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I gave a webinar on this very subject last Sunday evening.  Basically I covered three points (each with their own subset of points).

Your Customers are Everywhere – Go where they are and bring them back to your site/store/blogs
Use automation to put routine updates in the locations you need in the formats best suited (via RSS)
Be [...]

Opportunity knocks in the strangest ways sometimes.  Being a big believer in Luck = Preperation + Opportunity I have retained several domain names over the years.  Mostly of places I’ve lived, activities I enjoy, etc.  And I maintain them mostly through automation and a brief posting every few weeks or so.
Then, over this past weekend..  [...]

Granted, the application of statistical analysis used in baseball (specifically, Sabermetrics, invented by Bill James) seems to be a little “out there”.  And it is, kind’ve.  But using the data available lets us do more than simply report the measurement of observations of our campaigns.  You can take these observations and apply the numbers in [...]

(Guest Post by Simon Gornick, CEO of Spotcher)
As the economy tightens, advertisers and their agencies are looking inward to discover the best way to deliver effective marketing messages.
The landscape is in a state of deep flux. There are a flood of new approaches out there, all competing for eyeballs. But there’s [...]

Amazon is doing the unthinkable over in the UK right now. Remember PPC going away in the US a few months ago? Well now they’re doing it in the UK and it does not bode well for US Affiliates (This Means You)!
In an article at SearchEngineLand they’ve quoted the UK Amazon letter ending [...]

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 [...]

Has anyone told you that your “EVIL”?  I was on the phone yesterday and for the first time ever someone told me I was “EVIL”.  For feeding my twitter account with RSS from one of my blogs.  Evil?  I don’t think so.  And you shouldn’t either.  But the person I was talking to took it [...]

You know the “Seven P’s”?  Oh come on now…  It’s Q4.  The busiest and most profitable time of the year.  The time when your PPC and Affiliate Marketing competitors are raking in the dough.  And it’s all related to the “Seven P’s”.  It’s a cliche’, and I know you’ve heard it before.  But just as [...]

Sometimes you’ll read something and you think “WOW”…  I had that moment again yesterday with a thread at the AffSpot Affiliate Marketing Forum.  Daniel is a “noob”, doesn’t know anything about SEO, PPC, etc., etc., etc.  He was obviously frustrated and was asking for help “going blackhat” thinking that it’s easier than just doing it [...]