Thoughts for Affiliates

Articles and blog posts that may be of help to affiliates

Social Shopping & First Facebook Affiliate Platform on Horizon

Yesterday brought an interesting news — Zibaba, a Facebook ecommerce storefront provider, is set to launch their (first one around?) Facebook-based affiliate marketing platform. The network is scheduled to launch at the end of January 2011. Both merchants and affiliates are gonna be charged to participate (between $20 and $100

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5 Hot Trends for Affiliate Marketers to Leverage in 2011

The famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse is known for saying: “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth.” For an affiliate marketer (and any online marketer, for that matter!) the “place to stand” remains the same as in

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Top 25 Affiliate Marketing Blog Posts of 2010

I quite liked Econsultancy’s idea of putting together a list of the top blog posts of the year that’s coming to an end. So, I’ve just finished analyzing all of my 2010 posts (yes, close to 350 articles altogether!) , and today I’d like to bring you just the most

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35 Affiliate Marketing Predictions for 2011

Following the Online Marketing Trends & Predictions for 2011 post, now I would like us to turn to 2011 predictions related specifically to affiliate marketing. Below I am happy to bring you 35 predictions from 12 top notch affiliate marketers (caution: long text ahead! …but it’ll be worth your time):

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Black Friday 2010 Online: 16 Percent Consumer Spending Increase

Yesterday from Shawn Collins post I’ve found out that the newest Coremetrics’ report on Black Friday 2010 online sales is out. This third annual “analysis of the online retail sector” outlined the trends in 2010 (as compared to Black Friday 2009), including the following bird’s-eye look at the state of

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Using Google Think Holiday in Your Marketing Research Yet?

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, and consumer interest (which started increasing as early as Summer this year) in both of these days and everything that’s connected with them is quickly growing. Not sure if you know about it or not, but Google has an awesome

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