ShopAtHome.com or How Affiliate Marketing Gets Hurt

Let me start with a story, a true story. I hosted a table at the last Affiliate Summit’s Meet Market. Meet Markets are networking events held for the purpose of affiliates, merchants, affiliate networks, outsourced affiliate program managers, and other agencies to “meet-and-greet” each other during the first day of

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The "How Many Affiliates Will You Recruit" Question

Nearly every prospective client that calls me – be it a small one-man-show business that has just started a website, or a large corporation with years-long online presence – asks the same question: “How many affiliates will you recruit for us; and how quickly?” The desire behind the question is clear. The belief is that the

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7 Marketing Strategies for the Ultimate Ecommerce Launch

Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Enfroy (and excellent one, we must admit). The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author. The ecommerce industry is growing rapidly at a rate of 23% year-over-year. Yet, many ecommerce stores still lack the proper marketing strategy to build awareness and

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FMTC Rolls Out a Much-Needed Data Feed Cleanup Tool

Data feed — a file (.CSV, .XML, .XLS or any other type) that lists a merchant’s product information which merchants provide to affiliates enabling them to feature the merchant’s products right on affiliate-built websites [more here]. Cleanup — the act or process of cleaning up [source]. Unclean data feeds have been an ongoing problem. Once

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James Martell Previews AM Days East 2012 on Webmaster Radio

Last week I had a good chat with one of the industry’s most famous veterans, James Martell, who hosts his Affiliate Buzz show on Webmaster Radio. We’ve discussed the upcoming Affiliate Management Days East 2012 at length, and you may find the full recording by clicking the image below: Here’s

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