I met Eric Nagel through a Shareasale event in Buffalo, New York a few years back, and have remained in touch with him ever since. I think Eric has a few very unique skill sets in that he understands the programming and marketing sides of the internet, and is successful in communicating those ideas to others. That’s a …
I first met Carolyn at a Shareasale Think Tank back in 2007 I think, but it could have been at an Affiliate Summit before that. Previously, I had known her online though Abestweb. All this is to say that I have watched her work in the affiliate management space for a long time. Recently, she …
I’ve been playing around with Shareist.com, a relatively new content curation tool developed by long time “colleague” Scott Jangro. In the coming weeks, I plan on writing a review of the software, and discuss its place in the social media pantheon. In the meantime, I sent Scott a few questions about content curation, and asked …
I guess it’s my roots in affiliate marketing that cause me to disdain the word “traffic” so much. Often, affiliate managers smear Facebook with statements like “Who has good email traffic for cosmetics??!?!??! I haz offers!”, and I get turned off. Why? Because in the end, I think we all want prospects, right? Not traffic. …
As web analysts, internet marketing managers, or web consultants, we’re all looking to prove our worth daily. Hell, everyone who cares about their livelihood is. So one of the things we, as a group, are leaning towards is prognostication. And that’s a dangerous line of thinking.
To start, I’ll say that I didn’t join this industry on the ground floor. It was 2003, and a fair number of folks had already taken advantage of money making opportunities online. Amazon, CDNow (remember them?) and a decent number of online merchants had already enlisted webmasters (remember them?) from the United States and a …
You Said What?