According to Mark Penn’s article in the Wall St. Journal, there are over 20 million bloggers out there, and according to a recent Technorati poll, 2% of them are making a living through blogging.  That’s more than 400,000 people!  The…

Could Affiliate commissions per phone call generated be a reality soon? RingRevenue recently completed a $3.5 Million round of series A financing and has partnered with Commission Junction to offer this service to CJ Advertisers.

“Pay-per-call marketing represents an enormous opportunity because…

There has been a long running debate in the performance marketing industry about what permissions a company should offer their search partners. Should we allow our search partners to link directly from their Google PPC ads to our site through…

Last summer, Commission Junction settled a Malware class action lawsuit for $1M.  According to the terms of the settlement (see www.cjsettlement.com) after the lawyers take their share (typically 30% I think), the remainder of the class action fund was to be…

Imagine a site where you could define a project, application, or task you wanted to have completed and a global workforce of talent would bid on doing the project on an hourly or fixed cost basis.  You then get to review…

I was talking with several top affiliates at Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas last night about the role of the networks and where the networks should be focusing their attention and development dollars.

My colleague, Tony Pantano, did a great job…

First, I want to wish everyone a happy holidays and let all of our partners know that we really appreciated the cards and gifts this year.  It’s always nice to spread the holiday cheer and wish everyone a healthy and profitable 2009!

That being…

This morning, Imwave has announced that it has acquired Move Marketing’s performance search marketing business. Although we are unable to disclose the financial nature of the deal, I would like to let you know my thoughts on why I think this…

Back in May of 2007, I bought quite a bit of domain names that were expiring through the snapnames auction process. You may remember my post about our seriouscooks.com bidding that got out of control. I wanted to tell you…

Bill McClure, former Chairman of Traffic Strategies, which was sold to Linkshare one year ago, informed me this morning that he has just acquired Coffee.org for $100,000. That domain will make up his key international coffee distribution destination site and he…