Evolver.fm‘s Eliot Van Buskirk has first suggested this on Tuesday of this week. The following tweet by Bombay Bicycle Club band was used as an example: and here is the itunes link to @lucyrosemusic‘s album bit.ly/OVBbgB — Bombay Bicycle Club (@BombayBicycle) September 24, 2012 The band’s manager confirmed to Evolver.fm […]
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Having seen our friends at a4uexpo do it at a4u forums, and loving the idea, I thought: “Why not do the same for the upcoming Affiliate Management Days East 2012 — especially for affiliate managers that operate on small budgets?!” So here we go: Flash Sale Deal: Get 50% OFF
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As an affiliate manager, one of the most frequently asked questions I receive is “Which one of your program’s creatives performs the best?” When running links/banners performance reports, I noticed that text links perform almost always better across all networks in our affiliate program. Monthly publisher performance when using text
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I thought I would write something about some of the pet hates I have, but also things that are likely to alienate your affiliates. This site is build towards people who want to get more from their affiliate programme. Sometimes you learn just as much from the ‘what not to
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<!1986 was a bad year. In January there was the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Do you remember that one? I turned 9 just the day before it happened, and even thought we were following it from behind the Iron Curtain, I still remember that day well. But did you know
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I was honored to be included on the latest Performance Marketing Association Industry Report podcast, where Lisa Picarille had some great questions for me and Deepa Sureka, Sr Vice President at LinkShare Corporation. We tackled the subject of education in performance marketing (in case you don’t know, but Deepa and
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Not too long ago an interesting piece appeared in MediaPost’s weekly Performance Insider. It was authored by Peter Klein and entitled Online Darwinism And The Evolution of Performance Marketing. Klein suggested that “as the performance marketing industry matures, and as brands seek more sophisticated and legitimate agencies and affiliates to
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Last week I had a good chat with one of the industry’s most famous veterans, James Martell, who hosts his Affiliate Buzz show on Webmaster Radio. We’ve discussed the upcoming Affiliate Management Days East 2012 at length, and you may find the full recording by clicking the image below: Here’s
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<!”If a merchant is running their own paid search campaigns, and also has an affiliate program, how can they ensure that the latter doesn’t cannibalize but compliment the other?” — this is the question that nearly every merchant wonders a few months into running their affiliate program. Some end up
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Yesterday Ann Smarty tweeted: 11 Tools to Find Niche Twitter Influencers awe.sm/c4oAf — Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) September 10, 2012 …and her tweet (and link) gave me an idea for this post: With the plethora of influencer outreach tools out there, why not put together a list of them right here
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