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Logging my brain on all things internet mktg, with a focus on affiliate marketing and web ...

Last Update: Mon Feb 5 20:25:40 2007

+ Mpire: evolution of an ebay selling sofware into a Web 2.0 affiliate site + I wear many hats as a marketer, I am an affiliate, I am an online merchant, and i am also an eBay seller. About two years ago I came [...] new eBay selling tool called Mpire, and since I was paying $30 a month for my selling software then, i was interested [...]

+ Big media as a driver for mainstream adoption of Web 2.0 + I came across several posts this week discussing the offline / mainstream press’ role in driving mainstream adoption of web2.0 [...] the presence of American Magazines on the Internet“. They found that 48% of the top 50 most circulated american [...]

+ Spring cleaning your affiliate (or any) business + Spring cleaning may sound funky, considering that we barely passed the first half of January, but it is currently a sunny 15 C (59 F) [...] I wrote the below article for the March 2006 issue of Affiliate Classroom magazine and I decided it’s high time I posted [...]

+ Busy + I have awfully neglected my blog in recent months, and I do not like that! However, i have been insanely busy with my e-commerce ...

+ Taking the affiliate cruise across the ocean: how to access the European market + I am located in Central Europe, so this blog has always had a slight European focus. I have always been interested in international [...] and the like. This topic was the subject of the first article I wrote for Affiliate Classroom magazine, and I have to tell you, [...]

+ The new web - revolutionary evolution: Web 2.0 for affiliate marketing + At the risk of upsetting the webosphere by publishing yet another post celebrating the birth of bubble 2.0 web 2.0, I am now posting [...] in Affiliate Classroom magazine. The goal was to introduce the concept of web 2.0 to the affiliate marketing world, so please [...]

+ A case study on how you can make tagging work on an e-commerce website + I just read an amazingly cool case study on Marketing Sherpa about tagging and its use in affiliate marketing for an e-commerce [...] (when shop owners create products they tag them as they see fit), and then lets its affiliates use custom product banners [...]

+ Organic Content + I came across an interesting debate recently, started by Derek here: Death to User-Generated Content. He argues that the term [...] things people create online. I followed the discussion around the blogosphere and found a comment that hits the nail on [...]

+ Fixed remaining errors on the site + I fixed a lot of the remaining errors from that damn failed MT update and now I am 100% on Wordpress. Yay! Still need to work on the ...

+ Ziki launches and I like it + It has been a loooooooong time since I was really impressed by a social networking site. Ziki.com launched this week and I took a look [...] and their interests and content around the web, and supposedly will aggregate a lot more in the future: “Soon we’ll [...]