Archive for July, 2007
Affiliates Reporting Poor Merchant Behaviors
Monday, July 30th, 2007Affiliate Marketers run into problems with merchants all the time. The most common problems are related to money, but there are a number of things a merchant can do that will upset Affiliate Marketers:
Pay late (no autodeposit)
Reverse commissions
PPC policies
The Affiliate Network they belong to
Poor Affiliate Support
Poor Affiliate Tools
Change in commission levels
Change in tracking period
Double Affiliate [...]
BlockBuster Revenues Fall … Total Access Revenues Grow … Affiliates Cash In
Sunday, July 29th, 2007The company continues to invest heavily in Total Access as they cut the number of brick and mortar stores in the U.S. Total revenues fell 2.8%, but Total Access revenues grew by 128% in Quarter 2. Blockbuster memberships have grown tremendously since the second quarter of 2006, increasing by 2.2 million subscribers. Revenues and memberships [...]
SpeedLinking - Affiliate Marketing Style
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Affiliate Summit in London is approaching as Shawn Collins recalls the first ever Affiliate Marketing conference in Europe.
Auction Ads was launched earlier this year to a throng of eager Internet Marketers. ShoeMoney and Dillsmack created the ad network that has taken the Internet by storm, was sold to MediaWhiz last week. Details can be found [...]
Hitting the Road …
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007going 45 mph in a U-Haul with a car attached to the trailer. The 1000 mile trip to Ventura will be long and painful (No CD/tape player in the truck). A refreshing pool and a beer await me on the other side.
FaceBook for $10 Billion
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007FaceBook has put a price on their own head. If you would like to purchase the company, you might want to go withdraw your $10 billion from the bank or go and take out a second mortgage. The $10 billion price tag is $4 billion higher than Google was supposedly offering. I doubt we will [...]
Domain Name Auctions the Next Big Buying Ground
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007In the Business Tech section of CNN there is a very interesting article discussing the lucrative business of buying and selling domain names. In the article they interviewed a couple of guys who buy valuable domain names and monetize them using Pay per Click ads.
In the article they claim that this is just the [...]
