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Mon
22
Feb '10

Affiliate Marketing Lessons from the Olympics

I could expound poetic about how Affiliate Marketing combines the power of the Luge, with the grace of Figure Skating, and the speed and risk of the Super G. But I won’t, because it would be wrong. These sports don’t translate very well into Affiliate Marketing..
But one does… Curling

Multiple players sliding granite [...]

Fri
29
Jan '10

Affiliate Marketing By the Numbers… Sabermetric Numbers

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 [...]

Thu
21
Jan '10

Add CPS Links to Your Videos With Spotcher

(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 [...]

Thu
31
Dec '09

An Icon From 1969 Celebrating the New Year

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How far we’ve come in 40 years.  In 1969 a hunk of highly engineered metal departed Florida and went the full 238857 miles with computing power roughly equivalent to a handheld calculator.  And at the same time (1969) ARPANET (the forerunner of the Internet) was established.
As we say goodbye to 2009 I walked outside and [...]

Fri
27
Nov '09

Old Blogposts and the New FTC Affiliate Marketing Guidelines

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.  [...]

Wed
25
Nov '09

Affiliate Marketings Inspiration from the First Thanksgiving

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, [...]

Tue
3
Nov '09

AffSpot Members Take Top Affiliate Marketing Rankings 1-2-3

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 [...]

Fri
16
Oct '09

Seven P’s and Q4 Promotions Calendar

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 [...]

Fri
25
Sep '09

Building an Affiliate Marketing Powerhouse (part four)

Building an Affiliate Marketing Powerhouse with a network of microsites has proven to be pretty simple.  But it’s a “breather” day…  All that math on Tuesday, research on Wednesday, and setting up servers, registering domains, loading software on Thursday…  That’s alot of work.  Some fun, some not…  But it was all work.
It’s time to build [...]

Thu
10
Sep '09

We’re being crawled by the Huffington Post… I mean it!

In a strange twisted turn of events…  AffSpot is being actively web crawled by the Huffington Post.  What?  The Huffington Post has a web crawler?  Yeah, that’s what I said too.  And why do they have a crawler, and what are they crawling, and just what is up with that?
Like I’ve said in previous posts, [...]