If you’re planning on attending Affiliate Summit West 2011, and would like to hear me speak, I hereby invite you to a panel I am doing with two (edit: three) distinguished digital marketers (and well-known speakers too) Marty Fahncke, Jim Kukral, and Barbara Rozgonyi (added to panel on 10/27/2010). There […]
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Every year from October through November Affiliate Summit accepts nominations for its Pinnacle Awards, without a doubt “affiliate marketing’s most prestigious, competitive honor for the leaders in the space”. Yesterday they tweeted: Starting from October 8 through November 30 2010, you can submit your nominations in the following six categories:
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Affiliate marketing is alive and well, and the growth numbers published by two major players in the field prove it. Both LinkShare and ValueClick (owner of Commission Junction) have recently analyzed and publicized their Q2 2010 results. LinkShare This affiliate network has recently “announced that more than 190 new advertisers
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If you’re a frequent reader of my blog, you know that I’m constantly on the lookout for new and unique technologies in affiliate marketing. It hit me the other day that there is an unparalleled technology used by AvantLink that I haven’t really heard much about even though it has
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Targeting specifically deals-oriented users Twitter has introduced its new @EarlyBird account. This one will essentially be Twitter’s own account for the distribution of time-sensitive offers and discounts. All you need to do is follow it, and make sure you catch your worm early enough (before it’s gone). Explaining what it
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A few days ago Clarke Duncan, one of the co-founders of Paid On Results UK affiliate network, sent me the following tweet: Paid On Results (POR) were the first affiliate network to create a deep-linking tool for affiliates, and this was back in 2005 [see the way it used to
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Nine months ago, when I blogged my 5-step advice for paid search affiliates, I wrote: Use negative keywords (or keywords for which you do not want your ad to show in paid search results, as they are unlikely to convert into the desirable action) Using negative keywords not only helps
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On 04/22/2010 the Search & Social team has launched the 2010 Search & Social Awards, and I have found out that my blog has been selected as one of the nominees for the “Best Affiliate Marketing Blog” category. It certainly is an honor, especially when I see that I’m running
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One of my favorite affiliate networks, AvantLink, has just announced the launch of a mobile phone application – AvantLink Mobile: AvantLink Mobile allows both affiliates and merchants check their stats on the go (right from their mobile). Affiliate program managers can also review and make decisions on pending affiliate applications,
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In the U.K. an ad agency has developed a tool that seeks to leverage the growing popularity of Social Media introducing affiliate marketing to the wider masses (essentially, anyone who is on Facebook can use it, and earn money through it). Dan Clays of BLM Quantum that has created the
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