January 2009

Types of Affiliate Websites: Problem-Solving, Entertaining, or Both

In a recent podcast interview, Jim Kukral has referred to an interesting observation. He said that people go online either (i) to solve a problem, or (ii) to be entertained. Don’t you love it when someone finally systematizes it for you? Especially when it so eloquently summarizes your own experience! […]

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The "How Many Affiliates Will You Recruit" Question

Nearly every prospective client that calls me – be it a small one-man-show business that has just started a website, or a large corporation with years-long online presence – asks the same question: “How many affiliates will you recruit for us; and how quickly?” The desire behind the question is clear. The belief is that the

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Twitter. Is There a Crisis Preparedness Plan?

When the whole “twitterdom” is twittering about it, and hundreds of bloggers are writing about it, I simply cannot remain silent, and would like to chime in with my perspective on the situation. Between the phishing attacks over the weekend, and today’s hacking of FoxNews’ Twitter account, followed by a hack of Britney

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Super Affiliate – My Definition

Jeremy Schoemaker’s recent post which included definitions of what super affiliates are, with its link back to his September Twitter poll on the same topic, encouraged me to entertain the question of super affiliate definition in my own blog. As an affiliate program manager, I would define super affiliates in

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