This morning, some interesting news hit the wires: Microsoft announced that it will shut down Skype on May 5, 2025. Skype is a very special brand for AM Navigator. It was our very first major client. Launched in 2003, Skype quickly gained momentum, and wishing to continue the up-and-to-the-right trend, […]
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In December of 2011, I started a conference dedicated to affiliate marketing education for brands that wish to leverage affiliate programs to grow their business. I called it Affiliate Management Days, and positioned it as “a professional forum for affiliate managers and marketing executives responsible for their company’s affiliate marketing
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Back in 2008, I wrote a blog post in which I (a) drew the industry’s attention to a common practice of affiliate managers sending out removal threats in hopes of activating affiliates, and (b) explained why it’s a dead-end strategy. I expanded on this in my 2011 Affiliate Program Management: An
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The very first affiliate program that I started was for my own online business. This was in late 1999, and affiliate marketing was already around. PC Flowers & Gifts, commonly acknowledged as the world’s first affiliate program, was launched ten years prior. Yet, the late 90s (and early 00s) was
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With the start of 2024 just around the corner, it’s time for us to bring you our fifteenth (yes, we’ve been publishing them every year since 2009) list of affiliate marketing conferences and events to consider attending in the new year. As is already traditional, we’ll be updating the below
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2023 is coming up and for our fourteenth time in a row — yes, we’ve been compiling them since 2009! — we’d like to bring you the list of all affiliate marketing conferences to keep in mind in 2023. As always, we’ll keep updating the below list throughout the year.
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One of the most powerful ways to make anyone truly ponder on the present is to envisage the future and more specifically: the end. Stephen Covey popularized this idea in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” pinpointing “beginning with the end in mind” as one of the key habits
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A good friend of mine (who worked at AM Navigator for several years in the past) has happily lived in Kyiv, Ukraine but had to flee the country once the war started. Last week, when I was checking on her, she shared with me that now, with all of the
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Epigraph John Ruskin, who is often remembered for his contributions to Victorian-era literature, philosophy, and art critique, was also quite keen on social economics. Among his numerous observations, he brilliantly drew the line under the question of cost. His concept is often called The Common Law of Business Balance and
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It’s hard to believe it but for more than a decade, AM Navigator has been publishing affiliate marketing predictions for new years. It started with my personal predictions for 2010, followed by ten years of me compiling predictions of other experts besides myself, and for 2021 I published this one
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