I love statistics, and I was certainly happy to find the below “The State of the Internet” video by JESS3 (Jesse Thomas) on Vimeo today: Only one criticism: being so jam-packed with numbers, a video that’s close to 4 minutes long is frankly a bit hard to digest. I am […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about one particular type of loyalty affiliates lately — the type that encourages their website visitors to fill out surveys, submit application forms, order samples, and get paid for it. This type of publishers is essentially as sub-type of incentive affiliates. These affiliates frequently sell
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One of my favorite affiliate networks in the world has changed hands again. Two years ago AOL acquired Buy.at for some £75 million ($150 million), making it into a separate unit within Advertising.com [source]. See also AOL’s official press release here. Today, it has been reported that “Digital Window, the
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The amount of business and even e-commerce literature that equates affiliate marketing to multi-level marketing is substantial enough for me to address this common misconception in my blog. Paul Ford, for example, in his Multi-Level Marketing brochure states that affiliate marketing is just another term for MLM marketing, a name
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Today I have received an envelope in the mail. It looked very official, and immediate got my attention. How? See below: First of all, US Code: Title 18, section 1702 really does talk about a fine and up to 5 years of imprisonment, but it has nothing to do with
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Performance Marketing Association has just posted: On Thursday February 25, 2010, Governor Ritter signed into law HB 1193. This bill no longer includes any reference to affiliate nexus or the concept of an advertising tax. The final bill can be found here. It does, however, still impact online retailers, who
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Encouraging news came from the states of Virginia and Vermont yesterday. Virginia Yesterday (February 24, 2010) Performance Marketing Association reported: In Virginia today, bill SB 660 was ‘tabled’ by the House finance sub-committee. This means it will not be voted on by the committee, and will most likely not be
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While I fully understand that the motivation behind this particular article was to generate affiliate sign-ups for one given “CPA network” — and this fact alone makes the endorsement highly subjective — I do feel that it is important for me to address a few misconceptions that this article is
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In late August 2009 eBay announced, and in September 2009 implemented their Quality Click Pricing affiliate compensation model which essentially meant moving from their previous CPA model to a CPC model (details in my eBay Partner Network Will Now Pay for Clicks post). The concept was developed back in late
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Today’s news from Drs. Foster and Smith has already produced quite a resonance in the affiliate marketing world. The company, which has removed Virginia-based affiliates from their affiliate program 5 days ago, has now decided to shut their affiliate program down altogether. Mike Nunez broke the news: Then Trust posted
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