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Facebook has recently revamped the layout of its user profiles, introducing a ‘tabbed’ interface to navigate through your own or your friends profiles:The advantage of a tabbed interface is that you’ll gain more screen real estate and your content should be categorized more efficiently.Although having used the original single page layout, I prefer the old ...
A couple of hours ago, Super Affiliate Ros Gardner and Anik Singal launch Blog Classroom.If you’re a new or experienced blogger, and you’ve seen the pre-launch publicity and watched the set up videos, you might be wondering “So what? I know how to use Fantastico and do a 1-click install of WordPress”As a blogger who’s ...
Tags:brett mcfall, david cavanagh, Ewen Chia, jay abraham, jo han mok, john childers, Matt Bacak, michael cheney, rick raddatz, stephen pierce, tom hua, willie crawford, world internet summitIt’s 5:55am as I’m writing this.
I’m quite psyched about World Internet Summit Singapore, having secured my place for the event yesterday evening.
It’s quite a …
I got this email over the weekend which looks like a genuine email from the Google Adwords team, mentioning that you need to authenticate your account because it’s been disabled/suspended.Just about any PPC marketer will be concerned if they get an email like this because AdWords downtime could translate into a significant of profits.Before you ...
I just had a great discussion with Market Leverage founder and CEO Mike Jenkins about developments in the affiliate marketing industry.Market Leverage is taking the lead when it comes to relationship building and branding with measures like it’s care package campaign to the top affiliate bloggers, and initiatives like Market Leverage TV. Kudos to Mike ...
I signed up with Aweber for my email marketing solution when I started out 2 years ago and have been generally happy with their deliverability rates.In a recent Friday Podcast, Aweber education marketing manager Justin Premick alluded to some forthcoming enhancements to their services and it looks like they made the announcement today.Here are some ...
Although Missy Ward and Shawn Collins’ Affiliate Summit West seminar and tradeshow is now over, going through the 300+ photos I’ve taken makes me realize that although the affiliate industry continues to be male-dominated, there’re a number of female faces to take note of too.With that, here are the women of the Affiliate Summit:Justine is ...
Tags:No TagsIt’s 12:47am as I’m drafting this.
At 12:30am I got an email from Super Affiliate Ewen Chia about yet another crazy offer.
That makes the 5th ‘crazy’ offer this week I thought.
I decided to check out the sales page f...
I met Mike Peters in person at Affiliate Summit West last year, having talked to him a number of times before that.With a colorful lifetime of experience, Mike:Was born and raised in IsraelStarted his first company at 14Made more money than his dad at 15Dropped out of school at 16Said no to Microsoft’s offer of ...
There’s a pretty active discussion on Jeremy Palmer’s Quit Your Day Job forums about whether its better to be an affiliate or a merchant. (I’m paraphrasing the intent somewhat).I’d expand it to encompass taking on a network role in the merchant-affiliate equation too.I don’t think any of the roles are necessarily “better”, because all …
I was downloading some files off Microsoft and noticed their logo:(swiped from my browser tabs).And here’s the logo for affiliate network, Market Leverage:Which looks fairly similar.I’ve seen companies fight it out in the courts when it comes to trademark similarity, and Microsoft certainly rigorously enforces it’s intellectual property.Watch this space for …
If you use social traffic channels and social networks like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, it’s not uncommon to receive junky marketing message from strangers promoting acaiberry, dating offers, viagra, gaming and adult offers.But what happens when friends send you these messages?Granted, it won’t be as overt as a “Hi, I’m Natasha, I would like to chat ...
…and I am left scrambling wondering if my 3-year old Fujitsu Lifebook is about to give up the ghost…More importantly, after the clean up from 2 weeks ago, whether I’m going to have the pleasure of backing up 75GB of data again.Next stop: to call Fujitsu’s customer support and see if they will accept a ...
I invited affiliate network ShareASale Director of Client Services, Carolyn Tang, on the Friday Podcast this week to get her thoughts on:How merchants can use affiliate marketing as a sales channel for their products and servicesHow to conduct due diligence when deciding whether to set up and operate their affiliate program or list it on ...
I got a short and sweet question today “Is blogging dead?I was planning to start a blog, but I heard that I should create and optimize a Facebook profile instead.What’s your advice?”-That’s an interesting question and let me do my best to you an interesting answer.If you read Stephanie Agresta (AKA Internet Geek Girl’s) post ...
Why Computers Sometimes Crash!
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,
and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your...
Shawn Collins has posted the seminar track presentations from Affiliate Summit Boston at the Affiliate Summit Blog, providing a wealth of resources and information for those in affiliate marketing as well as internet marketing.Going through the various topics, it’s easy to add more tools to your marketing arsenal. At the same time, it will be ...
As top affiliate marketer Jeremy Palmer’s Black Ink Project moves into week 3, there’ve been a number of great guests who’ve presented and will be presented in the series.First off, the site has undergone a design revamp:Looking very sharp.Yesterday (Monday), my buddy Amit Mehta presented his series of Pay-Per-Click strategies - the slides and recorded ...
In a couple of hours time I’ll be on the panel at the second Singapore Facebook Developers Garage, which features the topic: “Marketing and Monetization of FB Applications: Hype or Goldmine?”The session moderator Bernard Leong has posted a kickoff post: Marketing and Monetization of Facebook: PrologueIf you’ve spoken to me or exchanged emails, …
Have you heard the one about Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins walking with a mock limp along the hallways of the Rio, only to have a sympathetic hotel employee offer a Segway. Shawn gets onto said Segway and rides off into the sunset…Or does he?Uncensored and via “fake live satellite” (to quote some Jim Kukral ...



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