Two weeks ago I started a contest asking you to submit “some of the more innovative and effective ways to find affiliates, reach out to them, or convince them to sign up with affiliate programs.” The prizes at stake were 2 passes to the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2014 (where […]
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There is only one conference in the world that focuses specifically on affiliate program management questions, issues, and challenges. It is the Affiliate Management Days conference that I started in early 2012. Since then we have already had 4 conferences: two in San Francisco, one in Fort Lauderdale, and one in
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On January 13, 2014, I will be presenting at Affiliate Summit West 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This will be my 10th time speaking at Affiliate Summits, and I’m excited that this one will be in my favorite format — a solo presentation. I will dissect the ways to find
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Have you heard of the Internet Retailer’s new Top Tech 2014 Guide yet? This is an eBook based on their 2012 research of “the leading solutions providers to America’s top 1,000 retailers.” Among the providers analyzed they also looked into “affiliate marketing vendors” used by North America’s leading 1,000 e-retailers.
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Earlier this year (in August) Ola Hanø reached out to me describing his new idea and inviting me to participate in a really cool project. The idea was/is to give Twitter users a chance to “meet some of the best experts on Digital Performance Marketing in the World, Europe or
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Autocomplete is a function “built into Google Search designed to make searching faster and easier.” It “predicts and displays queries to choose from. The search queries that you see as part of Autocomplete are a reflection of the search activity of users.” [source] Try typing in “affiliate management” and Google
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Commission Junction affiliates will now notice a new tab in their “Account Manager” interface — one devoted to “Widgets.” Amazon has had these forever. Some other affiliate networks have been offering similar tools for a while too (e.g.: ShareASale’s Make-a-Page tool), and now Commission Junction is enabling affiliates with a
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Whether you are working on link building or affiliate recruitment, you want to know if the recipient’s email address is intact before sending out that message of yours. After all, unless one has valid contact information at hand, how can he expect to make the contact? There are numerous email
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TIME has come up with a fun calculator to estimate “how much money Twitter owes you” (hat tip to Bryan Eisenberg for Tweeting about it). Basically, they divided Twitter‘s $24.9 billion value by the number of daily Tweets (circa 200 billion), arriving at 12.45 cents “per daily eyeball on the
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Earlier this month an interesting email came to me from an advertiser whose affiliate program we started a few months ago (edit: on an affiliate network). Here’s the gist of it (with parts of the text re-worded to hide sensitive information): Recently, both of our main websites got hit by
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