This is a very important question regardless of whether you are going to market products or services through the affiliate channel. If it is the former, you will pay a lot of attention to deep-linked text links, conveniently formatted and well-categorized data feed, but you will have to have both […]
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Jason Rubacky’s “unique content tips” he’s been systematically posting in ShareASale’s blog since April 17 reminded me of an one amazing post made by Rand Fishkin earlier this month. In it Rand listed and discussed 21 tips that every blogger simply must incorporate into their overall blogging strategy if they
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Several days ago a merchant has contacted me with a good question. They have decided to build an in-house affiliate program, but they do not want to mess with payments, and would much rather outsource the payment part to a third party. So, if they manage their program in-house, track
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Earlier today eMarketer has published some interesting data on blogging, bloggers and blog readers. In their report they’ve looked at the US blogging landscape. While many bloggers fo live outside the United States, here are the two main reasons why it is important to know what is going on in
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Throughout my own affiliate program management practice, and examining other affiliate managers’ styles and techniques, I have noticed that all successful AMs and OPMs* exhibit the three characteristics that I believe to be the key components of success (not only in affiliate program management, but in any management/leadership). If you
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Today Seth Godin has posted a few interesting predictions that point to the fact that “the old world is about to end” and major changes are on the way. He predicts that: a) There will be no significant newspapers printed on newsprint in the US by 2012 b) 90% of
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Earlier this week The Washington Times wrote about the famous shad fishing madness that comes to Fredericksburg, VA every April. The Rappahannock River — which is among Virginia’s best fishing waters for spawning shad — is less than half an hour drive from my home, and yesterday evening I decided
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Almost a month has passed since I have made my Blog — Best Friend of An Affiliate post, and today I would like to return to the topic of running blogs once again. Over the past months I have been noticing a significant growth in traffic of the two blogs
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Call them creative, brilliant, genius, outstanding, or anything else… They are truly worth admiring. Many of you know that I collect these, and today I’ve decided to publish the top 5 advertising ideas that I’ve collected to date. Here they are: #1 – WMF Knives #2 – Coca Cola #3
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<!…they do it beautifully! No, my today’s blog post isn’t going to be related to affiliate marketing or management/leadership. Those of you who know me personally, know how much I love my little five-year-old Princess, and how proud I am of her. But today this little beauty has made me
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