I thought I would write something about some of the pet hates I have, but also things that are likely to alienate your affiliates. This site is build towards people who want to get more from their affiliate programme. Sometimes you learn just as much from the ‘what not to […]
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<!1986 was a bad year. In January there was the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Do you remember that one? I turned 9 just the day before it happened, and even thought we were following it from behind the Iron Curtain, I still remember that day well. But did you know
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I was honored to be included on the latest Performance Marketing Association Industry Report podcast, where Lisa Picarille had some great questions for me and Deepa Sureka, Sr Vice President at LinkShare Corporation. We tackled the subject of education in performance marketing (in case you don’t know, but Deepa and
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Not too long ago an interesting piece appeared in MediaPost’s weekly Performance Insider. It was authored by Peter Klein and entitled Online Darwinism And The Evolution of Performance Marketing. Klein suggested that “as the performance marketing industry matures, and as brands seek more sophisticated and legitimate agencies and affiliates to
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Last week I had a good chat with one of the industry’s most famous veterans, James Martell, who hosts his Affiliate Buzz show on Webmaster Radio. We’ve discussed the upcoming Affiliate Management Days East 2012 at length, and you may find the full recording by clicking the image below: Here’s
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<!”If a merchant is running their own paid search campaigns, and also has an affiliate program, how can they ensure that the latter doesn’t cannibalize but compliment the other?” — this is the question that nearly every merchant wonders a few months into running their affiliate program. Some end up
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Yesterday Ann Smarty tweeted: 11 Tools to Find Niche Twitter Influencers awe.sm/c4oAf — Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) September 10, 2012 …and her tweet (and link) gave me an idea for this post: With the plethora of influencer outreach tools out there, why not put together a list of them right here
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I so share these comments from fellow affiliate marketers Sharon Mostyn: @amdays Appreciate the RT! You’ve got some spectacular speakers lined up! #amdays — Sharon Mostyn (@sharonmostyn) August 30, 2012 … and Jill Swartwout Lots of GREAT speakers lined up! RT @eprussakov: #AMDays Early Bird rate ends this Friday (Sep
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We recruited a new (and very promising) affiliate into a ShareASale-based affiliate program we manage. To help them facilitate conversions we created an exclusive coupon code for them to promote. Once the coupon was uploaded and assigned to them, we emailed them: We’ve added the code an exclusive ShareASale coupon
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Yesterday, The Search Monitor released their January-June 2012 findings regarding affiliate involvement in paid search. The official press release read: From January 2012 to June 2012, almost 70 percent of affiliate marketers on the major search engines (all Google networks, Yahoo, Bing, and Baidu) bid on trademark terms (47.22 percent) or,
47% Affiliates Who Use Paid Search Bid on Trademarks. Surprised? Read More »