CPANUK take some ground breaking steps - and all for the benefit of the affiliate!

Carter:Philips Affil­i­ate Net­work Ltd was founded in 2004 and pri­mar­ily deals with Finan­cial related pro­grams. Their big sell­ing point with Mer­chants is that they do not charge any fee to set up a pro­gram with them, but instead make their money solely from the over­ride which i believe is approx­i­mately 30% — roughly the same as most other networks.

When i approached them about pro­mot­ing a par­tic­u­lar offer in Octo­ber 2008 they couldn’t have been more help­ful. In one of our short dis­cus­sions with regards to the net­work it became appar­ent that they were look­ing to expand and expand mas­sively. Whether this will hap­pen still remains to be seen, how­ever in my cou­ple months pro­mot­ing the pro­grams on their net­work i can hon­estly say i am very happy.

In Feb­ru­ary 2009 they launched their new net­work plat­form CPANUK and promised some pretty nifty fea­tures that have now started to come into fruition.

I have men­tioned on pre­vi­ous posts my annoy­ance at the dif­fi­culty of hav­ing con­ver­sion track­ing placed on mer­chants thank you pages. With one par­tic­u­lar Mer­chant it has taken us 3 months and with another this is still not in place. I will never again even test a cam­paign with­out hav­ing this fit­ted first. Any­way CPANUK has fixed this prob­lem for all their affil­i­ates — well done!

CPANUK allows you to host your own con­ver­sion track­ing page. As an affil­i­ate you just cre­ate a page with any con­ver­sion track­ing code or affil­i­ate pro­gram code that you want, host it on your server and update your per­sonal track­ing URL on the Net­works site — Genius!

No more beg­ging, email­ing, phon­ing non under­stand­ing mer­chants try­ing to explain what con­ver­sion track­ing does, how it will ben­e­fit them and assur­ing them that their is not a secu­rity issue. Well no more with this net­work any­way, when will the other net­works fol­low suit?

**In addi­tion to the above: on my request two days ago to get an Iframe made for a par­tic­u­lar offer– two days later it is now live — amazing