VR Interactive announces the launch of Buy Button (BuyBtn), an easy and exciting new way for affiliate marketers to generate cutting-edge “Buy Now” direct link buttons and product searches with all of their AvantLink affiliate info embedded. This will revolutionize the traditional methods that web designers and bloggers have used to write code and create fancy yet functional buttons that properly reflects affiliate identification numbers and tracking codes.

The easy-to-use “wizard,” found in the AvantLink “Affiliate” section under “Tools,” steps users through a series of easy decisions that even for someone with no coding knowledge will find easy to quickly create a button or a product search. The clean interface stores the encoded buttons inside a list for each of their websites with a preview of how the button looks, the type of button (direct link or product search), the name of the button and the Get Code link. This allows bloggers and web designers to come back any time and click on the Get Code link and copy/paste it into their blog or website.

BuyBtn makes attractive yet functional "Buy Now" buttons

Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. Many bloggers use affiliate marketing to earn income based on the content that they push.

BuyBtn will streamline the process that a blogger would use to “get rewarded” for writing about a company’s product. For example, an outdoor gear blogger could write a story about the best type of soft shell jackets for backcountry skiing. After identifying the product to promote, the blogger could log into their AvantLink Affiliate account and quickly generate a fancy, yet functional “Buy Now” button that would include their affiliate ID and tracking info and simply copy/paste the code into the back end of the blog post. The result, an attractive but code-compliant button that would take the reader to a merchant to buy the product and would allow for the blogger to get credit, where credit is due.

Likewise, the blogger could highlight a search of products that would fit their post. So, say the blogger is writing about the best type of softshell jacket that a backcountry skier would want, he/she could use BuyBtn to generate the code that would reveal the results of the search. So, it could show numerous jackets from one brand in one attractive window that would open from the Buy Now button. See an example of this in the Stoic Outerwear Gear Review on the blog, The Deal from CleanSnipe.

An example of BuyBtn search results for Stoic gear

“We’re excited to add Buy Button to AvantLink’s suite of industry-leading tools for affiliate marketers,” said VR Interactive co-owner and web developer Jed Frumkin. “It will substantially increase the efficiency and eloquence with which bloggers and designers implement ‘Buy Now’ buttons. It saves a couple of steps, really, and looks classier than a lot of homemade image buttons.”

Buttons, Buttons, Buttons

The current button options are grey (default), blue, magenta, red, orange and yellow. However, VR Interactive can customize the buttons to match the branding of an affiliate by e-mailing info@vrinteractive.net.

There are 6 current button color options, but they can be customized.

BuyBtn is easy to use, but here’s a Help Document PDF just in case you need it. Follow BuyBtn on Twitter for more juicy tidbits including user tips, button-in-use examples and upgrade information.

About Avantlink

AvantLink (www.avantlink.com) has created an efficient and productive platform for serious Affiliates & Web Retailers. They are unique because they only work with high-value merchants with substantial catalogs on a percentage of sale. This particular advertiser segment can best utilize the industry-leading Affiliate Tools AvantLink is known for.

About AvantLink App Market

Recently, AvantLink launched the groundbreaking and, frankly, freaking awesome AvantLink App Market. The concept is simple–they opened our network up to third party developers who have great ideas for affiliate marketing tools, allowed them to build those tools, and then make them available to all of the affiliates on our network. Think “iPhone App Store for affiliate marketing,” except all of the tools in its market are completely free to AvantLink members!

Check out the AvantLink App Market accessible via the “Tools” page of your Affiliate account. They feature specific applications now via a blog post series.