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Several things – important to affiliates, and affiliate marketing industry as a whole — have happened in the course of the past few days, unfortunately not all good, and today I'd like to draw your attention to the following four: (1) PA enacts affiliate tax, (2) Bing bans deals sites, (3) Federal Read More

Online sales were up 33% over 2010, and 29.3% up over Black Friday 2011. Overall conversion rate went up from 5.6% in 2010 to 5.71%, mobile seeing the best improvement (from 2.24% to 2.99%). Social media wasn't as influential... Read More

Earlier today IBM Coremetrics published their Black Friday 2011 benchmark report, and while there has been an impressive 24.3% increase in overall online sales over last year's figures, it is the mobile channel that has shown the *most* impressive growth... Read More

By all means, do think several steps ahead in your management, but don't feed your followers "Soviet pasta" in the process. It just doesn't go down well. Read More

Over the past few days several interesting infographics — related to Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Shopping — have been posted on/by various websites. Here you may find the five that have caught my eye... Read More

Since the publish date (of 05/12/09) this post of mine has been viewed 40,400+ times, received nearly 100 FB "likes", and helped thousands of managers (and those studying management) become better leaders. Read More

In a nutshell, never tweet or share anything that may be used against you or your family — to compromise your identity and/or your reputation. Read More

A classic example of a major brand acting as a cashback affiliate, which has just caught my eye, is ShopDiscover. They offer cashback to their members when the latter use their Discover card to shop with retailers through ShopDiscover's affiliate links. Read More

Unfortunately, scenarios when merchants and/or affiliate program managers hinder the development of their own program aren't that uncommon... Read More

Excellent in-depth post on Facebook analytics. A must-read for anyone interested in social media marketing. Read More