Back in October 2011, I was pleasantly surprised to learn I had won a contest for being the person with the largest sales for Blog World Expo over the fifteen day period when the early bird pricing came to a close. So not only did I make the commissions for the ticket sales, but I also won a $500 bonus on top of it all…

According to financial studies, 2010 was an evil year for all the affiliate marketers as the number of response to mails had dropped and an increasingly large number of people signed out of the membership website. Though this kind of behaviour was not seen from those who were utilising the pay per lead affiliate programs to make money from the memberships, yet the rest of the 50% who seldom signed up with such websites, didn’t even worry to cancel them, did so in 2010…

The large price tags on their luxury vehicles could not save BMW from Google’s wrath when the company’s German website (BMW…

According to financial studies, 2010 was an evil year for all the affiliate marketers as the number of response to mails had dropped and an increasingly large number of people signed out of the membership website. Though this kind of behaviour was not seen from those who were utilising the pay per lead affiliate programs to make money from the memberships, yet the rest of the 50% who seldom signed up with such websites, didn’t even worry to cancel them, did so in 2010…

The large price tags on their luxury vehicles could not save BMW from Google’s wrath when the company’s German website (BMW…

Since 23th of March 2010, when the decision of the European Court of Law about bidding on brand names in Adwords came in act Brand Bidding and Ad-Hijacking is a very hot topic. With brand bidding the affiliate will use the high converting brands name in Google Adwords. When an advertiser has stated in its affiliate regulation that this is not allowed, the affiliate marketer is in violation with the advertiser’s terms…

One of the skills that successful affiliate marketing requires is the craft of copywriting. The most powerful copywriting doesn’t overtly sell, it captures attention and retains it. It weaves persuasion around the reader.
Here are 15 tips on how to make your copywriting a compelling read for your prospects:
Keep sentences short…

Affiliate Summit has created a dailymile Challenge where we will donate $1 to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade for each mile run or walked (up to $5,000) from 05/23/11 through 07/31/2011.
dailymile syncs with Garmin (205, 305, 310xt, 405, 405cx), Nike+ device and iPhone app, as well as a number of iPhone and Android clients…

And unlike Google comparison ads, Google is caching these pages

When you add in BeatThatQuote, AdWords, Google affiliate network, Google ads that filter content clicks through to search ads, and AdSense there are at least 6 different ways for Google to sniff data on & monetize the consumer financial product market…

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay a $3 million settlement stemming from charges that online virtual worlds once operated by Playdom, now a Disney subsidiary, violated the Federal Trade Commission rules designed to protect the online privacy of children under age 13.

According to the FTC, several Playdom sites that were aimed at young audiences illegally collected and then disclosed personal data in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)…

Neil Patel, Co-Founder, KISSmetrics (Moderator)

Brent Csutoras, Social Media Consultant, Brent Csutoras, Inc.

Todd Malicoat, Owner, Meta4 Creations, LLC

Chris Winfield, President, 10e20

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Travelocity recently created a travel app with Conduit which features vacation packages, flights and hotel deals…

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Your program agreement is your contract with the affiliate partners you are working with.
If you have any restrictions you would like to implement, special commission tiers, or terms beyond the network agreement it should be laid out in this document.

This is your legally binding agreement with affiliates…

Connecticut affiliates gather at the state capital in Hartford on 4/27/11

Welcome to the Performance Marketing Association Industry Report, a podcast dedicated to the most pressing issues impacting advertisers, publishers, networks and agencies.
Kevin Mardorf joined Host Lisa Picarille to talk about the Affiliate Nexus Tax that is being proposed in Connecticut…