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Jamie’s Presentation at CJU

Posted on September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 by ChloeFA_admin

Last September, Jamie had the opportunity to speak in front of a large audience during Commission Junction’s annual conference, CJU 2016. During the presentation, Jamie described what he believes is the industries biggest problem, selling the channel to those outside of the channel.

Thanks to the team at Commission Junction, you can now enjoy the presentation in its entirety. After you’ve finished, we invite you to join in on the discussion. Use #affiliatemarketingis to share your thoughts on Twitter.

Now with Shopify support!

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Jamie Birch

ChloeFeedAssembler, the revolutionary web/extractor/site scraper developed by ChloeWorks, is excited to announce it now supports Shopify! Shopify has continued to grow in popularity. The team at ChloeWorks realized the opportunity to offer our popular data feed service so users can pull data from Shopify sites without the need for any tech resources.

If you haven’t yet heard of Shopify, it is an e-commerce solution which allows you to set up an online store where you can sell your goods. The interface gives users the ability to customize their storefront, accept credit card payments and track orders with ease. In short, Shopify makes running your e-commerce business a less stressful experience.

Curious how to get started? Once you create your account, the Chloe Feed Assembler gets started by crawling your Shopify site. Our bots will grab all the necessary information to complete a full product data feed. From here, our team will map the information on your site to the information needed in most feeds. Chloe Feed Assembler can crawl an unlimited number of products and schedule recurring feed creation and export in advance.

Chloe Feed Assembler can export and automatically upload product data feeds to any of the major affiliate networks and shopping aggregators.

If you have any questions about how the Chloe Feed Assembler works with Shopify or how to integrate to any of the networks, let us know!

Facebook Product Catalog Feed is now an Integrated Feature of ChloeFeedAssember

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Tim McWhorter

ChloeFeedAssember Allows Product Data Feed Creation without IT Resources

ChloeFeedAssember, the revolutionary web extractor/site scraper developed by ChloeWorks, is pleased to announce it is now capable of providing a Facebook Product Catalog Feed to any online retailer in need of importing product data for advertising on the Facebook platform. And, in keeping with their simple approach – no IT resources are needed for this integration.

When discussing the integration of the new Facebook feed export into ChloeFeedAssembler Jamie Birch, Founder and Chief Debugger had this to say, “There really is no way to overstate the role that Facebook plays in our digital lives and its impact on advertisers. It is vital to include this channel in your marketing mix and now ChloeFeedAssembler makes this even easier by quickly and effortlessly providing your Facebook Product Catalog Feed with no IT resources needed. We strive to make your marketing life easier and that’s exactly what this new integration does.”

With over 1.5 billion active Facebook accounts in existence, this social media channel presents a massive marketplace. To achieve multi-channel product feed awareness and success, the integration of a Facebook Product Catalog Feed is imperative. Utilizing ChloeFeedAssembler with the addition of this new resource provides the competitive advantage needed as you look to expand in the venues where people shop and research products most.

The ChloeFeedAssembler works with very little effort from the advertiser. Simply sign up and request a feed. ChloeFeedAssembler then crawls the requested site on the designated days, assembles the data, cleans it, and exports it to you or directly into your Facebook business account. ChloeFeedAssembler is also capable of exporting to all major affiliate networks including Linkshare, ShareASale, AvantLink, Impact Radius, as well as Google Shopping. CFA can crawl an unlimited number of products and schedule recurring feed creation and export in advance. Simply set up your account and the rest is done with no time needed from the advertiser.

Ready to get started? Great! Just choose the service level you wish to utilize – Monthly, Weekly, or Unlimited – create your account, and then we’re off to get things set up for you.

Migrating Product Data from WooCommerce to Shopify – as low as $399

Posted on October 22, 2015October 22, 2015 by Jamie Birch

You’ve asked and we have no answered! We have received multiple inquiries for a one time feed creation service to assist in the migration of ecommerce stores from WooCommerce to Shopify. Now it’s available Depending on the amount of products you have, ChloeFeedAssembler can crawl your current site and create a feed that you can use in your new Shopify website for as little as $399.

Many site owners have trouble migrating their product data when they transition to Shopify. Now you don’t have to worry about it. Simply create your account and we’ll do the rest. You’ll receive a complete data product feed in .csv format for you to use to integrate into your new system. It’s really that easy.

Check out our WooCommerce to Shopify migration service here.

Google Merchant Data Feed Created with Chloe Feed Assembler

Posted on October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 by Jamie Birch

Over the past several months we have highlighted the different affiliate networks we have integrated into the Chloe Feed Assembler product datafeed creator. From Rakuten LinkShare to CJ, from ShareASale to AvantLink. Now, we are the only provider who can crawl, clean, assemble and automatically upload via three different methods, your product datafeed to the affiliate networks.

But now we do even more! Now, you can get your ever increasingly important Google Merchant account populated with all your product details without manually importing product details!

Currently, we have focused on the required fields only. Those fields are:

Product Name
Product URL
Product Image
Product Thumbnail
Product Price
Long Description
Short Description
Keywords
Sizes
Color
Product Category
Product Subcategory
Product Grandchild Category
Other Configurable Product Attributes

What is a configurable product attribute? A configurable product is simple, a product that you can configure :). For example – apparel. You can choose size, color and even style. For other items you may choose size, weight, quality, thickness or other attributes by which you can change, customize and alter the product. Chloe Feed Assembler grabs all of those from your website and exports them into the Google Merchant feed format. This also allows easy integration of AdWords dynamic product targeting for retargeting campaigns.

Not only that, it automatically uploads your feed to Google Merchant account center at any interval you require.

Here is how it works:

You create your account
We do a test crawl of your site
We map your on page, in code and in javascript product details to the Google Merchant format
A file is made available to you
We upload via email, website or FTP the feed to your Google Merchant account.

No tech team needed. No manually entering product data. Create your account, provide your credit card, and off we go! Your initial feed will take 2-3 days to complete, and then each updated feed will take less than an hour to run.

Get started here!

Crawl and Auto_Submit Feed via FTP

Posted on May 1, 2015April 23, 2015 by Jamie Birch

Several weeks ago we released a new “automagic” distribution method – FTP. Many affiliate networks need you to submit your product datafeeds for your affiliate program via FTP. In the past, if you had a feed, you would have to do this manually through an FTP client such as FileZilla. Not anymore. You no longer need to worry about distributing your feeds. We’ll take care of that for you. When you setup your account, we’ll ask you if you’d like to distribute your feed via ftp and your ftp credentions:

FTP host
FTP username
FTP password
FTP directory and
FTP port

That gets assigned to your account. Each time the Chloe Feed Assembler creates your datafeed, it will then send that new product datafeed via ftp to your affiliate network. You then receive an email that it was sent and usually most networks will send you an email that it was completed.

Easy as 1, 2, 3!

FAQ – Do you provide product feeds for international affiliate networks?

Posted on April 28, 2015April 23, 2015 by Jamie Birch

Product Datafeeds for International Affiliate Programs? You betchya we do! The world is getting smaller, so it’s vital that your affiliate program reflect that. And you need a data feed that you can use in those markets! So we’ve integrated our Assembler to create and distribute your product feed to the following global affiliate networks: Linkshare UK and CA, AVantLink CA and UK, Zanox, CJ UK and Affiliate Window.

AvantLink UK

CJ Affiliate by Conversant UK

AvantLink CA

Linkshare UK

Zanox

AvantLink CA

Linkshare CA

These are all available to be scheduled for any recurring time frame and to be “automagically” distributed to these networks via FTP, Email or Browser Upload. Now you can get your affiliate program product datafeed in almost every network with the Chloe Feed Assembler!

FAQ – How quickly can you get my affiliate program data feed done?

Posted on April 27, 2015April 23, 2015 by Jamie Birch

Last week! Well, if you contacted us then

It doesn’t take long, but let’s walk through it. Day 1, you contact us and tell us you want the Chloe Feed Assembler to create your feed for [inset network here]. We then take that day to perform our initial crawl of the site. Day 2 we map your network’s categories with the product information we extracted from your website. The morning of day 3 we deliver you an example feed. Once you approve, we then set that feed up for you on the schedule you wish. Your done! So, about 48 hours from start to finish. Well, we should probably list out the extensive amount of work you’ll need to do to get your affiliate program product datafeed complete. Pull up a chair, grab a coffee, this may take a while.

You will need to:

Give us your URL
Set up your account with your credit card
Review the feed

Ok, that’s really it. But hopefully you enjoyed a cup of coffee :). It only takes 48 hours, your url and your credit card

FAQ – How often can you crawl and extract product data for my datafeed?

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Jamie Birch

Another great question! We recently launched a new and improved scheduler for our product datafeed creator. This scheduler allows you to crawl your site and extract your product information, and distribute that feed once in the future, every week on a certain day, every single day and once a month on the first day of that month. Each feed begins around 12am PST and is distributed to the network(s) of your choice upon completion.

Check it out:

Choose your date and whether you want your feed to be done at regular intervals and you’re done. It’s really that simple to do.

You receive emails when your feed is created and then when it was “automagically” distributed to your network.

Have more questions – sales@chloeassembler.com

Looking for Google Product Feed Beta Tester

Posted on April 16, 2015April 14, 2015 by Jamie Birch

We recently integrated Google’s product feed specifications into the Chloe Feed Assembler and are looking for an advertiser that needs a feed, isn’t able to create one themselves, and would like to Beta test this integration with the Chloe Feed Assembler! We’ll include the setup and 6 months at no charge at all. If you are interested, please contact sales@chloeassembler.com.