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Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2member

PostPosted: November 3rd, 2011, 9:02 pm
by groovie1
Does s2member have the ability to track affiliate sales and commissions on its own without a plugin?
If so, can you point me to how to figure that out.

If not, what's the best affiliate sales tracking plug-in that integrates well with s2member.

Our site is a membership site with checkout/joining going through s2member and payment processing through authorize.net.

Thanks!
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Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 4th, 2011, 12:31 am
by Cristián Lávaque
This video will help you with that: http://www.s2member.com/idevaffiliate-i ... ion-video/ :)

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 4th, 2011, 6:54 am
by groovie1
thanks!

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 5th, 2011, 9:02 pm
by Cristián Lávaque
No problem. :)

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 6th, 2011, 6:32 am
by groovie1
Cristian. We're making a decision between wWeber and Mailchimp for the email autoresponder for our video membership website.
Here's the beta URL: http://och.artifextech.com
Actually, we've selected aWeber, but it's not to late to switch to MailChimp if there are advantages over aWeber.
It sounds like Jason much prefers MailChimp in the s2member videos, and that further integration/development is being done with MailChimp which would make MailChimp the better option as time passes.
What would you recommend... MailChimp or aWeber?
Thanks!

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 6th, 2011, 9:23 pm
by Cristián Lávaque
I'd suggest MailChimp. It is the more powerful option of the two because of the API it has, which is better than AWeber's. The API is what other software, like s2Member, uses to communicate/use the service, so the better it is, the more things you can do. And Jason will keep improving the integration in the future.

All that said, if AWeber already does all you need and you like it better, that's fine too.

I hope that helps. :)

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 7th, 2011, 5:26 am
by groovie1
Thanks Cristian. Upon further research, I remember why we chose aWeber initially...

MailChimp doesn't have web form templates for us to use for opt-ins on our web pages.

Is this your understanding? I freakin' love everything I see about Mailchimp, and really want to use it, but we have to have opt-in web forms on our pages because we'll have affiliates who'll direct their customers to our squeeze pages... and we need opt-in forms there.

Is there another solution for creating opt-in forms that you know of? What are people using to design their opt-in forms if they use mailchimp? Is there a plug in that can be used for creating these that is good?

Thanks again, this conversation is very helpful to get to the bottom of all this.

Steve

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 7th, 2011, 10:32 pm
by cassel
Steve, are you sure you dont get a web form with MailChimp? I am not sure 100% what you are refering to, but look at my site, in that big yellow box, i integrated the optin from MailChimp. Is that kind of what you are looking for?
http://scrapbookcampus.com/

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 8th, 2011, 1:06 am
by Cristián Lávaque
Thanks Cassel. :)

Steve, you're very welcome.

Like Cassel mentions, MailChimp does provide opt-in forms. You probably just didn't find where they are. Here, I hope these help.:

http://kb.mailchimp.com/tag/signup+form


Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 8th, 2011, 5:57 am
by groovie1
Thanks Cristian and Cassel. I searched a bunch on mailchimp's site and couldn't find it as a feature, and read in forums how mailchimp doesn't do forms... turns out they do, eh? Wow, seems like they'd have the front and center in their features section.

Thanks a bunch!

ss

Re: Best Affiliate Tracking Plugin that Integrates with s2me

PostPosted: November 10th, 2011, 11:44 pm
by Cristián Lávaque
No problem. :)