To Etail or Not to Etail?

I was contacted by Etail to speak at an their upcoming event. We spoke by phone. It was fun. The guy who called told me that they had some speakers back out and Etail would be glad to…

Awards aplenty. First I am nominated. Then revenews.com brings home the Gold. Coooool. Spent some of Wednesday in Manhattan. Bought a gift certificate at the Gap. Initially, I was pleasantly surprised that there were actual people, other than employees, in the store.…

Alright I know I am excessively late on posting part 2 considering I posted part 1 on June 12, but as most of you know I was really busy with ‘The Affiliate Manager - 1st Edition’ launch. Anyways, here’s part…

Nice blog over at Savetheinternet.com, Stopping the Big Giveaway - by John Kerry, where he talks about how the will not let the telecom bill pass without Net Neutrality, and how not having it will affect the digital divide, a…

Businessweek online has a hot story today entitled ‘Polluting The Blogosphere - Bloggers are getting paid to push products. Disclosure is optional‘. In a nutshell, the company PayPerPost.com ‘is a new business that pays bloggers to write nice things about…

There has been alot of debate over Google’s new CPA offering into the marketplace as well as their “checkout” bid. Some selected readings on the topic:

Google’s Content Referral Network: A Grab for Advertisers

Google Checkout: An Affiliate Network Industry Trojan…

CBS has joined the ranks of networks who are sharing profits with affiliates, their local stations, not affiliate marketers, in return for those stations driving traffic to the networks sites. Fox recently made a deal with their affiliates to distribute…

China’s most popular search engine, Baidu, is set to launch a blogging service that will rival blogger and MSN spaces, how many times have you heard something like that before? I’m surprised it wasn’t called a MySpace killer, but I…

With the launch of the google cart which requires users to be adwords users, the launch of the CPA test network and the google pay system I predict “cost per sale” is just around the corner herralding Google as a full…

Now that Joel has had his 15 minutes we can stop writing about his site and get on to other things. The first of which is that the true strategy Joel had with 500Words was not so much to make…