Amazon has announced earlier today that they starting from May 1 2009 they are prohibiting affiliates from engaging in direct-to-merchant (DTM) paid search campaigns. The exact wording of the letter is as follows: After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to […]
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First of all, what is microblogging? About.com defines it as follows: Microblogging refers to the posting of very short updates about oneself. It is in contrast to long-form blogging, where there are usually at least a few hundred words. Instead of posting a message on their regular blog, people who
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Almost a month ago I stated that the ultimate goal of every affiliate manager should be in making his/her affiliate intrinsically motivated [see the full post here]. I’ve been reading more about motivating people, specifically in culturally diverse contexts (and the affiliate marketing context is certainly a good example of
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In his Organisational Behaviour and Analysis: An Integrated Approach, Derek Rollinson points to the importance of looking at the leader-follower relationship through the prism of “reciprocal causality.” This concept presupposes that in healthy leader-follower interaction the influence between leaders and followers happens simultaneously, reciprocally, and continuously. Ignoring, or neglecting, the
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When setting up an affiliate program, the question of cookie life inevitably comes up. Affiliate cookie life is the time span that starts with the consumer’s click on the affiliate link and ends on the day beyond which you, as a merchant, do not wish to remunerate the affiliate for
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It seems that mobile is both one of the less crowded affiliate marketing arenas, yet one of the fastest developing ones out there. The total number of mobile Internet users in the U.S. has grown from an average of 10,821 unique users a day in January 2008 to 22,369 a
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Since the time I’ve blogged about the implications of the CA Bill AB 178 for affiliates, Melanie Seery posted the following two news: (i) Connecticut’s bill was approved in the Join Finance Committee, and (ii) North Carolina is now also looking in the same direction. Regarding Connecticut Melanie wrote: The
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I have just found out that Shawn has uploaded the podcast of the full “Advanced Approaches to Affiliate Recruiting, Training & Management” [originally announced here] we did with Heather Paulson at Affiliate Summit West 2009. Thank you, Shawn. You may listen to the full session on this GeekCast.fm’s page.
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One of my blog readers has e-mailed me a question about what commission to offer when launching an affiliate program. It is a good question. Therefore I have have decided to reply in a blog post. Truth be told, I have already addressed this question in detail in my A
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I’ve had the following conversation with a client today (“M” stands for “merchant”, while “G” for “Geno”): M.: When we have a new affiliate signing up and putting our banner on their web site, I get credit for it with the search engines as a one-way link, correct? G.: No,
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