To a bookworm a bookmark is simply a method of not losing your place. For social entrepreneurs like Larry Halff they are the building blocks of online communities. Coming from a cultural anthropology and sociology background Larry was always interested…

Are The Affiliate Walls Crumbling?

Jeff Molander thinks so in his latest piece and I must disagree, although I think drop shipping holds promise. The walls of affiliate marketing are not “crumbling”, but the boundaries are shifting. This shift is happening for several…

A little over a year ago, I wrote a post on my personal blog, “Why I hate Twitter.”

The post was done somewhat in the heat of the moment, but I also had some constructive criticism for the service.

Since…

Wayne Porter and Sam Harrelson discuss exactly what “next-gen” marketing means with practical examples, ideas and implementations.

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The podcast runs about 90 minutes and we discuss Wayne’s conception of Next Gen marketing and possible futures of online and affiliate…

Twitter is so valuable for my own personal brand and business that it has become an essential part of my web presence since I started using it in Nov 2006.

Over 1,000 people follow me and I follow close to 1,000…

I was wrong.

Initially after the Jason Calacanis keynote, I immediately started defending affiliate marketing in my own head and in my writings by invoking minutiae details about the good things and people involved in affiliate marketing and the things…

Affiliate Marketing Needs to Grow Up

Yes- true shock and awe over the number of attendees. I go on record that I am not an affiliate. Merchants are my affiliates. I am into experimental media. Often performance relationships are the…

Ask anyone in the online revenue space for their top 5 picks for things to watch for in 2008, and online video will be in the majority of people’s responses. It is easy to see why that is the case:

1.…

Interesting new research results from the blog MorphemeTales on the use of Twitter by more traditional mainstream news media:

I’ve conducted a survey of the use by the news media of Twitter, the microblogging service. These results are what I’ve…

ShareASale’s CEO Brian Littleton has posted an interesting thought piece on how Facebook could impact affiliate marketing, and the web in general, in the coming years.

With statements such as “…I think that it is entirely feasible that a whole…