2011 was one heck of a year for the ecommerce industry. Check out
today’s post to see which stories really turned heads this year.
Before we pop the bubbly and mumble through the mysterious words of Auld Lang Syne, let’s take a moment to reflect on 2011, the craziest year that ecommerce has ever seen. From looming [...]
Issue 17 of FeedFront Magazine came in the mail to me today. But I wasn’t the first to read it. My dog Mattingly snatched it and had a read. This issue of FeedFront Magazine includes Forecast: Sunny with a Chance of Windfall by Missy Ward, Seven Precursors of Affiliate Marketing Failure by Geno Prussakov, Three [...]
2011 was the best holiday season ever for the Kindle line of devices, with well over 1 million sold each week to date in December. The Kindle Fire, Amazon's tablet contender, launched widely in mid-November. It remains the best-selling, most gifted, and most "wished-for" product across the company's entire product inventory.
Facebook via mobile apps has become a massive platform unto itself. A research company believes that more than 300 million people were accessing Facebook via their smartphone apps this month.
A proposal by the Federal Trade Commission to broaden privacy regulations by banning companies from tracking children anonymously "would have substantial negative effects for parents, children and companies alike," according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
In a recent Tips from the Top column, we discussed key legal considerations when launching an online business. Today, we dig a little bit deeper to provide you with detailed answers about claiming your intellectual property, including sales and delivery costs, avoiding scams and more.
In part two of our legal Q&A, our General Counsel, Tanya [...]
We’ve received a number of inquiries about whether passes to Affiliate Summit West 2012 can be upgraded. And the answer is yes. The cost of upgrades is the difference in the price of your pass when you registered and the price of the higher level pass at the time of the upgrade. There are four [...]
The rise in popularity of tablets will bring back a focus on creativity -- rather than the technology -- when it comes to online advertising, according to IAB President and CEO Randall Rothenberg. He thinks 2012 will become a breakthrough year for ad creativity and digital content.
Q: I want to thank you for your youtube video tips it was very useful and now i am thinking about signing for Google adsence to blog about smart phones my question to you is do I have to pay for WordPress beside paying for a domain name how does the process work? A: There [...]
Check out this year’s ten most popular posts from our ecommerce blog. Which is your favorite?
2011 has been one heck of a ride. We’ve cranked out almost 200 posts on our ecommerce blog, all to help keep you in the know all year long.
As we sit back and reflect on the end of another year, [...]
Various findings from app analytics firms showing massive upticks in mobile app usage and app store sign-ons over the recent holiday.
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Affiliate Summit West 2012 selling out, the lameness of H&H Bagels, parties at Affiliate Summit, and finalists for the Pinnacle Awards. We also talked about cooking deep fried turkey for Christmas, people leaving GoDaddy over SOPA, the Shareist platform, and affiliates [...]
Copyright enforcer Righthaven has lost its domain name after failing to reimburse defense attorneys who successfully represented a blogger.
U.S. online holiday sales from Nov. 1 through Dec. 26 increased 15% from a year ago, totaling a record $35.3 billion, according to comScore. Online retail spending was up 16% to $2.8 billion.
There is a quantifiable relationship between a positive customer experience and increased loyalty, sales and recommendations. A good experience on a company's Web site earns commitment and return visitors to the site.
There are a lot of evening networking opportunities taking place during Affiliate Summit West 2012, and we’re compiling a list on the Affiliate Summit blog. Check out the latest list of Affiliate Summit West 2012 parties. If you’re running a party, dinner, etc. during Affiliate Summit, submit your details to us and we’ll add your [...]
Affiliates were asked “Do commission payment policies (how often a program pays) affect your decision to promote an affiliate offer?” for the 2011 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report. Fifty-nine percent of affiliates responded “yes” for this survey question. This is somewhat of a non-issue for affiliate programs running in affiliate networks, since they have aggregated, monthly [...]
U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle said that people are required to bring suit under their real names unless doing so would put them at risk of harm.
Mobile shopping is likely to grow as a result of people receiving new smartphones and other devices as gifts this holiday season. Online sales for the holiday increased 16.4% from a year ago on December 25. The share of online sales from mobile devices increased as well, rising to 14.4% from 5.3% in 2010, according to the latest IBM Coremetrics data.
Affiliate Summit West 2012, starting on Sunday, January 8 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, is now sold out. This conference makes it 19 times in a row that attendee registrations for Affiliate Summit have closed before the event, due to capacity. As we process cancellations, the registration page will open up and additional registrations will [...]Q: What’s the best way to let my twitter following know that a link in one of my tweets points to an affiliate product? Is there an acronym I should use like (aff.)? A: First of all, I’d say it’s really not valuable to anybody if you’re just going to post affiliate links to Twitter. [...]
Investment in owned and earned channels is stronger.. Hype is driving part of this shift. Brands are also realizing that in the social age, working media simply doesn't work well on its own.
Affectv engineers are working on a series of products to make advertising more social. The company plans to launch the image-sharing widget Slingpic in January and social banner ads for publishers in February.
One could say that branded, Super Bowl-centered, crowd-sourced video contests are so 2010. Feeling otherwise, Chevrolet has tapped Microsoft Advertising and crowd-sourcing agency Mofilm to execute such a campaign.