Epicenter Network Blog

September is now less than a week away and that means that it’s back to school time. This is the time when parents and teens are turning to the internet to search for deals on clothes, school supplies and electronics.

Back to school searches on Google alone are up this year, with a 20% increase in searches on “school clothes”, with users searching for the best ways to save money. Searches on “free school supplies” and “discount school supplies” are also up this year.

With that being said, this is a good time to promote coupon offers, giftcard giveaway offers and anything else related to clothing, school supplies or computers. Parenting blogs are a good place to place top-10 lists for back to school necessities and to report on the latest trends and deals. This can also extend into acne products, eye exams or glasses and other beauty products as well.

Keep an open mind to which offers can be targeted to back to school discount seekers and be sure to speak with your affiliate manager, as they can set you up with offers you may overlook.

Along with taking advantage of the back to school crowd, this is also a good time to take advantage of deal seekers in general. Searches for the keyword “coupon” are up 40% from last year, “buy one get one free” up 30% and “free shipping” up 20%. This is a good time to take advantage of free trial and coupon offers and to create review or comparison shopping sites.

Happy marketing!

Affiliate Summit East was a great success for Epicenter and we thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone that stopped by our booth. We will be drawing our winning business card for the trip to Las Vegas shortly, so stay tuned!

Here are some pics of our booth at ASE.

Shot of the Epicenter booth.

Epicenter booth day 2.

The girls of Epicenter with James from JMCA Media.

I’ve noticed that the spacing between my blog posts have been gradually getting longer, so as my first post for August I’m providing you with 4 reasons to stop by our booth at ASE.

1. Good time to meet your affiliate manager
If you are an affiliate, you probably know all about the benefits of building a good relationship with your affiliate manager. Essentially, developing a relationship with your am goes hand-in-hand with growing your affiliate revenues. Plus, we’d love to put a face with a name, so stop by to say hi!

2. Check out our assortment of offers and exclusives
We are continually adding new offers to our network and maintain a wide variety of offers from all verticals. We’d love to chat with you about our exclusive offers, like Find My School Friend, and see what we can do to help you on your way to super affiliate status.

3. Learn more about DM2
If you haven’t heard about it yet, DM2 is Epicenter’s latest publishing tool that helps you quickly and efficiently produce professional looking web sites. It is 100% free to use and provides free hosting.

4. Win a trip for 2 to Las Vegas!
Apart from getting to know us better, this is probably the best reason to stop by our booth! Simply stop by and enter your name to win a trip for 2 to Las Vegas! The trip includes 2 tickets to a show and 2 nights paid hotel stay.

We will be located in Hall II, booth #2207, so be sure to come and say hi!