Thoughts for Affiliates

Articles and blog posts that may be of help to affiliates

Bypassing the Affiliate: Coincidence or Strategy?

Between yesterday and today, a sequence of events has happened, raising an important question… Let me quickly reproduce them for you: I found a product I was interested in. It was one of the major — one of the top ones on The Top 500 List — e-tailers selling it. […]

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UK M-Commerce Report with Affiliate Marketing Twist

Earlier today a4u released an M-Commerce Report, detailing the UK’s latest m-commerce statistics, considerations, and opportunities both for brands and affiliates. Here are just a few things that have caught my eye: Affiliate-Driven Mobile Sales Doubled Since the Start of 2011 Per Affiliate Window‘s observations “at the start of the

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Lesson of Happy Life from Steve Jobs

Yesterday we’ve lost an American genius, an inspiration to so many of us (especially in the computer- and business-related worlds)… the great Steve Jobs. And today — while there’s no lack of blog posts [hundreds of millions have already been posted!] and articles on who he was and what impact

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ePN Mobile — New Reporting Feature for eBay Partner Network Affiliates

Yesterday (on September 8, 2011) eBay Partner Network affiliates had a new feature added to their reports — one “that breaks out mobile traffic from classic (non-mobile) traffic.” Here are some screenshots that eBay has sent me to visualize the tool better: Filter Traffic by Type View Mobile Traffic eBay

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Top Picks in Affiliate Marketing and Program Management, August 2011

August has been a busy month, and now that the calendar autumn is already here (yes, happy September 1st, everyone!), I thought it would be nice to put together a list of AM Navigator‘s top picks for the previous month. So, here’s the (chronological) list: The Importance of (Realistic) Affiliate

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Affiliate Marketing Has High Turnover and Low Chance of Success?

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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Form (or Name) Versus Substance

I’ve never noticed this one before, but apparently Facebook now has an “On This Day In [Year Here]” widget in the sidebar. Here’s what mine says today: Yes, I surely remember that one. It was probably the most surprising one I’ve ever seen. Russians have a proverb “Как корабль назовешь,

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Paxfire or How ISPs Hijack Traffic and Affiliate Commissions

On Monday, August 8, Pace Lattin of Performance Marketing Insider has drawn the industry’s attention to a lawsuit filed by Reese Richman LLP, the subject of which is “questionable and possibly illegal behavior … by hijacking search queries.” Pace wrote: Using a technology by Paxfire, supposedly DNS redirects from searches

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Do Not Believe Everything You See in Affiliate Program Statistics

Remember my Competitive Intelligence at the Service of Affiliate Program Managers article at Search Engine People which appeared there back in May of this year? If you didn’t see it yet, that would be a good place to start before continuing reading this post… If, however, you did read it

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