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Pre-Conference Survey Reveals Top 3 AM Days Sessions to Attend

Exactly one month before the U.S. Affiliate Management Days 2014 show, I’ve decided to poll speakers asking them to pick 3 sessions they want to attend, or are looking at attending. Today I bring you their responses (with special thanks to those who have provided additional comments/rationale as to why

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3 Types of Affiliate Marketing Conferences and How To Leverage Them

Not all affiliate marketing conferences are created equal. No, not in the “quality” or even the “quantity” sense of the word. “Equal” as in “identical” or “same in nature.” If you carefully look through the list of the 2014 industry conferences to consider attending, you will notice that all of

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When You Say "Affiliate" Top Social Networking Platforms Think…

When I post something on a social networking website (Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter) if I refer to a specific business or person, I always try to “tag” their name. …wherever possible, I should add. Sometimes it is easy, sometimes not. Having seen some surprising results in the past few

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2014 Affiliate Marketing Conferences and Must-Attend Events

While there has been no lack of affiliate marketing conferences and events taking place every year, in 2013 their number expanded with quite a few new events added globally. I have been putting together (and constantly updating) lists of affiliate marketing conferences since 2009 and I can confidently say that

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3 Free Email Verification Tools for Affiliate and Link Outreach

Whether you are working on link building or affiliate recruitment, you want to know if the recipient’s email address is intact before sending out that message of yours. After all, unless one has valid contact information at hand, how can he expect to make the contact? There are numerous email

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Top 20 Affiliate Marketing Influencers: How Much Twitter Owes Them

TIME has come up with a fun calculator to estimate “how much money Twitter owes you” (hat tip to Bryan Eisenberg for Tweeting about it). Basically, they divided Twitter‘s $24.9 billion value by the number of daily Tweets (circa 200 billion), arriving at 12.45 cents “per daily eyeball on the

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Yandex Goes CPA, Brings Russian Affiliate Marketing Into Mainstream

Today’s major industry news comes from Russia. The country’s largest and most popular search engine Yandex (which is by far more popular than Google there) is transforming its product-search service Yandex.Market to encompass a Cost-Per-Action (CPA) model. Until today Yandex.Market was operating solely on Cost-Per-Click (CPC) basis. The new CPA

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7 Affiliate Marketing News Not to Miss in August 2013 (Second Half)

Much has been happening in the affiliate marketing world lately. Even though August 2013 isn’t over yet, I think it is safe to presuppose that the below 7 news are definitely the ones that you do not want to miss. So, here they are in chronological order: 1. Affiliate Marketing

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