From the monthly archives:

September 2009

I have to admit that when I entered this sector of online advertising as a profession, I totally underestimated the value of face-to-face meetings and relationships. I, like many, believed at the time that since a high percentage of daily business was done via IM, email and the telephone, that trade shows and other “physical” [...]

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The eighth issue of FeedFront Magazine is out and landing in mail boxes right now, so we’re on to issue 9. The next issue of FeedFront will be coming out in January 2010, and the deadline for articles for issue 9 of FeedFront is November 23, 2009. If you are interested in writing an article, [...]

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Direct to merchant (DTM), pay per click (PPC) advertising has been increasingly restricted lately, with major merchants like Amazon and EBay stating they will no longer allow affiliates to use the merchant site as their landing pages in PPC campaigns. What this means to affiliates is that they will now be tasked with building their [...]

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The majority of affiliates create value for their merchant partners, however most affiliate programs have been subjected to fraud at some point. Affiliate fraud can take many forms; it can be outright transaction fraud or other illegal activity, manufactured leads, misled consumers or traffic from prohibited sources. The networks do a good job providing basic [...]

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The eighth issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is at the printer and it will be hitting mailboxes in early October 2009. Issue eight of FeedFront will also be distributed at ad:tech New York, Blog World Expo, and PubCon. This issue of FeedFront Magazine includes a recap of Affiliate Summit East 2009, [...]

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