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Last Update: Mon Dec 18 18:13:09 2006

+ Short and Sweet + Busy week. The January/February edition of the magazine is now being printed. Phase one of the Revenuetoday.com website is set to go [...] I actually fell asleep for a few minutes. Let me know what excitement has happened in your week so far. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Sack of Performancing Marketing Goodies + I am slowly emerging from under my deadline rock. As I was scrambling to catch up on the latest happenings, a bunch of items caught my [...] got some interesting news, share it with me. Remember, it’s better to give than to receive. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ New Podcast: It's an Affiliate Thing + Busy week. Deadlines galore. We are putting the January/February 2007 issue to bed. It will go to the printer first thing next week [...] a new Affiliate Thing show is created, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed. It should be a fun ride. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Flu Sparks Online Shopping Spree + While most of you are calculating your commissions, praising Cyber Monday and white knuckling it for the holiday home stretch. [...] which is likely to turn into Cyber Wednesday, and Cyber Thursday and Cyber whatever, until I can cross everyone off my gift list.

+ Let’s Talk Turkey + I’ve got a lot of very, very important things on my mind today…like turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie and football. Oh yeah, [...] see what the National Retail Federation has to say about holiday spending and shopping. Anyway you slice it, it looks to be a ve

+ Search Engines Unite on Indexing + At this week’s PubCon show in Las Vegas on Thursday, all three of the big search engines united to announce they will all being [...] about this is that developers will only have one mechanism to support. Let me know what this means to you. lisap@reveneutoday.com

+ Pullen Launches QFour + I mentioned last week that former Commission Junction CEO Jeff Pullen was resurfacing. Here's the official release on what he's up to. ...

+ Ad:Tech Part Deux + Yesterday I promised a more detailed report from Ad:Tech New York. That was before I went the night without sleep and came back to a [...] ·The Ad Network Grudge Match/Smackdown/Jello Wrestling Match panel was more like an ad for each of the ad networks. Even afte

+ Ad:Tech Spotting + Greetings from Ad:Tech New York. It’s been a whirlwind two days of sessions, schmoozing and smiling. It’s been exciting [...] account. Let me know if you have any interesting stories from Ad:Tech or ShareASale's ThinkTank. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Zango Settles with FTC for $3 Million + Here’s some news that caught my eye this morning. Zango is going to pay $3 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission [...] to download software, and the company is required to give clear and prominent disclosures and obtain consumers' express consen

+ WOMMA's Blogging Guidelines for Marketers + The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) issued some blogging guidelines for marketers. The checklist is supposed to help [...] 10. If bloggers write about products I send them, I will proactively ask them to disclose the products’ source. WOMM

+ The Scary Season + Today is Halloween. And from everything that I’ve seen and read over the last few weeks when it comes to celebrating Halloween, [...] for those planning purchases. ·$1.57 billion will be spent on candy, with 95.7 percent of consumers buying. The average co

+ Making the Tradeshow Connection + Earlier this week I wrote about how I still hadn’t embraced the concept of virtual trade shows. Yesterday I attended a [...] into the Orlando show due to some confusion. Shawn claims that people in this industry can't resist working if they have access. D

+ I'm a Virtual No-Show + Earlier today I was blogging, responding to email, taking phone calls, chatting with co-workers, overseeing online proofs of the next [...] But I’m sure many will. I agree the conference organizers have gone to great lengths to provide a realistic (albeit a

+ Internet Addicts + I am not an Internet addict. How do I know this? Ironically, I took an online test that told me so. My score was 42 and [...] out Web pages. Internet addicts also have disregard for health or appearance, sleep deprivation and decreased physical activity and

+ Going Mobile + I’m trying to get a bunch of top-priority stuff wrapped up so the November/December issue of the magazine can go to the printer [...] regions. I’m curious to see if the DMA is addressing the mobile market. Let me know what you think. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Google is the "Moron" to Buy YouTube + Trying to put out a print product in an online world has many challenges and many rewards. I won’t bore you with the list of [...] official press release Let me know how you think video will impact the performance marketing space. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Food, Friends, and Fun Affiliate Style + My voice is still strained and raspy from last night’s non-stop networking event sponsored by the Bay Area Affiliate Managers [...] Brucker of WebEx for all their hard work in pulling off this very fun gathering. I hope there will be more to come. Let me know

+ Random Revenue Notes + It seems like about twice a year I get all juiced up on Robitussin and Wal-Fed (not sure why the names of the Walgreen’s [...] meets bi-monthly to network and share insights about the affiliate space. Also our magazine is giving away two prizes: $1,000 to

+ Serving Your Customers + Earlier this week a study about customer satisfaction caught my eye. Since I was formerly an editor at CRM Magazine all things about [...] experience I had with T-Mobile. It was a trivial matter that could have been resolved online, quickly and amicably and without h

+ Reports From CJU + I have some folks down at CJU in Santa Barbara that generously agreed to call me or email me with details from the event. I’m [...] valuable. Most people stayed and hung out long after it is over. What’s your experience at CJU been? lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ CJ's New Web Services + I'm not in Santa Barbara at CJU but to coincide with the big event, Commission Junction today formally announced its new Web Services [...] some feedback on this announcement as well. Meanwhile, check out Vinny Lingham's blog for some CJU info. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ New Affiliate Testing Service + I just wanted to let everyone know that Affiliate Fair Play Testing Service went live yesterday. This is the service from Kellie [...] can submit a private request for testing and that criteria threshold for testing may be included in the report. There is an

+ Cookie Deletion Report + Spyware expert Ben Edelman today released new findings regarding which anti-spyware programs delete which cookies and under what [...] Edelman says Google has developed tracking technology that is success in protecting user privacy and escaping anti-spyware.

+ Thanks Bill Ziff + Just a quick acknowledgement that William B. Ziff, Jr., passed away earlier this week from prostate cancer. Ziff, 76, was a pioneer in [...] Bill Ziff: PC Magazine New York Times Bloomberg Red Herring David Churbuck Who has inspired you? lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Post 9/11 + This week has been pretty calm so far – many poignant remembrances of September 11, 2001. I think lots of people are in a very [...] that face affiliates and merchants. Stay tuned for more information on advisory boards – I might just have a little something m

+ What Gives? + I have a bunch of friends and family with birthdays this month and I’ve been racking my brain about the perfect present for each [...] simply an oversight on CJ’s part and wanted to try and help straighten out the problem. Others offered me their extras passes

+ Labor Day of Love + With the long Labor Day weekend upon us, there’s lots of end of summer stuff to do – fire up the BBQ once again, head to [...] named Vice President of Client Development at LinkShare. Let me know what you were up to this week. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Tales from the Windy City + I just returned home from a great trip to Chicago. I was there over the weekend for the third annual Affiliate Manager Certification [...] about it many times before but never really understood the full impact. Often the trail was so convoluted and complex that it took

+ Riolo to Leave CJ + Lisa Riolo, a long-time Commission Junction veteran, who was named senior vice president of business development at the network last [...] I get all the information and also when I hear who is replacing her. For now check out her page on MySpace. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Tossed Perfomance Salad + When the weather is hot and humid no one really feels like cooking - or eating very much for that matter. That’s when a salad [...] I’m just not feeling it for Google these days. They seem a little sour for a company on top. Just this week the search giant

+ Feeding the Blogging Beast + Call off the search parties. Cancel the APB’s. I’m not missing or dead. And I certainly haven’t been on any sort of [...] have comments and a much more interesting dialog. That’s the best part of the blogging - the dialog. lisap@revenuetoday.com

+ Social Influence + I’m in the throws of editing stories for the upcoming issue of Revenue. While the new edition of the magazine will be filled [...] on how businesses conduct their business,” she writes. She cites eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey, who cautions “that lack th

+ Wanna Job? Cuban May be Your Benefactor + I’ll start right off by saying that I’m a somewhat of a fan of Mark Cuban’s. What’s not to like. This guy is [...] If you have any great ideas, contact Cuban and you may get a job. He writes, “So if you want a job, and have a gre

+ Pullen Out of Commission Junction + I've been meaning to pull together something on CJ and it's recent problems with people leaving. I never got to it in time and now [...] I'll post more on this later today after I make some calls. If you know anything, call or email me. lisap@revenuetoday.com