Oh, affiliate marketing videos! There certainly is no lack of you online. However, not all videos are created equal. Neither are all of them worthy of a serious marketer’s time. Some promise you overnight riches (if you buy their tool or training course, of course), others plainly lack “meat on the […]
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Outsourced program management is frequently misunderstood; and explaining what an OPM (outsourced program manager) does is not any simpler than describing what affiliates do, or what affiliate marketing is. In fact, it is a little more complex of a task, because you first have to explain what is affiliate marketing, who are
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A little over a week ago I was approached by Chris Johnson, asking if I would like to contribute a 30-second video answer to a question of how online marketing, and performance marketing in particular, will look like around 2015. Earlier today my video, along with videos from a few
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Signs (and news) of e-commerce growth are always exciting to follow. United States In the U.S., for example, eMarketer expects a 15% YOY growth in 2011, and some $362 billion by the end of 2016. Chris Goward‘s recent tweet read: Good news! Ecommerce sales to reach $224.2 billion this year, up
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In case you have not heard, less than 2 days from now (on March 1, 2012) Google’s new unified privacy policy — which allows them to harvest your personalized search and browsing information tying it to your Google accounts (including Gmail, YouTube, etc) — takes effect. Not everyone’s happy about
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If you’ve been to Affiliate Summits, you know that as you enter the room to attend any session (be it a keynote presentation, a breakout session, or an “Ask the Experts” one), you are handed a feedback form. I love the way they’re encouraging people to participate in the betterment
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Starting from the beginning of this month a “What I Really Do” meme has been going around (spread especially actively via Facebook), reflecting “a range of preconceptions associated with” various fields of “occupation or expertise” — from photographers and graphic designers to directors and entrepreneurs [more here]. So I’ve decided
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As you may have read elsewhere my recently-published Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day has been nominated for Small Business Book Awards 2012 — in the Marketing category. This is the fourth year that these awards are being run by Small Business Trends. Here’s how they themselves describe the
Small Business Book Awards 2012 – Vote for Affiliate Marketing! Read More »
Earlier this morning Fred Wilson published an interesting comparison of his blog’s traffic sources where upon splitting “the top ten” referrers “into three categories”, he discovered the following breakdown: Direct — 50% Social — 40% (with nearly 1/2 from StumbleUpon) Search — 10% These numbers amused me to say the
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Over the past couple of years, many of the world’s top business schools have become pretty active on social media, Twitter included. In fact, some maintain several accounts (for example, I could count 5 different Twitter account for University of Chicago’s Booth School of Management; yet, since my below ranking
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