Golden Link Awards by LinkShare are traditionally awarded at their New York City Symposium – to celebrate “excellence and innovation in Rakuten LinkShare Network” — which happens on an annual basis. Last year I was honored to make the list of finalists. This year I was asked to judge the
And the Winners of 2012 Rakuten LinkShare Golden Link Awards Are… Read More »
Less than three weeks have passed since our announcement of one affiliate acquiring another one for nearly $135 million, and today we’re happy to report another major merger. This time we’re noticing something similar yet different — Valpak, a company traditionally focused on “offline” coupons, is being merged with Savings.com,
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As I am working on putting together an exciting agenda for Affiliate Management Days East 2012 (which per your votes is going to be held in Florida), I would like to also ask you to express your opinion on the location for Affiliate Management Days West 2013. We loved San
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In an industry like affiliate marketing, it does sometimes happen so that a number of news “pile up” on the same day. However, this normally coincides with major digital marketing conferences, or events of their scale. Today the former is true, while the latter isn’t (no offense to ForumCon which,
3 News: LinkShare Awards, Guest Blogging, AM Days Speaker Deadline Read More »
Yesterday afternoon a really cool news landed in my email inbox from China: Wiley has signed a contract with a Beijing-based publisher for the translation and publication of my Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day book! About half a year ago I keynoted a conference in China, and was
Affiliate Management Hour Book to Be Published in Chinese! Read More »
We certainly don’t see this happen often — in fact, I don’t recall an affiliate merger/acquisition of this size ever (a year ago WhaleShark Media acquired VoucherCodes.co.uk for $40 (£25) million, while in 2010 they paid $90m for RetailMeNot.com in the U.S., and we thought those were impressive) — and
One UK Affiliate Acquires Another for £87 Million ($134.5 Million) Read More »
It seems like only yesterday — with a butterflies-in-my-stomach type of excitement — I announced the launch of the world’s first affiliate program management conference. In case you missed the San Francisco one in March (which turned out to be a great success), here are the recaps of all 29
Affiliate Management Days Coming to Florida. Apply to Speak Read More »
With ShareASale’s ThinkTank 2012 and Affiliate Summit Central 2012 being just around the corner I am getting more and more emails about scheduling meetings at these events. Unfortunately, I am not going to attend either of these. Neither am I gonna be at a4uexpo Europe 2012 in 5 weeks. To
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Earlier in the morning a quick Twitter interaction has occurred between me and an attendee of the Russian Internet Forum 2012: @PShkapenko That’s def. one way to put it. 420 pages in 9 minutes. Would’ve made a beautiful title. 😉 — Geno Prussakov (@ePrussakov) April 19, 2012 [Translation of Pavel
Role of Management in Affiliate Program Development (Russian Video) Read More »
If you’re following my tweets, you may have already seen this one, but if you aren’t, four days ago I got my official invitation to speak at Russia’s largest conference on all things Internet (and, of course, online marketing too): Got an official confirmation of my participation at #RIF /
Speaking on Affiliate Management at Russian Internet Forum Moscow Read More »