The Performance Marketing Association (PMA) has announced that they are in support of proposed Federal legislation that promises to eliminate the Affiliate Nexus Tax. Passage of the legislation would potentially getting 60,000 affiliate marketers back to work. There are two Federal bills working with bi-partisan sponsors: Senate: Marketplace Fairness Act [Durbin (D-IL), Enzi (R-WY), and [...]
I wrote this article for a newspaper in New York City called the New York Press back in the mid-nineties. It was before I came across this whole Internet marketing thing, and I had hopes of becoming a newspaper writer. It’s some hackneyed link-bait (well, Letter to the Editor bait back them), but also a [...]
comScore has reported that there was $1.25 billion in online spending on Cyber Monday 2011, which is up 22% from 2010. Cyber Monday 2011 was the heaviest online spending day in history and only the second day ever to surpass the billion-dollar threshold. U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the first 28 days of the November [...]
comScore has reported U.S. retail e-commerce spending for Black Friday (November 25) was $816 million in online sales, which makes it the heaviest online spending day to date in 2011. Online shopping for Black Friday 2011 was a 26% increase versus Black Friday 2010. Thanksgiving Day (November 24) was also strong with an 18% increase [...]
LinkShare Symposium West 2012 is taking place at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco on January 17-19, 2012. Keynote speakers at LinkShare Symposium West 2012 are Andy Hoar, senior analyst at Forrester Research. Inc., and Bridget Brennan, CEO of The Female Factor. LinkShare Symposium West 2012 will also include the LinkShare University for Advertisers. Also, [...]
ClickBank now supports Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, as well as 18 new currencies in the network. Foreign language translations are available for the ClickBank online order form and customer call center support in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. Also, ClickBank added 18 new currencies to its online marketplace including: Argentinian Peso, Brazilian [...]
VigLink has introduced a new way to help affiliates monetize a forum, blog, or site content with Link Insertion powered by LinkWeaver technology. Each page of your site is individually analyzed with their proprietary technology and algorithms to determine what its content focus is, and the products and services that are referenced within it. When [...]
buy.at has partnered with Klickthru for the launch of the AdPad widget. AdPad is an advertisement and content syndication widget that slides over an affiliate site and can easily be closed by visitors. The widget utilizes a CPC (cost-per-click) payment model and delivers both ad feeds and content from the Associated Press and other partners. [...]
Two successful, hard-working, inspirational work at home moms, Rae Hoffman-Dolan and Missy Ward, have started up It’s a WAHM Thing, a resource for advice from and for work at home moms. It’s a WAHM Thing features a roster of moms writing on a variety of topics and issues that matter to work at home moms. [...]