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Social Networking Meets E-Commerce - Radio Interview on Yahoo Store Power Hour with Michael Vorel & Shawna Fennell
During Affiliate Summit in Boston I was invited by Shawna Fennell of 1choice4yourstore.com to be on her weekly live radio show - Yahoo Store Power Hour Radio Show.
Shawna is the CEO of 1 Choice 4 Your Store, host of Yahoo Store Power Hour Radio Show, and lover all things SEO. I wanted to thank Shawna [...]
Affiliate Summit 2008 East - Day 2
Sunday was action packed, networking from 11:30 - 6:30 & PMA (performance marketing alliance) meeting till 9PM. After many conversations, had a great time learning about new vendors, offers and more. I took many pictures and videos so take a look below. You should attend Affiliate Summit if you don’t already!
View from the Boston Seaport [...]
Sharethis.com statistics on what people share online
Came across an interesting email from Sharethis.com who has an excellent tool for adding to web sites, e-commerce stores and blogs to aid in sharing information.
1. Email is king as a method of sharing - 35% (Just when you thought it was something else)
2. Facebook - 10% (Great rising popularity)
3. Digg - 7%Â (No wonder [...]
Second Life, Google Lively, Facebook, MySpace Google Trends - Who is most popular?
I was already in Google trends so decided to run the New Google Lively vs. Second Life than vs. Facebook and MySpace. The search requests for Second Life are definitely dropping and you can see an immediate spike when Google announced Lively on July 9, 2008. I prefer Second Life over Lively but curious about [...]
Facebook & MySpace in Japan Not Growing, US Facebook Adoption Booming
Caught an article on techcrunch about the failing adoption of Facebook and MySpace in Japan and wanted give my twist on it. You don’t hear things like that in US news so thought I would share. Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the [...]
Google Toolbar Page Rank Revision Coming
Was just reading Matt Cutt’s blog concerning the page rank feature on the Google Toolbar. Page rank isn’t what it used to be these days for obvious reasons but wanted you to be aware of the change:
Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next [...]
Web Celebrities - Who are Top 100 Emerging Names?
Came across TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities List and was very impressed. In the article they outline 1 - 100 with a short bio and photo. They focused on impact on the web whether positive or negative and narrowed the list from 200 to just 100. I found it to be an excellent read and [...]
Performance Marketing Alliance Board Members Announced
Just in on the board members for the Performance Marketing Alliance. I had the ability to vote for these and wanted to send my congratulations to the winners. I noticed some political under currents in the nominees so was curious to see the winners.
From email I received:
Congratulations to the following industry leaders who have [...]
Have Affiliate Network Manage your Affiliate Program or an OPM - Outsourced Program Manager?
Looking to compare having an Affiliate Network or Outsourced Program Management firm manage your Affiliate Program? Watch this video from Donna McCarthy of SearchMarketingGurus.com
As an avid affiliate marketing professional since 1999 and Outsourced Affiliate Management firm (OPM) I know the differences but thought this video would be a great aid in helping merchants decide [...]
Google adds privacy link to home page!
Interesting that for so many years we were always told by Google that we had to have a privacy policy link on web sites, landing pages, etc. and now Google has finally added one themselves. An excellent article in NY Times you can also read Google’s Privacy Policy
The word “privacy” now appears on Google’s home [...]