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Although in-store sales only increased .5% (according to the AP Wire) Black Friday was a bonanza for Affiliate Marketers and online retailers.  Top U.S. retailers saw a 27% rise in online traffic as consumers reacted positively to promotions, according to ShopLocal, Gannett Co.’s online marketing service.  And sales showed even more strength…
Shoppers spent 35 per [...]

Alot of people have written alot of things about the new FTC Endorsement rules…  And a few things I’ve gathered from it all (and reading the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising) is this…
Old Blogposts that still are being read as people visit your site would be current (i.e. new) activity.  [...]

On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower sailed. It manifest included a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford.
The journey to the New World was a long and difficult trip. And when the Pilgrims landed on the New England cost in November, they found, according to Bradford’s detailed journal, a cold, barren, [...]

Sometimes you forget the simplest things.  Like skipping the one thing that can make your Black Friday / Cyber Monday efforts pay now and well into the future.  If your smart your all done with the heavy lifting for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  Well, outside of doing the promotion updates themselves.  But you already [...]

An article in the New York Times caught my attention this week.  The title “Marketing Your Business with Facebook” sounded so much like a PLR article or “guru e-book” I just had to take a look.  And overall, it isn’t bad.  But a few additional nuggets of gold were provided by Doug52 in the AffSpot [...]

Not making your customers mad isn’t a goal.  It’s an expectation.  And my own personal expectations are making me think twice about using a particular checkout ever again.
It’s Ebay…  And PayPal…  Why they put me through such hoops just to pay for something I cannot figure out.
Now don’t get me wrong.  I love Ebay.  I [...]

Blue Book is a publication put out by Revenue Performance Magazine.  And we discovered they put out a Top 20 list of Affiliate Performance Networks today.  Even better…  We spotted a twitter tweet..  With a link…  That had an attached file…  That had the list.
So we looked it over…  And we would change the ordering [...]

The biggest headache with affiliate datafeeds is that every merchant has a different format.  Which has spawned an entire industry of various service providers that do nothing but transpose the datafeeds into a common format that makes it easier for an Affiliate Marketer to import.
But, paying big money just to have datafeeds isn’t economically smart [...]

TopSEOs ranked the Top Ten Affiliate Marketing Companies and it isn’t a suprise to see active AffSpot Forum members taking the top three positions!
Evan Weber’s Experience Advertising took #1 with Peter Bordes’ MediaTrust taking second and Heather Paulsons Paulson Management Group sitting at number 3.   And Michael Vorels VastPlanet is showing up at #9 on [...]