Converting a thumbs up on Facebook, and now a click on Google +1, into a loyal brand fan doesn't come easy for some advertisers, but a tool from PowerReviews might have solved the dilemma. 
Google turned the search engine into a social platform Wednesday, unveiling the long-anticipated feature +1 (pronounced Plus One). Social signals pulled from profiles and connections made through Google Buzz, Gmail and other sites are increasing the usefulness of connections. 
The inaugural set of Affiliate Summit Meetups took place today, and there are 48 Affiliate Summit meetup groups as of right now. If you attended one of the meetups, please tag any tweets, photos, and videos with #MeetmeAffSum We had nearly 40 people at the first meetup in Austin, TX. Here is a picture I [...]
Social-networking site LinkedIn has been sued for violating users' privacy by allegedly leaking information about them to advertisers. It is claimed that LinkedIn enabled ad networks and other third parties to discover names and connect them to tracking cookies. 
My Affiliate Summit partner, Missy Ward, is compiling a combination of dessert recipes and affiliate marketing insights called “It’s All About the Cookies… and brownies and pies and cakes…” 100% of the net profits from the sales of “It’s All About the Cookies… and brownies and pies and cakes…” will be donated to Team Affiliate [...]
The San Francisco board of supervisors (the city council, essentially) today will consider a phone book opt-in ordinance that directory publishers believe will be devastating to their business. The measure, supported by announced mayoral candidate David Chiu, has drawn urgent opposition from the directory publishing industry, as well as local businesses that rely on Yellow ...
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about affiliates heading to the Capital building to speak out on HB 1317, Roger Ebert getting kicked out of the Amazon affiliate program, and Tim Storm moving FatWallet from Illinois to Wisconsin over the IL advertising tax. Also covered were Shawn’s free [...]
Kudos Community will unveil a twist on the daily deals concept, as it attempts to compete against established leaders Groupon and Living Social. The site launches in Seattle with plans to expand nationwide. It expets to generate hefty donations for charities. 
Advertisers will spend 17.8% of online ad budgets for local this year, up from 14.9%, or $13.5 billion, according to Borrell Associates. The Benchmarking Local Online Media: 2010 Revenue Survey points to mobile as the catalyst driving growth. 
Home Online Surveys Online Sample Resource Center Blog Home Blogs Laura Moon's blog Zoomerang Blog Event and Conference Feedback Using Online Surveys Posted on March 28, 2011 by Laura Moon Share I attended a large conference in San Francisco on web optimization recently . As I walked into each of the many sessions , I was vigorously handed a sheet of paper and asked to fill it out . The purpose of the sheet was to get feedback on the sessions and the speakers . The only problem was , just about everyone I saw politely take the paper , left it on their seat , on the floor or just stuck it in their bag without filling it out . It made we wonder how many of those sheets actually get filled out and turned back . in Interestingly , another thing I noticed while sitting in the rooms listening to
This is the fourth Unguru.me podcast, where Jim Kukral and Shawn Collins discuss the latest Internet marketing issues, tools, launches, and news. Topics discussed include how the “gurus” keep selling products over and over to their lists, Shawn’s travel to shows like SXSW and Pubcon and more. Unguru.me is a community for small business owners, [...]
Performics is getting back into the affiliate marketing game, but not on the network side. Kevin Joyce, formerly of Be Free and Commission Junction, has joined Performics to re-launch their affiliate division with a focus on providing outsourced affiliate program management services to clients. For those new to affiliate marketing, Dynamic Trade was one of [...]
I was thinking about writing a book on the basics of affiliate marketing, but decided against it for a variety of reasons. Instead, I decided to deliver the same content, as I write it, for free in the form of a blog called the Extra Money Answer. This site is going to take people from [...]
Volusion recently joined the 2011 SXSW festivities, exhibiting at the tech-leading tradeshow and sending team members to soak up new knowledge at several educational sessions.
Volusion had an action-packed week at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) tradeshow in its hometown of Austin, Texas.
The event’s tradeshow and exhibition hosted over 300 companies in the digital world [...]