If there’s anything that UK CFOs have learned in the past two years, it is that not all events can be predicted.
About Rob Israch
App Monetization Guide
App monetization is generating revenue and receiving cash from a mobile app. Ways to monetize apps include developer payments like in-app purchases by customers, in-app advertising, subscriptions, and affiliate payments for retail purchase referrals. Creating and implementing an app monetization strategy as a business model can increase app downloads and revenues.
Global ACH Banking Terms
Types of Affiliate Payments
Affiliate Payments: What Are They & What Are the Types of Payout Programs? The four main types of affiliate payments are: Pay-Per-Click, where an affiliate is paid based on how many readers click on their affiliate link, Pay-Per-Action where an affiliate is paid per new lead they bring in or when they secure a sale,
Freelancers Are the Network Economy’s Supply Chain
Getting Suppliers to Switch Over to E-payments
Getting Suppliers to Switch Over to E-payments What are the advantages of getting suppliers to adopt e-Payments instead of staying with traditional payment methods? Suppliers are often comfortable with older methods, like paper checks or credit card payments, so it’s important that you explain the advantages of changing processes. E-payments, also known as ACH payments,
How Should Advertising Networks Pay Their Publishers?
How Should Advertising Networks Pay Their Publishers? Online advertising networks are a resource for publishers to sell ad inventory. The network aggregates online ad space on behalf of publishers. There are three types of advertising networks, each differing by how they purchase advertising. A publisher can choose to target online ads broadly across an unspecified
Country to Country Payments
Country to Country Payments – Local Currency Payments From wire transfers to global ACH transfers, making country to country payments presents a number of common business challenges with overseas vendors. At Tipalti we specialize in taking on the challenges presented by global mass payments so that our clients don’t have to do as much as
Proactive Communications with Affiliates – Reducing Your Customer Support and Accounts Payable Workload
Proactive Communications with Affiliates – Reducing Your Customer Support and Accounts Payable Workload In the business world, time is money. So, it only makes sense that businesses (especially those who deal with mass payments) would want to save as much time as possible. However, when it comes to communicating with your affiliates, is there a
Protecting Your Business from Fraudulent Affiliates
Protecting Your Business from Fraudulent Affiliates Affiliate networks help bring traffic to their merchants’ sites by using publishers’ or affiliates’ websites to achieve this goal. The affiliate basically acts as gateway for its visitors from their site to the merchant occupying the affiliate’s ad space. Typically, the affiliate gets paid by the merchant, through the
Mass Payout Platforms Streamline the Payment Process
Mass Payout Platforms Streamline the Payment Process At this point, it’s no surprise that making mass payments is a difficult and cumbersome thing to do on a global scale. One major reason for this is the sheer amount of paperwork that is needed from each individual payee. For a mass payer who has hundreds, if not thousands,
Making Payments in Local Currency Helps Affiliates Run Their Business More Efficiently
Making Payments in Local Currency Helps Affiliates Run Their Business More Efficiently As we’ve said plenty of times in our past blog posts, happy affiliates make for good business. This is true of not only day-to-day operations, but in terms of raising the general regard for your business practices within the affiliate community. A good
The Importance of Supporting Multiple Payment Methods
Paying International Suppliers – What You Need To Know
Paying International Suppliers – What You Need To Know There are many things to consider when paying international suppliers. For example, almost every country requires unique informational items to be included in every payment instruction due to local banking regulations. These items are required to complete a payment via wire, ACH, or any other payment method.
Happy Affiliates Are Paid Affiliates
Happy Affiliates Are Paid Affiliates As an online merchant, it behooves you to maintain a strong network of affiliate sites that collectively send you a great deal of traffic. Without affiliate networks, many of these merchant’s sites wouldn’t gain nearly as much traffic as they do through affiliate programs. Due to the fact that many
Reconciling Multiple Payment Accounts – How Do Accounts Payable Departments Cope?
Reconciling Multiple Payment Accounts – How Do Accounts Payable Departments Cope? It gets very difficult for companies to manage multiple payment accounts when dealing with hundreds, or even thousands of payees. This is very common in affiliate, app monetization, advertising, and crowdsourcing networks, as well as in online marketplaces. Most companies do not have the
Managing Multiple Payment methods: Challenges Facing Mass Payers
Managing Multiple Payment methods: Challenges Facing Mass Payers It’s extremely difficult for affiliate and monetization networks to manage their mass payment obligations. Why is this? Well, imagine having to pay hundreds (or even thousands) of people or organizations all at the same time, and how difficult of a task that is. To complicate matters, imagine
Common Fraud Techniques Used in Affiliate and Advertisement Networks
Common Fraud Techniques Used in Affiliate and Advertisement Networks What is Affiliate Fraud? Affiliate fraud is a form of advertising fraud that refers to any fake or deceitful action taken in order to collect illegitimate commissions from a marketing affiliate program. Affiliate fraudsters have found ways to make money by scamming affiliate programs over the
Fraudulent Publishers and Affiliates Causing Networks to Lose Money
Affiliate Fraud: Affiliate Marketing Networks Lose Money to Fraudsters Where there’s money to be made, the unscrupulous will flock. That certainly seems to be the case when it comes to click through advertisements which continue to grow more lucrative by the day. Illegal activity that occurs by means of click through advertisements is widely known
How HTML5 Helps Developers
App Monetization Competition
App Monetization Competition Creating an app from start to finish is already a difficult goal. You need to come up with fresh ideas, apply, and market them in such a way to reach as many users as possible. In the coming years, however, the competition is going to make attaining these users much harder. This
Flappy Bird
The Roller-Coaster Story of Flappy Bird’s Success The first that I had heard about Flappy Birds was in a discussion about someone selling their iPhone for $600+ dollars simply because they had downloaded the app. Like any normal iPhone addict, I did my research on this elusive game, and found it to be, at first
Affiliate Payments: Increase Your Profit
Affiliate Payments: Increase Your Profit There are those who use affiliate programs as one method to push traffic to their website. Then, there are those who rely on it. This second group of people sends more affiliate payments monthly, but also receives higher levels of traffic and profit. Instead of using an affiliate program because
A Developer’s Battle
A Developer’s Battle Working as a developer is a ballsy move in a competitive market. Lately, it seems especially hard for experienced developers who are laid-off, to be replaced by their cheaper and younger counterparts. If you are really hoping to bring it in big with developer payments, there are a few steps to take to
