Geno Prussakov on July 12th, 2009

Interesting forecast data (on global advertising vs interactive marketing) has been published a few days ago by Forrester Research and ZenithOptimedia. Here is my summary: Global advertising market is expected to decline 8.5% this year (North America – 10.3%) Overall advertising budgets will decline as well In 2009 newspaper ad spend will drop 14.7%, magazines [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 11th, 2009

Yes, my five-year-old Princess Anastasia has officially declared that she has decided to become a designer when she grows up. Those of you who know me personally know how proud I am of her, and I have all reasons to believe that if she does indeed go that route, she’ll become the best designer in [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 10th, 2009

Yesterday after I wrote about creating effective landing pages for coupons campaigns, a merchant wrote to me: I am working on banners for my affiliate program. Read your article on the mistakes to avoid. Could you please provide examples of banners done correctly? [bold font mine] The above question gave me the idea for this [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 9th, 2009

A few months ago I wrote how an affiliate campaign can be killed with a landing page, an unthoughtfully created one, or an altogether nonexistent one (scenario when the homepage of the website is used instead). Yesterday I’ve had two people ask me exactly the same question: 1. Do you have any samples of good [...]

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Joshua Odmark has published a post on A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing and Amazon.com where he talked about posting an earnest product recommendation via Twitter, using an affiliate link condensed with a URL shortener, generating sales for Amazon.com, yet receiving no commissions for the customers he referred. “After realizing Amazon was not going to [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 7th, 2009

Looking through the 100 Thoughts on Marketing list Valeria Maltoni has put together earlier today, and thinking of what works best in affiliate marketing, I have decided to compile a list of practical tips for affiliates to use. I’ve come up with 30 thoughts, some of which I have borrowed from Valeria’s list, others — [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 6th, 2009

Some view the communication channel as “the means by which messages get from one individual to another” (Rogers, E.M. (1983), Diffusion of Innovations, p. 17). To me, such a definition allows for a one-way street scenario — when the messages do get announced, but the feedback/cooperation component is lacking. I personally believe that an effective [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 5th, 2009

I have been interviewed by Avangate, the Netherlands-headquartered IT solutions company that also runs an affiliate network for software vendors. Cristian of Avangate asked some interesting and thought-provoking questions, on topics that ranged from how I came into affiliate marketing to the future of affiliate marketing, from techniques of how to best handle communication with [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 4th, 2009

While the work with affiliates does involve a lot of one-on-one communication, relationship building and other non-automatizable components, there are tools that can help you streamline your affiliate program management. This is the topic that my most recent article in the Website Magazine is devoted to. Here’s an excerpt from it: …there are powerful tools [...]

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Geno Prussakov on July 3rd, 2009

Jan Petrovic of ProImpact7.com has interviewed me yesterday. In the course of the interview Jan has asked a number of very good questions that led me to describe my path to becoming an affiliate marketing consultant, my clients and successes, my books, and more specific questions related to affiliate program management. Here’s just one of [...]

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