Many schools start up next month, so it’s time for affiliates to get in gear with back to school campaigns (if they’re not already).
Amazon just recently sent an email to affiliates with some useful links to go straight to college essentials and back to school savings.
It was a useful email to get some basic links up quick for affiliates, but I was left wondering why they didn’t simply merge the affiliate ID’s, so they were already in the links in the email.
Instead, they provided the following:
To link directly to these promotional pages and earn referral fees on subsequent qualifying purchases, copy the link formats below replacing “YOUR_ID_HERE-20″ with your Associates ID:
College Essentials: http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=668781011&tag=YOUR_ID_HERE-20
Back-to-School Savings: http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=1065840&tag=YOUR_ID_HERE-20
At the bottom of the email, they included the affiliate ID, so it would be easy enough to include it in those links.
Oh well. Anyway, get those school campaigns together.
I guess I’m old school, but I used to enjoy going to the drug store to get my school supplies and scout out the latest Trapper Keeper designs.
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@Lisa Marie Mary:
My oldest is still 8 years away from a dorm room, and I’m trying to slow down time.
@John Yeng:
I don’t focus on “back to school” myself, so I haven’t brainstormed on the best companies to promote, but I’d imagine office supplies, textbooks, computers, and clothing can’t miss.
Thanks for the heads up there Shawn, but just curious to know, are there other equally good affiliate programs out there for such “back to school” campaigns ?
Oh yeah, they have the cutest dorm room accessories for girls now!! And wonderful ‘organizing’ things! I could definitely do some posting about that – especially since I’d told my daughter I was gonna look through all of that stuff to deck out my office! LOL
And I agree with you and Dustin on the ‘going to the store’ scouting out the school supplies – I loved doing that! We never did use the composition notebooks, though – which was kind of disappointing, because, to this day – I still like those things!
I know I always tell you this, but, the info. and reminders you post just rock!!
@Dustin:
I still like the black and white notebooks.
Yeah, incoming college freshmen buy a boatload of stuff – definitely a wide variety of things to market there.
LOL, I agree 100% on the shopping at the drug store scenario. I was big on looking for Five Star stuff. Anything other then that in my opinion was cheap. Remember the composition books (black and white?)
None the less, I’d also say this is sort of a good time to push some college campaigns for those last minute college info requests for the fresh-out-of-High-School-seniors who have yet to make a final decision on a college.
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