– 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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Networking’
August 9th, 2010
AM Affiliate: The Ultimate Social Media Map, Allegedly Exclusive Affiliate Summit East Parties, & More
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 »July 13th, 2010
AM Affiliate: Apple’s Censorship, Make Your Own Android App, & More
- With LeadsCon weeks away and Affiliate Summit East rapidly approaching, it’s time to upgrade your business cards–and here are 12 ways to get clever about that. [Mashable] – Apple is scrubbing out threads complaining about iPhone 4G woes on its website. [Gizmodo] – How digital marketing initiatives are still very much an inexact science. [...]
June 25th, 2010
AM Affiliate: The Death of the Business Card, FTC Cracks Down on Twitter Privacy, & More
– MacGyver your way to a quieter affiliate marketing work environment. [Super Affiliate Twins] – It’s finally happened. Nearly every post over at tech blog Gizmodo is about the brand new iPhone and how it doesn’t work and Apple’s snide technical support. [Gizmodo] – FTC cracks down on Twitter‘s lack of privacy; missing in action [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media, Technology Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Apple, Business Cards, Facebook, FTC, Gizmodo, iPhone, Networking, Twitter No Comments »June 21st, 2010
AffCon 2010 Party Digest
With countless exhibitors, getting to meet up with friends and colleagues can become an overwhelming task. But many affiliates are making the most out of their temporary Denver residency by hosting mixer after mixer. A run-down of some of the most promising after the break.
June 17th, 2010
AffCon 2010 & Beyond: 7 Ways to Make the Most of a Trade Show
Most affiliates and individuals in the performance marketing industry spend their time at their desk, either on the phone or behind a computer screen. With AffCon 2010–and a myriad of trade shows–quickly approaching, this is the perfect chance to attach a face to the voice on the phone. Here’s a primer (and a useful companion [...]
June 3rd, 2010
How to Be Social In the Absence of Social Media
Between this treatise on the importance of maintaining connections by Blue Phoenix Media’s own Joe Habib and Dan Schwabel‘s how-to over at Mashable, it’s unprecedented how much of social media’s success is rooted in keeping up your relationships in the physical world, outside of the internet.
Posted in Internet in the world, Social Media Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Facebook, Networking, Twitter No Comments »
