Earlier today a4u released an M-Commerce Report, detailing the UK’s latest m-commerce statistics, considerations, and opportunities both for brands and affiliates. Here are just a few things that have caught my eye: Affiliate-Driven Mobile Sales Doubled Since the Start of 2011 Per Affiliate Window‘s observations “at the start of the […]
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Yesterday Affiliate Summit announced public voting on sessions proposed for Affiliate Summit West 2012, which is going to be held on January 8-10, 2012 in the already-customary Las Vegas, Nevada. They let prospective attendees cast their votes for a week, then the conference’s advisory board votes, and then there are
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Yesterday we’ve lost an American genius, an inspiration to so many of us (especially in the computer- and business-related worlds)… the great Steve Jobs. And today — while there’s no lack of blog posts [hundreds of millions have already been posted!] and articles on who he was and what impact
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Yesterday night a chief executive of a company which runs an affiliate program on a popular network, sent out a newsletter. Most of his affiliates have probably found it in their inboxes early this morning. One of them forwarded it to me. She’s been in the business for a while,
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Following the signing of California statute AB 155 (which I discussed a week ago here) Amazon has invited California-based affiliates — over 10,000 of which were terminated from Amazon’s Associates program in June 2011 — to re-enroll in their affiliate program. As Sarah Duxbury — who, apparently, was one of
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Regardless of whether you are looking at an affiliate network as a merchant (aka advertisers) or an affiliate (aka publisher), I believe there are certain bases that are critical for each affiliate network to cover. And when these foundational bases are not being paid the attention they deserve, they turn
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Yesterday, one of the luminaries of digital marketing, Avinash Kaushik tweeted: In his Google+ post Avinash shared that his blogging strategy has been to follow these 4 principles: 1. Staying focused 2. Publishing only original stuff 3. Sticking to publishing only what’s “incredible, relevant, of value” to your audience 4.
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Earlier this year, after speaking at the Russian Internet Forum at St. Petersburg, I put together a blog post entitled Russia Open to Performance Marketing, But Lacks Basics. In it I wrote that one of the basics that is lacking is payment-related, namely the fact that “some 90% of Russia’s
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On Friday the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, signed AB 155 — “a statute that repeals the Affiliate Nexus Tax law for one year” [source]. I tweeted about it on Friday, and also retweeted the news on Sunday, receiving an immediate question (a very good question): So what’s next? Well,
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Every week I get dozens of emails which follow a format similar to this one: I’ve read your book (or heard you speak at a conference), and loved it I’d love to buy you coffee (or just set up a time to call you, and show what we’re doing) and
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