After all the thunder,  here’s the lightning: Euro e-Commerce rock star Rok Hrastnik.  I dared ask the Web business leader of Europe’s infomercial powerhouse, Studio Moderna, “is interruptive marketing dead?… because all this social — and for that matter online…

A visitor of my site who read some of my product data feed resources contacted me with an interesting question about how to deal with availability and SEO issues when you are utilizing merchant product feeds.

If I build a website…

I was updating and expanding my affiliate product data feeds and APIs resources at Cumbrowski.com, in particular the resources to the product feeds and store builder feature provided by the PepperJam affiliate network, which was launched about one year ago.

I liked what…

A look under the hood of LinkShare’s Targeted Merchandiser API web service and the Easy Links widget feature, which is based on this new LinkShare web services.

You break your back running your blog, but as months roll by, your number of RSS subscribers can still be counted on two hands. It’s a depressing situation, and it can make you question the whole point of blogging. Don’t…

As promised in Part 1 of this 2 part series I’m back with 3 more strategies and easy-to-implement tactics.  One strategy I mentioned that generated some email was providing feedback loops to affiliates.  Too radical for some apparently but let’s clarify…

Tired of the same old tips-and-tricks about Web affiliate marketing programs? “Communicate with them, treat them with respect” yada-yada. What REALLY works? I asked my most experienced colleagues to answer the question: “what’s moving the needle in affiliate marketing today” Here are the innovations I discovered. Yes, they can be quickly and easily applied – helping you manage your affiliates and extract maximum sales efficiency.

Somebody contacted me recently with some very specific questions about affiliate product data feeds.

“I have an Affiliate company with 1 other person and right now we have a little over 1000 SEO-based sites. We want to add product data from…

Subtitle: About Data Feeds, Web Services and the use of Interfaces (APIs) in Affiliate Marketing.Slow progress is made when it comes to the utilization of data feeds and web services by affiliate networks and also by advertisers. The biggest progress is…

Mark Wielgus created last year in August a mash-up script for YouTube, Amazon.com and Ebay.com and released the code for free under the Creative Commons Share Alike licensing model at his blog 45n5.com.I am interested into data feeds and web services myself…