For a long (in fact, way too long of a) time affiliate marketing experts did not have a seat the CMO’s table when digital strategy was discussed and online customer acquisition channels were budgeted for. In 2015, however, we have finally noticed a significant change in this as (a) more research has […]
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IBM Coremetrics has just added Cyber Monday 2011 data to their benchmark report I blogged about yesterday. Here are the things that have caught my eye: Cyber Monday 2011 — 5 Noteworthy Facts Overall spending increase — Online sales were up 33% over 2010, 29.3% up over Black Friday 2011,
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Typically, yield is being used as an investment term that reflects a return on investment (ROI) normally expressed as a percentage, and tied to a period of time. Since ROI is what affiliate marketing is all about, a week ago I asked merchants to help me determine the yield (or
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Over two years ago replying to a question of what percentage of sales an affiliate program can bring I wrote: Much depends on (a) the size of the business at the point of starting the affiliate program, and (b) the niche in which the business operates. In reality, it is
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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 »
Every year we see multiple surveys being conducted around various areas of digital marketing, but sometimes when looking at the number of respondents, we think: “Nah… This is just too small of an audience to be indicative of the overall trend!” or “350 people they’ve surveyed can’t be sufficient enough
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I’ve just come across an interesting article by Multichannel Merchant, a Chief! Marketer publication, where the author looks at the results of The State of Retailing Online 2010 survey recently conducted by Forrester Research for Shop.org. Comparing paid search to social media marketing, Multichannel Merchant points out: …According to the
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A few days ago, having registered that in April 2010 “35 million consumers visited coupon sites” (a number that was up 5% from the year before), Compete reminded us of the findings of their “Online Shopper Intelligence” study originally released in February 2010. In the ranking of sources / tools
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Just finished flipping through the newest eCommerce Research Report by Multichannel Merchant. It makes a good and interesting read, especially in light of the fact that online sales are currently growing considerably faster than offline ones [more here], and it is interesting to see what multichannel marketers value most, and
Social Media Use on the Rise, Affiliate & Mobile Underestimated Read More »
A recently published report based on a research by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PriceWaterhouseCoopers has registered a 4.2% growth of the UK Internet advertising spending, which reached £3.5 billion in 2009. IAB has also reported that between 2000 and 2009, the Internet marketing expenditure has grown by 2,200%
UK Affiliate Marketing Grows by 38% in 2009 Read More »