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What do Argos, Bitdefender, Ladbrokes and Shutterstock have in common? All are are sending their marketing managers to the inaugural European Affiliate Management Days next week. The conference is coming up on May 15-16 (in London, UK), and there is still time to register, saving between £100 and £ Read More

The next step is for the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on the bill. And the issue at stake is bigger than the problem of showrooming. While U.S. News & World Report believes it to be a "tough sell in the House" close to a hundred thousand of affiliate marketing businesses — who due to numer Read More

Earlier this week Amazon.com has sent out an affiliate newsletter to its "associates." There are at least 4 things we can learn from it... Read More

Did you know that some universities (including a few of the world's top schools) offer free access to their courses. I have put together a collection of business, marketing and entrepreneurship-related courses that are currently available for free online access. Enjoy! Read More

Mobile "showrooming" is on the rise. But the better marketing strategy is not to battle it (you won't win this one anyway). Embrace it! Like Best Buy which announced that it would match the prices of 19 major online competitors, including Apple, Amazon, and Buy.com. Read More

There are at least 4 reasons to do so: (i) to ensure appropriate brand representation, (ii) to avoid marketing channel cannibalization, (iii) to keep the bad apples out (which will prevent smart affiliates from joining your affiliate program), and (iv) not to rely on TOS only (many affiliates won't Read More

By overwhelming majority (74-20) the Senate has voted to take up the online sales tax legislation for debate and amendment -- which is a very good news for 75,000+ small businesses, which were significantly hurt due to "affiliate nexus tax" legislation(s) on state level. Read More

Google is closing its affiliate network. As a result, thousands of advertisers are facing the task migrating their affiliate programs to new platforms. My cheat sheet is as follows: (1) do your due diligence, (2) choose platform, (3) negotiate and sign contract, (4) set up the new program, and (5) Read More

In May of 2013 Affiliate Management Days is coming to Europe. The inaugural conference in London is going to be opened by the already-legendary Matthew Wood.

By way of preview, I have sat down with Matthew to ask him a few questions about the current state and future of affiliate marketing. Read More

I ran a basic level split test, serving two identical ads to my blog's readers: one (version A) in a popup, another (version B) as a call to action inside of a blog post dedicated to the subject. The latter outperformed the former one threefold! Read More