It seems like only yesterday I blogged about reaching 16,000 tweets, and the wins of focused tweeting, but the day before yesterday I’ve already crossed the 17,000 mark, and am now approaching a major milestone — that of 4,000 followers. And, as tweeted yesterday I’ve decided to put together a contest around it. The idea [...]

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Geno on October 14th, 2011

Two weeks ago, shortly after delivering my keynote address at a conference in Israel, I agreed to keynote another international conference, and took my passport to an embassy in Washington, DC. Today I’ve received my passport back, and you may see a part of my visa on the left. Yes, my next stop is China. [...]

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Geno on October 13th, 2011

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 current year the mobile channel [...]

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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 also votes from Missy Ward [...]

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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 the booted affiliates as well [...]

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Geno on September 23rd, 2011

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 “pick your brain” on how/what [...]

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Geno on September 22nd, 2011

Klout has been publishing lists of online influencers for some time already. Not surprisingly, an area that hasn’t been touched so far is affiliate marketing — a field too niche for the general public, yet one of tremendous interest to those of us who are breathing and living it every day. So, as soon as [...]

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Geno on September 10th, 2011

Much has happened over the past week in the affiliate marketing world, but the following 5 posts of various affiliate marketing bloggers are the ones I’d like to highlight today. Why? Because these posts have covered some of the more important affiliate news of the week of 4-9 September, 2011: No firms have agreed to [...]

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Yesterday (on September 8, 2011) eBay Partner Network affiliates had a new feature added to their reports — one “that breaks out mobile traffic from classic (non-mobile) traffic.” Here are some screenshots that eBay has sent me to visualize the tool better: Filter Traffic by Type View Mobile Traffic eBay announced this addition to their [...]

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A little over a month ago I blogged about 7 affiliate marketers who were nominated for Small Business Influencers 2011 awards, an initiative by Small Business Trends to highlight those “who have made a significant impact on the North American small business market.” On the day that I spoke at Affiliate Summit East a couple [...]

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