General Discussion

Computer / Internet Jokes $1,000+ Contest – Time to Vote!

We’ve received 20 entries for the 400th Day Contest: Computer & Internet Jokes. It’s time to choose the winners, and I need your help with this. I’m posting a public poll below, and inviting you to vote for your favorite joke(s). The poll will be open from now until 02/25/2010, […]

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ValueClick Affiliate Marketing Revenue: 2009 versus 2008

Yesterday, on February 16, ValueClick, Inc. (VCLK) — the owner of Commission Junction affiliate network, Shopping.net, PriceRunner, and MeziMedia which operates Smarter.com and CouponMountain.com — has made their full 2009 fiscal data available to the public. MarketWatch reports: In the fourth quarter of 2009, revenue in the Media, Affiliate Marketing

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Progressive Competence of E-commerce & Best Online Retailers

Just a couple of hours ago, ForeSee Results has released the results of the newest ACSI Annual E-commerce study. After a slight drop in 2008, the overall customer satisfaction with e-commerce sector has raised in 2009 back to the level of 2007. The drop in 2008, just as drops in

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Vyacheslav Bykov, True Leadership and Affiliate Management

With the Winter Olympics 2010 going on, and the first ice hockey match involving the Russian team (the 2008 and 2009 world champions!) coming up in just two days, I was happy to find out that one of the Russian channels I have here in the U.S. was going to

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10 Great Posts – Week of February 7-13, 2010

Every week I read dozens of articles published online. Naturally, the vast majority of them are directly related to online marketing in general, and affiliate marketing in particular. The abundance of excellent content published online is so great that I never have enough time to incorporate what I learn into

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Is Your Marketing Fostering Customer Engagement?

New era, paradigm shift, dramatic transformation, or whatever else you’d like to call it, it’s here! The introduction and rapid development of Social Media (SM) and UGC (user-generated content) has changed the marketing landscape and environment forever. Whether you market online or offline, doesn’t matter. If you want to convert

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Are You Measuring and Analyzing or Flying Blind?

In September 2009 digital advertising overtook all other channels (including TV) in the United Kingdom [more here]. In October 2009 McKinsey stressed the importance of online retailing in the U.S., forecasting that by the year 2011 online sales will account for over 45% of all US retail sales [more here].

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