I’m now on my annual vacation, and prior to going I’ve asked my numerous fellow-marketers and friends to tell me what two business (and marketing) books they would recommend I take with me. Naturally, a unanimous consensus in an advice like this was hard to reach, but here are the […]
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On numerous occasions I have talked and blogged about the necessity of affiliate leadership versus affiliate management, and particularly, the importance of adapting principles of transformational leadership. I’ve also tackled this subject in my recent keynote speech in Tel Aviv, Israel, and today I’d like to show you the part
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Ladies and Gentlemen, With great pride, and slight tremble with excitement more than anything else! in my voice, I bring you………… a brand-new conference — a different conference, a professional forum geared specifically towards affiliate program managers and marketing executives responsible for their businesses’ affiliate marketing programs. It is going
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Several things — important to affiliates, and affiliate marketing industry as a whole — have happened in the course of the past few days, unfortunately not all good, and today I’d like to draw your attention to the following four: 1. Pennsylvania Enacts Affiliate Nexus Tax law — Late last night
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In the course of five years (between 2006 and 2011) we knew them as a4uAwards, but this year the United Kingdom’s prestigious awards for “excellence and innovation” in affiliate marketing are re-branding into a name that I, personally, believe to be a much better-fitting one. They have also just announced
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IBM Coremetrics has just added Cyber Monday 2011 data to their benchmark report I blogged about yesterday. Here are the things that have caught my eye: Cyber Monday 2011 — 5 Noteworthy Facts Overall spending increase — Online sales were up 33% over 2010, 29.3% up over Black Friday 2011,
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I’ve been speaking internationally for more than 4 years, but 2011 has been the busiest year for me so far. In the course of this year, I’ve already spoken at 7 conferences in 5 different countries all around the world: Affiliate Summit West 2011 (Las Vegas, NV, 9-11 Jan 2011)
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Earlier today IBM Coremetrics published their Black Friday 2011 benchmark report (thanks to Bryan Eisenberg for tweeting about it), and while there has been an impressive 24.3% increase in overall online sales over last year’s figures, it is the mobile channel that has shown the most impressive to me growth.
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Earlier this week Shawn Collins posted about an Affiliate Summit session I did nearly two years ago at Affiliate Summit West 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. That session was entitled 20 Affiliate Program Management Mistakes To Avoid, and you may now view it in full, and free of charge, on
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According to the calculations of the National Retail Federation last year over 200 million consumers spent some $45 Billion on Black Friday. This year, eMarketer predicts that $47 Billion to be spent online during the holiday season in the U.S. alone. And historically, it so happens that holiday-related sales growth
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