The convergence of affiliate marketing and social media is upon us! Social media is no longer just an exploratory channel, and the affiliates who are normally the first ones to the niche marketing exploration party are using social media to…

OK–as a recent Boulder transplant, now here 3 months by way of Seattle, Washington, it has come to my attention that there are not just a couple of start ups scattered around, here and there, willy-nilly– there are in fact…

It is almost frightening how many amazing tools are coming out now that allow online marketers to do an amazing job monitoring their competitors and affiliates. Founded by Leon Krishnayana, iSpionage.com offers competitive paid search intelligence on your competitors and affiliates…

Breaking news as first reported by Linda Buquet at 5StarAffiliatePrograms.com, Internet retail giant Overstock who most recently dismissed their estimated 3,400 New York affiliates from their affiliate program which I had written about in a previous post Overstock.com Terminates All…

As a follow up to my previous posts, Overstock.com Terminates All NY Affiliates and New York Collecting Sales Tax from Affiliates? I had an opportunity to be privy to information from a collective interview hosted by Cecily Lancit President of Affiliopolis.com an affiliate…

In my Revenew’s post on April 18th, 2008 - Read here I spoke of a serious post concerning the possibility of an affiliate sales tax collection for affiliates based out of New York that went up (April 17th 2008) on the…

On Jul. 23, 2007 Barry Schwartz a blogger at Search Engine Land posted an incredible article as reference to personalized ad words ads being served based on previous search query’s, he cited a few references with screen shots – including a great…

A serious post concerning the possibility of affiliates sales tax collection for affiliates based out of New York recently went up (April 17th 2008) on the internetretailer.com website. Due to the downtrodden economy Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York revived a…

Ok, so when I go to events such as ad:tech or Affiliate Summit or SES - Yes, I have a heavy list of meetings with incredible people as well as time set aside for technology hunting, but let’s face it,…

Affspy announced at the Affiliate Summit 2008 west the release of the Affspy technology that allows an amazing transparency to the networks and their offers. According to their blog, Affspy had unleashed its private beta to a swarm of affiliates at…