Geno Prussakov 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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Geno Prussakov on October 6th, 2011

Yesterday we’ve lost an American genius, an inspiration to so many of us (especially in the computer- and business-related worlds)… the great Steve Jobs. And today — while there’s no lack of blog posts [hundreds of millions have already been posted!] and articles on who he was and what impact he has made — I [...]

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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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Geno Prussakov on September 1st, 2011

August has been a busy month, and now that the calendar autumn is already here (yes, happy September 1st, everyone!), I thought it would be nice to put together a list of AM Navigator‘s top picks for the previous month. So, here’s the (chronological) list: The Importance of (Realistic) Affiliate Incentive Programs by Rae Hoffman-Dolan [...]

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Geno Prussakov on August 29th, 2011

The September 2011 issue of Website Magazine — which was distributed to every Affiliate Summit East 2011 attendee just a few days ago — has an interesting article where Peter Prestipino, the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief and good friend of mine, analyzes the affiliate marketing industry in light of data from 2011 AffStat Report released earlier this [...]

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Geno Prussakov on August 18th, 2011

I’ve never noticed this one before, but apparently Facebook now has an “On This Day In [Year Here]” widget in the sidebar. Here’s what mine says today: Yes, I surely remember that one. It was probably the most surprising one I’ve ever seen. Russians have a proverb “Как корабль назовешь, так он и поплывет”. Some [...]

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Geno Prussakov on August 10th, 2011

On Monday, August 8, Pace Lattin of Performance Marketing Insider has drawn the industry’s attention to a lawsuit filed by Reese Richman LLP, the subject of which is “questionable and possibly illegal behavior … by hijacking search queries.” Pace wrote: Using a technology by Paxfire, supposedly DNS redirects from searches on Bing, Yahoo and Google [...]

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Geno Prussakov on August 5th, 2011

It is no secret that content is still king, and bloggers know this like no one else. Regularly updated blogs help achieve amazing SEO results in a matter of seconds; and nearly every successful affiliate I know of blogs at least several times a week. Since WordPress remains to be one of the most popular [...]

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Remember my Competitive Intelligence at the Service of Affiliate Program Managers article at Search Engine People which appeared there back in May of this year? If you didn’t see it yet, that would be a good place to start before continuing reading this post… If, however, you did read it you know that — when [...]

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Geno Prussakov on August 1st, 2011

Over this weekend I did a lot of reading on the causes and possibilities of the US default happening between 2 and 8 August 2011, and it seemed that the more I read, the better the situation became. With the leaks of the latest news of a debt deal, it seems that the default isn’t [...]

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