Earlier this morning, on the final day of Affiliate Summit West 2011, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward announced the winners of 2011 Pinnacle Awards. No, I didn’t win in the Best Blogger category, but am sincerely excited for Eric Nagel who grabbed that award. Here’s the full list of the […]
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Affiliates of Puma.com who haven’t generated a sale in 2010 have just received an email from the program’s manager. Here’s an excerpt from it: I’ve checked my records, and it looks like I personally applied (and got approved) into this particular affiliate program 2 months and 1 week ago: Looking
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Yesterday brought an interesting news — Zibaba, a Facebook ecommerce storefront provider, is set to launch their (first one around?) Facebook-based affiliate marketing platform. The network is scheduled to launch at the end of January 2011. Both merchants and affiliates are gonna be charged to participate (between $20 and $100
Social Shopping & First Facebook Affiliate Platform on Horizon Read More »
Yesterday I’ve learned of BlogDash, a system which provides you with “the tools to find the bloggers who will actually care about your story, company, product” as well as with “all the information … to make a personalized and educated pitch”. BlogDash was actually announced by David Spinks (one of
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An Affiliate Summit newcomer has just emailed me the following: I wanted to be prepared as possible for the upcoming summit, and had a couple of questions for you. I have experience as a affiliate program manager and wanted to use the summit as an opportunity to primarily meet and
How to Make the Most of Affiliate Summit Conference: 10 Tips Read More »
The famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse is known for saying: “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth.” For an affiliate marketer (and any online marketer, for that matter!) the “place to stand” remains the same as in
5 Hot Trends for Affiliate Marketers to Leverage in 2011 Read More »
My Norton Internet Security is expiring in 10 days. Today I decided to renew it for two more years, and was quite surprised that it is cheaper to open an all new subscription than to renew an existing one: I then tweeted about this and received a quick reply from
When Renewals Cost More Than Subscriptions: Symantec Case Read More »
Today is the first day of 2011, and as many of you I have once again made up a list of my New Year’s resolutions . The date of 1/1/11 makes starting new thing and making new decisions especially symbolic today. This year I have split my resolutions into 4
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As it has already become customary (my previous lists: 2009 and 2010), for the third time in a row I am putting together a list of the main affiliate marketing conferences, symposiums, conventions and expos that are going to be held in 2011. As usual, I am using the *
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Earlier this morning ForeSee Results has released their 6th annual Holiday Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a ranking of the top 40 largest online retailers by revenue, scored on customer satisfaction by nearly 10,000 survey respondents. The “holiday” period is defined here as “the holiday shopping season from Thanksgiving
Top 40 Largest Online Retailers. Amazon & Netflix Score Highest Read More »