JEBCommerce (http://jebcommerce NULL.com/about/), a leading affiliate and performance marketing agency, today announces that Ligonier Ministries, a leading Christian resource organization, has chosen JEBCommerce to launch and manage their upcoming affiliate program. Ligonier Ministries at Ligonier.org (http://ligonier NULL.org), makes complex biblical truths easy to understand. Their founder, Dr. R.C. Sproul is known by Christians from all [...]
Referral Laundering and more, my interview with Dave at Brandverity
Jamie and David Naffziger, of BrandVerity, discuss referral laundering, geotargeting and other things affiliate managers should be looking out for to protect their program, their affiliates and their bottom lines. Dave Naffziger runs and operates BrandVerity, a company that provides a service called Poachmark. “Poachmark is a service that monitors paid search for affiliate abuse [...]
It’s not just us, Chef Ramsay is popular – free SEO webinar
For a while I thought maybe my wife and I were the only ones watching Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen nightmares. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ll remember I like to post about things you can learn from watching that show that relate to your business. To my surprise, today I saw Linkshare [...]
Affiliate Question of the Day – Where do I start?
New company, new product, affiliate program?

A very typical phone call we receive, and probably at least one each week, is one from a new merchant looking for immediate sales through affiliate marketing. We love to get calls from new prospects and enjoy meeting new people and learning of new business models. It’s one of the reasons I love this industry. [...]
Is it time to plan?
I was reading an article on InternetRetailer.com this morning titled Penny’s billion-dollar be (http://www NULL.internetretailer NULL.com/2010/06/23/penneys-billion-dollar-bet)t (http://www NULL.internetretailer NULL.com/2010/06/23/penneys-billion-dollar-bet). Penny’s, one of the earliest adopters of ecommerce among large retail chains, has experienced flat sales the last few years. They are now planning and investing in a new ecommerce platform to grow their online channel [...]
Differentiate yourself against your competition

Zak Stambor wrote a great article at InternetRetailer.com (http://www NULL.internetretailer NULL.com/2010/06/10/keep-it-simple) about online office supply retailer Shoplet.com and their amazing feat of increasing sales by triple digits in our current economic climate. “Even last year, in one of the worst economic environments in the past 50 years, it grew an Internet Retailer-estimated 33%, to an [...]
AffiliateBenchMarks

AffiliateBenchMarks is looking for affiliates, agencies and advertisers to fill out their 5 minute survey on the affiliate industry and your views of it. We’ve filled out this survey in the past, as have our clients, and the data you receive from it is fantastic. We highly recommend you take a few minutes and fill [...]
No Clicks, No Sales, No Impressions? Don’t Remove
I saw this response on ABestWeb (http://abestweb NULL.com) a while back, and apologize that I don’t have that thread included here, sorry. This person responded to a termination letter they received because they had no clicks or sales in that particular program. His response is a perfect reason why you don’t remove affiliates based on [...]


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