It’s Friday, the sun is shining (I hope it is outside your window, just as it is outside of mine), and we’re all ready for the weekend… But wait! Before you go, let me share with you the 5 new Twitter accounts I’ve started following in the course of the […]
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All I have done and lived for has been done and lived for for this moment. — Yuri Gagarin Fifty years ago (on April 12, 1961) when my father was eight and mother only five years of age, the Soviet Union “conquered” the space, having a hero complete the first-ever
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Over the past few years, the investment attractiveness of Russia and its markets have improved, but there’s still a lot of room to grow. Yesterday (on March 30, 2011), the President of the country proposed a 10-step plan on how to improve Russia’s investment climate [tweeting about it as well],
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Earlier this morning Business Insider reported: Salesforce just spent $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock to acquire Radian6, which makes tools for big companies to monitor their social media presence, the company has just announced. While not being as dollar-impressive as the acquisition I’ve written about yesterday,
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Yesterday, shortly after the announcement of eBay’s plans to acquire GSI Commerce (a $2.4 billion deal), a friend, colleague and former director of Econsultancy US, Rebecca Lieb, tweeted: GSI Commerce has a number of impressive assets, including an affiliate network they acquired in late 2009, and “180 clients including 31
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It’s appalling, but it happens every time there is a disaster — people try to profit off other people’s grief. After the devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, Japan is in much pain, but hundreds of fraudsters are actively capitalizing on the tragedy. On March 15
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Very few people know it, but I have an unfinished Master’s level counseling psychology degree. As many of my blog’s readers (and marketers, in general), I too am greatly fascinated by everything connected with how our mind works and how brain influences what we do, and how we do it.
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In conjunction with the growing popularity of news connected with the affiliate nexus tax bills and laws passed in various states, a number of merchants have approached me asking a question that may be summarized as follows: Can the use of web hosting servers in another state be considered grounds
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On Saturday my Google Alerts notified me of an article at lexology.com which talked about a merchant agreeing to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), having “signed a consent agreement and agreed to pay $250,000 for deceptively representing that endorsements … that were posted on blogs or other websites
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With the fairly recent Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Update multiple bloggers (affiliates in particular) became concerned (subject also brought up by Joe Sousa in his recent post here), and started wondering if they (as content producers) may be affected by it. The short answer is: “No, as long as what you
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