http://www.affiliatehack.com Affiliate Marketing Meets the Future Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:39:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's amazing to me that the same lead gen style setups that swept through the affiliate industry in 2003-2005 have now made their way to Facebook: In short, these games try to get people to pay cash for in game currency so they can level up faster and have a better ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/11/01/some-things-never-change/ I've always loved the old theme of my old blog (even though I ended up changing it at least 300 times over the course of two years).  The theme (qwilm-0.3) was passe and clunky then. Now, it's akin to a bad early 80's domestic auto design. That's part of the ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/10/31/3rd-anniversary-of-cpn/ "In a few weeks you will not be following people that are not on at least one list as they will be considered either a spammer or irrelevant." @vinnyohare Earlier this week, Twitter caused a considerable amount of envy-then-joy as it slowly rolled out its new and important Lists feature to ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/10/31/affiliate-networks-should-develop-suls/ Be back shortly to resume activities here... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/10/29/not-dead-yet/ Daniel, Joe and I did a great podcast on Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed today: This is a special edition of the Geek Dads@ Home podcast. Sam Harrelson, Daniel M. Clark and Joe Magennis discuss the issues that felled Twitter today. We highlight the importance of Friendfeed as a service and ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/08/06/most-important-podcast-ive-ever-done/ Well, not really ditching. I'll still be following Twitter folks via Google Reader with this great tool from Dave Winer (who is really kicking butt with the rssCloud project): When you return to the Google Reader main page, you'll see a new top-level section for your Twitter subscriptions. Pretty cool. ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/08/06/im-ditching-twitter-for-friendfeed/ Oh no! We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly. via Twitter Status. Now go read some blogs and play on FriendFeed. [EDIT] Looks like Facebook is down as well. Coordinated attack? http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/08/06/twitter-is-down/ When I started CostPerNews in October of 2006, the affiliate marketing blogging scene was quite crowded. Between ReveNews, Shawn's AffiliateTip Blog, Jeff's ThoughtShapers, Scott Jangro's blog, Jim Kukral's blog and smaller blogs like Mark's 45n5, there was always something to read and always some place to get into an argument ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/08/05/whatever-happened-to-affiliate-blogging/ As I've talked about before, the future of "social media's" success formula will have nothing to do with the amount of people following you on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, your RSS feed, etc. The future of social media success will have to do with Likes, Favorites or Thumbs Up. Companies, marketers ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/08/05/likes-are-the-new-currenc/ I didn't realize DirectTrack had mobile implementation. This is a major innovation. Roll out new and exclusive campaigns and payout details to your publisher base in real-time. Constant and meaningful communication is one of the key ingredients to building and nurturing affiliate relationships for maximum productivity, ROI and loyalty. In ... http://www.affiliatehack.com/2009/08/05/directtrack-mobile/