The January issue of Internet Retailer has a great article by Bill Siwicki about how online retailers are blending video and ecommerce - and doing so quite easily. According to Mr. Siwicki, "The majority of e-retailers do not have the resources to … [Continue reading]
Change Your Permalinks Without Losing Traffic
Would you like to change your permalink structure from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%postname%/? Are you worried that you will lose traffic when those pages are no longer indexed by the search engines? Fear not! Dean Lee has … [Continue reading]
UK Affiliate Census Results
Here are a few key findings from a press release about the first UK Affiliate Census published this week by E-consultancy. The affiliate census was taken by more than 1,500 affiliates at the end of 2006. 83% of respondents were male 73% … [Continue reading]
My Space Sues Ad and Affiliate Networks
The BIG talk in the world of affiliate marketing over the last couple of days is that MySpace has filed a lawsuit against Scott Richter of of Media Breakaway, LLC /CPAEmpire.com for violating CAN-SPAM by arranging for millions of spam "bulletins" to … [Continue reading]
Your Thoughts on the Summit?
Did you go to Affiliate Summit 07 West in Vegas? What did you think? Did you have a full or limited conference pass? From which presentation did you learn the most? Which was more valuable to you? The presentations or the … [Continue reading]
Affiliate Summit West Overview
Finally back in the home office again after 13.5 hours of travel from the Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas and a desperately needed good night's sleep. :-) Affiliate Summit has grown considerably in size and scope, boasting 2,000 attendees, 83 … [Continue reading]
Airport Security Killed My VAIO!
Man, was I choked when I realized that the airport security staff at Toronto International airport broke my Sony VAIO laptop when we were returning home after Christmas. Here's what happened... At the xray, I'd placed my winter coat and purse into … [Continue reading]