Who thought it would’ve come to this: Having too many ways to connect with colleagues and work friends? But with Facebook and Twitter and every other service that seems to be cropping up like weeds lately, we’re at a loss for the most optimal way (beyond email, of course) to connect in real-time with long-distance [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Networking’
January 21st, 2011
The Affiliate Summit Forum: Like Facebook and Twitter, But Without the Clutter
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing 
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Summit, Networking 
No Comments »January 4th, 2011
Why Your Automated Facebook and Twitter Messages Don’t Work
New year, new ambitions. As the affiliate marketing industry continues to mature–implementation of laws and regulations are part of a painful growth process for any emerging industry–so should we. But this could be a broad goal–so a great place to start would be to kill the automator. It’s not doing you any favors. It’s winning [...]
Posted in Social Media Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Automators, Facebook, Networking, Twitter 1 Comment »November 30th, 2010
AM Affiliate: How to Network With Affiliates, The Season of Digital Excess, + More
- The trick of the affiliate trade? Know how to connect with people and more importantly, don’t engage in shop talk right away. [Shoemoney] – European regulators have opened an antitrust case against Google, alleging that the search engine giant uses its dominance to enforce illegal noncompete measures. [LA Times] -Kendall Allen presents an excellent [...]
August 31st, 2010
AM Affiliate: Digital Marketers Are Crazy, Apple’s New iTimeWarp, & More
– Digital marketers: Smart, but extremely crazy. [MediaPost] – Why you should look into targeted regional marketing with Facebook if you haven’t already. [Jonathan Volk] – In case Affiliate Summit East barely itched the scratch you have for networking, here’s a useful calendar of a 100+ upcoming social media events. [Mashable] – Chances are of [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Apple, DIY, Gmail, Google, iMac, Networking, Typewriters No Comments »August 24th, 2010
AM Affiliate: How to Make Small Talk, Charity As An Affiliate Marketer’s Newest Friend, & More
- Never underestimate the value of knowing how to have an effective conservation. [MediaPost] – Cause Marketing–that is marketing that aims to increase conversions by donating some portion of commissions to a charitable cause–is one of the newest trends to sweep performance marketing. [Jonathan Volk] – About 60 million Americans have confessed to playing Farmville [...]
August 9th, 2010
AM Affiliate: The Ultimate Social Media Map, Allegedly Exclusive Affiliate Summit East Parties, & More
– Navigate the social media wilderness with this handy map. [Gizmodo] – July was a terrible month of web browser trendsetters: Firefox and Chrome lagged while Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari gained momentum. [DM Confidential] – An interesting counterpoint to this piece about expectations in Affiliate Managers. [PPV Playbook] – Affiliate Summit East is six [...]
August 9th, 2010
The 5 Kinds Of Affiliates You’ll Probably Meet at Affiliate Summit East
Affiliate Summit East is upon us! And here at Blue Phoenix Media, we’re pretty excited about it. Aside from the fact that it’s all going down in our own backyard here in NYC, we’re also excited to meet new and old faces alike. And we’re sure you are too. And when you do, you might [...]
July 30th, 2010
Why Affiliate Marketers Have to Be Picky With Their Partners and Offers
Over at Adotas today, Trip Foster has written about how critical it’s become for players in performance marketing to be more discerning when not only choosing their business partners, but in picking the campaigns they want to run. And it seems kind of part and parcel to arguments about transparency that have been pinballing around [...]
Posted in Industry News, Marketing Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Marketing, Networking, Partners No Comments »July 28th, 2010
Pick Up Your Phone: The Internet Age’s Ultimate Dilemma
The phone’s a complicated, nearly-obsolete piece of machinery. With all its buttons and tones, it can appear very intimidating. I mean, there are no screen names to click on. There are no walls to post on. To some degree, it’s shocking to most that anyone still uses it.
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Networking, Social Media, Telephone 1 Comment »July 21st, 2010
AM Affiliate: Infographic Breaks Down BP’s Long-Term Damage to Environment & More
– E-mail marketing as a more personal way of engaging with consumers where Facebook and Twitter may fail. [MediaPost] – Esquire takes us back to web 1.0 with 15 websites that were gone too soon. [Esquire] – Meet Wildfire: A Groupon-style app for brands on Facebook to present coupons to their fans. [InsideFacebook] – Despite [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Social Media Tags: BP, Dating, E-mail Marketing, Esquire, Facebook, Groupon, Infographics, Networking, Web 1.0, Wildfire No Comments »
