Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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Any good affiliate manager will consider their affiliate partners to be their sales team on the Web. And a successful affiliate takes advantage of the tools and support at their disposal. But all too often, the tools, updates, and mission critical information from affiliate manager to affiliate are not getting through.

The culprit here is the over zealous spam filter. For all of the good that spam filters do, they are not perfect, and they turn up fals positives (flagging email you want to receive as spam).

Many email clients send the email they flag as spam to a folder, where you can review the email and ‘white list’ the email from specific senders you wish to hear from in the future.

In newer versions of AOL, there is a link that reads ‘Spam Controls’ below the ‘Report Spam’ button. Click on ‘Spam Controls’ and then click on ‘Custom Sender List’ to add the email addresses of your affiliate managers.

Similarly, the newer versions of Outlook have a folder called ‘Junk E-mail.’ In order to be sure your important emails are not getting dumped into that folder, go to Actions, then Junk E-mail, then Add Sender to Safe Senders List.

The process varies for various email clients, but the bottom line is that it’s in your best interest to ‘white list’ your affiliate managers, so that you can receive the important emails.

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