Yes, I know, the title of this post may sound nonsensical to mainstream marketers, but give me a minute to explain what I mean a bit further. Over the past two days I have been looking through hundreds of affiliate applications into the DaySpring’s affiliate program, and I’ve been noticing […]
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Let’s start with the definition first: In affiliate marketing, leaks are specifically defined as external links within your website that lead to sites which do not credit your affiliates for the work they perform (as defined by sending you the traffic and potential sales). Some of the most common examples
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No month passes without me returning to the question of coupons and how they do/may affect merchants’ brands. Not too long ago, a colleague of mine, Chris Bishop of 7thingsmedia, addressed this very question in an excellent post on how to “protect [a] brand whilst competing on price and protecting
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This is the question which every merchant who gets into affiliate marketing has to answer at some point. I have seen merchants perceive coupons and promos as variables that make one look “like a discount shop”, bringing the brand value down and hurting the image of the company. I disagree
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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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Today is the 100th day of 2009, and it marks is my 100th non-stop blog post. To celebrate this day, I have decided to make it fun and give away 100 free copies of my latest “Online Shopping Through Consumers’ Eyes: A Study of Online Users’ Responses to 107 Questions”
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As some of you may have already noticed, the famous UK affiliate conference started back in October 2007 by A4U Forum (now known as Affiliates4u.com affiliate marketing community), is expanding beyond London. They’ve been busy with networking roadshows around Europe: in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam and Munich (details here), and in
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It is always an honor to have my articles published, especially so when they are published in affiliate marketing magazines. One of them is, of course, the official magazine of the Affiliate Summit, FeedFront. It’s issue 5 has been made available for online browsing and downloading at Scribd.com today. My
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Cookie stuffing, cookie dropping, forced clicks, or cookie sprinkling is a blackhat marketing method used by affiliates to record tracking cookies on the end user’s machine, without the prior consent of the user, and with the purpose of creating an impression that the customer/user referral is to be attributed to
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I have been thinking of why the discussion on the unethical practices of some loyalty affiliates has been going the way it’s been going (in circles), and it looks like there are two reasons for it (i) failure to communicate clearly at the very outset, and (ii) unwillingness to digest
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