The affiliate program support team at Target has tweeted: So I’ve decided to dig deeper into it. Target seems to refer to the National Retail Federation’s data quoted by Reuters. On Wednesday (December 16, 2009) in their U.S. consumers fall behind in holiday shopping article Reuters reported: Consumers on average […]
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There are different ways to look at the snowfall we’ve had in Northern Virginia between 18th and 19th December 2009. Some are attributing deaths in car crashes to it (makes me wonder if they’d do the same had it happened in a Virginia heavy autumn rain so typical of this
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I’ve been busy writing about other stuff during the week, and saved the news for the very end of it. Today I am excited to bring you my December 2009 news, which are: (i) joining of an advisory board of a major conference, and (ii) printing articles in December issues
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Back in July in my Global Advertising to Shrink, Online Marketing to Grow post I quoted Forrester’s report on US Interactive Marketing Spend which projects a substantial growth of digital marketing in the course of the next 4 years. As this year is coming to an end, it seems appropriate
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When we talk about “niche” affiliates, we normally refer to marketers that focus on a product vertical. A number of affiliates have gone beyond verticals only, and realized that there’s also an array of amazing opportunities from holiday shopping to shipping. Today I’d like to briefly look at the demand
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ShareASale‘s annual Performance Awards were instituted in 2008, but time flies fast, and 2009 is already coming to an end. So, yesterday ShareASale has announced the winners for Year 2009. The Performance Awards are given in six categories, and eight winners have been selected this time: one per each of
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The finalists of the fourth annual Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards (three per category) have just been announced. I am privileged and humbled to make the “Best Blogger” category: Thank you, everyone who nominated me. It’s a tremendous honor.
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Let me start by saying this: I admire AJ Madison’s customer support, aggressive pricing, and marketing methods. What follows in this post stems from an unfortunate affiliate experience that serves as a vivid illustration of the affiliate communication channel breakdown. While it may in no way be characteristic of the
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MediaPost has published some information that coupon affiliates should find of extreme interest. Referencing a recent report by Borrell Associates, MediaPost wrote: …Borrell Associates estimates that the $8.3 billion value of online coupons redemptions in 2009 (including via the Internet, email and mobile) will jump more than 50% to $12.7
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On November 25 of 2009 Reg.RU has opened up registration of Russia’s new top level domain names – the .РФ (.RF) TLD. The peculiarity of this TLD is that the entire domain name is typed in Cyrillic (no mixes with Latin letters allowed), which has been introduced to simplify the
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