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The Volusion team brought a new ecommerce perspective to the 2011 Shop.org Annual Summit in Boston.
This year’s Shop.org was one to remember. With a packed expo hall, tons of fun swag and excellent sessions – it’s no wonder Shop.org is digital retail’s most influential event.
With over 4,000 attendees flooding the Boston Convention Center, 2011 was [...]
There is a new WordPress Plugin called ThirstyAffiliates to help affiliates with their link management. I’ve been using Pretty Link to manage my affiliate link redirects for quite a while, but I really like the simplicity and ease of ThirstyAffiliates. I was curious about the name, and asked the creator, Josh Kohlbach, about it. He [...]
Audi's potential buyers and existing customers should be able to access the brand more easily anywhere via a range of recent mobile launches. The company announced a new "mobile experience" with the recent rollout of an HTML5 m.audiusa.com site that plays nicely on most smartphone browsers and tablets.
Social seems to be making its way into every medium across the ad industry. Ad exchange adBrite has partnered with the video advertising company Jivox, allowing advertisers to build in sharing tools that enable consumers to share content through Likes, tweets, email and blog posts.
A 2009 report issued by the usability experts at Nielsen Norman Group likened the mobile Web to the desktop Internet circa 1994. Its latest assessment of the mobile Web found only modest improvement -- it has now evolved to where the traditional Internet was in 1999.
Affiliate Summit ran a free webinar on creating an ask the expert affiliate site, and it’s now available to watch on demand for free. Watch this webinar if want quick and easy advice to set up a new affiliate site. In the webinar, I go over the main reasons why people go online, how everybody [...]
The Berkeley City Council passed a two-part bill this week to expand a phone-book opt-out program in California. The bill passed in two parts. The first segment of the bill, which asked the city manager to write to AT&T for compliance with the opt-out program, was passed last week.
The second segment, which asked the city ...
Booths and Meet Market tables are selling fast for Affiliate Summit West 2012 and we are nearly sold out. There are less than 10 Meet Market tables and a couple dozen 10×10 booths remaining, so time is getting short to have a presence at the conference. Book your table or booth online now at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/12w-exhibitors/.
Revelations this week that Facebook received data about users' Web-surfing activity, even when they were signed out of the service, prompted two lawmakers to complain to the Federal Trade Commission.
Optimizing campaigns against flawed metrics has prompted a few companies in the ad industry to design recommendation dashboards, based on combining data from search, display and social signals. Adometry became the latest to roll out cross-channel automated ad campaign optimization tools for display and search advertisers.
Amazon.com officially entered the tablet race Wednesday with the long-awaited launch of its answer to Apple's dominant iPad-the Kindle Fire. The device will retail for $199. Amazon's aggressive pricing will present a challenge both to the iPad and Barnes and Noble's Nook e-reader.
Hearst touts its current success on the existing digital distribution platforms. The company says it has surpassed 300,000 paid digital circulation on its magazine brands across iOS, Nook Color and the Zinio Newsstand.
Q: I’m a newbie stuck for the last threee years because of difficulty posting links. Can you recommend (hopefully free) a basic HTML and CSS primer, as well as which affiliate network is easiest to begin using? And BTW, please hurry the rest of your extra money course (ExtraMoneyAnswer.com) – it’s terrific. A: I am [...]
Two senior lawmakers are condemning new "supercookie" technology, which can be used to thwart people's attempts to prevent online tracking. Two Congressmen are worried that consumers are losing more control over private information.
Industry insiders say apps are still handily winning the battle against the mobile Web, but the emergence of HTML5 promises to level the playing field. Meredith and Hearst are embracing HTML5 for their mobile initiatives, so is The New York Times.
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talk about recent changes at Facebook, affiliate marketing meetups this week, and lame Oakland Raiders fans. Also discussed were free massages for Platinum pass holders at Affiliate Summit West 2012, an affiliate how to webinar, California repealing the affiliate nexus tax (for now), [...]
Want to harness the power of social media to boost online sales? Register for our free Social Commerce Boot Camp with John Lawson of ColderICE on Thursday, September 29 for a 60-minute social sweat fest!
Trying to figure out to how to boost your business during the Great Recession?
It’s time to [...]
It’s been a few weeks now since wildfires broke out in Austin, TX and the surrounding areas. My family, neighbors, and I am eternally grateful for Travis County Emergency Service District No.6, who courageously fought the central Texas wildfires of September 2011. There were lots of fundraisers and events shortly after the wildfires, but things [...]
Dear Everybody, Most of you may not realize it, but you’re all affiliate marketers. Every last one of you. Even if you haven’t acted on it, the opportunity is in your hands to make money online. But first… what is affiliate marketing? It’s simply a process where you can get paid for referring people as [...]
Governor Jerry Brown of California signed his budget into law, which included the affiliate nexus tax, back in June. This legislation effectively put legions of entrepreneurs and their employees out of business. But there has been a reversal, as Governor Brown signed AB 155 (Calderon) into law earlier today that repeals the affiliate nexus tax [...]