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The Value of API’s
What is an API? API stands for “Application Program Interface,” which indicates a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. They are used to access information from databases or take certain actions outside of a user interface. CAKE API In CAKE, API’s are used by our clients to access data from their
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Leveraging CAKE Reporting for Detailed Insights
Leveraging CAKE Reports Data is our friend. Important business decisions are made every day from data that is collected. In this blog, we will review how to leverage click and conversion data from CAKE’s reporting to help optimize digital spend and enhance the performance of marketing campaigns. CAKE goes beyond more than just a tracking platform for
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Communication is Key – Leveraging Email Templates and Alerts
In a world where communication is imperative, CAKE recognizes the necessity for sharing real-time updates with our clients’ employees and their partners. CAKE has built tools that help streamline the communications. Leveraging Email Templates and Alerts, our clients can quickly and efficiently communicate updates on items such as offer statuses, payout changes, expiration dates, approaching
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CAKE Feature Spotlight: CSV Reconciliation Tool
Oftentimes, CAKE clients need to update conversions in bulk, usually for changing the payout on conversions or dispositions. If it isn’t necessary to match the click to a conversion ID, clients can use CAKE’s Mass Adjustment tool to achieve this. For clients needing to change a specific conversion or batch of conversions, they can use the
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CAKE Feature Spotlight: Internal Redirect
With CAKE, you have the ability to set expiration dates and caps on Offers and Campaigns. When these caps are met, traffic follows CAKE’s Redirect Strategy. However, CAKE users can employ the Internal Redirect functionality to automatically create a new Campaign for an Offer Contract that is tied to the original Offer. In a previous
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CAKE Feature Spotlight: Alleviating Privacy Concerns in Lead Distribution with Redacted Fields
In a time where data is king, personal consumer information is digitized and transmitted faster than you can say “compliance.” Privacy concern isn’t a new subject in the lead distribution market either. Providing a business model that can efficiently mitigate data breach risk will set you apart from a potential competitor. After attending LeadsCon New
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How To: Increase Business by Incentivizing Affiliates with the Affiliate Referral Program
One of the most effective ways of generating business is through word of mouth. Advertisers and Networks in the affiliate marketing space are very familiar with this method as they work with affiliates who are often times the driving force of traffic for their offers. In addition, they refer other affiliates who also want to
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Using Volume-Based Tiers to Manage Campaign Payouts
Powerful and easy to use campaign and affiliate management tools are fundamental for networks and advertisers in the performance marketing space. These assets are likely the main reason a company will choose to license a tracking and analytics software rather than build an in-house platform. SaaS-based solutions must provide flexibility in campaign setup regarding affiliate
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City Level Targeting for Location-Based Offers
For powerful advertisers and networks with affiliate marketing programs, granular targeting is of the utmost importance when it comes to campaign management and optimization. Basic targeting such as location, device, language, demographics, etc. should already be implemented for all, if not a majority of, campaigns to ensure an optimal user experience as well as higher
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A Better Mobile User Experience with Deferred Deep Linking
If you own an Ecommerce App or run traffic to mobile offers, you might be interested in a CAKE feature called Deferred Deep Linking. When enabled, this feature provides the ability to direct a user to a specific view within a mobile app after downloading the app from the App Store. A typical user journey
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Cookie-Based Tracking or Server-to-Server?
While postback (server to server) tracking is a much more reliable system that should be used wherever possible, there are still many affiliate systems that don’t support it. With that in mind we still need to support Cookie-based tracking to work with these affiliates.
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Performance Marketing Glossary (InfoGraphic)
The Performance Marketing industry is a dynamic world with a language of its own. The vocabulary used to describe the unique nuances of this business space is not always widely or easily understood. Even common terms can have various meanings, depending on who you are talking to. It can even seem that the term, Performance Marketing
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How-to: Save Time This Holiday Season By Automating Your Product Feeds
It’s never too late in the season for retailers to create efficiency and reduce operating costs by automating holiday digital marketing campaigns. With just thirty-one short days in December to make 23.8% of their annual sales, retailers must take advantage of every moment they can. One of the Grinch-like thieves of time for retailers during
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How-to: Split Testing Your Way to Conversions
Split Testing is a random experiment designed to test which of two or more marketing creatives is more effective in driving traffic and conversions. The effectiveness of nearly identical versions of the same item with just a slight variant is compared to see which is more successful in accomplishing a desired outcome. For example,
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How-to: Data Visualization Lets You See Data Clearer and Faster
In just about every facet of business today, we are faced with large amounts of data. Visualization of that data can increase our ability to process information exponentially. In fact, according to research conducted by 3M, we process visual data 60,000 times faster than text. Data visualization is especially important for digital marketers. Think about
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How-to: Tracking Events Along the Customer Journey
One of the first things we learn in Marketing 101 is many-a-customer-journey is littered with events. Like breadcrumbs left behind by people lost in the woods, events are the only way for advertisers and marketers alike to attribute a desired outcome back to its source.