With the Winter Olympics 2010 going on, and the first ice hockey match involving the Russian team (the 2008 and 2009 world champions!) coming up in just two days, I was happy to find out that one of the Russian channels I have here in the U.S. was going to […]
Vyacheslav Bykov, True Leadership and Affiliate Management Read More »
Every week I read dozens of articles published online. Naturally, the vast majority of them are directly related to online marketing in general, and affiliate marketing in particular. The abundance of excellent content published online is so great that I never have enough time to incorporate what I learn into
10 Great Posts – Week of February 7-13, 2010 Read More »
New era, paradigm shift, dramatic transformation, or whatever else you’d like to call it, it’s here! The introduction and rapid development of Social Media (SM) and UGC (user-generated content) has changed the marketing landscape and environment forever. Whether you market online or offline, doesn’t matter. If you want to convert
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Let’s open Webster’s New World English Grammar Handbook (2009) by Shoup & Loberger on page 61. There we read: The Subjunctive Mood The subjunctive mood is employed to express a condition contrary to fact, a wish, a supposition, a prayer, or a doubt… An example is given: “If I were
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In September 2009 digital advertising overtook all other channels (including TV) in the United Kingdom [more here]. In October 2009 McKinsey stressed the importance of online retailing in the U.S., forecasting that by the year 2011 online sales will account for over 45% of all US retail sales [more here].
Are You Measuring and Analyzing or Flying Blind? Read More »
With the weekend and the snow, I haven’t blogged about the advertising tax (aka: Amazon or affiliate tax) for a few days, but things have been changing quite dynamic lately, and I do have news to report: Alarming News: The Governor of Oklahoma — the state that is facing a
Internet Sales Tax Update: Oklahoma, Colorado, Virginia Read More »
I’ll be honest with you: I haven’t watched one second of the Super Bowl. I was shoveling my snow after the super snow weekend. I’m just not a big fan of (American) football (I’m a soccer man). What I did watch, however, were all of the Super Bowl commercials. Those
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Over the past few months my wife and myself have become huge fans of Darrell Bush’s art, and shortly after falling in love with his paintings we were happy to find out that Buffalo Games produces jigsaw puzzles based on his artwork. We bought our first one some two months
Don't Decrease Conversion by Making It Hard to Shop Read More »
Judging by the stats for the past 60 days, the 5th most popular post (by views) in my blog has been my Historic 2009 Snowfall in Virginia one posted on December 20, 2009 after it’s been snowing for two days straight. Everyone who thought that was the super snow (including
Super Snow is Back to Virginia and DC Read More »
Yesterday an important information has been posted by Kellie Stevens of Affiliate Fair Play in the 5StarAffiliatePrograms’ forum. Her alert is about a fairly newly created contextual adware that operates according to a model similar to Zango, Clicksor, or MediaTraffic. As an advertiser, you may buy traffic on DirectCPV.com which
Parasite Alert: DirectCPV / LoudMo Contextual Adware Read More »