Wondering how the U.S. online retail will look over the next few years?
Clark Fredricksen of eMarketer has forwarded me some interesting projection data for the period from 2008 through 2013. Here’s the table:
As you can see, the above summary was prepared by eMarketer in June 2009 (so the 2008 numbers are based on actual data, [...]
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One of my favorite affiliate networks, AvantLink, has just announced the launch of a mobile phone application – AvantLink Mobile:
AvantLink Mobile allows both affiliates and merchants check their stats on the go (right from their mobile). Affiliate program managers can also review and make decisions on pending affiliate applications, while affiliates may review recently launched [...]
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Should you care to know, today is already the 80th day of 2010 (seems like it’s been just yesterday that I’ve made my New Years resolutions, and we’re already that far into the year… wow). This being a nice round number, I have decided to analyze which of my 2010 already-posted blog thoughts/posts/articles have been [...]
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In the course of this week two affiliate networks sent out newsletters: Google Affiliate Network (GAN) – to advertisers/merchants, and ShareASale (SAS) – to affiliates.
Google Affiliate Network’s Newsletter to Advertisers
I really like the way GAN is providing their merchants with a “monthly dashboard” report where Google gives a good visual overview of what’s been going [...]
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Brad Crooks, a Colorado-based photographer and affiliate marketer, has posted an important link on his Facebook wall — a link to Tax Foundation’s new report on the harm and failures of the affiliate/advertising tax:
I have purposely highlighted, Brook Schaaf’s comment which I echo 100%. I agree that calling it an “Amazon tax” narrows (and shifts) [...]
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In late August 2009 eBay announced, and in September 2009 implemented their Quality Click Pricing affiliate compensation model which essentially meant moving from their previous CPA model to a CPC model (details in my eBay Partner Network Will Now Pay for Clicks post). The concept was developed back in late 2008 – early 2009, [...]
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Over the past few months my wife and myself have become huge fans of Darrell Bush’s art, and shortly after falling in love with his paintings we were happy to find out that Buffalo Games produces jigsaw puzzles based on his artwork. We bought our first one some two months ago, and when my wife [...]
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Here’s the latest news from the “affiliate tax” battlefields:
Colorado
The bill did pass motion yesterday: 6 “yes” to 5 “no”, but there is still hope. Read more in Rebecca Madigan’s Colorado Affiliates Rocked the House! post.
Update (as of late evening 01/29/10): 33 voted for the Colorado HB-1193 “affiliate tax” bill. It has passed in the House, [...]
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As I was flying from from Washington, DC to Las Vegas for the Affiliate Summit West 2010 this morning, I’ve been reading this month’s Internet Retailer magazine, and here are some of the interesting things I’ve picked up so far:
Ashford.com – whose sales saw an increase from 6 million last year to $10 million this [...]
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