We have all seen it in other blog posts, twits, and when talking with AM’s out there. Offline Marketing. The most visible of these has been in the dating segment of affiliate marketing. You’ve seen the signs on the street corners… “Single? NameOfYourTownSingles.com”. Add to that all the other methods of offline marketing I’ve seen. [...]
Archive for August, 2009
An interesting development in Italy caught my attention today. After reading about it first on Slashdot, then in the New York Times I was interrupted by the normal things that happen. Picking up my kids from school, banning spammers on AffSpot, etc.
Which gave me enough time to reflect on a quote in the [...]
It seems that the ever efficient Missouri Revenue Department has been querying out of state Affiliate Programs in an attempt to “mine data” so they can try to increase revenues for the state.
MGE was the first to break this out this morning… Their Blog post is only telling part of the tale though. When [...]
If your processing your sales on PayPal and using that same account for personal matters, your next statement may be a shocker.
Personal accounts are now charged a 2.9% fee + 30 cents to receive payments for “Goods” or “Services”, something that was free. And there wasn’t a stand alone announcement of this change either.
But it [...]
“There’s a sucker born every minute” PT Barnum……
A press release has been circulating about a SEO company offering free basic eval and optimization for a single keyword. It all sounds like an altruistic way to develop relationships with potential customers, etc. They even have a fairly cool domain name (www.mastergoogle.com)..
I would have tried this out [...]
I found this first on Slashdot.. Then looking into my own Amazon AWS tracks I was even in this AWS discussion a couple days ago wondering the same thing.
The short of it is that if your running Amazon AWS with a shopping cart.. You’d better not be storing customer credit card data on it.
Jason [...]
