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Many merchants don’t pay commission on gift certificates, so don’t promote that option on your site unless you verify you will get a commission. …is about the best way for affiliates to capitalize on gift certificate sales.

Not only will you help the industry by completing the survey but you’ll also receive a full copy of the AffStat 2008 Report when it is published in early 2008.

Oops I ELFed Shawn Collins. You gotta watch, it’s hysterical! Let’s call it the Affiliate Summit BOOGEY!

This opens a new era of performance marketing, a turnkey solution whereby advertisers can easily track and pay for calls driven by their affiliates…

When I stopped to think about the fact that I spend more time in my office chair than my bed I decided REGARDLESS of the COST, for Christmas I would buy the most comfortable ergonomic office chair I could find. OMG I found it! It’s a tax write-off too.

Merchants started reporting transaction completion problems beginning at 6 am PST on Cyber Monday. The problem was not fully resolved until 11 PM. Millions in sales probably lost. Affiliates suffered too.

I know lots of affiliates went to bed last night with visions of big checks dancing in their heads. I sure hope Cyber Monday sales are shaping up well and your stats are looking rosy. Image by….

Cyber Monday is probably a really good day for affiliates in general, but E-LOAN affiliates just got some bad news. Did they cut commission right before the Holidays like some scrooge merchants did? Nope. The mortgage crunch must have hit them hard. They are closing down their affiliate program and links will expire on Dec. […]

Remember that good ole Mamas and Papas song, Monday Monday? I juiced up the lyrics and made it a tribute to Cyber Monday. Sing it with me now, then spin around 3 times and pull on your right ear. I absolutely guarantee that if you do this little ritual, your Monday Holiday sales will increase. (Oh the power of positive thinking!)

The intense Holiday sales typically don’t even start hitting heavy until Cyber Monday, but both Linkshare and CJ have been having all kinds of servers issues already. CJ has had a 500 Servlet Exception error for over 24 hours. Affiliates need to get in there to get things done before Monday hits. Come on guys.

Google quietly just made a change to their search interface that could take a bite out of affiliate sales a couple different ways. See screenshots…

Shawn Collins was inspired by my challenge to sing the Cyber Monday Song I wrote. However he said he’s not a big fan of the Mama’s and Papa’s, so his rendition of the Cyber Monday Song is based on MANIC Monday instead of Monday Monday.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Are you ready? The 1st of 5 Cyber Mondays is less than a week away. I can almost hear affiliates scurry around making last minute site tweaks and hunting for deals and coupon codes! But in case you need a little help, here are some last-minute tips

Can help you align your business model with your personal circumstances, goals, and talents. A must-read if you want to save yourself lots of trial and error and shorten the time it takes to get profitable.

Amazon continues to innovate with the coolest tools to help affiliates earn revenue more easily. They just released a interactive Deals Widget and a Black Friday Deals Page affiliates can link to.

How do you know which keywords are converting on your PPC or natural search campaigns? Is there a way find out what KWs sell WITHOUT having the merchant add special tracking code in their cart for you, which most won’t do anyway? Yep!

2 DoubleClick stories today: The Google/DoubleClick deal and DoubleClick being accused of allowing trojans and malware to propagate through their ad serving system.

Need some high quality last minute Holiday graphics for landing pages, banners, newsletters or just to add that special Christmas touch to your site? Check out this pic! Just can’t beat this quality or price. For any other type of landing page aside from the holidays too, this is the ticket!

The November edition of the 5 Star Newsletter brings lots of glad tidings. We have five great new 5 Star Programs for your Holiday promos, one pays out 250 per sale. We also have some exciting Holiday Contests including one that’s offering a Baja cruise for 2.

It’s a video marketplace that makes it easy for potential advertisers to select from and customize professionally produced video to create their own custom ads. Think of it like a high quality customizable video template store. No YouTube crap - PRO videos. Pretty cool. Very cost effective!

How many affiliates do you know that would get fired in the real world? Online, the misfits have the advantage. They can create their own attention paradigms. Online naked except for your brain. There’s no corporate games and none of the skills that normally shoot a person up the ladder are relevant.

The US affiliate market is large and is dominated by a small number of networks which have not been forced to innovate at the same rate as European networks leaving merchants and affiliates underserviced.

Free Ringtones? Not for Azoogle! They just agreed to pay $1,000,000 in settlement fees to the Florida Attorney General’s Economic Crimes Division. Azoogle made the million dollar settlement voluntarily and is providing assistance to the newly formed CyberFraud Task Force, which is focused on fighting fraudulent Internet Marketing claims.

In the video below Jeremy AKA ShoeMoney, Kevin Lee of Didit.com and Dana Todd from SiteLab discuss what type of optimization is best, organic search engine optimization or pay-per-click advertising? Shoe makes some good points about …

Business is booming for Performics, the affiliate network that for a long time was #3 and then almost seemed to fade away. It’s no surprise that ever since Google announced it’s plans to acquire DoubleClick, advertisers have been flocking to the network.

We have 5 new 5 Star Affiliate Programs for your Holiday linking pleasure. Some great niches and high payouts! One pays 250 per Sale on a Free Trial. Also new digital Santa Greetings, Uniforms, Auto Parts and Football Gear.

The long awaited Synthasite Beta is finally open. Vinny just announced it. Here is a snippet and a video showing how easy it is to publish a site.

Trust me when I say that if you get a Mom or a Grandma to one of these videos of the right toy, you’ll make a sale. A static image vs adorable little kids actually playing… no contest! No embed option so use my video trick below.

Aras Baskauskas, the winner of CBS’s Survivor: Exile Island has ventured into the affiliate marketing jungle. TundraGear sells unique Russian winter hats to NFL and College football fans. It’s a 5 Star program on ShareResults. Check out this WILD picture…

Top affiliate Holiday contest of 2007! Win an 8 Day Trip for Two to Baja and Cruise the Sea of Cortez! Imagine whale watching from the deck of the cruise ship, kayaking and snorkeling. This $9,000 value contest just launched so affiliates should jump on board.

As I researched the affiliate gift certificate market for this story I thought WOW - I hit the motherload! I was so excited to let you guys know - then WHOA. I can’t believe this clueless merchant!