There has been much talk and worry about the ‘Do Not Track’ legislation proposed by Federal Trade Commission in early December 2010, and now that Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox both have plugins/features to block certain types of third party cookies (and we also know that Internet Explorer 9 is […]
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What is a hashtag in the first place? Twitter itself defines this # sign as a symbol “used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet… created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages” [source]. As The New Yorker put it Twitter hashtags are “used to mark
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Yesterday Shawn Collins uploaded hundreds of great Affiliate Summit West 2011 pictures to Flickr [which, by the way, prompted me to finally get a Flickr page of my own]. I’ve looked through many of them, and picked 7 that just must have stories behind them! Maybe they don’t, but they
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While there are multiple ways to define cliché in light of our context here I personally prefer the following one: “A trite expression, often a figure of speech whose effectiveness has been worn out through overuse and excessive familiarity.” [source] I’ve added the emphasis/underlining to the above definition on purpose.
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A couple of days ago I’ve learned about LuckyLocal.com. They position themselves as a local shopping API solution for affiliates. Similar to datafeed-import tools/services like GoldenCAN and PopShops, but with a local twist. Here’s my brief look at how it works for affiliates: You open an account with them, and
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The History Channel defines Valentine’s Day as “a holiday that celebrates love observed by exchanging candy & gifts” [source]. And this morning — three weeks before the holiday — newsletters from a number of flowers- gifts- and chocolate-related merchants have landed in affiliate inboxes. In their newsletters merchants are informing
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In case you haven’t yet heard of Unguru.me, it’s a project started earlier this month by Jim Kukral and Shawn Collins to establish a “community for small businesses to network and learn (without the hype)” and they have recently released their 2011 Unguru.me Report. The main question they tried answer
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Yesterday Josh Braaten, an Online Marketing Manager at Rasmussen College who also writes about SEO and web analytics on Big Picture Web tweeted: His tweet was a part of our brief conversation on how some of the online marketing-related professions are being misunderstood by people, but the wording of it
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I know the parallel may seem strange at first, but there are actually a number of shared key points in these two tasks, and as someone who has been fighting a nasty flu over the past few days, and working in affiliate marketing for close to 9 years, I’d like
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Important: The title must really read 20 not 12 hours. See details in this comment by a LivingSocial affiliate, and the one right under it. How many of you have heard of LivingSocial before today? We all know Groupon, but “Living” Who? Well, they’re Groupon’s direct competitor, and they have
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