services. However this negative can be overlooked because the affmeter software gathers information from all the major affiliate networks automatically for you and sends you a combined report at a time period you specify. This sounds like a good idea and I think I will give it a try and let you know.

The main point that I wanted to make is that affiliate networks do have tools to help save you time, as you know time is precious! The more time I can save means the more time I have to spend on my sites - this hopefully will equal more commissions and more Ker chings! This article is by no means an exhaustive search of the widgets available (so if you know of others please let me know) but is designed to raise awareness of the labor saving widgets that may just give you the edge! Hope you found it useful?

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