Posts about ‘affiliate marketing’
For a business that only serves local clientele, but has a website that gets visitors from all over the country, advertising revenue can be a legitimate source of revenue that only compliments your local business. In talking to a prospective client about creative ways to monetize his website’s traffic, we discussed how he could make [...] (more)
Mar
Just like New York did in mid-2008, California is attempting to pass new legislation that would levy a sales tax california based businesses and individuals who make money online through affiliate marketing – a form of internet marketing in which advertisers pay publishers only on commission (a percentage of sales generated, for example). After seeing [...] (more)
Mar
There are all kinds of different ways to pay for (or get paid for) internet advertising. As a newbie, you might get lost in the performance marketing acronyms. But once you understand the text book definitions of available payment term options, it’s important to understand where these options fall on the risk spectrum. When it comes [...] (more)
Affiliate Summit West 2009 was in Las Vegas again, and as we’ve already mentioned, the show was much improved over last year’s AffSum East 2008. Here are a few lingering thoughts about the conference’s high-points. We arrived in time to see the keynote by Gary Vaynerchuk. If any speaker is going to pump you up [...] (more)
Last fall I attended “Affiliate Summit East 2008” (the affiliate marketing conference) in Boston and it left me unenthusiastic (to put it nicely) about attending future Affiliate Summits. But conference co-founder Shawn Collins did an excellent job of managing his brand and contacted me quickly about the concerns I shared on this blog. Ultimately I [...] (more)
Back in August 2008, I attended my first Affiliate Summit East Conference in Boston. I left Boston with more internet marketing knowledge than I arrived with, so I am looking forward to attending Affiliate Summit West this week and soaking up more information (although, I am a little less excited about the 6:30a.m. flight tomorrow [...] (more)
In the world of affiliate marketing, where “affiliate” websites promote the products and services of other “merchants” for a commission, some of those merchants lay down strict rules about how their products and services can be promoted (i.e.: no using trademarked terms, no promising free gifts (incentivising), etc.). The problem for affiliates is that often [...] (more)
Aug
Wearing Both Publisher and Merchant Hats at the Affiliate Summit Conference
Posted by: Jeremy Reither
Affiliate Summit is a great internet marketing conference in many ways, but ironically affiliates themselves are actually severely under-represented at this show. The majority of attendees are affiliate networks (trying to attract new merchants or publishers) or merchants (trying to learn about new methods of attracting publishers or running their programs). The smallest group at [...] (more)
This is by no means breaking news. But I heard so much last week about the fact that New York state was implementing a sales tax for web affiliates, the topic warranted a ‘summary’ post here. Basically, doing affiliate business in New York just got a whole lot harder – even impossible for some, as [...] (more)
We’re heading to Affiliate Summit West 2008 this weekend, and as usual I’m looking forward to seeing some familiar faces, and some others for the first time. That’s one of the great things about Affiliaite Summit and other conventions like it. Because the affiliate marketing world involves working remotely with people all over the country, [...] (more)
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