Affiliate Marketing Beginners Checklist - Part 1

It is really hard to educate people about affiliate marketing. Once people got it and just want to learn new things and check out different approaches and new avenues, things are much easier. I dealt in the past frequently with absolute newbie's who either had no knowledge about internet marketing...

Data Portability for your Social Media Profiles

Robert Scobles ban from Facebook early this month brought up the discussion again about ownership of user data in social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and others, as well as about data portability. Robert Scoble did violate the terms of service agreement with Facebook; so much seems to be clear....

(Global) Education 2.0

I had a little chat with our old friend and fellow ReveNews.com blogger Shmuly Tennenhaus a few days ago. He is busy up in Seattle for a company who developed an interesting platform. I have some experience with this type of model of a company. My former employer for over...

The Curse of Social Media

A 16 years old boy from a regular Melbourne, Australia neighborhood plays "Risky Business" by throwing a party and invites virtually everybody in town while his parents are out of town. 500 people show up, the party gets out of hand, cops came, some brief riots occurred, causing a few...

How Do You Know, If a Site Will Make Money?

I saw today this thread at 5StarAffiliatePrograms with the title "How Do You Know, If a Site Will Make Money?" A newbie to internet marketing started the thread with the following post. "Well I am hoping for some money. I started a blog that's about technology and games and am...

Search Engine Journals Blog Awards 2007 - The Results are in

ShoeMoney.com won the 2007 Blog Awards by Search Engine Journal in the categories "Best Affiliate Marketing Blog" and also in the category "Best Contextual Advertising Blog". The Blog awards start with a nomination period where anybody can submit nominations to the various categories, then followed by a voting by the...

Menschenquellen - Human Sources

I just watched an interesting movie that I would like to share. It's the recording of a demo by the German computer group "Farbrausch" titled "fr-minus-09: human sources". The demo won 3rd place at the TUM - The Ultimate Meeting '07 demo competition. TUM was held in Karlsruhe, Germany, December...

Another Day on the Darkside of ...

... "Affiliate Marketing" is the completion of this posts title. I checked recently the trackbacks that were flagged as spam by the filters for my ReveNews.com blog. I do that from time to time out of curiosity. Next to the usual "PPC" (Pills, Porn, and Casino) spam were there also...

Affiliate Marketing and Channel Conflicts

I stumbled across an old forum thread from March 2006 that was started in response to the request for comments on a post that Linda Buquet from 5 Star Affiliate Program Forums made about how an affiliate manager should deal with a channel conflicts with direct mail marketing (and other...