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 […]
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Earlier today Colorado-based affiliates participating in the Amazon Associates program (Amazon’s affiliate program) have received a notice of immediate termination. Shawn Collins posted the full text of it here. Here’s an excerpt: Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado
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A number of interesting posts and articles have appeared online during the first week of March 2010, and I have not touched on any of these in my daily posts. So, I am posting the list below: Affiliate Marketing Webinar on affiliate legislation by Affiliate Advocacy – March 9 at
Spotlight on Links: 1-7 March 2010 Read More »
As any marketing program, affiliate program requires a budget. While it is true that comparing to many other types of online advertising, affiliate marketing generally requires a significantly smaller budget, it does require one. Below you may find a basic breakdown of expenses that you should be prepared to incur:
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Having studied my posts on the affiliate coupons, a merchant has emailed me asking about the sizes of banners I would recommend for coupons. I replied: “give affiliates a 125 x 125 px square, and a 88 x 31 px button for each”, and received the following question back: We
Affiliate Coupon Banners: Sizes, Info to Include, Samples Read More »
In an interview I’ve given for the Search Engine Journal (SEJ) — which went live earlier this morning, and may be read in its entirety here — I was asked one of the questions that new affiliates frequently ask themselves (and others too). The question was: “Which niches are more
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I love statistics, and I was certainly happy to find the below “The State of the Internet” video by JESS3 (Jesse Thomas) on Vimeo today: Only one criticism: being so jam-packed with numbers, a video that’s close to 4 minutes long is frankly a bit hard to digest. I am
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I’ve been thinking a lot about one particular type of loyalty affiliates lately — the type that encourages their website visitors to fill out surveys, submit application forms, order samples, and get paid for it. This type of publishers is essentially as sub-type of incentive affiliates. These affiliates frequently sell
Incentivized Traffic: Easy Earnings or Headache for Advertisers? Read More »
One of my favorite affiliate networks in the world has changed hands again. Two years ago AOL acquired Buy.at for some £75 million ($150 million), making it into a separate unit within Advertising.com [source]. See also AOL’s official press release here. Today, it has been reported that “Digital Window, the
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