Yesterday, after I tweeted out one of the links I’ve found of interest, I received the following question back: After verifying that Eric is asking about the stuff I microblog it occurred to me that this would make a very nice blog post topic. After all, in the ocean of […]
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The September 2011 issue of Website Magazine — which was distributed to every Affiliate Summit East 2011 attendee just a few days ago — has an interesting article where Peter Prestipino, the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief and good friend of mine, analyzes the affiliate marketing industry in light of data from 2011
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As you know, I’ve just returned from Affiliate Summit East 2011, and it’s been another great Summit. This was the largest New York one to date (with nearly 4,000 attendees) with plenty of excellent opportunities for networking and connecting with new clients and partners, great food, amazing keynotes and seminars,
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<! @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –>After a quick trip to Affiliate Summit East 2011, I’m finally home. No, don’t get me wrong; I utterly enjoyed my 26 hour s in New York City — most of which I’ve spent at the conference itself (pictures
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An affiliate network that’s currently negotiating with investors has approached me asking if there’s a place where they can review mergers and especially acquisitions that have happened in the affiliate marketing world over the past few years. Having found no such compilation anywhere, I have decided to put one together
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Over this weekend I did a lot of reading on the causes and possibilities of the US default happening between 2 and 8 August 2011, and it seemed that the more I read, the better the situation became. With the leaks of the latest news of a debt deal, it
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I know, this post may seem like I’m shooting myself in the foot (as technically I compete in this with every one of them), but I’m truly proud to see these folks nominated, and being an affiliate marketing blogger I simply must put together this blog post. In case you
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I’ve just hit a milestone — 16,000 tweets: Assuming that on every one of those 16,000 tweets I spent some 10 seconds, that’s 160,000 seconds, or 2,667 minutes, or nearly 44.5 hours spent tweeting. One would think: “what a waste of time!” writing these hours into the “Losses” column. I
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As I audit affiliate programs and, conjointly, the websites of merchants who market through the affiliate channel, some mistakes come up more frequently than others, and today I’d like to highlight three that merchants with affiliate programs routinely commit. These are: 1. No link to affiliate program on main merchant
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It’s “Follow Friday” time again, and today I’d like to focus on content strategy. But definition first: Content Strategy — “an emerging field of practice encompassing every aspect of content, including its design, development, analysis, presentation, measurement, evaluation, production, management, and governance.” [source | emphasis mine] There are a number
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