The Value of Product and Merchant Reputation
I live in a small town so maybe I am more aware of just how important a reputation is than those who live in large cities where you can be more anonymous. There isn t any such thing as anonymity in a small town. Everybody knows everybody and the entire family history of every individual […]

Anna Elizabeth Edwards
There hasn’t been much activity on the blog recently and here is the reason why. Anna arrived this morning at 10:48am - three weeks early but looking great and doing well Sponsors UK’s latest Affiliate network […]

The Text Link Challenge
The humble text link is the basic essential for any affiliate site but some networks make life much easier than others. If you choose to accept the challenge then starting with your browser open to google.co.uk time how quickly you can pick up a text link from your networks and post the results. […]

Affiliate Summit Miami
Well, it is sold out again. The Affiliate Summit in Miami on July 8-10 is sold out (they are trying to get some more space) and I know a lot of ShareASale affiliates and merchants who will be there. Make sure to come by and see us at any of the following throughout the week…

-Affiliate Meet Market Sunday 12-6PM (We have 10 great merchants with us so any affiliate looking for a program to join should come by)

-ShareASale and ABestWeb “Under the Stars” Party on Sunday night from 7-12 - see www.shareasale.com/underthestars

-Exhibit Hall on both Monday and Tuesday we will be at our booth on the Exhibit Hall floor ready to make deals with any merchant or affiliate who comes by.

And…. by popular demand, our “Twitter Experiment” will continue with prizes and giveaways that will be announced only via the Twitter messaging platform. Sign up at www.twitter.com and “friend” me at www.twitter.com/brianlittleton

Google AdSense Launches Newbie Central
Google has launched Newbie Central, a resource for new AdSense publishers, in their AdSense Help Center. This area holds the hands of those new to AdSense with the initial steps for getting started, including the basics of an AdSense account and placing code for the ads. They did say “Newbie” Central. Also included are some brief […]

Affiliate Fatblogging, Episode 7

I took off from affiliate fatblogging for Christmas week. While I was being good most of the time, I came across some closed circuit footage of myself and figured I would probably have bad results. So I figured it was probably best staying off the scale for the week. But now I’m back and ready to kick […]

Affiliate Tip Newsletter - January 3, 2008
Get Your Copy of the Affiliate Manager Survey Affiliate Fatblogging, Episode 7 The Future of Affiliate Marketing in 2008 Affiliate Program News Twitter Tracking for Affiliates New Year’s Resolutions from Affiliate Summit

What will Tradedoubler do with The IMW Group?
In a press release from Tradedoubler on the 26th July they announced the acquisition of all shares in The IMW Group which includes The Search Works and The Technology Works. The Search Works was founded in 1999 and offers search engine marketing services throughout Europe. The Technology Works have a few […]

Anna Elizabeth Edwards
There hasn’t been much activity on the blog recently and here is the reason why. Anna arrived this morning at 10:48am - three weeks early but looking great and doing well Sponsors UK’s latest Affiliate network […]

2007 Blog Statistics
Post by: JeremyEveryone seems to love numbers so I will give you my full stats from 2007 (well at least up until the 25th). Financials: Server cost: The server I host this on sits in our company rack. The server cost me about 3,000. Its a dell 2950 2x dual core ( model 5120 Intel Woodcrest […]

Free Advertising for Affiliate Summit Exhibitors

We’ve got an opportunity for exhibitors of Affiliate Summit 2008 West, taking place February 24-26, 2008 in Las Vegas, to get some free, targeted advertising. Any companies with a booth in the exhibit hall (120 booths) or a table (72 tables) in the Affiliate Meet Market are encouraged to make a video promoting their company. Just submit […]

Jason Calacanis and Affiliate Spam
I was just reading a thread on Wicked Fire about a presentation given by Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo.com, at the Le Web conference. The gist of the presentation was that spam ruined Usenet, and we are seeing the ruination of search from affiliate spam. This quote from Jason pretty much sums it up… “There is a generation […]

The Affiliate Fridge Magnet Game
Chris Frost just posted a great link of Ajax snippets which should definitely come in handy. I thought I would try one out and created The Affiliate Fridge. Let me know if you need any new words added to compose some affiliate poetry Sponsors UK’s latest Affiliate network […]

Buying A Network
Here’s a quick starter for discussion. I keep hearing a lot of talk about consolidation in the industry and networks getting bought out but for the most part this hasn’t happened yet. Instead we see the opposite and even more networks are created and launched. If you were running a business that wanted to get […]