For years I’ve pleaded with affiliate networks to follow ShareASale’s example and allow merchants to mass-upload creatives. A couple of weeks ago I’ve once again exchanged messages with Commission Junction (this time on Twitter): Yesterday I’ve noticed that CJ has introduced a new sleek “Links” interface, and has also made […]
Commission Junction Now Allows Merchants to Bulk Upload Text Links Read More »
Earlier this morning I’ve had a privilege of speaking at the Russian Internet Forum at St. Petersburg in the in the city’s largest conference hotel (and we’re talking a city with a population of over 5 million people), Pribaltiyskaya. I must admit, I’ve been impressed. The conference has had 3,128
Russia Open to Performance Marketing, But Lacks Basics… Read More »
Some affiliate networks offer ways to advertise your affiliate program to their affiliate base. ShareASale is one of the networks I have most experience with, especially when it comes to these internal affiliate recruitment options. I’ve tried different ShareASale options in the past, and have found two to be of
ShareASale: Featured Program of the Week vs Holiday Center Read More »
Earlier this morning a new RingRevenue press release has hit the wire. It covers how financial services marketers are benefiting from call performance marketing, and also introduces a white paper case study on financial services. The white paper is an interesting read, discussing the challenges facing financial services marketers today
Pay Per Call Marketing: Adoption by Financial Services Industry Read More »
Less than a week ago in an intro to this post, I blogged how pleasing to my (and I’m sure every affiliate marketer’s) eye it is to see new developments at different affiliate networks. Now, in addition to ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network and LinkShare, we have AvantLink with their February
Official WordPress Plugin by AvantLink: Announcement & How-To Read More »
It’s great to see affiliate networks developing. Last week ShareASale launched their new merchant interface. A couple days after that Google Affiliate Network announced product APIs for affiliates. Yesterday Shawn Collins wrote about buy.at‘s new product search feature for affiliates. Today I’d like to bring to you another network-related news
LinkShare Mobile Publisher Dashboard: Announcement & How-To Read More »
An affiliate emailed me the following question about a program run on an affiliate network: I’d like you to send me a custom text link that I can modify as necessary — the html code in which I can plug in any web address and text. The answer will depend
Custom Linking on LinkShare, ShareASale & Commission Junction Read More »
I’ve spotted this story yesterday morning in a Russian online newspaper, but couldn’t find it anywhere on the English-speaking web then. Had to wait until later in the day to see it published by AFP, and picked up by a number of other news channels including Bloomberg, Reuters, CNN, and
Google Convicted of Defaming a Convicted Sex Offender? Read More »
No matter what the communication piece (a 140-character-long tweet or a newsletter), or the context (affiliate-oriented, customer- or client-focused, etc), it will benefit from the following 3 Ps. In fact, I believe these 3 elements to be integral components of any effective communication. Let me illustrate each by looking at
The 3 P's of Effective Communication Read More »
If you’ve attended the most recent Affiliate Summit East in New York (August 15-17, 2010) or Search Engine Strategies in San Francisco (August 16-20, 2010), you have probably already seen the newest August 2010 (issue 5) edition of the Revenue Performance magazine. This issue has published my recent interview with
Interview with Jason Spievak, CEO of RingRevenue Read More »