March 2011

Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 – San Francisco, 23rd May

March 31, 2011

Following the great success of this one-day conference which I hosted last year, my friends at Our Social Times have put together another impressive array team of experts for an update on the latest strategies, tools and techniques in social media marketing. Speakers at Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 include Aaron Strout (WCG), Dan Serafaty (Viadeo), Giles Palmer (Brandwatch), Dan Martell (Flowtown), Jennifer Neeley Lindsay (The A List) plus “gamification” gurus, Bunchball. The topics .....

Who is the Hottest Affiliate or Affiliate Manager? Vote Now for The Affiliate Marketing Awards

March 25, 2011

Time to vote for Hottest Affiliate or Affiliate Manager for The Affiliate Marketing Awards to be awarded April 12, 2011 in San Francisco. Who do YOU think is hottest? Click the TwitPic links in the poll to see photos of each nominee. You can see the complete list of nominees in all categories on The Affiliate Marketing Awards Nominees page. Be sure to buy your tickets to The Affiliate Marketing Awards Event – Be at .....

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Announcing The Affiliate Marketing Awards Nominees Short List

March 24, 2011

The Affiliate Marketing Awards to be awarded on April 12, 2011 in San Francisco during AdTech are fast approaching. Today we are announcing the short list of nominees in each category. We would like to honorably mention several nominations that are not included in our short list. And the nominees are: Best Affiliate Innovation PayPerInstall.com ShareASale.com SponsorMob.com XOSDigital.com Best Affiliate Manager Adam Riemer of AdamRiemer.me Jason Jugert of Affiliate.com Jazette Pester of Affiliate.com Best Agency .....

Social Media Events You Don’t Want To Miss

March 15, 2011

Probably best if we just all face it, social media marketing is not going away. At least not any time soon. If you think your efforts at maximizing social media to benefit your business could use some honing, perhaps attending one of the never ending list of conferences, seminars and speaker events will help re-focus the time, money and energy you’re currently expending to get the word out. One of the most important aspects of .....

VigLink Raises Another $5.4 Million To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks

March 11, 2011

Yesterday Jason Kincaid posted over on Techcrunch that VigLink Raises Another $5.4 Million. “VigLink’s goal is to help publishers monetize their content more effectively and without much effort. After installing a small snippet of code on your site, VigLink will detect whenever you create an outbound link to any of 12,500 merchant sites. It will then automatically convert this link to an affiliate link, which means that you get a kickback whenever someone clicks it and eventually .....

VISA SXSW Influence People and VigLink plus lots more

March 10, 2011

This post is a bit or a personal update for those that know me and for those that do not yet it will make a good start. I have been trying to get a US VISA for a long time and it finally came through on Tuesday. This has taken 2 years work and I am more than a little pleased. While I did not know I was going to get my VISA know I .....

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Social Underground Attack! with Social Media Influencer Marketing

March 9, 2011

You may recall seeing me as part of a social media influencer marketing program last December in San Francisco. It was fun to be a part of it, and an interesting take on using social media for influencer marketing. The company, Attack!, is officially announcing their service this week. Their approach is to identify influencers both from their own database and elsewhere in social media, then design a “custom multimedia experience” for those influencers. In .....

Small Business, Small Change

March 1, 2011

It is no secret that citizens in the UK have been more wary of the country’s financial situation and many have started to look around to find the best way to look after their own money. This is an important change to note, as more businesses are getting less reluctant when it comes to making long term commitments. This change in behaviour has brought forth a very important observation: not all changes have to be .....

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