<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[BusinessLeague Chronicles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Only Pay on Confirmed Sales. 5,000 Marketers at Your Fingertips in BusinessLeague.]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/</link><image><url>https://blog.businessleague.com/favicon.png</url><title>BusinessLeague Chronicles</title><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/</link></image><generator>Ghost 6.50</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:04:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.businessleague.com/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Alexandra Gogalniceanu (Bigger Picture Solutions): The affiliates ranking motivates even more to generate sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h1 id="background">Background</h1><p>My story with marketing started in college. I was a student at the Faculty of Marketing within ASE (Bucharest University of Economic Studies), and from my college years I was already involved in various marketing projects and internships.</p><p>Like any student back then, I really wanted to work in</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/alexandra-gogalniceanu-bigger-picture-solutions-the-affiliates-ranking-motivates-even-more-to-generate-sales/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a42192f89630500014dd11e</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:13:03 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--22--3.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 id="background">Background</h1><img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--22--3.png" alt="Alexandra Gogalniceanu (Bigger Picture Solutions): The affiliates ranking motivates even more to generate sales"><p>My story with marketing started in college. I was a student at the Faculty of Marketing within ASE (Bucharest University of Economic Studies), and from my college years I was already involved in various marketing projects and internships.</p><p>Like any student back then, I really wanted to work in PR or at a creative agency, but one of my first (paid) jobs happened to be in performance marketing, and I realized my personality was much better suited to an analytical job than a creative one.</p><p>I discovered affiliate marketing in my early years of work. First I worked on the advertiser side in the Telecom industry, where I handled the relationship with affiliates. My next job was at a company doing programmatic media buying for these telecom services, and that&apos;s where I discovered how much I love doing data analysis and optimizing campaigns based on the insights I found. 12 years later, I&apos;m still doing that.</p><p>For 7 years I&apos;ve been running Bigger Picture Solutions, which has grown from a small startup where we did media buying as affiliates for telecom services into a company with 17 employees in Romania and a few remote collaborators, with thousands of live campaigns for e-commerce and telehealth.</p><h1 id="businessleague-in-one-sentence">BusinessLeague in one sentence</h1><p>Gamifying affiliate marketing :)</p><p>I say that because it feels like healthy competition. Media buying itself feels like a strategy game, and the ranking among affiliates makes us try even harder and motivates us.</p><h2 id="whats-your-favorite-challenge-on-the-platform">What&apos;s your favorite Challenge on the platform?</h2><p>I&apos;d say SpeedRun, because it fits our paid media style best.</p><p>RevenueRally is more suited to those promoting products with high AOV or revenue, while Target Strike seems more suited for content sites or intent-driven sites.</p><h2 id="which-stores-do-you-work-best-with-on-the-platform-and-what-are-the-ingredients-of-that-success">Which stores do you work best with on the platform, and what are the ingredients of that success?</h2><p>We work very well with fashion and beauty brands: Otter, Kitunghii, Pensule Machiaj. We&apos;ve also had very good results with Intimax, Cupio, and other fashion brands that have since left the affiliate program.</p><p>I think brands&apos; openness to trying new things and good communication matter a lot.</p><h2 id="if-you-could-change-one-thing-about-businessleague-what-would-it-be">If you could change one thing about BusinessLeague, what would it be?</h2><p>I&apos;d want more tools for affiliates. I think you do an excellent job for affiliates with content sites and for those who want to run Google Ads/CSS campaigns, but for Meta or other social media platforms where paid ads can be run, other types of tools would help.</p><p>Also, professional affiliates who do media buying usually use a tracker, and integrations are done via postback, in order to bring conversions into a platform where you can monitor all campaigns and get relevant statistics.</p><p>I think the biggest obstacle we ran into in scaling on BusinessLeague on the Facebook Ads side was the technical integration. We eventually managed to do it through a workaround, and since then we&apos;ve started getting better results.</p><p>As a media buyer, you need to track campaign data in a tracker and also send conversions to Meta. Otherwise you&apos;re buying traffic blindly and hoping it converts, and you also can&apos;t get valuable insights to optimize campaigns (demographic insights, ad insights, etc.).</p><p>Meta has a very good algorithm for bringing relevant users to your ads, if you give it the right signals.</p><h2 id="why-is-there-still-reluctance-toward-affiliate-marketing">Why is there still reluctance toward affiliate marketing?</h2><p>I think most brands in Romania have preconceived notions about affiliate marketing and affiliates. Most want to work with CSS or with influencers or content sites, and overlook the fact that there are people specialized in other channels who can bring traffic and sales.</p><p>Many chase vanity metrics or try affiliate marketing because it&apos;s a trend, without deeply understanding the differences between the promotion channels used, or without getting involved in helping affiliates.</p><p>Here I&apos;ll give our own example - Meta Ads or programmatic media buying.</p><p>Many brands refuse to try, saying they already do this with an agency or in-house. But campaign performance depends more on the analysis the campaign manager does.</p><p>Most agencies for Google or Meta don&apos;t have a performance mindset. Being paid commission from media spend, or paid per campaigns launched, their KPI is to spend the budgets. Affiliates, being paid on commission from sales, are much more careful about where every leu of the budget goes, because they&apos;re paying for traffic out of their own pocket and can lose money. So every campaign is analyzed in detail.</p><p>To come back to the question, after laying out our context - many online stores believe affiliates might compete with their own direct campaigns, which would raise their CPC. And while that may be true for Google Ads (for search campaigns), I don&apos;t think it&apos;s the case for banner or video ads, because there you&apos;re competing with all the advertisers who have the same target audience. So, with the help of affiliates, a brand is simply maximizing its visibility and accessing a larger share of the traffic pool.</p><p>Each channel has its role in the funnel, and affiliates can add incredible value:</p><ul><li>Google Ads is much more intent-driven and captures the user when they have a need and are researching</li><li>Content sites have the role of educating users</li><li>Facebook/Instagram Ads are suited for impulse buying (which is why it works much better for fashion &amp; beauty)</li><li>Coupon sites reach a budget-conscious audience that might go to a competitor without a discount</li><li>Influencers reach a niche audience that wants a certain lifestyle</li><li>More technical partners can help optimize conversion rate and reduce cart abandonment rate, etc.</li></ul><p>Also, I think stores should know that without getting involved in recruiting affiliates and offering them support, things don&apos;t happen on their own. Affiliates have different needs: some need creatives, others need higher commissions to be able to test more traffic sources, others need better payment terms; and don&apos;t even get me started on communication - I&apos;ve often noticed, as an affiliate, that I gave many more chances to online stores where the account manager on their side was friendly and available when I needed help.</p><p>Another important point from our perspective is that newly launched brands are very hard to promote as an affiliate. Affiliate marketing as a promotion channel should come in once the brand is better known and has a good reputation.</p><p>Affiliates are reluctant to promote new brands they don&apos;t know much about; the same goes for users, who prefer to buy from an online store where they know for sure they can return items or that they&apos;ll receive their order. Affiliate marketing should be a channel that supports a company&apos;s other marketing activities.</p><h2 id="facebook-ads-as-our-main-sales-weapon">Facebook Ads as our main sales weapon</h2><p>As a disclaimer, globally, our core activity at Bigger Picture Solutions is programmatic media buying. But in the Romanian market, things are different - here Facebook Ads is our main channel as affiliates - honestly because almost no one wanted to try programmatic.</p><p>Coming back to Facebook Ads - yes, it&apos;s our main channel for the Romanian market. Our focus is fashion &amp; beauty - and that came from years of experience trying many verticals. As an affiliate without pixel access on the site to do retargeting, Facebook Ads gets the best results for impulse buying. I want to buy a product that looks good or that gives me certain benefits or status.</p><p>As for our strategy, we use the BusinessLeague reports a lot to see what users are buying. This is very valuable information that, honestly, out of the dozens of international affiliate networks we work with, no one else offers. So one of the things we do weekly is look at the best-selling products and try various angles for our creatives.</p><p>As I mentioned earlier, through a technical workaround we managed to bring our conversions from 2Performant into our tracker (Voluum) and from there into Meta, so now we can use their algorithm (run campaigns with a conversion goal) and also see in detail in the reports which targeting brings more conversions, in order to optimize our campaigns or launch new campaigns with new targeting combinations.</p><p>We also use lookalike audiences quite a bit to discover users who are similar to those who are already buying.</p><p>That said, one of the difficulties we run into is finding online stores in the fashion and beauty niche that accept Facebook Ads. We always run into that &quot;we do it in-house.&quot;</p><h2 id="how-do-you-see-affiliate-marketing-in-the-medium-and-long-term">How do you see affiliate marketing in the medium and long term?</h2><p>We&apos;re very active in the US market - a much more mature market and quite different from ours. I think many trends from there will show up here too.</p><p>Affiliate marketing is constantly changing and adapting to technology. For example, AI has had a major impact on the industry. On one hand, content sites have been hit hard by AI and zero-click search (and rightly so - people don&apos;t want to land on content sites that rank first on Google just because they&apos;re SEO-optimized, only to find an article full of ads with no actual answer to their question).</p><p>On the other hand, many affiliates have found AI to be a great resource for quickly producing ad copy or banners, or even entire vibe-coded projects monetized through affiliate marketing.</p><p>Another trend I&apos;ve seen at affiliate conferences is brand-to-brand partnerships. Specifically, brands promoting each other through affiliate links. Technical solutions implemented after a user buys a product are becoming more and more popular - a pop-up appears with a promotion for complementary brands.</p><p>Also in the medium term, I expect affiliate agencies to start appearing here too. Similar to what you&apos;ve done on the platform, encouraging affiliates to become affiliate managers. In the US there are many well-known advertising agencies that have opened standalone departments to manage major brands&apos; affiliate programs, or simply agencies that employ only affiliate managers. These agencies have thousands of publishers in their portfolio and the know-how to grow affiliate programs or expand into other markets.</p><p>I&apos;d add here that we have a few Romanians doing an incredible job as affiliate managers for international brands.</p><p>In the long term, I think there will be even more emphasis on incrementality, meaning bringing in new users as an affiliate - people who wouldn&apos;t have bought that product without hearing about it from you.</p><p>Affiliate marketing largely works on a last-click attribution basis, which means a large share of commissions go to very intent-driven affiliates (coupons, cashback, etc.). A user might see multiple ads from multiple affiliates before buying, but the ecosystem rewards the last click before the purchase.</p><p>I&apos;ve seen many brands starting to transition toward multi-touch attribution, precisely out of a desire to properly reward all the affiliates who contribute to a sale. It&apos;s quite complicated to implement and track, but that&apos;s where I see the industry tending to move in the long run.</p><h2 id="fashion-report-which-numbers-do-you-find-most-interestinguseful-from-there">Fashion Report. Which numbers do you find most interesting/useful from there?</h2><p>The insight about iPhone users spending more money on fashion - we see that too, and it&apos;s interesting. Of course, we see that when we analyze total data by OS, because we have dozens of campaigns running with various targeting, and the trend doesn&apos;t always hold at the individual campaign level. Also, the vast majority of traffic in our Romania campaigns comes from Android users, and they also generate the vast majority of sales.</p><p>I&apos;d add an insight I&apos;ve seen consistently in recent years - users with their browser set to English have a much lower conversion rate. In other words, I think users with an English-language browser are less receptive to ads on Meta and more digitally native.</p><p>As a media buyer, I think it&apos;s crucial to understand campaign statistics and make data-driven decisions. Data tells a story, if you know how to ask the right questions, and your insights are very useful because they highlight the need for analysis.<br>____<br><em>(this interview was translated from Romanian using AI. Pentru versiunea original&#x103; &#xEE;n limba rom&#xE2;n&#x103;, </em><a href="https://blog.businessleague.com/alexandra-gogalniceanu-bigger-picture-solutions-rankingul-dintre-afiliati-ne-ambitioneaza-si-ne-face-sa-ne-dam-si-mai-mult-silinta/" rel="noreferrer"><em>click aici</em></a><em>)</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alexandra Gogalniceanu (Bigger Picture Solutions): Rankingul afiliaților ne ambiționează și ne face să ne dăm și mai mult silința]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Background</strong></p><p>Povestea mea cu marketingul a &#xEE;nceput &#xEE;n facultate. Am fost student&#x103; a Facult&#x103;&#x21B;ii de Marketing din cadrul ASE &#x219;i &#xEE;nc&#x103; de pe b&#x103;ncile facult&#x103;&#x21B;ii am fost implicat&#x103; &#xEE;n diverse proiecte &#x219;i internship-</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/alexandra-gogalniceanu-bigger-picture-solutions-rankingul-dintre-afiliati-ne-ambitioneaza-si-ne-face-sa-ne-dam-si-mai-mult-silinta/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a42134a89630500014dd0fc</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:57:26 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--21--4.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--21--4.png" alt="Alexandra Gogalniceanu (Bigger Picture Solutions): Rankingul afilia&#x21B;ilor ne ambi&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103; &#x219;i ne face s&#x103; ne d&#x103;m &#x219;i mai mult silin&#x21B;a"><p><strong>Background</strong></p><p>Povestea mea cu marketingul a &#xEE;nceput &#xEE;n facultate. Am fost student&#x103; a Facult&#x103;&#x21B;ii de Marketing din cadrul ASE &#x219;i &#xEE;nc&#x103; de pe b&#x103;ncile facult&#x103;&#x21B;ii am fost implicat&#x103; &#xEE;n diverse proiecte &#x219;i internship-uri pe marketing.</p><p>Ca orice student de la vremea aceea, mi-am dorit tare mult s&#x103; lucrez &#xEE;n PR sau &#xEE;ntr-o agen&#x21B;ie de crea&#x21B;ie, &#xEE;ns&#x103; unul dintre primele mele joburi (pl&#x103;tite) s-a &#xEE;nt&#xE2;mplat s&#x103; fie &#xEE;n performance marketing &#x219;i mi-am dat seama c&#x103; personalitatea mea este mult mai potrivit&#x103; pentru un job analitic dec&#xE2;t creativ.&#xA0;</p><p>Afilierea am descoperit-o &#xEE;n primii ani de munc&#x103;. &#xCE;nt&#xE2;i am lucrat pe partea unui advertiser din domeniul Telecom, unde m&#x103; ocupam de rela&#x21B;ia cu afilia&#x21B;ii. Urm&#x103;torul meu job a fost la o companie care f&#x103;cea programmatic media buying pentru aceste servicii telecom &#x219;i acolo am descoperit c&#xE2;t de mult &#xEE;mi place s&#x103; fac analiz&#x103; de date &#x219;i s&#x103; optimizez campanii &#xEE;n func&#x21B;ie de insight-urile descoperite. 12 ani mai t&#xE2;rziu &#xEE;nc&#x103; fac asta. </p><p>De 7 ani conduc Bigger Picture Solutions, ce s-a transformat dintr-un mic start-up unde f&#x103;ceam media buying ca afilia&#x21B;i pentru servicii telecom &#xEE;ntr-o firm&#x103; cu 17 angaja&#x21B;i &#xEE;n Rom&#xE2;nia &#x219;i c&#xE2;&#x21B;iva colaboratori remote &#x219;i cu mii de campanii live pentru e-com &#x219;i telehealth.</p><p><strong>BusinessLeague &#xEE;ntr-o singur&#x103; propozi&#x21B;ie</strong></p><p>Gamifying affiliate marketing :)&#xA0;</p><p>Spun asta pentru c&#x103; se simte ca o competi&#x21B;ie s&#x103;n&#x103;toas&#x103;. Media buying-ul &#xEE;n sine pare ca un joc de strategie, iar rankingul dintre afilia&#x21B;i parc&#x103; ne face s&#x103; ne d&#x103;m &#x219;i mai mult silin&#x21B;a &#x219;i ne ambi&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103;.</p><p><strong>Care e Challenge-ul vostru preferat din platform&#x103;?</strong></p><p>A&#x219; spune SpeedRun pentru c&#x103; se potrive&#x219;te mai mult cu stilul nostru de paid media.</p><p>RevenueRally este mai potrivit pentru cei care promoveaz&#x103; produse cu AOV sau revenue mare, iar Target Strike pare mai potrivit pentru site-uri de con&#x21B;inut sau site-uri intent driven.</p><p><strong>Cu ce magazine lucra&#x21B;i cel mai bine &#xEE;n platform&#x103; &#x219;i care sunt ingredientele acestei reu&#x219;ite?&#xA0;</strong></p><p>Lucr&#x103;m foarte bine cu branduri de fashion &#x219;i beauty: Otter, Kitunghii, Pensule Machiaj. Am avut rezultate foarte bune &#x219;i cu Intimax, Cupio &#x219;i alte branduri de fashion care au ie&#x219;it din afiliere.&#xA0;</p><p>Cred c&#x103; deschiderea brandurilor pentru a &#xEE;ncerca lucruri noi &#x219;i comunicarea conteaz&#x103; foarte mult.&#xA0;</p><p><strong>Dac&#x103; ar fi s&#x103; schimbi un singur lucru &#xEE;n BusinessLeague, care ar fi?</strong></p><p>Mi-a&#x219; dori mai multe tool-uri pentru afilia&#x21B;i. Cred c&#x103; face&#x21B;i o treab&#x103; excelent&#x103; pentru afilia&#x21B;ii care au site-uri de con&#x21B;inut &#x219;i pentru cei care vor s&#x103; ruleze campanii pe Google Ads/CSS, dar pentru Meta sau alte platforme social media unde se pot face paid ads ar ajuta alte tipuri de tool-uri. </p><p>Totodat&#x103;, afilia&#x21B;ii profesioni&#x219;ti care fac media buying folosesc de obicei un tracker &#x219;i integr&#x103;rile se fac prin postback, pentru a duce conversiile &#xEE;ntr-o platform&#x103; unde po&#x21B;i monitoriza toate campaniile &#x219;i care s&#x103; &#xEE;&#x21B;i ofere statistici relevante.&#xA0;</p><p>Cred c&#x103; marea piedic&#x103; pe care am avut-o noi &#xEE;n scalarea &#xEE;n BusinessLeague pe partea de Facebook Ads a fost integrarea tehnic&#x103;. Integrare pe care &#xEE;ntr-un final am reu&#x219;it s&#x103; o facem printr-un workaround &#x219;i de atunci am &#xEE;nceput s&#x103; avem rezultate mai bune.</p><p>Ca media buyer ai nevoie s&#x103; urm&#x103;re&#x219;ti datele campaniilor &#xEE;ntr-un tracker &#x219;i s&#x103; trimi&#x21B;i conversiile &#x219;i c&#x103;tre Meta. Altfel cumperi trafic legat la ochi &#x219;i speri s&#x103; converteasc&#x103; &#x219;i nici nu po&#x21B;i s&#x103; ob&#x21B;ii insight-uri valoroase pentru a optimiza campanii (insight-uri demografice, ad-uri, etc).</p><p>Meta are un algoritm foarte bun pentru a aduce useri relevan&#x21B;i c&#x103;tre reclamele tale, dac&#x103; &#xEE;i oferi semnalele potrivite.</p><p><strong>De ce exist&#x103; &#xEE;nc&#x103; reticen&#x21B;&#x103; &#xEE;n privin&#x21B;a afilierii?</strong></p><p>Cred c&#x103; majoritatea brandurilor din Rom&#xE2;nia au p&#x103;reri preconcepute despre afiliere &#x219;i afilia&#x21B;i. Majoritatea doresc s&#x103; lucreze cu CSS sau cu influenceri sau site-uri de content &#x219;i trec peste faptul c&#x103; exist&#x103; oameni specializa&#x21B;i &#xEE;n alte canale care pot aduce trafic &#x219;i v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri. </p><p>Mul&#x21B;i urm&#x103;resc vanity metrics sau &#xEE;ncearc&#x103; afilierea pentru c&#x103; e un trend, dar f&#x103;r&#x103; s&#x103; &#xEE;n&#x21B;eleag&#x103; &#xEE;n profunzime diferen&#x21B;ele dintre canalele de promovare folosite sau f&#x103;r&#x103; s&#x103; se implice &#xEE;n a ajuta afilia&#x21B;ii.&#xA0;</p><p>Aici voi da exemplul nostru - Meta Ads sau programmatic media buying.&#xA0;</p><p>Foarte multe branduri refuz&#x103; s&#x103; &#xEE;ncerce, spun&#xE2;nd c&#x103; fac asta deja cu o agen&#x21B;ie sau in-house. &#xCE;ns&#x103; performan&#x21B;a campaniilor depinde mai degrab&#x103; de analiza pe care o face campaign managerul.</p><p>Marea majoritate a agen&#x21B;iilor pentru Google sau Meta nu au un mindset de performance. Fiind pl&#x103;tite comision din media spent sau lu&#xE2;nd bani per campanii deschise, KPI-ul lor este acela de a cheltui bugetele. Afilia&#x21B;ii, fiind pl&#x103;ti&#x21B;i la comision din v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri, sunt mult mai aten&#x21B;i unde se duce fiecare leu din buget, pentru c&#x103; pl&#x103;tesc pentru trafic din buzunarul lor &#x219;i pot s&#x103; piard&#x103; bani. A&#x219;a c&#x103; fiecare campanie este analizat&#x103; &#xEE;n detaliu.</p><p>Ca s&#x103; revin la &#xEE;ntrebare, dup&#x103; ce am definit contextul nostru - foarte multe magazine online cred c&#x103; afilia&#x21B;ii ar putea s&#x103; fac&#x103; competi&#x21B;ie cu campaniile lor directe, ceea ce le-ar cre&#x219;te CPC-ul. &#x218;i &#xEE;n timp ce poate fi adev&#x103;rat pentru Google Ads (pentru campaniile de search), nu cred c&#x103; este cazul pentru reclame tip bannere sau video, pentru c&#x103; acolo concurezi cu to&#x21B;i advertiserii care au acela&#x219;i public &#x21B;int&#x103;. Prin urmare, cu ajutorul afilia&#x21B;ilor, un brand nu face altceva dec&#xE2;t s&#x103;-&#x219;i maximizeze vizibilitatea &#x219;i s&#x103; acceseze o cot&#x103; mai mare din bazinul de trafic.</p><p>Fiecare canal are rolul lui &#xEE;n funnel &#x219;i afilia&#x21B;ii pot aduce un plus valoare incredibil:</p><ul><li>Google Ads e mult mai intent driven &#x219;i capteaz&#x103; userul atunci c&#xE2;nd acesta are o nevoie &#x219;i face research</li><li>Site-urile de con&#x21B;inut au rolul de a educa userii&#xA0;</li><li>Facebook/Instagram Ads sunt potrivite pentru impulse buying (de asta merge mult mai bine pentru fashion &amp; beauty)</li><li>Site-urile de cupoane ajung la un public care e atent cu bugetul &#x219;i care ar putea merge la competi&#x21B;ie &#xEE;n lipsa unei reduceri</li><li>Influencerii ajung la un public ni&#x219;at care &#xEE;&#x219;i dore&#x219;te un anumit lifestyle</li><li>Parteneri mai tehnici - pot s&#x103; ajute la optimizarea conversion rate-ului &#x219;i la reducerea ratei de abandon a co&#x219;ului etc.</li></ul><p>Totodat&#x103;, cred c&#x103; magazinele ar trebui s&#x103; &#x219;tie c&#x103; f&#x103;r&#x103; a se implica &#xEE;n recrutarea afilia&#x21B;ilor &#x219;i a le oferi suport, lucrurile nu merg de la sine. Afilia&#x21B;ii au nevoi diferite: unii au nevoie de creative, al&#x21B;ii de comisioane mai mari pentru a putea testa mai multe surse de trafic, al&#x21B;ii de termeni de plat&#x103; mai buni; iar de comunicare nici nu mai vorbesc - am remarcat de multe ori ca afiliat c&#x103; am dat &#x219;anse mult mai multe unor magazine online unde account managerul de pe partea lor era prietenos &#x219;i disponibil c&#xE2;nd am avut nevoie de ajutor.</p><p>Un alt lucru important din punctul nostru de vedere este c&#x103; brandurile nou ap&#x103;rute sunt foarte greu de promovat ca afiliat. Marketingul afiliat ca &#x219;i canal de promovare ar trebui s&#x103; vin&#x103; &#xEE;n momentul &#xEE;n care brandul este mai cunoscut &#x219;i are o reputa&#x21B;ie bun&#x103;. </p><p>Afilia&#x21B;ii sunt reticen&#x21B;i s&#x103; promoveze branduri noi despre care nu &#x219;tiu multe; la fel &#x219;i userii, care prefer&#x103; s&#x103; cumpere de la un magazin online unde &#x219;tiu sigur c&#x103; pot face retur sau c&#x103; vor primi comanda. Marketingul afiliat ar trebui s&#x103; fie un canal care s&#x103; sus&#x21B;in&#x103; activit&#x103;&#x21B;ile de marketing ale firmei.</p><p><strong>Facebook Ads ca arm&#x103; principal&#x103; &#xEE;n v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri</strong></p><p>Ca disclaimer, la nivel global, activitatea noastr&#x103; de baz&#x103; la Bigger Picture Solutions este programmatic media buying. &#xCE;ns&#x103; pe pia&#x21B;a din Rom&#xE2;nia, lucrurile stau diferit - aici Facebook Ads e principalul nostru canal ca &#x219;i afilia&#x21B;i - sincer pentru c&#x103; aprope nimeni nu a vrut s&#x103; &#xEE;ncerce programmatic.</p><p>Revenind la Facebook Ads - da, este principalul nostru canal pentru pia&#x21B;a din Rom&#xE2;nia. Focusul nostru este fashion &amp; beauty - iar asta a venit din experien&#x21B;a mai multor ani &#xEE;n care am &#xEE;ncercat multe verticale. Ca afiliat f&#x103;r&#x103; acces la pixel pe site pentru a face retargeting, Facebook Ads are cele mai bune rezultate pentru impulse buying. Vreau s&#x103; cump&#x103;r un produs care arat&#x103; bine sau care &#xEE;mi aduce anumite beneficii sau status.</p><p>&#xCE;n ceea ce prive&#x219;te strategia noastr&#x103;, folosim foarte mult rapoartele din BusinessLeague pentru a vedea ce cump&#x103;r&#x103; utilizatorii. Aceasta este o informa&#x21B;ie foarte valoroas&#x103; pe care, sincer, dintre zecile de affiliate networks interna&#x21B;ionale cu care lucr&#x103;m, nimeni altcineva nu o ofer&#x103;. A&#x219;a c&#x103; unul dintre lucrurile pe care le facem s&#x103;pt&#x103;m&#xE2;nal este s&#x103; ne uit&#x103;m la cele mai cump&#x103;rate produse &#x219;i s&#x103; &#xEE;ncerc&#x103;m diverse unghiuri pentru creative.</p><p>Cum spuneam mai devreme, printr-un workaround tehnic am reu&#x219;it s&#x103; ne aducem conversiile din 2Performant &#xEE;n trackerul nostru (Voluum) &#x219;i de acolo &#xEE;n Meta, astfel c&#x103; acum putem s&#x103; folosim algoritmul lor (s&#x103; facem campanii cu goal de conversie) &#x219;i s&#x103; vedem &#x219;i detaliat &#xEE;n rapoarte ce target&#x103;ri aduc conversii mai multe pentru a ne optimiza campaniile sau pentru a deschide noi campanii cu combina&#x21B;ii de target&#x103;ri.</p><p>Folosim destul de mult &#x219;i audien&#x21B;ele lookalike pentru a descoperi useri care sunt similari cu cei care cump&#x103;r&#x103; deja.</p><p>Cu toate astea, una dintre greut&#x103;&#x21B;ile pe care le &#xEE;nt&#xE2;mpin&#x103;m este s&#x103; g&#x103;sim magazine online pe ni&#x219;a de fashion &#x219;i beauty care s&#x103; accepte Facebook Ads. Ne lovim mereu de acel &#x201D;facem in-house&#x201D;.</p><p><strong>Cum vezi afilierea pe termen mediu &#x219;i lung?</strong></p><p>Noi activ&#x103;m foarte mult pe pia&#x21B;a din US - o pia&#x21B;&#x103; mult mai matur&#x103; &#x219;i destul de diferit&#x103; de cea de la noi. Cred c&#x103; multe trenduri de acolo vor ap&#x103;rea &#x219;i la noi.</p><p>Afilierea e &#xEE;ntr-o continu&#x103; schimbare &#x219;i adaptare la tehnologie. Spre exemplu, AI-ul a avut un mare impact asupra industriei. Pe de o parte, site-urile de con&#x21B;inut au fost lovite din plin de AI &#x219;i zero click search (&#x219;i pe bun&#x103; dreptate, oamenii nu vor s&#x103; intre pe site-uri de con&#x21B;inut care apar primele pe Google doar pentru c&#x103; sunt optimizate SEO &#x219;i de fapt g&#x103;sesc un articol plin de reclame &#x219;i nic&#x103;ieri r&#x103;spunsul la &#xEE;ntreb&#x103;rile lor). </p><p>Pe de alt&#x103; parte, foarte mul&#x21B;i afilia&#x21B;i au g&#x103;sit o resurs&#x103; &#xEE;n AI pentru a face mai rapid copy-uri pentru reclame sau bannere sau, de ce nu, &#xEE;ntregi proiecte vibecoded monetizate prin afiliere.&#xA0;</p><p>Un alt trend pe care l-am v&#x103;zut la conferin&#x21B;ele de afiliere a fost brand-to-brand partnerships. Mai exact, branduri care se promoveaz&#x103; reciproc prin linkuri de afiliere. Devin tot mai populare solu&#x21B;ii tehnice implementate dup&#x103; ce userul cump&#x103;r&#x103; un produs - apare un pop-up cu o promo&#x21B;ie pentru branduri complementare.</p><p>Tot pe termen mediu, m&#x103; a&#x219;tept s&#x103; apar&#x103; &#x219;i la noi agen&#x21B;ii de afiliere. Similar cu ce a&#x21B;i f&#x103;cut voi &#xEE;n platform&#x103; &#x219;i a&#x21B;i &#xEE;ncurajat afilia&#x21B;ii s&#x103; devin&#x103; affiliate managers. &#xCE;n State sunt foarte multe agen&#x21B;ii de publicitate cunoscute care au deschis departamente de sine st&#x103;t&#x103;toare pentru a gestiona programele de afiliere ale brandurilor mari sau pur &#x219;i simplu agen&#x21B;ii care au angaja&#x21B;i doar affiliate managers. Aceste agen&#x21B;ii au &#xEE;n portofoliu mii de publisheri &#x219;i au know how-ul pentru a cre&#x219;te programele de afiliere sau pentru extinderea pe alte pie&#x21B;e.</p><p>A&#x219; ad&#x103;uga aici faptul c&#x103; avem c&#xE2;&#x21B;iva rom&#xE2;ni care fac o treab&#x103; incredibil&#x103; ca affiliate managers pentru branduri interna&#x21B;ionale.</p><p>Pe termen lung, cred c&#x103; se va pune &#x219;i mai multe accentul pe incrementality, adic&#x103; s&#x103; aduci ca afiliat useri noi, care nu ar fi cump&#x103;rat acel produs f&#x103;r&#x103; s&#x103; aud&#x103; de la tine.</p><p>Afilierea func&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103; &#xEE;n mare parte pe last click attribution, ceea ce &#xEE;nseamn&#x103; c&#x103; o mare parte dintre comisioane ajung c&#x103;tre afilia&#x21B;i foarte intent-driven (cupoane, cashback etc). Un user poate vedea mai multe reclame ale mai multor afilia&#x21B;i p&#xE2;n&#x103; s&#x103; cumpere, &#xEE;ns&#x103; ecosistemul recompenseaz&#x103; ultimul click &#xEE;nainte de cump&#x103;rare.</p><p>Am v&#x103;zut multe branduri care &#xEE;ncep s&#x103; fac&#x103; tranzi&#x21B;ia c&#x103;tre multi-touch attribution, tocmai din dorin&#x21B;a de a recompensa corect to&#x21B;i afilia&#x21B;ii care aduc o v&#xE2;nzare. E cam complicat de implementat &#x219;i urm&#x103;rit, &#xEE;ns&#x103; acolo observ c&#x103; tinde s&#x103; se duc&#x103; industria pe termen lung.</p><p><a href="https://blog.businessleague.com/iphone-users-spend-24-more-on-fashion-plus-5-other-things-the-data-is-telling-us/"><strong><u>Fashion</u></strong></a><strong> Report. Ce cifre &#x21B;i par cel mai interesante/utile de-acolo?</strong></p><p>Insight-ul legat de utilizatorii de iPhone care cheltuiesc mai mul&#x21B;i bani pe fashion &#xEE;l vedem &#x219;i noi &#x219;i este interesant. Desigur, vedem asta atunci c&#xE2;nd analiz&#x103;m datele totale per OS, pentru ca avem zeci de campanii deschise cu diverse target&#x103;ri &#x219;i trendul nu se p&#x103;streaz&#x103; la nivel de campanie tot timpul. Totodat&#x103;, marea majoritate a traficului &#xEE;n campaniile noastre de Rom&#xE2;nia vine de la utilizatorii de Android &#x219;i tot ei genereaz&#x103; marea majoritate a v&#xE2;nz&#x103;rilor.&#xA0;</p><p>A&#x219; ad&#x103;uga aici un insight pe care l-am v&#x103;zut constant &#xEE;n ultimii ani - userii care au browserul &#xEE;n limba englez&#x103; au conversion rate mult mai mic. Cu alte cuvinte, cred c&#x103; userii cu browserul &#xEE;n englez&#x103; sunt mai pu&#x21B;in receptivi la reclame pe Meta &#x219;i mai nativi digital.</p><p>Ca media buyer, cred c&#x103; e crucial s&#x103; &#xEE;n&#x21B;elegi statisticile din campanii &#x219;i s&#x103; iei decizii bazate pe date. Datele spun o poveste, dac&#x103; &#x219;tii cum s&#x103; pui &#xEE;ntreb&#x103;rile, iar insight-urile voastre sunt foarte utile pentru c&#x103; subliniaz&#x103; necesitatea analizei.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[iPhone users spend 24% more on fashion. Plus 5 other things the data is telling us]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last two years rewrote the rules of online retail. 2023 was the last year of "cheap" traffic. Since then, the arrival of global marketplaces and an unpredictable economy have reshaped how people buy across nearly every category.]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/iphone-users-spend-24-more-on-fashion-plus-5-other-things-the-data-is-telling-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2fa1a85773be0001592dc4</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:56:15 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/redo-fashion.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/redo-fashion.png" alt="iPhone users spend 24% more on fashion. Plus 5 other things the data is telling us"><p>Some local players saw the shift early and capitalized on it. For everyone else, the speed the market demanded, layered on top of increasingly complex marketing platforms and rising traffic costs, accelerated a brutal shakeout.</p><p>Fashion was (and still is) one of the categories hit hardest.</p><p>The good news: online retail happens in real time, and it can be measured in real time. The operators who track the right things and read the data before everyone else understand the customer sooner, and can make different decisions before the market forces them to.</p><p>That&apos;s the purpose of the report we&apos;re publishing today: an in-depth analysis of every click and every sale generated in fashion over the last 29 months, across the dimensions that matter. 25.1 million clicks, 832,000 transactions, $49.9 million in sales, more than 180 fashion stores.</p><p>As always, the data reveals things intuition alone misses:</p><ul><li><strong>Cashback converts at 13.91% - nearly four times the category average.</strong> Anyone who arrives through an offer has already decided to buy.</li><li><strong>The best converting hour is 10 a.m. (4.81%)</strong>, almost double the daily average. Evenings are the opposite: people browse and compare offers, but buy less on the spot.</li><li><strong>Friday is the strongest converting day (3.68%).</strong></li><li><strong>Apple users (Mac, iPhone) show AOV and conversion roughly 24% higher</strong> than Windows or Android. Ecosystem segmentation is a commercial signal, not a technical detail.</li><li><strong>The largest baskets close on desktop</strong> - AOV runs 17.5% higher than mobile.</li><li><strong>Sunday has the weakest conversion but the biggest basket.</strong> Fewer orders, higher value.</li></ul><p>Beyond the headline insights, the report also answers the fundamental questions every online seller asks: how conversion shifts by hour and by day of the week, how desktop compares to mobile, and which traffic sources drive the highest AOV.</p><p>The goal isn&apos;t just to show what the market looks like. It&apos;s to give fashion founders and marketers a lens for reading their own data, a benchmark to measure against, and a set of questions worth asking before any major decision.</p><p>Since June is Fashion Month at BusinessLeague, every store that launches this month receives a &#x20AC;200 bonus when it starts its affiliate program - double the standard &#x20AC;100.</p><p><em>One important note: these figures reflect what happens inside our own ecosystem - the 180-plus fashion stores active on BusinessLeague during the period analyzed - not the entire market. They aren&apos;t market-share estimates and don&apos;t claim to be. It&apos;s a sample large enough to reveal real, useful patterns, but a sample nonetheless. That&apos;s exactly why we recommend treating them as a benchmark and a starting point for questions, rather than a definitive read on all of e-commerce.</em></p><p>We hope it proves useful to as many of you as possible. In the coming months, we&apos;ll publish similar analyses for other categories.<br><br>Read the whole Fashion report at the link below. </p><div class="kg-card kg-file-card"><a class="kg-file-card-container" href="https://blog.businessleague.com/content/files/2026/06/BusinessLeague_Fashion_Buying_Report_EN-1.pdf" title="Download" download><div class="kg-file-card-contents"><div class="kg-file-card-title">BusinessLeague_Fashion_Buying_Report_EN</div><div class="kg-file-card-caption"></div><div class="kg-file-card-metadata"><div class="kg-file-card-filename">BusinessLeague_Fashion_Buying_Report_EN.pdf</div><div class="kg-file-card-filesize">897 KB</div></div></div><div class="kg-file-card-icon"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24"><defs><style>.a{fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-width:1.5px;}</style></defs><title>download-circle</title><polyline class="a" points="8.25 14.25 12 18 15.75 14.25"/><line class="a" x1="12" y1="6.75" x2="12" y2="18"/><circle class="a" cx="12" cy="12" r="11.25"/></svg></div></a></div><p>Here&#x2019;s to smarter marketing!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Userii de iPhone cheltuie cu 24% mai mult pe fashion. Și alte 5 lucruri pe care ni le spun datele.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ultimii doi ani au schimbat regulile în comerțul online. 2023 a fost ultimul an cu trafic "ieftin". De atunci, intrarea marketplace-urilor globale, campaniile electorale și un context economic imprevizibil au rescris comportamentul de cumpărare în aproape toate categoriile.]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/userii-de-iphone-cheltuie-cu-24-mai-mult-pe-fashion-si-alte-5-lucruri-pe-care-ni-le-spun-datele/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2f9e7f5773be0001592dae</guid><category><![CDATA[ro]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:52:15 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--21--2.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--21--2.png" alt="Userii de iPhone cheltuie cu 24% mai mult pe fashion. &#x218;i alte 5 lucruri pe care ni le spun datele."><p>Unii juc&#x103;tori locali au citit schimbarea din timp &#x219;i au profitat de ea. Pentru ceilal&#x21B;i, viteza cerut&#x103; de pia&#x21B;&#x103;, suprapus&#x103; peste complexitatea tot mai mare a platformelor de marketing &#x219;i peste cre&#x219;terea costurilor de trafic a accelerat o selec&#x21B;ie natural&#x103; brutal&#x103;.</p><p>Fashion-ul a fost &#x219;i r&#x103;m&#xE2;ne una dintre cele mai expuse categorii.</p><p>Vestea bun&#x103; e c&#x103; online-ul se m&#x103;soar&#x103; &#xEE;n timp real. Cine m&#x103;soar&#x103; corect &#x219;i cite&#x219;te datele &#xEE;naintea altora &#xEE;n&#x21B;elege mai repede consumatorul &#x219;i poate decide diferit, &#xEE;nainte ca pia&#x21B;a s&#x103; o cear&#x103;.</p><p>Acesta e &#x219;i scopul materialului pe care &#xEE;l public&#x103;m ast&#x103;zi: o analiz&#x103; &#xEE;n ad&#xE2;ncime a &#xEE;ntregului trafic &#x219;i a tuturor v&#xE2;nz&#x103;rilor generate &#xEE;n fashion &#xEE;n ultimele 29 de luni, pe dimensiunile care conteaz&#x103;. 25,1 milioane de click-uri, 832.000 de tranzac&#x21B;ii, 49,9 milioane de euro, peste 180 de magazine de fashion.</p><p>Ca &#xEE;ntotdeauna, datele spun lucruri pe care intui&#x21B;ia singur&#x103; nu le prinde:</p><ul><li><strong>Cashback-ul converte&#x219;te la 13,91% - de aproape patru ori media categoriei.</strong> Cine ajunge printr-o ofert&#x103; a decis deja s&#x103; cumpere.</li><li><strong>Cea mai bun&#x103; or&#x103; de conversie e 10 diminea&#x21B;a (4,81%)</strong>, aproape dublu fa&#x21B;&#x103; de media zilei. Seara, &#xEE;n schimb, oamenii navigheaz&#x103; &#x219;i compar&#x103; oferte, dar cump&#x103;r&#x103; mai pu&#x21B;in pe loc.</li><li><strong>Vineri = cea mai bun&#x103; zi de conversie (3,68%)</strong></li><li><strong>Userii din ecosistemul Apple (Mac, iPhone) au AOV &#x219;i conversie cu ~24% mai mari</strong> dec&#xE2;t cei pe Windows sau Android. Segmentarea pe ecosistem e un semnal comercial, nu un detaliu tehnic.</li><li><strong>Pe desktop se finalizeaz&#x103; cosurile mari</strong> - AOV cu 17,5% peste mobil.</li><li><strong>Duminica are cea mai slab&#x103; conversie, dar cel mai mare co&#x219;.</strong> Mai pu&#x21B;ine cump&#x103;r&#x103;turi, dar mai scumpe.</li></ul><p>Dincolo de insight-uri, raportul r&#x103;spunde &#x219;i la &#xEE;ntreb&#x103;rile clasice pe care &#x219;i le pune oricine vinde online: cum difer&#x103; conversia pe ore &#x219;i pe zilele s&#x103;pt&#x103;m&#xE2;nii, cum se comport&#x103; desktop-ul fa&#x21B;&#x103; de mobil, care sunt sursele de trafic cu cel mai mare AOV.</p><p>Scopul nu e doar s&#x103; arate cum e pia&#x21B;a. E s&#x103; dea antreprenorilor &#x219;i marketerilor din fashion o lentil&#x103; cu care s&#x103;-&#x219;i citeasc&#x103; propriile date &#x219;i un benchmark cu care s&#x103; le compare. Iar &#xEE;nainte de orice decizie de business important&#x103;, un set de &#xEE;ntreb&#x103;ri pe care merit&#x103; s&#x103; &#x219;i le pun&#x103;.</p><p>Pentru c&#x103; iunie este luna Fashion &#xEE;n BusinessLeague, toate magazinele lansate &#xEE;n aceast&#x103; lun&#x103; primesc un bonus de 200 de euro la lansarea programului de afiliere, dublu fa&#x21B;&#x103; de oferta standard de 100 de euro.</p><p><em>O precizare important&#x103;: cifrele din raport descriu ce se &#xEE;nt&#xE2;mpl&#x103; &#xEE;n ecosistemul nostru, pe cele peste 180 de magazine de fashion active &#xEE;n BusinessLeague &#xEE;n intervalul analizat, nu &#xEE;ntreaga pia&#x21B;&#x103; de fashion din Rom&#xE2;nia. Nu sunt estim&#x103;ri de cot&#x103; de pia&#x21B;&#x103; &#x219;i nu pretind s&#x103; fie. Sunt un e&#x219;antion suficient de mare c&#xE2;t s&#x103; arate tipare reale &#x219;i utile, dar r&#x103;m&#xE2;n un e&#x219;antion. Tocmai de aceea recomand&#x103;m s&#x103; le folosi&#x21B;i ca benchmark &#x219;i ca punct de plecare pentru &#xEE;ntreb&#x103;ri, nu ca adev&#x103;r absolut despre tot comer&#x21B;ul online.</em></p><p>Sper&#x103;m s&#x103; fie de folos c&#xE2;t mai multora. &#xCE;n lunile urm&#x103;toare vom publica analize similare &#x219;i pentru alte categorii.<br><br>Cite&#x219;te &#xEE;ntreg raportul dedicat Fashion la linkul de mai jos.</p><div class="kg-card kg-file-card"><a class="kg-file-card-container" href="https://blog.businessleague.com/content/files/2026/06/BusinessLeague_Fashion_Buying_Report_EN.pdf" title="Download" download><div class="kg-file-card-contents"><div class="kg-file-card-title">BusinessLeague_Fashion_Buying_Report_EN</div><div class="kg-file-card-caption"></div><div class="kg-file-card-metadata"><div class="kg-file-card-filename">BusinessLeague_Fashion_Buying_Report_EN.pdf</div><div class="kg-file-card-filesize">897 KB</div></div></div><div class="kg-file-card-icon"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24"><defs><style>.a{fill:none;stroke:currentColor;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-width:1.5px;}</style></defs><title>download-circle</title><polyline class="a" points="8.25 14.25 12 18 15.75 14.25"/><line class="a" x1="12" y1="6.75" x2="12" y2="18"/><circle class="a" cx="12" cy="12" r="11.25"/></svg></div></a></div><p>Spor la conversii!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Things every e-commerce store needs to check today in their affiliate product feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>You can spend thousands of euros optimizing your site, but if your product feed is subpar, you are capping your affiliate sales&#x2014;especially when it comes to CSS (Comparison Shopping Services) partners and Google Shopping.</p><p>Over the years, I&apos;ve seen that the quality of the feed is</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/5-things-every-e-commerce-store-needs-to-check-today-in-their-affiliate-product-feed/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2919ad78580800015cbd2d</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:12:49 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--22--2.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--22--2.png" alt="5 Things every e-commerce store needs to check today in their affiliate product feed"><p>You can spend thousands of euros optimizing your site, but if your product feed is subpar, you are capping your affiliate sales&#x2014;especially when it comes to CSS (Comparison Shopping Services) partners and Google Shopping.</p><p>Over the years, I&apos;ve seen that the quality of the feed is directly related to the volume of sales.</p><p>If you want your affiliates to drive maximum performance, here are 5 critical feed elements you must verify today:</p><p>1&#xFE0F;&#x20E3;&#xA0;&#x1D5D8;&#x1D5D4;&#x1D5E1;/&#x1D5DA;&#x1D5E7;&#x1D5DC;&#x1D5E1; &#x1D5D6;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5F1;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D600; (&#x1D5E8;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5FE;&#x1D602;&#x1D5F2; &#x1D5DC;&#x1D5F1;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D601;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5F3;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D600;)&#xA0;Without EAN codes, Google CSS partners cannot match your products properly in the Google Carousel. It&#x2019;s like sending a shipping package without a barcode. If you want CSS affiliates to drive massive volume, EAN/GTIN codes are non-negotiable.</p><p>2&#xFE0F;&#x20E3;&#xA0;&#x1D5D7;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D601;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5F9;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5F1; &#x1D5D4;&#x1D601;&#x1D601;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5EF;&#x1D602;&#x1D601;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D600; (&#x1D5D6;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5F9;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5FF;, &#x1D5E6;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D607;&#x1D5F2;, &#x1D5DA;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F1;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5FF;, &#x1D5D5;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F1;)&#xA0;These are not &quot;nice-to-have&quot; extras; they are search filters. If a user searches for&#xA0;&quot;&#x1D633;&#x1D626;&#x1D625; &#x1D633;&#x1D636;&#x1D62F;&#x1D62F;&#x1D62A;&#x1D62F;&#x1D628; &#x1D634;&#x1D629;&#x1D630;&#x1D626;&#x1D634; &#x1D634;&#x1D62A;&#x1D63B;&#x1D626; 42&quot;&#xA0;and your feed lacks color or size data, your products simply won&#x2019;t show up in their search. Ensure these attributes are populated and mapped correctly.</p><p>3&#xFE0F;&#x20E3;&#xA0;&#x1D5DB;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5F4;&#x1D5F5;-&#x1D5E4;&#x1D602;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D5F9;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D601;&#x1D606;, &#x1D5D6;&#x1D5F9;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D5FB; &#x1D5DC;&#x1D5FA;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D5F4;&#x1D5F2; &#x1D5DF;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F8;&#x1D600;:&#xA0;Low-resolution images, placeholder graphics, or photos with heavy watermarks get flagged and rejected by Google Merchant Center. Make sure your image URLs lead directly to high-quality product photos (preferably on a white background).</p><p>4&#xFE0F;&#x20E3;&#xA0;&#x1D5E8;&#x1D5FD;&#x1D5F1;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D601;&#x1D5F2; &#x1D5D9;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5FE;&#x1D602;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F0;&#x1D606; (&#x1D5E6;&#x1D601;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5F0;&#x1D5F8; &amp; &#x1D5E3;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5F0;&#x1D5F2; &#x1D5E6;&#x1D606;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F0;&#x1D5F5;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D607;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D601;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5FB;)&#xA0;In our network, product feeds update three times a day (at 1:00 AM, 8:00 AM, and 4:00 PM). If your website prices or stock levels mismatch the feed data, Google will suspend the ads, and affiliates will waste budgets sending traffic to out-of-stock items. Keep them synchronized.</p><p>5&#xFE0F;&#x20E3;&#xA0;&#x1D5D9;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D601;-&#x1D5F9;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5EE;&#x1D5F1;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D5F1; &#x1D5E3;&#x1D5FF;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5F1;&#x1D602;&#x1D5F0;&#x1D601; &#x1D5E7;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D601;&#x1D5F9;&#x1D5F2;&#x1D600;&#xA0;Put the brand, product type, and key identifier (e.g., material or model) in the first 70 characters of the title. Users scan Google search results in milliseconds&#x2014;if they can&#x2019;t see what the product is immediately, they will click on a competitor&#x2019;s ad.</p><p>&#x1D5E7;&#x1D5F5;&#x1D5F2; &#x1D5EF;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D601;&#x1D601;&#x1D5FC;&#x1D5FA; &#x1D5F9;&#x1D5F6;&#x1D5FB;&#x1D5F2;?&#xA0;In performance marketing, your sales volume is only as good as the data you feed into the system. High-quality data feeds high-quality traffic.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alin Vlad (E-commerce Director, Otter): "Anyone who blames the network for overlap is also blaming maths"]]></title><description><![CDATA[The text below was written by Alin Vlad (E-commerce Director, Otter). With his permission, we have translated it (with AI) for our blog.  E-commerce is a discipline that must account for many factors, and the role of affiliate marketing in this mix can bring significant benefits to online stores.]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/alin-vlad-e-commerce-director-otter-anyone-who-blames-the-network-for-overlap-is-also-blaming-maths/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27b2be29e23900018ddd6c</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:32:12 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--21-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--21-.png" alt="Alin Vlad (E-commerce Director, Otter): &quot;Anyone who blames the network for overlap is also blaming maths&quot;"><p>In April 2025, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/businessleague-by-2performant/?ref=blog.businessleague.com">BusinessLeague by 2Performant</a> reported 5,254 sales and RON 1.23M to me. GA4, on last non-direct click, credited me with 1,484 sales and RON 468K. The difference: ~3,770 orders. And no, nobody is... lying.</p><p>On those orders, the affiliate was somewhere in the customer journey, but the last meaningful touch came through a different channel. The network counts based on its own cookie, last-affiliate-click, with a 30&#x2013;90 day window. It doesn&apos;t see that someone else closed the sale. It can&apos;t.</p><p>This isn&apos;t a flaw in any particular platform. Wherever you have 5&#x2013;6 channels each placing their own cookie and claiming the same conversion, their attribution models will overlap. Guaranteed. Anyone who blames the network for overlap is also blaming mathematics.</p><p>I understand why this sparks debate. You&apos;re paying twice: the affiliate commission, plus the channel your model considers the last touch.</p><p>I know people who removed the channel entirely because of this. I didn&apos;t. I ran the numbers using the strictest counting method available.</p><p>On LNDC, where affiliate gets credit only where it was the last meaningful touch, the channel delivered RON 81K in spend, RON 468K in revenue, 41% net margin, and ~RON 21K in profit after COGS and commission. It pays for itself under the worst-case scenario. Everything it contributes in an assist position is a bonus.</p><p>What LNDC still doesn&apos;t tell me: how many of those sales would have happened anyway. Incrementality doesn&apos;t show up in any platform report &#x2014; it can only be measured through a holdout test. I haven&apos;t done one yet.</p><p>Until then, I work with what I can control: my own tracking, clean, with data in one place. A single attribution model, applied identically across all channels. And decisions based on POAS and operating margin &#x2014; not on what each platform reports about itself.</p><p>The decision changes if POAS drops below 1 or if the commission exceeds the operating margin. Until that point, what I need to do is clean up the program internally &#x2014; not pause the channel. If you look at each platform&apos;s report in isolation, you&apos;ll always see inflated numbers. Without unified tracking, it&apos;s just noise.</p><p>A few notes on terminology I kept consistent with your usual style: <strong>LNDC</strong> (last non-direct click), <strong>POAS</strong> (profit on ad spend), <strong>COGS</strong> &#x2014; all left as-is since they&apos;re standard industry acronyms your audience will recognize.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alin Vlad (E-commerce Director, Otter): ”Cine se supără pe rețea pentru overlap se supără și pe matematică”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Textul de mai jos este scris de Alin Vlad (Ecommerce Director, Otter) pe pagina sa de LinkedIn. L-am preluat, cu acordul său, și pe blogul nostru. E-commerce-ul este o muncă ce trebuie să țină cont de foarte mulți factori, iar rolul afilierii în acest mix poate aduce mari beneficii magazinelor. ]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/alin-vlad-e-commerce-director-otter-cine-se-supara-pe-retea-pentru-overlap-se-supara-si-pe-matematica/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27a98229e23900018ddd4c</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:09:22 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--20-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--20-.png" alt="Alin Vlad (E-commerce Director, Otter): &#x201D;Cine se sup&#x103;r&#x103; pe re&#x21B;ea pentru overlap se sup&#x103;r&#x103; &#x219;i pe matematic&#x103;&#x201D;"><p>&#xCE;n aprilie 2025, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/businessleague-by-2performant/?ref=blog.businessleague.com">BusinessLeague by 2Performant</a> mi-a raportat 5.254 de v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri &#x219;i 1,23 M lei. GA4, pe last non-direct click, mi-a creditat 1.484 de v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri &#x219;i 468k lei. Diferen&#x21B;a: ~3.770 de comenzi. Si nu, nimeni nu minte.<br><br>Pe comenzile alea, afiliatul a fost undeva &#xEE;n customer journey, dar ultima atingere util&#x103; a fost prin alt canal. Re&#x21B;eaua num&#x103;r&#x103; pe baza cookie-ului ei, last-affiliate-click, cu o fereastr&#x103; de 30-90 de zile. Nu vede c&#x103; altcineva a &#xEE;nchis v&#xE2;nzarea. Nu are cum. <br><br>Asta nu e un defect al unei platforme. Oriunde ai 5-6 canale care &#xEE;&#x219;i pun fiecare cookie-ul &#x219;i revendic&#x103; aceea&#x219;i conversie, modelele lor de atribuire se suprapun. Garantat. Cine se sup&#x103;r&#x103; pe re&#x21B;ea pentru overlap se sup&#x103;r&#x103; &#x219;i pe matematic&#x103;.<br><br>&#xCE;n&#x21B;eleg de ce se anim&#x103; discu&#x21B;ia. Pla&#x21B;i de dou&#x103; ori: comisionul c&#x103;tre afiliat, plus canalul pe care modelul t&#x103;u &#xEE;l consider&#x103; ultimul touch.&#x218;tiu oameni care au scos canalul complet din cauza asta. Eu nu l-am scos. Am rulat cifrele &#xEE;n cel mai strict mod de num&#x103;rare. <br><br>Pe LNDC, unde afilierea prime&#x219;te credit doar acolo unde a fost ultima atingere util&#x103;, canalul a f&#x103;cut 81k lei spend, 468k lei revenue, 41% net margin &#x219;i ~21k lei profit dup&#x103; COGS &#x219;i comision. Se plateste pe el &#xEE;nsu&#x219;i &#xEE;n scenariul cel mai prost. Tot ce face pe pozi&#x21B;ia de asistent e bonus.<br><br>Ce nu &#xEE;mi spune nici LNDC: c&#xE2;t din v&#xE2;nz&#x103;rile alea s-ar fi &#xEE;nt&#xE2;mplat oricum. Incrementalitatea nu se cite&#x219;te &#xEE;n niciun raport de platform&#x103;; se m&#x103;soar&#x103; doar printr-un test de holdout. &#xCE;nc&#x103; nu l-am f&#x103;cut.P&#xE2;n&#x103; atunci, lucrez cu ce pot controla: tracking-ul meu, curat, cu datele &#xEE;ntr-un singur loc. Un singur model de atribuire, aplicat identic pe toate canalele. &#x218;i decizia &#xEE;ntre POAS &#x219;i marja opera&#x21B;ional&#x103;, nu pe ce raporteaz&#x103; fiecare platform&#x103; despre ea &#xEE;ns&#x103;&#x219;i.<br><br>Decizia se schimb&#x103; dac&#x103; POAS scade sub 1 sau dac&#x103; comisionul dep&#x103;&#x219;e&#x219;te marja opera&#x21B;ional&#x103;. P&#xE2;n&#x103; atunci, ce am de f&#x103;cut e cur&#x103;&#x21B;enie intern&#x103; &#xEE;n program, nu pauz&#x103; pe canal. Dac&#x103; te ui&#x21B;i la raportul fiec&#x103;rei platforme separat, mereu vei vedea cifre umflate. F&#x103;r&#x103; tracking unificat, e doar zgomot.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mădălina Alupei (Shopilo): "In Romania, the maturation of affiliate marketing will happen faster than it took in the West"]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Background info</strong></p><p>Shopilo is, simply put, the place where we check discount codes for you, so you don&apos;t pay full price when shopping online. We gather offers from hundreds of stores, test them to make sure they work, and present them in a clean place &#x2014; no intrusive</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/madalina-alupei-shopilo-in-romania-the-maturation-of-affiliate-marketing-will-happen-faster-than-it-took-in-the-west/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1ead436dd347000162fc69</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:18:29 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--19-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--19-.png" alt="M&#x103;d&#x103;lina Alupei (Shopilo): &quot;In Romania, the maturation of affiliate marketing will happen faster than it took in the West&quot;"><p><strong>Background info</strong></p><p>Shopilo is, simply put, the place where we check discount codes for you, so you don&apos;t pay full price when shopping online. We gather offers from hundreds of stores, test them to make sure they work, and present them in a clean place &#x2014; no intrusive ads, no registration required to see a code.</p><p>Simple as it sounds, the &quot;verification&quot; part is half the work. An expired code or a fake offer instantly kills trust, so we have a team that tests daily, plus an in-house system that automatically flags when something stops working.</p><p>My role is a combination of Partnership Management, Content Owner, and Business Development. On a typical day I handle opening new partnerships across all the European markets we operate in, securing exclusive discount codes for our community, staying on top of the newest and best-performing store campaigns and highlighting them across various channels, and making sure offers are up to date and accurately presented. It&apos;s not glamorous, but I like this balance between strategy and hands-on work.</p><p><strong>9 out of 10</strong></p><p>Since 2012 we&apos;ve been present with DontPayFull on English-speaking markets: US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. We started in 2012 out of a very concrete frustration. You&apos;d shop online, see a &quot;promo code&quot; field at checkout, start searching on Google, and nine out of ten codes you found didn&apos;t work. We said: there has to be a better way. That&apos;s how DontPayFull was born.</p><p>In nearly fourteen years since, we&apos;ve grown organically. Today we have 34 full-time employees and over 40 external collaborators &#x2014; &quot;deal hunters&quot; as we call them &#x2014; spread across multiple countries. We cover over 25,000 stores globally, have been members of the Performance Marketing Association since 2016, and work directly with all the major international affiliate networks: CJ Affiliate, Rakuten, Awin, Skimlinks, Impact, and BusinessLeague.</p><p>Shopilo is the natural next step: if DontPayFull was our answer for English-speaking markets, Shopilo is the version for non-English European markets. We launched it in 2026 in Romania, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Denmark, and Austria using the same technology, the same verification algorithms, and the same editorial discipline we&apos;ve built over more than a decade. In Romania we&apos;re newcomers, launched in October 2025. The technology and experience behind it, however, are those built since 2012.</p><p>The fact that, even though we&apos;re talking about an international brand, our team has been based in Romania from the very beginning is, honestly, a detail we&apos;re proud of. We&apos;re building a global product from here.</p><p><strong>How important is the technology behind it, and how does it help you concretely?</strong></p><p>Very important, but without the hype. We&apos;re not a company that slaps &quot;AI&quot; on everything. Technology helps us do three things that a classic coupon site does manually and poorly: verification at scale, understanding the context of each store, and multi-market coverage with local identity.</p><p>We have three pieces of technology we&apos;ve invested years in:</p><p>The first is our code verification system. It runs continuously, flagging what&apos;s expired, what&apos;s new, what&apos;s appeared across all the communication channels of our partner stores. We combine automated verification with human verification, because neither alone is enough.</p><p>The second is our Chrome extension, &quot;DontPayFull Automatic Coupon Finder.&quot; It detects when you&apos;re at checkout on one of the 25,000+ stores we cover and automatically tests the relevant codes, keeping the best one. For the user, it means a discount without any hassle. For us, it means real, real-time feedback about which codes actually work.</p><p>The third is the part no one sees, but that makes the rest possible: a proprietary platform running DontPayFull across six English-speaking markets and Shopilo across seven European markets &#x2014; soon many more &#x2014; each with a local identity, local content, and local partners. We also invest heavily in structured data, meaning the way search engines understand our pages. Here I believe we&apos;re among the most advanced in the coupon niche globally.</p><p><strong>What are the major differences between the Romanian market and those in the US or Ireland, for example, when it comes to affiliate marketing?</strong></p><p>There are a few differences that jump out immediately once you cross the border.</p><p>The first has to do with the maturity of the e-commerce ecosystem. In the US or UK you have tens of thousands of online stores investing in affiliate marketing, with a massive pool of buyers. Competition is intense &#x2014; both in capturing users&apos; attention and retaining them through loyalty programs, sophisticated upselling systems, and targeted discount codes.</p><p>This means greater complexity for both buyers and stores, but also a well-established habit of searching for the best deal from a wide range of options.</p><p>An American or Irish shopper actively looks for a code before checkout &#x2014; it&apos;s a reflex formed over ten, fifteen years. In Romania, that behavior exists, but it&apos;s much less widespread. Many shoppers don&apos;t even think to look for a code. That&apos;s also an opportunity, honestly, because the market is still being educated, and whoever positions themselves well now will be there when that reflex becomes standard.</p><p>When it comes to affiliate systems, there are a few major differences. International networks have invested heavily in expanding store portfolios and sophisticated tracking systems, with considerable transaction volumes they intermediate.</p><p>That said, the level of support affiliates receive is extremely low. Affiliate programs are built with a fairly low degree of transparency and minimal regulatory rules from the networks. The volumes of active stores and publishers lead to reduced quality control. The data made available to both stores and publishers is minimal, making the discovery of new relationships and campaign optimization a lottery that costs time and money.</p><p>BusinessLeague offers all players in affiliate marketing a generous range of data and transparency unseen in other networks. This allows rapid evaluation of opportunities, much easier discovery of partners, and near-instant calibration with what&apos;s happening in the market. The network strictly enforces the rules of the game, and violations are quickly identified and corrected.</p><p>As an affiliate, you can strategically plan your growth and build partnerships at your own pace, knowing that affiliate programs have great stability. Notice periods, payment speed and security, and clear terms and conditions are all clear advantages for BusinessLeague in the eyes of an international affiliate. Not to mention the level of team support, which doesn&apos;t compare to what I&apos;ve encountered on other markets.</p><p><strong>What types of stores are you looking to work with in BusinessLeague? Do you have a specific profile?</strong></p><p>Yes, we have a fairly clear &#x2014; though not rigid &#x2014; profile. We&apos;re interested in stores that regularly use discount codes as part of their conversion and retention strategy. Niches where a discount code genuinely moves the needle in the purchase decision.</p><p>The reality is that our users are price-sensitive, and we can intervene precisely at that final point where a small extra incentive can make the difference between an abandoned cart and a completed purchase. That&apos;s why exclusive codes are our primary objective &#x2014; even more so than monetization itself.</p><p>Beyond that, what matters a great deal to us is whether the affiliate team is active, responds to us, gives us real codes, and involves us in campaigns. A silent program works for neither side.</p><p><strong>What are your expectations regarding progress in the competition?</strong></p><p>We&apos;re more realistic than ambitious at any cost. We want stable, long-term growth, which is why we&apos;ve chosen to grow the number of stores gradually and in a controlled way. We&apos;re at the point where we&apos;re focusing on the technical and operational fundamentals that will fuel our future growth.</p><p>That said, we enjoy competition and have a team that works hard. If the results put us in the top spots, all the better. But the real success metric for us at the end of the competition will be how many new partnerships we&apos;ve built, how many users we&apos;ve brought into the coupon space who weren&apos;t there before, and how many stores have discovered that a well-built coupon site can be a predictable sales channel, not just a last-click queue.</p><p><strong>Have you tested other affiliate platforms? What differences do you see between them and BusinessLeague?</strong></p><p>I&apos;ve largely answered this in question 4. We&apos;ve worked for fourteen years with the largest international networks: CJ Affiliate, Rakuten, Awin, ShareASale, TradeDoubler, Skimlinks, Impact, Performance Horizon, AvantLink, Pepperjam. In Romania, we&apos;re actively focusing 90% of our portfolio on 2Performant/BusinessLeague.</p><p>The large international networks have very well-developed tools: stable APIs, detailed reports, on-time payments, technical support. However, they sometimes fall short on the relationship side &#x2014; you&apos;re one account among thousands and can rarely negotiate personalized terms unless you&apos;re very large.</p><p>Local networks, both in the West and in Romania, win on closeness to the store. You speak directly with the team, you quickly adjust a campaign, you receive exclusive codes.</p><p>BusinessLeague is interesting because it emphasizes direct relationships and competitive visibility, which forces you to demonstrate real value rather than just waiting in line. For a publisher looking to build a reputation in a new market, that format makes sense. For a store, it&apos;s an opportunity to see who&apos;s worth building long-term relationships with.</p><p><strong>How do you see affiliate marketing evolving in the medium-to-long term &#x2014; both in Romania and in Western markets?</strong></p><p>In the medium term, I see two forces pulling in different directions that will reshape the industry.</p><p>On one hand, the pressure around privacy, the disappearance of third-party cookies, changes in browsers, and &#x2014; especially &#x2014; the rapid growth of zero-click searches from major search engines will put pressure on tracking systems, the way attribution works, and the very philosophy behind partnerships and affiliate marketing in general.</p><p>On the other hand, the ease with which a concept can be launched or copied using AI will lead in the short term to a massive scaling of competition across most affiliate niches, often with dubious content quality. This opens space for players who have built proprietary technology, trust, transparency, and clean relationships with retailers. We&apos;re in that category, and we say it without false modesty.</p><p>The evolution will go deeper: tighter integrations with retailers, content produced with AI assistance but verified and owned by humans, media-commerce partnerships between large publishers and brands. The difference will be made by those who understand that affiliate marketing can no longer be a passive channel. You have to bring real value to the purchase decision.</p><p>In Romania, paradoxically, the maturation of affiliate marketing will happen faster than it took in the West, because we&apos;re starting from a much stronger base of transparency, product philosophy, and ethical principles. The growth potential is significant.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mădălina Alupei (Shopilo): ”În România, procesul de maturizare al afilierii se va întâmpla mai repede decât a durat în Vest”]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Background info</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.shopilo.ro/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Shopilo</u></a> este, pe scurt, locul unde verific&#x103;m coduri de reducere pentru tine, ca s&#x103; nu pl&#x103;te&#x219;ti pre&#x21B;ul &#xEE;ntreg atunci c&#xE2;nd cumperi online. Str&#xE2;ngem oferte de la sute de magazine, le test&#x103;m s&</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/madalina-alupei-shopilo-in-romania-procesul-de-maturizare-al-afilierii-se-va-intampla-mai-repede-decat-a-durat-in-vest/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1ea2735fd0140001b3b2f3</guid><category><![CDATA[ro]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:11:40 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--18-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/06/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--18-.png" alt="M&#x103;d&#x103;lina Alupei (Shopilo): &#x201D;&#xCE;n Rom&#xE2;nia, procesul de maturizare al afilierii se va &#xEE;nt&#xE2;mpla mai repede dec&#xE2;t a durat &#xEE;n Vest&#x201D;"><p><strong>Background info</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.shopilo.ro/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Shopilo</u></a> este, pe scurt, locul unde verific&#x103;m coduri de reducere pentru tine, ca s&#x103; nu pl&#x103;te&#x219;ti pre&#x21B;ul &#xEE;ntreg atunci c&#xE2;nd cumperi online. Str&#xE2;ngem oferte de la sute de magazine, le test&#x103;m s&#x103; ne asigur&#x103;m c&#x103; func&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103; &#x219;i le punem &#xEE;ntr-un loc curat, f&#x103;r&#x103; reclame intruzive &#x219;i f&#x103;r&#x103; s&#x103; te punem s&#x103; te &#xEE;nregistrezi ca s&#x103; vezi un cod.</p><p>Sun&#x103; simplu spus a&#x219;a, dar partea de &quot;verificare&quot; e jum&#x103;tate din munc&#x103;. Un cod expirat sau o ofert&#x103; fals&#x103; stric&#x103; instant &#xEE;ncrederea, a&#x219;a c&#x103; avem o echip&#x103; care testeaz&#x103; zilnic, plus un sistem propriu care semnalizeaz&#x103; automat c&#xE2;nd ceva nu mai func&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103;.</p><p>Rolul meu este o combina&#x21B;ie &#xEE;ntre Partnership Management, Content Owner &#x219;i Business Development. &#xCE;ntr-o zi obi&#x219;nuit&#x103; ma ocup de deschiderea de noi parteneriate pe toate pie&#x21B;ele europene pe care activ&#x103;m, ob&#x21B;in coduri de reducere exclusive pentru comunitatea noastr&#x103;, sunt la curent cu cele mai noi &#x219;i mai performante campanii ale magazinelor &#x219;i le eviden&#x21B;iez pe diverse canale, m&#x103; asigur c&#x103; ofertele sunt la zi &#x219;i corect prezentate. Nu e glamour, dar &#xEE;mi place echilibrul &#x103;sta &#xEE;ntre strategie &#x219;i treab&#x103; concret&#x103;.</p><p><strong>9 din 10</strong></p><p>Din 2012 suntem prezen&#x21B;i cu<a href="https://www.dontpayfull.com/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u> DontPayFull </u></a>pe pie&#x21B;ele anglofone: US, UK, Canada, Australia, Noua Zeeland&#x103; &#x219;i Irlanda. Am &#xEE;nceput &#xEE;n 2012 dintr-o frustrare foarte concret&#x103;. Cump&#x103;rai online, vedeai un c&#xE2;mp &quot;cod promo&#x21B;ional&quot; la checkout, &#xEE;ncepeai s&#x103; cau&#x21B;i pe Google, iar nou&#x103; din zece coduri g&#x103;site nu func&#x21B;ionau. Ne-am zis: trebuie s&#x103; existe o variant&#x103; mai bun&#x103;. A&#x219;a a ap&#x103;rut DontPayFull.</p><p>&#xCE;n aproape paisprezece ani de atunci, am crescut &#xEE;ntr-un mod organic. Suntem ast&#x103;zi 34 de angaja&#x21B;i full-time &#x219;i peste 40 de colaboratori externi, &quot;deal hunters&quot; cum le spunem, r&#x103;sp&#xE2;ndi&#x21B;i &#xEE;n mai multe &#x21B;&#x103;ri. Avem peste 25.000 de magazine acoperite la nivel global, suntem membri ai Performance Marketing Association din 2016 &#x219;i lucr&#x103;m direct cu toate re&#x21B;elele mari de afiliere interna&#x21B;ionale: CJ Affiliate, Rakuten, Awin, Skimlinks, Impact sau BusinessLeague.</p><p><a href="https://www.shopilo.ro/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Shopilo</u></a> este pasul firesc urm&#x103;tor: dac&#x103; DontPayFull a fost r&#x103;spunsul nostru pentru pie&#x21B;ele anglofone, Shopilo este versiunea pentru pie&#x21B;ele europene non-engleze. L-am lansat &#xEE;n 2026 &#xEE;n Rom&#xE2;nia, <a href="https://www.shopilo.de/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Germania</u></a>, <a href="https://www.shopilo.es/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Spania</u></a>, <a href="https://www.shopilo.it/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Italia</u></a>, <a href="https://www.shopilo.fr/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Fran&#x21B;a</u></a>, <a href="https://www.shopilo.dk/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Danemarca</u></a> si <a href="https://www.shopilo.at/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><u>Austria</u></a> folosind aceea&#x219;i tehnologie, aceia&#x219;i algoritmi de verificare &#x219;i aceea&#x219;i disciplin&#x103; editorial&#x103; pe care le-am construit timp de peste un deceniu. Pe pia&#x21B;a din Rom&#xE2;nia suntem nou-veni&#x21B;i, lansa&#x21B;i &#xEE;n octombrie 2025. Tehnologia &#x219;i experien&#x21B;a din spate sunt &#xEE;ns&#x103; cele construite din 2012.</p><p>Faptul c&#x103;, de&#x219;i vorbim despre un brand interna&#x21B;ional, echipa noastr&#x103; a fost de la &#xEE;nceput &#xEE;n Rom&#xE2;nia este, sincer, un detaliu de care suntem m&#xE2;ndri. Construim de aici un produs global.</p><p><strong>C&#xE2;t de important&#x103; este tehnologia din spate &#x219;i cum v&#x103; ajut&#x103; concret?</strong></p><p>Foarte important&#x103;, dar f&#x103;r&#x103; bombasticisme. Nu suntem o companie care lipe&#x219;te &quot;AI&quot; pe orice. Tehnologia ne ajut&#x103; s&#x103; facem trei lucruri pe care un site de cupoane clasic le face manual &#x219;i prost: verificare la scar&#x103;, &#xEE;n&#x21B;elegere a contextului fiec&#x103;rui magazin &#x219;i acoperire multi-pia&#x21B;&#x103; cu identitate local&#x103;.</p><p>Concret, avem trei piese de tehnologie pe care am investit ani buni:</p><p>Prima este sistemul nostru de verificare a codurilor. Func&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103; &#xEE;n continuu, semnalizeaz&#x103; ce a expirat, ce e nou, ce a ap&#x103;rut pe toate canalele de comunicare ale magazinelor noastre. Combin&#x103;m verificarea automat&#x103; cu cea f&#x103;cut&#x103; de echip&#x103;, pentru c&#x103; niciuna singur&#x103; nu e suficient&#x103;.</p><p>A doua este extensia noastr&#x103; de Chrome, &quot;DontPayFull Automatic Coupon Finder&quot;. Detecteaz&#x103; c&#xE2;nd e&#x219;ti la checkout pe unul dintre cele 25.000+ de magazine pe care le acoperim &#x219;i testeaz&#x103; automat codurile relevante, p&#x103;str&#xE2;ndu-l pe cel mai bun. Pentru utilizator, &#xEE;nseamn&#x103; reducere f&#x103;r&#x103; b&#x103;taie de cap. Pentru noi, &#xEE;nseamn&#x103; feedback real, &#xEE;n timp real, despre ce coduri chiar func&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103;.</p><p>A treia este partea pe care nimeni n-o vede, dar care face restul posibil: o platform&#x103; proprie care ruleaz&#x103; DontPayFull pe &#x219;ase pie&#x21B;e anglofone &#x219;i Shopilo pe &#x219;apte pie&#x21B;e europene - cur&#xE2;nd mult mai multe, fiecare cu identitate local&#x103;, con&#x21B;inut local &#x219;i parteneri locali. Investim mult &#x219;i &#xEE;n partea de date structurate, adic&#x103; &#xEE;n felul &#xEE;n care motoarele de c&#x103;utare &#xEE;n&#x21B;eleg paginile noastre. Aici cred c&#x103; suntem printre cei mai avansa&#x21B;i din ni&#x219;a de cupoane la nivel global.</p><p><strong>Care sunt diferen&#x21B;ele majore dintre pia&#x21B;a din Rom&#xE2;nia &#x219;i cele din US sau Irlanda, de exemplu, &#xEE;n privin&#x21B;a afilierii?</strong></p><p>Sunt c&#xE2;teva diferen&#x21B;e care sar &#xEE;n ochi imediat ce treci grani&#x21B;a.</p><p>Prima &#x21B;ine de maturitatea ecosistemului de ecommerce. &#xCE;n US sau UK ai zeci de mii de magazine online care investesc in afiliere, cu o plaja imens&#x103; de cump&#x103;r&#x103;tori. Concuren&#x21B;a este intens&#x103;, at&#xE2;t &#xEE;n ceea ce prive&#x219;te captarea aten&#x21B;iei utilizatorilor, reten&#x21B;ia lor prin programe de loializare, sisteme sofisticate de upselling si coduri de reducere targetate. </p><p>Asta inseamn&#x103; o complexitate crescut&#x103; at&#xE2;t pentru cump&#x103;r&#x103;tori, c&#xE2;t &#x219;i pentru magazine, dar &#x219;i un obicei bine &#xEE;mp&#x103;m&#xE2;ntenit de a c&#x103;uta cel mai bun deal dintr-o paleta larg&#x103; de op&#x21B;iuni.&#xA0;</p><p>Un cump&#x103;r&#x103;tor american sau irlandez caut&#x103; activ un cod &#xEE;nainte de checkout, e un reflex format de zece, cincisprezece ani. &#xCE;n Rom&#xE2;nia, comportamentul &#x103;sta exist&#x103;, dar e mult mai pu&#x21B;in generalizat. Mul&#x21B;i cump&#x103;r&#x103;tori nu se g&#xE2;ndesc nici m&#x103;car s&#x103; caute un cod. Asta &#xEE;nseamn&#x103; &#x219;i o oportunitate, sincer, pentru c&#x103; pia&#x21B;a e &#xEE;nc&#x103; &#xEE;n plin&#x103; educare, iar cine se a&#x219;az&#x103; bine acum va fi prezent acolo c&#xE2;nd reflexul devine standard.</p><p>&#xCE;n ceea ce prive&#x219;te sistemele de afiliere, sunt c&#xE2;teva diferen&#x21B;e majore. Re&#x21B;elele interna&#x21B;ionale au investit masiv in extinderea portofoliilor de magazine &#x219;i sisteme de tracking sofisticate, av&#xE2;nd volume considerabile de tranzac&#x21B;ii pe care le intermediaz&#x103;. </p><p>Cu toate acestea, nivelul de suport pe care afilia&#x21B;ii &#xEE;l primesc este extrem de sc&#x103;zut. Programele de afiliere sunt construite cu un grad destul de sc&#x103;zut de transparen&#x21B;&#x103; &#x219;i reguli minime de legisla&#x21B;ie din partea re&#x21B;elelor. Volumele de magazine &#x219;i publisheri activi duc la un control mai redus al calit&#x103;&#x21B;ii. Datele puse la dispozi&#x21B;ie at&#xE2;t magazinelor c&#xE2;t &#x219;i publisherilor sunt minime, ceea ce face descoperirea de noi rela&#x21B;ii &#x219;i optimizarea campaniilor o loterie care costa timp &#x219;i bani.&#xA0;</p><p>BusinessLeague ofer&#x103; tuturor juc&#x103;torilor din afiliere o paleta generoas&#x103; de date &#x219;i transparen&#x21B;&#x103; nemai&#xEE;nt&#xE2;lnit&#x103; &#xEE;n alte re&#x21B;ele. Asta permite evaluarea rapid&#x103; a oportunit&#x103;&#x21B;ilor, descoperirea mult mai u&#x219;oar&#x103; a partenerilor &#x219;i calibrare aproape instantanee cu ceea ce se &#xEE;nt&#xE2;mpl&#x103; &#xEE;n pia&#x21B;&#x103;. Re&#x21B;eaua defie&#x219;te riguros regulile de joc &#x219;i abaterile sunt rapid identificate &#x219;i corectate. </p><p>Ca afiliat, ai posibilitatea s&#x103; planifici strategic cre&#x219;terea &#x219;i s&#x103; construie&#x219;ti parteneriate &#xEE;n ritmul t&#x103;u, &#x219;tiind ca programele de afiliere au o stabilitate mare. Preavizul, viteza &#x219;i siguran&#x21B;a &#xEE;ncas&#x103;rilor, terms and conditions clare sunt toate avantaje nete pentru BusinessLeague &#xEE;n ochii unui afiliat interna&#x21B;ional. Nu mai vorbesc de nivelul de suport al echipei, care nu se compar&#x103; cu ceea ce am &#xEE;nt&#xE2;lnit pe alte pie&#x21B;e.&#xA0;</p><p><strong>Cu ce tipuri de magazine c&#x103;uta&#x21B;i s&#x103; lucra&#x21B;i &#xEE;n BusinessLeague? Ave&#x21B;i un profil anume?</strong></p><p>Da, avem un profil destul de clar, de&#x219;i nu rigid. Ne intereseaz&#x103; magazinele care folosesc &#xEE;n mod curent codurile de reducere ca parte a strategiei lor de conversie &#x219;i fidelizare. Ni&#x219;ele unde un cod de reducere chiar mi&#x219;c&#x103; acul &#xEE;n decizia de cump&#x103;rare. </p><p>Realitatea este c&#x103; utilizatorii no&#x219;tri sunt sensibili la pre&#x21B; &#x219;i noi putem interveni tocmai &#xEE;n acest punct final &#xEE;n care un mic incentive extra poate face diferen&#x21B;a &#xEE;ntre un co&#x219; abandonat &#x219;i o plata realizat&#x103;. De aceea, codurile exclusive sunt principalul nostru obiectiv, chiar mai mare dec&#xE2;t monetizarea propriu-zis&#x103;.&#xA0;</p><p>Dincolo de asta, pentru noi conteaz&#x103; foarte mult dac&#x103; echipa de afiliere e activ&#x103;, ne r&#x103;spunde, ne d&#x103; coduri reale &#x219;i ne implic&#x103; &#xEE;n campanii. Un program t&#x103;cut nu func&#x21B;ioneaz&#x103; nici pentru ei, nici pentru noi.</p><p><strong>Care sunt a&#x219;tept&#x103;rile voastre &#xEE;n ceea ce prive&#x219;te progresul &#xEE;n competi&#x21B;ie?</strong></p><p>Suntem mai degrab&#x103; reali&#x219;ti dec&#xE2;t ambi&#x21B;io&#x219;i cu orice pre&#x21B;. Ne dorim cre&#x219;tere stabil&#x103; pe termen lung, motiv pentru care am ales s&#x103; cre&#x219;tem num&#x103;rul de magazine treptat &#x219;i controlat. Suntem &#xEE;n punctul &#xEE;n care ne concentr&#x103;m pe fundamentele tehnice &#x219;i opera&#x21B;ionale care ne vor oferi cre&#x219;tere pe viior.&#xA0;</p><p>Acestea fiind spuse, ne place competi&#x21B;ia &#x219;i avem o echip&#x103; care lucreaz&#x103; serios. Dac&#x103; rezultatele ne duc &#xEE;n primele locuri, cu at&#xE2;t mai bine. Dar criteriul real de succes pentru noi la finalul competi&#x21B;iei va fi c&#xE2;te parteneriate noi am construit, c&#xE2;&#x21B;i utilizatori am adus &#xEE;n zona de cupoane care nu erau acolo &#xEE;nainte &#x219;i c&#xE2;te magazine au descoperit c&#x103; un site de cupoane bine f&#x103;cut poate fi un canal predictibil de v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri, nu doar o coad&#x103; pentru last-click.</p><p><strong>A&#x21B;i testat &#x219;i alte platforme de afiliere? Ce diferen&#x21B;e vezi &#xEE;ntre ele &#x219;i BusinessLeague?</strong></p><p>Am r&#x103;spuns deja &#xEE;n bun&#x103; parte la &#xEE;ntrebarea nr. 4. Lucr&#x103;m de paisprezece ani cu cele mai mari re&#x21B;ele interna&#x21B;ionale: CJ Affiliate, Rakuten, Awin, ShareASale, TradeDoubler, Skimlinks, Impact, Performance Horizon, AvantLink, Pepperjam. &#xCE;n Rom&#xE2;nia, ne concentr&#x103;m activ cu 90% din portofoliu pe 2Performant/Business League.</p><p>Re&#x21B;elele mari interna&#x21B;ionale au unelte foarte bine puse la punct: API-uri stabile, rapoarte detaliate, pl&#x103;&#x21B;i la timp, suport tehnic. Pierd &#xEE;ns&#x103; uneori la nivelul rela&#x21B;iei, e&#x219;ti un cont &#xEE;ntre mii &#x219;i nu prea po&#x21B;i negocia condi&#x21B;ii personalizate dac&#x103; nu e&#x219;ti foarte mare.</p><p>Re&#x21B;elele locale, at&#xE2;t &#xEE;n Vest c&#xE2;t &#x219;i &#xEE;n Rom&#xE2;nia, c&#xE2;&#x219;tig&#x103; la apropierea de magazin. Vorbe&#x219;ti direct cu echipa, ajustezi rapid o campanie, prime&#x219;ti coduri exclusive.</p><p>BusinessLeague este interesant&#x103; pentru c&#x103; pune accentul pe rela&#x21B;ia direct&#x103; &#x219;i pe vizibilitate competitiv&#x103;, ceea ce te for&#x21B;eaz&#x103; s&#x103; demonstrezi valoare real&#x103;, nu doar s&#x103; stai &#xEE;n coad&#x103;. Pentru un publisher care vrea s&#x103;-&#x219;i construiasc&#x103; o reputa&#x21B;ie pe o pia&#x21B;&#x103; nou&#x103;, formatul &#x103;sta are sens. Pentru un magazin, este o ocazie s&#x103; vad&#x103; cu cine merit&#x103; s&#x103; construiasc&#x103; rela&#x21B;ii pe termen lung.</p><p><strong>Cum vezi evolu&#x21B;ia afilierii pe termen mediu-lung? At&#xE2;t &#xEE;n Rom&#xE2;nia, c&#xE2;t &#x219;i pe pie&#x21B;ele vestice.</strong></p><p>Pe termen mediu, v&#x103;d dou&#x103; for&#x21B;e care trag &#xEE;n direc&#x21B;ii diferite &#x219;i care vor remodela industria.</p><p>Pe de o parte, presiunea pe confiden&#x21B;ialitate, dispari&#x21B;ia cookie-urilor ter&#x21B;e, schimb&#x103;rile din browsere &#x219;i - mai ales - cre&#x219;terea galopant&#x103; a 0-click searches din principalele motoare de c&#x103;utare va pune presiune pe sistemele de tracking, modul &#xEE;n care se face atribuirea &#x219;i &#xEE;ns&#x103;&#x219;i filozofia din spatele parteneriatelor &#x219;i afilierii &#xEE;n general.</p><p>Pe de alt&#x103; parte, u&#x219;urin&#x21B;a cu care se poate porni sau copia un concept cu ajutorul AI va duce pe termen scurt la scalarea masiva a concuren&#x21B;ei din majoritatea ni&#x219;elor de afiliere, de multe ori cu o calitate &#xEE;ndoielnic&#x103; a con&#x21B;inutului. Asta deschide spa&#x21B;iu pentru juc&#x103;tori care au construit tehnologie proprie, &#xEE;ncredere, transparen&#x21B;&#x103; &#x219;i rela&#x21B;ii curate cu retailerii. Noi suntem &#xEE;n categoria asta &#x219;i o spunem f&#x103;r&#x103; fals&#x103; modestie.</p><p>Evolu&#x21B;ia va fi &#xEE;n ad&#xE2;ncime: integr&#x103;ri mai str&#xE2;nse cu retailerii, con&#x21B;inut produs cu ajutorul AI dar verificat &#x219;i asumat de oameni, parteneriate de tip media commerce &#xEE;ntre publisheri mari &#x219;i branduri. Diferen&#x21B;a o vor face cei care &#xEE;n&#x21B;eleg c&#x103; afilierea nu mai poate fi un canal pasiv. Trebuie s&#x103; aduci valoare real&#x103; &#xEE;n decizia de cump&#x103;rare.</p><p>&#xCE;n Rom&#xE2;nia, paradoxal, procesul de maturizare al afilierii se va &#xEE;nt&#xE2;mpla mai repede dec&#xE2;t a durat &#xEE;n Vest, pentru c&#x103; pornim de la o baz&#x103; mult mai solid&#x103; de transparen&#x21B;&#x103;, filozofie de produs &#x219;i principii etice. Poten&#x21B;ialul de cre&#x219;tere este semnificativ.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commercial adjustments from July 1st, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[BusinessLeague's categories, commissions and subscription plans are being updated from July 1st, 2026.]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/commercial-adjustments-from-july-1st-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a17e0f1f7f956000120e739</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 06:35:55 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/nanobanana-image-editing-1779949501821-1.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/nanobanana-image-editing-1779949501821-1.png" alt="Commercial adjustments from July 1st, 2026"><p>We recently surpassed&#xA0;<strong>1,100,000 sales</strong>&#xA0;generated in BusinessLeague.com Season 5, which started on 1 December 2025 &#x2014; a&#xA0;<strong>11%</strong>&#xA0;increase year-on-year.</p><p>Total sales value in this period exceeded&#xA0;<strong>&#x20AC;60,000,000 ex-VAT</strong>, with an average platform-level ROAS of&#xA0;<strong>11.6</strong>, built on more than&#xA0;<strong>30,000,000 clicks</strong>&#xA0;and a conversion rate of&#xA0;<strong>3.7%</strong>.</p><p>While Romanian e-commerce is under pressure, we keep growing. The reason is simple: the platform we built with significant investment automates:</p><ul><li>direct collaboration between hundreds of stores and thousands of affiliates,</li><li>real-time traffic measurement,</li><li>automated sales attribution across every traffic source, on the Last Click Wins model assumed by every BusinessLeague affiliate,</li><li>payments for confirmed sales &#x2014; all from a single point of contact.</li></ul><h3 id="businessleague-affiliates-generate-sales-more-efficiently-than-any-other-way-to-buy-traffic-online-its-time-to-accelerate">BusinessLeague affiliates generate sales more efficiently than any other way to buy traffic online. It&apos;s time to accelerate.</h3><hr><h3 id="what-changes">What changes</h3><h2 id="from-july-1st-2026">From July 1st, 2026</h2><p>01<br>We move from 24 store categories to&#xA0;<strong>47</strong>, aligned with the Google taxonomy.<br><br>02<br>We adjust network commission to market reality and traffic costs per category.<br><br>03<br>We unify the monthly subscription at&#xA0;<strong>&#x20AC;99 + VAT</strong>.<br><br>04<br>We introduce loyalty and performance discounts.<br></p><div class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow"><div class="kg-callout-emoji">&#x203C;&#xFE0F;</div><div class="kg-callout-text"><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Most important</strong></b><br><br>Whether the commission for a category or store goes up or down, the difference goes&#xA0;<b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">100% to affiliates in Q3 2026</strong></b>&#xA0;and&#xA0;<b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">50% in Q4 2026</strong></b>.</div></div><p><strong>In practice:</strong>&#xA0;for stores where the commission decreases &#x2014; that saving goes directly into increased affiliate commissions.</p><p>For stores where the commission increases &#x2014; the additional amount does the same.</p><p>The main goal:&#xA0;<strong>more sales</strong>&#xA0;for BusinessLeague stores, profitable for all partners involved.</p><hr><div class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-accent"><div class="kg-callout-emoji">&#x1F4A1;</div><div class="kg-callout-text">Estimated <b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ROAS</strong></b> after adjustment<b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">: 10.22</strong></b></div></div><p><br>Average estimated platform ROAS after the adjustment:&#xA0;<strong>10.22</strong>&#xA0;&#x2014; still far above any other way to buy traffic.</p><p>The category restructure and the new standard commission per category, plus loyalty and performance discounts, are available&#xA0;<a href="https://businessleague.com/pricing?ref=blog.businessleague.com#categories">on businessleague.com</a>. Stores have received a personalized email regarding their programme and will also see the new conditions when the login in the platform.</p><p>We keep growing together.<br>Here&apos;s to more conversions, everyone!</p><p>Dorin Boerescu<br>CEO &amp; Chairman of the Board, 2Performant Network S.A</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ajustări comerciale de la 1 Iulie 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Categoriile, comisioanele și abonamentele BusinessLeague se ajustează de la 1 iulie 2026]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/ajustari-comerciale-de-la-1-iulie-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a17d89ef7f956000120e6e5</guid><category><![CDATA[ro]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 06:25:28 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/nanobanana-image-editing-1779949501821-1.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/nanobanana-image-editing-1779949501821-1.png" alt="Ajust&#x103;ri comerciale de la 1 Iulie 2026"><p>Recent am dep&#x103;&#x219;it <strong>1,100,000 de v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri</strong> generate &#xEE;n sezonul 5 BusinessLeague.com, &#xEE;nceput pe 1 decembrie 2025, &#xEE;n cre&#x219;tere cu <strong>11%</strong> fa&#x21B;&#x103; de perioada similar&#x103; din sezonul 4.</p><p>Valoarea total&#x103; a v&#xE2;nz&#x103;rilor &#xEE;n aceast&#x103; perioad&#x103; a dep&#x103;&#x219;it <strong>&#x20AC;60,000,000 f&#x103;r&#x103; TVA</strong>, cu un ROAS mediu la nivel de platform&#x103; de <strong>11.6</strong>, pe baza unui volum total de trafic de peste <strong>30,000,000 clickuri</strong> &#x219;i o rat&#x103; de conversie de <strong>3,7%</strong>.</p><p>&#xCE;n timp ce e-commerce-ul rom&#xE2;nesc e sub presiune, noi continu&#x103;m s&#x103; cre&#x219;tem. Explica&#x21B;ia e simpl&#x103; - platforma pe care am construit-o cu investi&#x21B;ii semnificative automatizeaz&#x103;:</p><ul><li>colaborarea direct&#x103; dintre sute de magazine &#x219;i mii de afilia&#x21B;i</li><li>m&#x103;surarea &#xEE;n timp real a traficului</li><li>atribuirea automat&#x103; a v&#xE2;nz&#x103;rilor pentru toate sursele de trafic, pe baza modelului Last Click Wins, asumat de to&#x21B;i afilia&#x21B;ii din BusinessLeague</li><li>pl&#x103;&#x21B;ile pentru v&#xE2;nz&#x103;rile confirmate - totul dintr-un singur punct de contact</li></ul><h3 id="afilia%C8%9Bii-din-businessleague-genereaz%C4%83-v%C3%A2nz%C4%83ri-mai-eficient-dec%C3%A2t-orice-alt%C4%83-modalitate-de-a-cump%C4%83ra-trafic-online-este-momentul-s%C4%83-acceler%C4%83m">Afilia&#x21B;ii din BusinessLeague genereaz&#x103; v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri mai eficient dec&#xE2;t orice alt&#x103; modalitate de a cump&#x103;ra trafic online. Este momentul s&#x103; acceler&#x103;m.</h3><hr><h3 id="ce-se-schimb%C4%83">Ce se schimb&#x103;</h3><h2 id="de-la-1-iulie-2026">De la 1 iulie 2026<br></h2><p>01<br>Trecem de la 24 de categorii de magazine la <strong>47</strong>, aliniate cu taxonomia Google.<br><br>02<br>Ajust&#x103;m comisionul de re&#x21B;ea la realitatea pie&#x21B;ei &#x219;i costurile traficului pe fiecare categorie.<br><br>03<br>Uniformiz&#x103;m abonamentul lunar la <strong>&#x20AC;99 + TVA</strong>.<br><br>04<br>Aplic&#x103;m discounturi de vechime &#x219;i performan&#x21B;&#x103;.<br></p><div class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow"><div class="kg-callout-emoji">&#x203C;&#xFE0F;</div><div class="kg-callout-text"><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Cel mai important</strong></b><br><br>Indiferent dac&#x103; comisionul pe o categorie sau un magazin cre&#x219;te sau scade, diferen&#x21B;a merge <b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">100% la afilia&#x21B;i &#xEE;n Q3 2026</strong></b> &#x219;i <b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">50% &#xEE;n Q4 2026</strong></b>.</div></div><p>Concret: La magazinele unde comisionul scade - economia respectiv&#x103; se duce direct &#xEE;n comisioane m&#x103;rite pentru afilia&#x21B;i.</p><p>La magazinele unde comisionul cre&#x219;te - suma suplimentar&#x103; face acela&#x219;i lucru.</p><p>Scopul principal:<strong> &#x219;i mai multe v&#xE2;nz&#x103;ri</strong> pentru magazinele din BusinessLeague, profitabile pentru to&#x21B;i partenerii implica&#x21B;i.</p><hr><div class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-accent"><div class="kg-callout-emoji">&#x1F4A1;</div><div class="kg-callout-text"><b><strong style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ROAS estimat dup&#x103; ajustare: 10.22</strong></b></div></div><p><br>ROAS mediu estimat al platformei dup&#x103; ajustare: <strong>10.22</strong>, &#xEE;n continuare mult peste orice alt&#x103; modalitate de a cump&#x103;ra trafic.</p><p>Modific&#x103;rile de structur&#x103; a categoriilor &#x219;i comisionul standard pe fiecare, plus discounturile pentru vechime &#x219;i performan&#x21B;&#x103; sunt disponibile <br><a href="https://businessleague.com/pricing?ref=blog.businessleague.com#categories" rel="noreferrer">pe businessleague.com</a>, iar cele aferente programului fiec&#x103;rui magazin au fost trimise pe email &#x219;i sunt afi&#x219;ate magazinelor &#xEE;n platform&#x103;.</p><p>Continu&#x103;m s&#x103; cre&#x219;tem &#xEE;mpreun&#x103;.</p><p>Spor la conversii&#x2122; tuturor!</p><p>Dorin Boerescu<br>CEO &amp; Pre&#x219;edinte CA, 2Performant Network S.A.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vladimir Rusu (GSMnet.ro): ”We started at 1100 sales in February and got to 2500 in April”]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Background</strong></p><p>I have been working at the company for about 8 years, during which I have gone through several roles, and for nearly 2 years I have held the position of Marketing Manager. Speaking of ads, over time I worked with various marketing agencies until we decided to keep the</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/vladimir-rusu-gsmnet-ro-we-started-at-1100-sales-in-february-and-got-to-2500-in-april/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a14491a720b9700011af2cf</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 13:07:38 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--17-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--17-.png" alt="Vladimir Rusu (GSMnet.ro): &#x201D;We started at 1100 sales in February and got to 2500 in April&#x201D;"><p><strong>Background</strong></p><p>I have been working at the company for about 8 years, during which I have gone through several roles, and for nearly 2 years I have held the position of Marketing Manager. Speaking of ads, over time I worked with various marketing agencies until we decided to keep the advertising side in-house, giving us greater control over it.</p><p>The idea of affiliate marketing has been around for a long time, but it wasn&apos;t our focus until last year when we started discussions with 2Performant. In January we managed to launch it, and since then we have been growing.</p><p><strong>About the accelerated growth in BusinessLeague</strong></p><p>Yes, it was a very nice growth &#x2014; maybe next year we&apos;ll reach Unicorns. We started from approximately 1,100 conversions in February and reached nearly 2,500 in April, which confirmed for us that the direction is a good one.</p><p>Several things coming together made a big difference. We are a well-known brand in the Romanian IT&amp;C market - &quot;GSMnet &#x2013; your phone&apos;s store&quot; turns 19 next month, and the company behind the brand has 21 years of experience.</p><p>On top of that, we have reached nearly 45,000 products on the site, we have an app developed for iOS and Android, and the speed with which orders leave our warehouse is a major advantage for us. In other words, we are attractive.</p><p><strong>Which affiliates do you work best with?</strong></p><p>It&apos;s too early to answer that question &#x2014; let&apos;s have another conversation in a year. I&apos;m glad I managed to meet a few of them at your event in April.</p><p>I try as much as possible to maintain a connection outside of BusinessLeague with affiliates for any issues that may arise during our collaboration. I believe it should be a relationship where all parties involved benefit, and for that, communication and mutual understanding are essential.</p><p>I hope not to miss too many events organized by you, because I can see you have a great community that we also want to be part of.</p><p><strong>How does affiliate marketing deliver for you compared to other channels?</strong></p><p>I can tell you it is an increasingly important channel for us, one that is broadening our horizons when it comes to our external sites. I like that, even though it is a single channel for us, it is very diversified, giving us access to different communities that would otherwise have been very difficult to reach.</p><p>Among the main benefits I would also mention the fact that we only pay for completed sales. I think it&apos;s important that, beyond having access to an affiliate&apos;s know-how, they also use their own budget, which makes them much more engaged and performance-oriented. That said, everything that comes from affiliate marketing doesn&apos;t replace the other communication channels we use &#x2014; it complements them.</p><p><strong>BusinessLeague in one word</strong></p><p>Performance &#x2014; because the entire ecosystem is built around concrete results.</p><p><strong>19 years. Happy anniversary!</strong></p><p>Thank you! Yes, we will mark this milestone with a dedicated anniversary campaign, running from June 26 to July 6. Customers can expect many products with very good discounts, as well as special surprises prepared for this anniversary. We want this anniversary to be a special one, and this is just the beginning &#x2014; we&apos;re preparing a summer full of surprises and interesting campaigns for our community.</p><p><strong>Gsmnet.de</strong></p><p>Gsmnet.de is a passion project for us, which we see as one of the &quot;younger brothers&quot; of GSMnet.ro. Essentially, we wanted to take the experience and know-how built in Romania to international markets as well.</p><p>The current landscape is very favorable for cross-border eCommerce &#x2014; the market is increasingly moving in this direction, and we feel it would be a shame not to ride this wave ourselves.</p><p>Affiliate marketing plays a very important role in our international growth strategy because it helps us scale faster and more efficiently. We gain access to affiliates&apos; experience in markets and locations where we don&apos;t yet have enough advertising expertise, and this greatly helps us understand consumer behavior and the specifics of each market more quickly.</p><p><strong>BusinessLeague, the world&apos;s first e-commerce championship</strong></p><p>The gamification mechanic is interesting. The fact that it turns everything into an ongoing competition makes you much more engaged in all activities and constantly tracking performance. It essentially turns affiliate marketing into a competitive game where everyone tries to optimize, scale, and climb as high as possible in the rankings.</p><p>My favorite challenge is the Speed Run, where we even managed to win a few times.</p><p><strong>Advice for affiliates</strong></p><p>Communication &#x2014; I am just one message away. I believe strongly in direct and fast collaboration, because when there is good communication, things move much faster, more efficiently, and much better results emerge on both sides.</p><p><strong>Since launching on the platform, you&apos;ve seen a massive influx of completely new customers &#x2014; people who hadn&apos;t ordered in years. How do you view the balance between new vs. returning customers brought through affiliate marketing, and how much does this &quot;fresh blood&quot; weigh in your business decisions?</strong></p><p>This is one of the most valuable things I have observed from affiliate marketing. I looked quite granularly at the orders coming through this channel and noticed a very high percentage of both completely new customers and customers reactivated after a long period of time.</p><p>For us, it matters a great deal to constantly grow our active customer base, as well as the retention opportunities that come along with these new or reactivated customers.</p><p>Ultimately, I believe affiliate marketing is not just about immediate conversions, but also about long-term growth that supports the healthy development of our business.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vladimir Rusu: ”Am pornit de la 1100 de conversii în februarie și am ajuns la aproape 2500 în aprilie”]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Background</strong><br><br>Lucrez in companie de aproximativ 8 ani, timp in care am trecut prin mai multe roluri, iar de aproape 2 ani ocup pozitia de Marketing Manager. Vorbind despre ads-uri, de-a lungul timpului am lucrat cu diferite agentii de marketing pana ce am decis sa tinem intern partea</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/vladimir-rusu-am-pornit-de-la-1100-de-conversii-in-februarie-si-am-ajuns-la-aproape-2500-in-aprilie/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1444f9720b9700011af2a9</guid><category><![CDATA[ro]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 13:02:27 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--16-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--16-.png" alt="Vladimir Rusu: &#x201D;Am pornit de la 1100 de conversii &#xEE;n februarie &#x219;i am ajuns la aproape 2500 &#xEE;n aprilie&#x201D;"><p><strong>Background</strong><br><br>Lucrez in companie de aproximativ 8 ani, timp in care am trecut prin mai multe roluri, iar de aproape 2 ani ocup pozitia de Marketing Manager. Vorbind despre ads-uri, de-a lungul timpului am lucrat cu diferite agentii de marketing pana ce am decis sa tinem intern partea de reclame, avand un mai mare control asupra lor. <br><br>Ideea cu afilierea o avem de mult, insa nu a fost in focusul nostru pana anul trecut cand am inceput discutiile cu 2Performant. In ianuarie am reusit sa-i dam drumul si de atunci suntem pe crestere.</p><p><strong>Despre cre&#x219;terea accelerat&#x103; &#xEE;n BusinessLeague</strong></p><p>Da, a fost o crestere foarte frumoasa, poate la anul ajungem Unicorns. Am pornit de la aproximativ 1.100 de conversii in februarie si am ajuns la aproape 2.500 in aprilie, ceea ce pentru noi a confirmat c&#x103; directia este una buna.</p><p>Au contat foarte mult mai multe lucruri puse cap la cap. Suntem un brand cunoscut pe piata romaneasca de IT&amp;C &#x2014; &#x201E;<strong>GSMnet &#x2013; magazinul telefonului tau</strong>&#x201D; implineste luna viitoare 19 ani, iar compania din spatele brandului face 21 de ani de experienta. <br><br>Pe langa asta, am ajuns la aproape 45.000 de produse pe site, avem aplicatie dezvoltata pentru IOS si Android iar rapiditatea cu care pleaca comenzile de la noi din depozit este un mare avantaj pentru noi. Cu alte cuvinte, suntem atragatori.</p><p><strong>Cu ce afilia&#x21B;i lucra&#x21B;i cel mai bine?</strong></p><p>Este devreme sa pot raspunde la aceasta intrebare, daca vrei mai facem o discutie peste 1 an. Ma bucur ca am reusit sa cunosc cativa la evenimentul vostru din aprilie. </p><p>Ma straduiesc pe cat posibil sa am o legatura si in afara BusinessLeague cu afiliatii pentru orice fel de probleme pot aparea pe parcursul colaborarii noastre. Sunt de parere ca trebuie sa fie o relatie in care sa castige toate partile implicate si in acest sens este nevoie de comunicare si cunoastere reciprioca. <br><br>Imi doresc sa nu scap prea multe evenimente organizate de voi pentru ca vad ca aveti o comunitate frumoasa din care vrem si noi sa facem parte.</p><p><strong>Cum livreaz&#x103; afilierea entrut voi, &#xEE;n compara&#x21B;ie cu alte canale?</strong></p><p>Iti pot spune ca e un canal din ce in ce mai important pentru noi care ne face sa ne marim orizonturile in ce priveste site-urile noastre externe. Imi place ca desi pentru noi este un singur canal, el este foarte diversificat si astfel avem acces la diferite comunitati la care altfel ar fi fost foarte greu sa ajungem. </p><p>De asemenea, printre beneficiile principale as aminti si de faptul ca platim doar pentru vanzari realizate. Consider ca este important ca pe langa faptul ca ai acces la know-how-ul unui afiliat, in acelasi timp el isi foloseste propiul buget, lucru care il face mult mai implicat si orientat catre performanta. Totusi, tot ce vine din afiliere nu inlocuieste restul de canale de comunicare pe care le folosim, ci le completeaza.</p><p><strong>BusinessLeague &#xEE;ntr-un singur cuv&#xE2;nt</strong></p><p>Performanta - Pentru ca tot ecosistemul este construit in jurul rezultatelor concrete.</p><p><strong>19 ani. La la mul&#x21B;i ani!</strong></p><p>Mul&#x21B;umim! Da, vom marca acest moment printr-o campanie aniversara dedicata, care se va desfasura in perioada 26.06 &#x2013; 06.07. Clientii se pot astepta la multe produse cu reduceri foarte bune, dar si la surprize pregatite special pentru aceasta aniversare. Ne dorim ca aceasta aniversare sa fie una speciala iar acesta este doar inceputul &#x2014; pregatim o vara plina de surprize si campanii interesante pentru comunitatea noastra.</p><p><a href="http://gsmnet.de/?ref=blog.businessleague.com"><strong><u>Gsmnet.de</u></strong></a></p><p>Gsmnet.de este un proiect de suflet pentru noi, pe care il vedem ca pe unul dintre &#x201E;fratii mai mici&#x201D; ai lui GSMnet.ro. Practic, ne-am dorit s&#x103; ducem mai departe experienta si know-how-ul construit &#xEE;n Romania si catre pietele externe.</p><p>Contextul actual este unul foarte bun pentru cross-border eCommerce, piata merge tot mai mult in directia aceasta si consideram ca ar fi pacat sa nu profitam si noi de acest val.</p><p>Afilierea joac&#x103; un rol foarte important &#xEE;n strategia noastra de crestere internationala pentru ca ne ajuta sa scalam mai rapid si mai eficient. Avem acces la experienta afiliatilor pe piete si localizari unde noi nu avem inca suficienta experienta in zona de advertising, iar acest lucru ne ajuta enorm sa intelegem mai repede comportamentul consumatorilor si particularitatile fiecarei piete.</p><p><strong>BusinessLeague, primul campionat de e-commerce din lume</strong></p><p>Mecanica de gamification este interesanta. Faptul ca transforma totul intr-o competitie continua te face sa fii mult mai implicat in toate actiunile si sa urmaresti constant performanta. Practic, transforma afilierea &#xEE;ntr-un joc competitiv in care toata lumea incearca sa optimizeze, sa scaleze si sa urce cat mai sus &#xEE;n clasament.</p><p>Challenge-ul preferat este Speed Run-ul unde chiar am reusit si cateva castiguri.</p><p><strong>Sfaturi pentru afilia&#x21B;i</strong><br><br>Comunicare &#x2014; sunt la un mesaj distanta. Cred foarte mult in colaborarea directa &#x219;i rapida, pentru ca atunci cand exista o comunicare buna, lucrurile se misca mult mai repede, mai eficient si apar rezultate mult mai bune de ambele parti.</p><p><strong>De c&#xE2;nd v-a&#x21B;i lansat &#xEE;n platform&#x103;, a&#x21B;i v&#x103;zut un aflux masiv de clien&#x21B;i complet noi pe site, oameni care nu mai comandaser&#x103; de ani de zile. Cum vezi aceast&#x103; pondere &#xEE;ntre clien&#x21B;i noi vs. recuren&#x21B;i adu&#x219;i prin afiliere &#x219;i c&#xE2;t de mult c&#xE2;nt&#x103;re&#x219;te acest &#x201E;fresh blood&#x201D; &#xEE;n deciziile voastre de business?&#xA0;</strong></p><p>Este unul dintre cele mai valoroase lucruri pe care le-am observat din afiliere. M-am uitat destul de granular la comenzile venite prin acest canal si am observat un procent foarte mare atat de clienti complet noi, cat si de clienti reactivati dup&#x103; o perioada lunga de timp.</p><p>&#xA0;Pentru noi conteaz&#x103; foarte mult sa cre&#x219;tem constant baza de clienti activi, dar si oportunitatile de retentie care vin la pachet cu acesti clienti noi sau reactivati.</p><p>&#xA0;In final, cred ca afilierea nu inseamna doar conversii imediate, ci si crestere pe termen lung care ne ajuta la o dezvoltare sanatoasa a businessului.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gabriel Bonciu (Bizdev Director, 2Performant): High-intent search traffic is becoming relatively stronger again]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>One trend I&#x2019;ve been noticing in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/businessleague-by-2performant/?ref=blog.businessleague.com">BusinessLeague</a>.com over the last ~8 months: CSS / Google Search / PPC affiliates seem to be converting better. <br><br>At first, I thought it might be isolated. But the more data I looked at, the more it felt like something broader might be happening.</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/gabriel-bonciu-bizdev-director-2performant-high-intent-search-traffic-is-becoming-relatively-stronger-again/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a059278b6be2500010f1813</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:25:49 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--15-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/05/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--15-.png" alt="Gabriel Bonciu (Bizdev Director, 2Performant): High-intent search traffic is becoming relatively stronger again"><p>One trend I&#x2019;ve been noticing in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/businessleague-by-2performant/?ref=blog.businessleague.com">BusinessLeague</a>.com over the last ~8 months: CSS / Google Search / PPC affiliates seem to be converting better. <br><br>At first, I thought it might be isolated. But the more data I looked at, the more it felt like something broader might be happening. Not necessarily &#x201C;Google is back&#x201D;. But perhaps: high-intent Search traffic is becoming relatively stronger again. <br><br>What makes this interesting for us is that we can see this across hundreds of stores inside <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/businessleague-by-2performant/?ref=blog.businessleague.com">BusinessLeague </a>. In the first 4 months of this year:<br><br>&#x1F4C8; 739 stores generated 743,990 orders through <a href="http://businessleague.com/?ref=blog.businessleague.com">BusinessLeague.com</a>;<br>&#x1F4C8; Orders grew +9.5% YoY;<br>&#x1F4C9; Click volume remained almost flat at 20.4M (-1.8% YoY) but with a slight increase from CSS and PPC affiliates, in general;<br>&#x1F4C8; Average conversion rate reached 3.64%, up +11.5% YoY<br><br>In other words: more sales from roughly the same amount of traffic. That usually points to one thing: Better traffic efficiency. And I don&#x2019;t think this is driven by a single factor. My impression is that several things are converging at the same time:<br><br>&#x2022; CSS partners and PPC affiliates are becoming much more sophisticated;<br>&#x2022; optimisation across multiple product feeds creates stronger signals;<br>&#x2022; machine learning improves bidding and product selection;<br>&#x2022; PPC/CSS affiliates optimise differently compared to agencies because they operate with their own capital at risk;<br>&#x2022; affiliates managing Shopping traffic see demand patterns across many merchants, categories and markets, before any store sees in its own data;<br>&#x2022; Google keeps pushing AI-driven optimisation deeper into Shopping and Search.<br><br>And maybe equally important: while a lot of digital traffic became more fragmented and discovery-oriented over the last years&#x2026; <br><br>Google still captures one of the strongest commercial intents on the internet, even in the AI era.People searching for:<br><br>&#x2192; products<br>&#x2192; prices<br>&#x2192; alternatives<br>&#x2192; reviewsare often much closer to conversion.<br><br>Of course, this doesn&#x2019;t mean:<br>- Search works better for every store<br>- CSS is a magic solution<br>- fundamentals no longer matter. <br><br>Stores still need:<br>&#x2714; competitive pricing<br>&#x2714; strong product feeds<br>&#x2714; good UX&#x2714; reliable operations<br>&#x2714; solid conversion rates<br><br>But it increasingly feels like strong Search intent + better optimisation layers + AI-assisted campaign management is becoming a very powerful combination. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mugur Ifrim (Klikads.ro): BusinessLeague is the only place where performance marketing becomes a sport - with rankings, prizes, and real adrenaline]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Background &amp; more</strong></p><p>I started out as an e-commerce entrepreneur &#x2014; I had my own stores, sold online, and had to bring in customers. Simple enough.</p><p>My first ads were made without really knowing what I was doing. It was like billiards: you buy a token first, then you</p>]]></description><link>https://blog.businessleague.com/mugur-ifrim-klikads-ro-businessleague-is-the-only-place-where-performance-marketing-becomes-a-sport-with-rankings-prizes-and-real-adrenaline/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69eafd8c78d2ee00019239b6</guid><category><![CDATA[en]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[BusinessLeague]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:23:18 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/04/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--14-.png" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/d5/40d5a77a-70f5-4c4e-843f-7671324e0972/content/images/2026/04/BUSINES-LEAGUE-VARIOUS-ARTICLE-KVs-HD---1920x1080--14-.png" alt="Mugur Ifrim (Klikads.ro): BusinessLeague is the only place where performance marketing becomes a sport - with rankings, prizes, and real adrenaline"><p><strong>Background &amp; more</strong></p><p>I started out as an e-commerce entrepreneur &#x2014; I had my own stores, sold online, and had to bring in customers. Simple enough.</p><p>My first ads were made without really knowing what I was doing. It was like billiards: you buy a token first, then you learn to play. I put money in, lost some, understood something. Put more in, understood more. Quality came from quantity, not the other way around.</p><p>Performance marketing came later &#x2014; after I understood that paid advertising isn&apos;t an expense, it&apos;s a tool you can calculate. And I discovered affiliate marketing through Lucian, my agency partner. He was already deep in that space on 2Performant, and through him my perspective opened up: you can do marketing at scale, not just for your own store.</p><p>I didn&apos;t read marketing books before I started. My usual schedule looked something like this: 4 to 7 AM &#x2014; ads. 8 to 1 PM &#x2014; dealing with inventory. 2 to 5 PM &#x2014; parcels. 5 PM until late at night &#x2014; ads again. Then sleep. Repeat. Groundhog Day &#x1F604;</p><p>The advantage of those years, beyond the skills I gained, is that I&apos;ve walked in the shoes of the clients I work with today at the agency. I know what they go through, what they feel, why they make the decisions they make. I understand them. And that&apos;s something you can&apos;t learn in any course.</p><p><strong>How would you describe BusinessLeague in a single sentence?</strong></p><p>BusinessLeague.com is the only place where performance marketing becomes a sport &#x2014; with real rankings, prizes, and adrenaline &#x2014; and where every sale counts twice: for the advertiser and for the affiliate.</p><p><strong>What&apos;s your favorite Challenge in the platform and why?</strong></p><p>Target Strike &#x2014; because it&apos;s about how well you calibrate your campaigns for a specific store. It&apos;s not chance. It&apos;s math.</p><p><strong>Which stores do you work with best on the platform, and what are the ingredients of that success?</strong></p><p>My best partnership on the platform is with the stores in the Otter group.</p><p>The recipe? A partner who understands that an affiliate&apos;s motivation translates directly into how much and how consistently they work on that account. Fair commission, updated feed, fast approvals. When you feel treated like a real partner, you work differently. You give more. You get more involved. And in the end, you earn more.</p><p>Perhaps other advertisers reading this will ask themselves the right question: why do some affiliates send more traffic to certain stores and less to others? The answer is simpler than they&apos;d like to believe.</p><p><strong>If you could change one thing about BusinessLeague, what would it be?</strong></p><p>I think the greatest value an experienced affiliate can bring to an advertiser isn&apos;t immediately visible &#x2014; it&apos;s built over time, with patience, within an ecosystem that works for everyone.</p><p>When that ecosystem works well, everyone wins: the advertiser grows, the affiliate earns, the network strengthens. When someone decides to cut corners and take the game off the field &#x2014; in either direction &#x2014; they&apos;re not cutting anything short. They&apos;re damaging something others built with real effort.</p><p>I have no problem saying I know how to do good marketing. But the place where I do it, and the rules I follow, matter just as much as the result.</p><p><strong>Why is there still hesitation around affiliate marketing from stores?</strong></p><p>The hesitation comes, largely, from a lack of knowledge. Not bad faith &#x2014; just lack of knowledge. Affiliate marketing is the only marketing channel where you pay strictly for results: you don&apos;t pay for a click, you don&apos;t pay for a view, you don&apos;t pay for intent &#x2014; you pay for a confirmed sale. But if you don&apos;t truly understand that, you stay on the surface: low commission, delayed approvals, poorly updated feed.</p><p>As an advertiser, you are a product in a market. The affiliate looks at your conversion rate, your EPC, how quickly you validate and pay &#x2014; and decides in seconds whether it&apos;s worth investing their traffic in you or someone else. They don&apos;t call you, don&apos;t negotiate, don&apos;t ask for your offer. They compare. And if you&apos;re unprepared, they move on. Then you wonder why affiliate marketing &quot;doesn&apos;t work for you.&quot; It&apos;s not the channel &#x2014; it&apos;s the relationship you built with it.</p><p>So the right question isn&apos;t &quot;should I open an affiliate program?&quot; &#x2014; it&apos;s &quot;am I ready to be an attractive advertiser?&quot; Do you have a site that converts? Do you know your margin and can you sustain a real commission? Are you willing to validate promptly and pay on time? If yes to all three, affiliate marketing is waiting for you. If not, fix that first &#x2014; and only then open the program.</p><p>This isn&apos;t theory. In BusinessLeague on 2Performant you&apos;ll find: bookzone.ro, drmax.ro, springfarma.com, otter.ro, carturesti.ro, answear.ro, fashiondays.ro, petmax.ro, noriel.ro, libris.ro, scule365.ro, petmart.ro. Books, pharmacy, fashion, toys, tools. They don&apos;t share a category &#x2014; they share the decision that affiliate marketing is a channel worth taking seriously.</p><p><strong>Tell us about your education project.</strong></p><p>I believe people were put on this earth to multiply good. After hundreds of conversations with e-commerce entrepreneurs, I&apos;ve come to the conclusion that many of them don&apos;t know how to think through their business.</p><p>Some are just starting out and have no way of knowing. Others have been in entrepreneurship for years and still haven&apos;t clarified the fundamentals: margin, markup, break-even, how to build their pricing, what healthy cash flow looks like. They want sales, they want a ROAS. End of story. And without these foundations, you end up selling at any price, putting any product in your store, demanding impossible results from everyone who works with you &#x2014; and wondering why it&apos;s not working.</p><p>That&apos;s how the blog on mugurifrim.ro emerged &#x2014; more than it was built.</p><p>I write about the basics, with real examples. The goal is simple: you should have something useful in hand after reading. What you do with that information is also up to you.</p><p><strong>How do you see affiliate marketing in the medium and long term?</strong></p><p>I think affiliate marketing will grow in Romania, but not on its own. It will grow as entrepreneurs become better educated &#x2014; by the network, by affiliates, by anyone with the patience to explain. Because hesitation doesn&apos;t come from bad will. It comes from fear. And fear comes from lack of knowledge.</p><p>If you don&apos;t understand a channel, you&apos;re not comfortable with it. If you&apos;re not comfortable, you&apos;re not convinced. If you&apos;re not 100% convinced, the automatic answer is no &#x2014; or a half-hearted yes, which is worse than a clear no.</p><p>In the long run, I see affiliate marketing naturally integrated into the mix of any serious store. But for that, more education is needed &#x2014; at scale, not just person to person.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>