(openPR) - User-generated content (UGC) as way of increasing sales and improving customer satisfaction receives more attention to online sellers. Today, more than half of UK online customers say reviews are extremely or very important in making an online purchase, and more than half say they have more trust and respect for brands that show product reviews (Source: Bazaarvoice & Vizu Research, 2007). Customer ratings and reviews are being used more often than before, with more online sellers considering the use of this feature on their websites. But other than traditional affiliate marketing campaign setups merchants facing two problems using social commerce sites for affiliate marketing. One is tracking and the other one is the quality of data to be presented. Today’s tracking technology has some kind of complexity to build in various formats of advertising media, product data feeds and supports different tracking methodologies like cookie, session, or other tracking approaches. This technology was mainly build for more advanced internet users having a different skill set than internet users using today’s Web 2.0 features. Reassuring a high quality of data today’s affiliate marketing solutions using Adserver technologies with permanent updating of links and product data. The wide range of data to be connected across social commerce sites has a need for new solutions. Otherwise the merchant will loose control on his content to be presented on social commerce sites e.g. product features, pricing information. Finally the user is looking for a simple solution using social shopping sites without having any technical background on tracking technology. Our new "Social Shopping Connector" is the basis for solving this problem. The tool is able to connect social shopping sites with online shops, reassuring a permanent and automated data exchange.

nonstopConsulting
International GmbH
Firkenweg 1
D-85774 Unterföhring / Munich
- Germany -

PR contact
Peter Potthast
pp@nonstopconsulting.net
49-89.995294.16

nonstopConsulting originally founded in Munich end of 2001 by Thomas Peters is Europes largest network independent Affiliate Management Agency managing programs in more than 10 regions worldwide. In the earlier days services and solutions have focused on Affiliate Marketing Management and Cash-Back promotions in the German speaking regions in Europe. In between the group has a leading expertise and international reputation on Affiliate Marketing Management and has expand its business into Keyword Advertising/SEM campaign management. Based on more than 5 years of experience nonstopConsulting has developed dedicated tools for Affiliate Marketing and has pioneered the concept of a "virtual Affiliate Network". To strengthen the international business a dedicated legal entity, nonstopConsulting International, has been set up in 2006 co-founded and headed by Peter Potthast and Ralf Hein. In parallel a legal entity in the UK has been setup too - nonstopConsulting UK Ltd. In total a multilingual team of 30+ experts offers implementation and management of local and international Affiliate Marketing Programmes as well as SEM-campaigns. As specific industry know-how becomes more and more important to our clients the group has formed three divisions: Retail – Travel - Finance. This structure allows us to support global acting customers as well as local players at it´s best. The agency has teamed up with all leading Affiliate Networks in Europe&UK, in North America and in other regions. nonstopConsulting is a Google SEM certified company and one of the first Google Checkout certified agencies.