Naturally, explaining what an OPM does is not any simpler than describing what affiliates do, or what affiliate marketing is. In fact, it is quite a bit more complex, because you first have to explain what is affiliate marketing, who are affiliates, what is an affiliate program, and only then… why in the world merchants [...]
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Signs (and news) of e-commerce growth are always exciting to follow. United States In the U.S., for example, eMarketer expects a 15% YOY growth in 2011, and some $362 billion by the end of 2016. Chris Goward‘s recent tweet read: Good news! Ecommerce sales to reach $224.2 billion this year, up 15% from 2011 – eMarketer [...]
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In case you have not heard, less than 2 days from now (on March 1, 2012) Google’s new unified privacy policy — which allows them to harvest your personalized search and browsing information tying it to your Google accounts (including Gmail, YouTube, etc) — takes effect. Not everyone’s happy about it. The lawyers at the [...]
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If you’ve been to Affiliate Summits, you know that as you enter the room to attend any session (be it a keynote presentation, a breakout session, or an “Ask the Experts” one), you are handed a feedback form. I love the way they’re encouraging people to participate in the betterment of the event by providing [...]
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Starting from the beginning of this month a “What I Really Do” meme has been going around (spread especially actively via Facebook), reflecting “a range of preconceptions associated with” various fields of “occupation or expertise” — from photographers and graphic designers to directors and entrepreneurs [more here]. So I’ve decided to put one together for [...]
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As you may have read elsewhere my recently-published Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day has been nominated for Small Business Book Awards 2012 — in the Marketing category. This is the fourth year that these awards are being run by Small Business Trends. Here’s how they themselves describe the awards: …Reader’s Choice “Small Business [...]
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Over the past couple of years, many of the world’s top business schools have become pretty active on social media, Twitter included. In fact, some maintain several accounts (for example, I could count 5 different Twitter account for University of Chicago’s Booth School of Management; yet, since my below ranking is based on follower-count, none [...]
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Quick timeline: Dec 1, 2011 — new brand’s website launched Dec 5, 2011 — official announcement and press release go live Jan 12, 2012 — second press release is published Dec 6, 2011 – Jan 18, 2012 — over a dozen of articles appear Analyzing the keywords that drive traffic to the website I see [...]
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