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Just as last year, I'm suggesting my ranking of the best Super Bowl video commercials (this time I’m doing 5, not 3 like last year). However, in 2011 I’m happy to have a chance to do it not after the big game, but seven hours before it. Read More

After a fairly long break from it (over three months have passed since my last #FollowFriday post/list), I’ve decided to return to my popular series of Twitter list posts.

Today I’d like to bring you a list of the 10 must-follow affiliate marketing accounts — a list that’s long overdue, especial Read More

I took my time to analyze data on the top 30 publishers within a well-established Commission Junction-based affiliate program, and couponers outperformed content affiliates, but content producers beat datafeed-based sites. Read More

There has been much talk and worry about the ‘Do Not Track’ legislation proposed by Federal Trade Commission in early December 2010, and now that Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox both have plugins/features to block certain types of third party cookies (and we also know that Internet Explorer 9 Read More

Among zillions of Twitter hashtags it is important to discern those that can really help you in your work from those that are frankly useless. With this purpose in mind I've put together the below list, which I hope will be of help to other online marketers... Read More

An interesting mix of reasons here... Some of the points describe things for which some affiliates hate other affiliates (e.g.: black hat SEO tactics, keyword stuffed domains), while others (winning by creating better content, winning on the SEO front by simply being better, etc) actually prove tha Read More

I know the parallel may seem strange at first, but there are actually a number of shared key points in these two tasks, and as someone who has been fighting a nasty flu over the past few days, and working in affiliate marketing for close to 9 years, I'd like to list the similarities for you today.. Read More

How many of you have heard of LivingSocial before today? We all know Groupon, but "Living" Who? Well, they’re Groupon's direct competitor, and they have just done something that will likely make it into textbooks.

In case haven't heard of it yet, LivingSocial is currently running an amazing $20- Read More

The news of the day is Starbucks’ launch of nationwide mobile payment system.

Brady Brewer, vice president Starbucks Card and Brand Loyalty, said: "With mobile payment, the Starbucks Card platform further elevates the customer experience by delivering convenience, rewarding loyalty and continuin Read More

I believe that there are 5 main reasons why people fail at affiliate marketing:

1. Lack of education — thorough (and ongoing) education saves you both time and money
2. Laziness — there is no such thing as big-bucks-fast (if not at the expense of violating rules, of course), and you want Read More