It’s been some time since my Top 20 Affiliate Marketing Bloggers to Watch in 2011 post. And besides the fact that one of these twenty has claimed her Affiliate Summit’s best blogger award (Tricia Meyer, who is now inspired to reach new blogging heights, and, of course, belongs on my […]
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For ages there has been an inherent disconnect between the promotional method an incentive affiliate uses, and the end goal of every pay-per-lead program — or that of generating “potential sales contacts“. After all, when the chief end-user motivator is cashback, points, virtual currency, or anything of this kind, it
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I’m sure that in the past you have come across blog posts about affiliate marketing being “dead”, “dying”, too crowded, too risky, too dependent on this or that, and so on, and so forth… However, over the past few days I have witnessed a few signs that point in a
Affiliate Marketing Isn't Just Alive and Well… It's Thriving! Read More »
It is interesting to look back to (and analyze) the predictions that were made in late 2010 regarding 2011. Some of them were right on the money, some didn’t take root (yet)… But it’s time to create a similar post for the Year 2012, which is already here. So, just
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I have done this in 2009, 2010, and in 2011. And now again, for the fourth time in a row I am happy to bring you worldwide affiliate marketing events (conferences, symposiums, conventions and expos) that are worth considering in 2012, which will be here in less than 3 days.
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I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but a new book has recently been published by a co-founder of what is today Google Affiliate Network. Jeff Molander authored “Off the Hook Marketing”, which positions itself as a book on how “to make platforms like Twitter,” Facebook, YouTube, “and blogs
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IBM Coremetrics has just added Cyber Monday 2011 data to their benchmark report I blogged about yesterday. Here are the things that have caught my eye: Cyber Monday 2011 — 5 Noteworthy Facts Overall spending increase — Online sales were up 33% over 2010, 29.3% up over Black Friday 2011,
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Earlier today IBM Coremetrics published their Black Friday 2011 benchmark report (thanks to Bryan Eisenberg for tweeting about it), and while there has been an impressive 24.3% increase in overall online sales over last year’s figures, it is the mobile channel that has shown the most impressive to me growth.
Mobile Black Friday 2011: Traffic Exceeds 14%, Sales Hit 10% Read More »
According to the calculations of the National Retail Federation last year over 200 million consumers spent some $45 Billion on Black Friday. This year, eMarketer predicts that $47 Billion to be spent online during the holiday season in the U.S. alone. And historically, it so happens that holiday-related sales growth
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Remember my 2009 post about Bank of America becoming a loyalty affiliate? Another classic example of a major brand acting as a cashback affiliate, which has just caught my eye, is ShopDiscover: And just like it was with the Bank of America — where you had “to be a user
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