Have you heard of the Internet Retailer’s new Top Tech 2014 Guide yet? This is an eBook based on their 2012 research of “the leading solutions providers to America’s top 1,000 retailers.” Among the providers analyzed they also looked into “affiliate marketing vendors” used by North America’s leading 1,000 e-retailers. […]
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Earlier this year (in August) Ola Hanø reached out to me describing his new idea and inviting me to participate in a really cool project. The idea was/is to give Twitter users a chance to “meet some of the best experts on Digital Performance Marketing in the World, Europe or
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Autocomplete is a function “built into Google Search designed to make searching faster and easier.” It “predicts and displays queries to choose from. The search queries that you see as part of Autocomplete are a reflection of the search activity of users.” [source] Try typing in “affiliate management” and Google
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Commission Junction affiliates will now notice a new tab in their “Account Manager” interface — one devoted to “Widgets.” Amazon has had these forever. Some other affiliate networks have been offering similar tools for a while too (e.g.: ShareASale’s Make-a-Page tool), and now Commission Junction is enabling affiliates with a
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Whether you are working on link building or affiliate recruitment, you want to know if the recipient’s email address is intact before sending out that message of yours. After all, unless one has valid contact information at hand, how can he expect to make the contact? There are numerous email
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TIME has come up with a fun calculator to estimate “how much money Twitter owes you” (hat tip to Bryan Eisenberg for Tweeting about it). Basically, they divided Twitter‘s $24.9 billion value by the number of daily Tweets (circa 200 billion), arriving at 12.45 cents “per daily eyeball on the
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Earlier this month an interesting email came to me from an advertiser whose affiliate program we started a few months ago (edit: on an affiliate network). Here’s the gist of it (with parts of the text re-worded to hide sensitive information): Recently, both of our main websites got hit by
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I have recently learned of an interesting solution for affiliate marketers that work with worldwide traffic, and are interested in routing their visitors to country-specific storefronts of the same merchant. This particular tool allows them to do it with a single “globally-aware” affiliate link. The solution has been invented by
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Interestingly enough, in late 2011 when blogging about “affiliate manager education in San Francisco in March” (implying the first Affiliate Management Days) Affiliate Summit’s Shawn Collins (coincidentally) antedated what is going to happen in early Spring of 2014. As you may have already heard, in March of 2014 (just like
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Last month Cynthia of Marketing Pilgrim urged us to get ready for the 2013 “holiday shopping season” to start sooner and be shorter (25 days versus 31 in 2012). Yahoo! picked up the topic, reminding us of the key shopping dates, again comparing 2013 to 2012. Well… last year “some
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