Yesterday I realized that, regardless of the fact that nearly every one of us is on Facebook, out of tens of thousands of my blog’s visitors only 299 (well, I did think the number was a bit higher, as you can see from the below screenshot) “liked” AM Navigator’s Facebook page (i.e. are following the [...]

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Geno on November 15th, 2011

Yesterday, GrowMap blogged on What NOT to Tweet on Twitter, and when I first saw the post’s title (in Ann Smarty’s ReTweet) I thought the post was going to be on something else — namely, on things not to tweet for security or reputation management reasons. While I enjoyed that GrowMap’s post regardless, it also gave [...]

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Geno on June 23rd, 2011

We may argue about the effectiveness of social media presence/campaigns for business promotion and sales generation, but one thing that no one seems to doubt is that it is one of the hottest topics in present-day marketing. Whether fueled by a global hype or not, but Google Instant keeps popping suggestions on social media marketing [...]

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Geno on March 1st, 2011

When running an affiliate program on a tight budget you inevitably face a challenging reality: good tools normally cost good money. You, on the other hand, may not necessarily have enough to invest into all of the paid tools you may need. Do not despair! There is a number of great tools out there that [...]

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This morning was off to a rough start: with my little Princess — who was (and actually still is) meant to accompany me and my wife on our trip to Las Vegas (to Affiliate Summit West 2011) — waking up with a fever and nausea. I had to make a decision quick as we had [...]

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Yesterday brought an interesting news — Zibaba, a Facebook ecommerce storefront provider, is set to launch their (first one around?) Facebook-based affiliate marketing platform. The network is scheduled to launch at the end of January 2011. Both merchants and affiliates are gonna be charged to participate (between $20 and $100 a month “depending on their [...]

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Geno on December 23rd, 2010

In the beginning of this month Facebook rolled out a new profile page design, where (among other things) besides the profile picture your friends may now also see the last 5 pictures in which you were tagged. Yesterday night I have finally decided to switch to the new Facebook layout. Being particularly impressed by the [...]

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Two months ago “at an event at its Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters” Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of new Facebeook Groups. GigaOM wrote: CEO Mark Zuckerberg called groups “a fundamental building block” and the biggest problem in social networking,” and said after considering the issue for a long time, Facebook has determined the best solution [...]

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Geno on December 15th, 2010

A fellow affiliate marketer, Tim Jones, has just tweeted: Yes, earlier today Mark Zuckerberg has been named the TIME‘s 2010 Person of the Year. The wording goes as follows: For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing [...]

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Geno on November 21st, 2010

Google Insights for Search is revealing an interesting pattern about people’s searches for “Black Friday” and related key phrases. From 2008 to 2010, the consumer interest in Black Friday deals has been moving to earlier dates every year (happening a month earlier every year). Here’s what Google has registered between 2007 and 2010: in 2007 [...]

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