In the U.K. an ad agency has developed a tool that seeks to leverage the growing popularity of Social Media introducing affiliate marketing to the wider masses (essentially, anyone who is on Facebook can use it, and earn money through it).
Dan Clays of BLM Quantum that has created the tool says that the “Social Affiliate” [...]

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Geno on January 15th, 2010

Back in mid-October I wrote about the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2010, which as all previous West Coast summits is being held in Las Vegas, NV, and starts this Sunday (January 17) to go on through Tuesday (January 19). This is going to be the largest Affiliate Summit ever, gathering 4,125 affiliate marketers from [...]

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Geno on December 19th, 2009

I’ve been busy writing about other stuff during the week, and saved the news for the very end of it. Today I am excited to bring you my December 2009 news, which are: (i) joining of an advisory board of a major conference, and (ii) printing articles in December issues of three magazines.
First things first, [...]

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Geno on December 16th, 2009

ShareASale’s annual Performance Awards were instituted in 2008, but time flies fast, and 2009 is already coming to an end. So, yesterday ShareASale has announced the winners for Year 2009.
The Performance Awards are given in six categories, and eight winners have been selected this time: one per each of the first five, and three [...]

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Geno on December 15th, 2009

The finalists of the fourth annual Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards (three per category) have just been announced.

I am privileged and humbled to make the “Best Blogger” category:

Thank you, everyone who nominated me. It’s a tremendous honor.

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Geno on November 2nd, 2009

Earlier today Janet Meiners Thaeler (aka NewspaperGirl) tweeted:

CMP.ly is said to have been born “in response to a continued push for transparency and honesty in blogging and within social media and digital communications”. This solution seeks to address the problem of “no established structure or format for disclosures to follow”, and provide “a series of [...]

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For the fourth time in a row Affiliate Summit is planning on awarding its already traditional annual Pinnacle Awards.
They will be presented at Affiliate Summit West 2010 in Las Vegas, NV on January 19, 2010. Starting from today (through November 30, 2009), you can submit your nominations for the following six categories:

Affiliate of the [...]

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Today is the 300th day of 2009. My New Year’s resolution for this year was to produce quality blog content on a daily basis. Therefore, today marks the 300th day of my non-stop blogging (at least one post a day). To celebrate it I have decided to put together a contest.
The idea for the contest [...]

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Today I have received a confirmation that my Affiliate Summit West 2010 speaking proposal has been accepted. This is going to be my third time presenting at this affiliate marketing conference, but it is always a great honor, and I am very much looking forward to feeling those butterflies in my stomach again.
Affiliate Summit [...]

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Geno on September 16th, 2009

It is always a pleasure to see affiliate networks adding new tools and functions for merchants to use. A month ago I blogged about a new technology by buy.at to help prevent the stealing of exclusive affiliate coupons [more here]. Today I’d like to draw merchants’ and affiliate networks’ attention to AvanLink.
For as long as [...]

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