On 04/22/2010 the Search & Social team has launched the 2010 Search & Social Awards, and I have found out that my blog has been selected as one of the nominees for the “Best Affiliate Marketing Blog” category. It certainly is an honor, especially when I see that I’m running […]
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I’m seeing these pictures all around the place (primarily on websites that want to teach you how to achieve the ultimate “financial freedom”): people working on their laptops in hammocks, at the swimming pools, and at the beach (like the picture on the left which I’ve made a screenshot of
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As I was driving down the U.S. East Coast from Northern Virginia to the Florida Keys three weeks ago, I stopped at several gas stations to fill up my tank, and a note I saw stuck to every pump at one gas station in North Carolina especially struck me. I’ve
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A month ago ShareASale published a brief case study on how the pay-per-call model was working for one given affiliate program, that of Legacy Learning Systems [view it in PDF here]. In it the program’s manager, Matt McWilliams, shared that in the first 30 days with the platform — ShareASale
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Yesterday I have written about the key affiliate expectations as presented by the new AffStat Report. Today I’d like to mention one more graph that caught my eye in this report. It addresses the question of avenues that affiliates use to find out about affiliate programs “and then join”. The
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Having surveyed over a thousand of affiliates “on their methods, preferences, and strategies”, Affiliate Summit has put together its newest 2010 AffStat Report [source], and made it open to public (free of charge) yesterday, April 20. I’ve been waiting for this one to be announced, and been glad to see
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I’ve known of Apprupt (a Germany-based performance marketing network for mobile applications), MobPartner (a France-headquartered mobile CPA network), but now there is a US-based mobile affiliate network too. It is called OfferMobi, and it was launched just yesterday (April 19) at ad:tech San Francisco. The company is owned by Mark
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Earlier this month Forrester released its “Search And Email Marketing Tactics To Attract International Online Shoppers” report. While being highly focused on paid search and email marketing as the tools to go global, they couldn’t omit the benefits of running internationally-friendly affiliate programs too. The reports says: Affiliate Marketing Often
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I have this an-advice-a-day Fishing Tips calendar on my desk, and earlier this week I read the following advice in it: Learn how to fish for more than one kind of species. By doing so, you can take advantage of peak periods for different fish and avoid the inevitable slow
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An affiliate program manager has emailed me the following question: What is a good conversion rate from impressions to click to identify good quality affiliates? Good question. Tricky metric. CTR, or Click-Through Rate, is a metric that will differ from one marketing method to another. Additionally, it is important to
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