In an effort to bring an “online Twitter mini-mall” to consumers LinkShare has announced a #tweetshop tool which allows affiliates to tweet recommendations of merchants’ products for their followers to see. Recommendations can be put together within one interface, and here’s a LinkShare’s video on how this works: Very cool
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Today is the 300th day of 2009. My New Year’s resolution for this year was to produce quality blog content on a daily basis. Therefore, today marks the 300th day of my non-stop blogging (at least one post a day). To celebrate it I have decided to put together a
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In a recent interview to CNBC Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, has made a very good point. When asked about the competition (whether too much being made of Microsoft competing with Google on the search front, or with Apple on other fronts), he said that it’s important to understand what creates
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I have been recommending affiliates to use keyword-rich domain names more aggressively, and I myself have been experimenting with different types of domains and how well they do with search engines. Today I would like to share with you my experience with hyphenated domain names. Some are saying that hyphens
To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate a Domain Name? Read More »
Attention deficit is a serious problem in itself, but all the more so when you observe it in people whose primary role is in providing you with customer service. Both for the sake of notifying the affiliate network, and to find out what their recommendation would be, we reported the
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Interesting statistics has been announced by the Pew Internet & American Life Project today. Out of the 2,253 online Americans they have surveyed (via phone interviews), 19% say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others”. As expected, “mobile users are
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If I were asked which WordPress plugins I would recommend to bloggers that use this popular platform, and want to enhance the usability component, I would list the following five: 1. Akismet [plugin’s site] by Matt Mullenweg – Checks comments posted in your blog against their own database and places suspicious ones
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Many of you I’m sure have seen the below tweet about a plumber coming out to my place to give me an estimate for a replacement of a kitchen sink (with installation of new faucet and disposer): RotoRooter has never responded back (even though they are very active on Twitter).
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Today I have received a confirmation that my Affiliate Summit West 2010 speaking proposal has been accepted. This is going to be my third time presenting at this affiliate marketing conference, but it is always a great honor, and I am very much looking forward to feeling those butterflies in
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I have a ZoneAlarm® Pro Firewall installed on my machine. This morning when I turned my computer on, it ran a routine scan for spyware and threats, and deleted the following cookies: Two of the above (Apmebf and Qksrv) are Commission Junction (CJ) cookies, and one (Linksynergy) is a LinkShare
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