Hi, just a quick note that today the New Life Event is happening right now! The event is hosted by Shawna Fennell (CEO of 1 Choice 4 Your Store.com) and has been going on all weekend long with 30 Free Live Webinars from various industry experts in ecommerce, search, social media and more! You can Register for the New Life Event right [...]

Coupons have been around for ages and wanted to share my thoughts on how it changed my buying behavior in 24 hours! Recently I returned from Affiliate Summit and now have a large stack of business cards on my desk. The fact that the business card pile is here is good but the fact that they are in the pile [...]

It’s Monday, day 2 of Affiliate Summit and started with Dr. Robert B. Cialdini giving the keynote address. Personally, I felt the keynote was excellent as it was based on his experience in using psychology within marketing. From his book, Influence: Science and Practice he conveyed the following principles that every marketer needs to keep handy: Six Universal Principles of Social [...]

In a few days, I will be attending Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas and wanted to let you know about 3 ways to connect at the show. In case you don’t know about Affiliate Summit it’s the leading event for affiliate marketing aka performance based marketing. Attended by over 4,100 people it is held at the Rio Hotel and runs [...]

I prepared a list of the top 52 holiday tips for e-commerce store owners and broke them up into sections; Web Design, Customer Service / Operations, Gift Services, Promotions / Social Media, Advertising / Search and Opportunities / Partnerships. The current economic forces will test online retailers in many ways and the sooner you plan for the holidays the better [...]

The day began with an interesting keynote from Chris Brogan & Julien Smith. As co-authors of the book Trust Agents they described the concept briefly and sparked some ideas from the discussion. The takeaway is to discover who the Trust Agent is in your space and if one doesn’t exist become that influential voice. Got It? Had a chance to [...]

The first day of Affiliate Summit in New York began with an exciting networking session “meet market” from 12 to 6pm with various internet marketers, agencies and merchants. I met with many interesting people (3,000 attendees) and was great to see friends from the Google Affiliate Summit just over a week ago in California (time flies). During the opening I [...]

Headed into Affiliate Summit for a full day of amazing networking and meeting friends. The meet market was excellent networking and allows you to move between 10×10 tabletops filled with merchants, networks, outsourced affiliate program managers and agencies. Had an opportunity to see some sessions and below is some takeaway information and some photos. Tony Pantano of Imwave.com – working [...]

Arrived in Las Vegas on Saturday and excited to get started with the Affiliate Summit (3,200 attendees). On my flight out from Tampa sat with Cate and Ginger from Gifts.tv and heard about new ways to use video to market products. As my title notes, I continued to take lots of cold medicine (compliments of my last Southwest flight) and [...]

I recently purchased an Apple iphone 3G and downloaded a free application called Amazon Remembers from the Apple App Store. If you work within e-commerce and social networking you need to try this as you are seeing the future of mega mobile e-commerce. What if you could shop at any store from your phone? What if you could compare, price [...]