Tracking ShareASale Commissions with Prosper202

January 26th, 2010 → 2:46 pm @ Eric Nagel

Prosper202 is a powerful affiliate marketing tracking software package, with the ability to give you your revenue, cost, and ROI on your PPC campaigns. But the true power is shown when you automate as much as possible.
I’ve previously written how to use the ShareASale API, but left it up to you to fill in the [...]

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Getting Stats from Google AdWords using the API

December 23rd, 2009 → 10:26 am @ Eric Nagel

Previously I have posted how to automatically get your revenue figures from ShareASale, Commission Junction, and PepperJam. Having that done, the next step to automate my P&L report was to get the advertising costs from Google using the AdWords API.
First, I had to set-up a MCC account and apply for a developer token. In about [...]

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Commission Junction Web Services

December 16th, 2009 → 1:56 pm @ Eric Nagel

Next in my series of affiliate network API programming examples, I’ve decided to tackle Commission Junction. The goal was to get a list of my stats from yesterday for one website, and store them in my custom tracking script.
CJ has two choices when it comes to how to interface with them: REST and SOAP. Since [...]

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Pepperjam Web Services

November 6th, 2009 → 11:25 am @ Eric Nagel

Hot on the heels of my post on how to use the ShareASale API, I recently wrote a quick script to get my Pepperjam stats & load them into my tracking database. Using the ShareASale script as a template, I was able to whip this up in about a half hour.
You can see an overview [...]

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Using the ShareASale API

November 2nd, 2009 → 1:25 pm @ Eric Nagel

There are plenty of things you can do via the ShareASale website, including running reports, getting links, and keeping updated on current offers. But when you’re dealing with dozens, or hundreds, of merchants, you can really increase your productivity by harnessing the power of the ShareASale API.
To get started, login to ShareASale and open the [...]

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