In the course of the past 5-7 days the question that I was asked more often than any other was: What is the size of affiliate marketing industry? While there is no one place which answers this one, there are hints and bits of information all around the place, and […]
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Today, on October 19 2011, at 3:00 pm UK time — or right after finishing their It’s All in the Data panel discussion which finished literally 40 minutes ago at a4uexpo London (nice timing!) — Econsultancy has released its UK Affiliate Census 2011. They haven’t had one out since 2009;
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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
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Typically, yield is being used as an investment term that reflects a return on investment (ROI) normally expressed as a percentage, and tied to a period of time. Since ROI is what affiliate marketing is all about, a week ago I asked merchants to help me determine the yield (or
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Over two years ago replying to a question of what percentage of sales an affiliate program can bring I wrote: Much depends on (a) the size of the business at the point of starting the affiliate program, and (b) the niche in which the business operates. In reality, it is
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In case you haven’t yet heard, Affiliates4u.com has released its 2011 “Performance Marketing Guide”, and I’ve just picked up my copy. It is an impressive 143-pages-long reference book on all things performance marketing, and the best part of it is that it’s available for a free-of-charge download (so, it’s an
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On Tuesday (November 2, 2010) LinkShare affiliate network announced its Q3 2010 progress and highlights: LinkShare in Q3 2010 …more than 110 new advertisers joined the LinkShare Network in the third quarter of 2010, an increase of 25 percent compared to the same quarter in 2009. More than 1,000 advertisers
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Last month Enconsultancy released its “Affiliate Marketing Buyer’s Guide 2010”. This 140-pager “provides details on the issues and trends affecting this £4.6 billion sector, as well as information about best practice and tips for choosing a suitable supplier”, and today I have finally found some time to browse through it.
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I’ve just come across an interesting article by Multichannel Merchant, a Chief! Marketer publication, where the author looks at the results of The State of Retailing Online 2010 survey recently conducted by Forrester Research for Shop.org. Comparing paid search to social media marketing, Multichannel Merchant points out: …According to the
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I’ve just finished reading yesterday’s iMediaConnection article entitled Performance marketing: Avoid the newbie mistakes. Overall, it’s a good article, but there is one thing I cannot agree with. The author wrote: A little secret in performance marketing is that more than 50 percent of total performance transaction volume is driven
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