ClickBank Kills JV Marketing Products

ClickBank Kills JV Marketing Products

As we previous mentioned, ClickBank has been under enormous pressure by the FTC (Read Clickbank FTC) to make changes its program after numerous customer complaints and a rising chargeback issue with Internet Marketing programs. As part of that, they have started to make additional changes to the guidelines, some which are being announced this week … Read more

California Affiliate Tax Repealed?

As you may know, just a few months ago, CA Governor Brown signed into a law an affiliate tax that had taxed purchases by any company with California affiliates. The immediate result had been the removal of tons of affiliates from companies like Amazon.com. However, according to the Performance Marketing Association, Governor Brown has signed … Read more

New Facebook “Want” Button = Money

Perhaps you are one of the many people bitching about the Facebook layout changes. Personally, I don’t care if Facebook changes into the ugliest site on the internet, just as long as it provides opportunities to marketers to make more money. Lo, the changes being made are actually going to make more money for everyone … Read more

Keyword Trademark Issues in Europe

While the US Courts have ruled that bidding on a competitor’s trademark does not violate their trademark, it seems that the European Courts have taken a completely different stance that could affect affiliates attempting to break into the European market. In a judgement in a case, between Inflora and Marks&Spencer, ruled by  the EC (European … Read more

HitPath

Simply put there is no faster, more feature-rich, more user-friendly affiliate tracking program in the marketplace. Built using state of the art technology with our clients and their needs in mind, the HitPath® performance marketing tracking software is both flexible and scalable yet uncompromisingly reliable and accurate. It goes without saying that accurate and reliable … Read more

Offermatic Offers CPA Customer Retargeting

Wednesday saw the debut of OfferMatch, the first pay-for-performance marketing channel from Offermatic. Offermatic is a startup company that delivers targeted offers to consumers based on the purchase history of their members in an effort to bring “guarenteed new and profitable customers to any offline merchant.” The offers are based on the actual purchase history … Read more

Cake Marketing

Cake Marketing is a hosted software solution that provides an all-inclusive suite of management services for online marketing campaigns. From tracking and reporting to lead distribution, our software enables advertisers, publishers and lead generators a fully scalable and accurate platform developed with a combination of innovative technology and an imaginative approach to doing business online. … Read more

CPA Approval Services are Fraud

Just to ensure everyone is clear, “CPA Approval Services” are completely ran and operated by fly by night fraud rings. If you do a few searches on Google you will find countless posts for people offering their “services” and “affiliates” looking for such help. “Pay x amount of dollars for each account approved.”  “I will … Read more

HitPath at War with CPA Networks?

It seems that a major war between affiliate network software companies is brewing. Earlier this year, WebApps DBA HitPath filed a lawsuit against Cake Marketing and three former Hitpath customers who had left the software company to move to another software platform. According to the lawsuit, HitPath claims that these three customers, when leaving, provided … Read more

Netflix subscribers today, your subscribers tomorrow.

All the fuss over Netflix yesterday started me thinking about what a great day it is to be an affiliate marketer with a nice opt in email list of people who may be (or until recently were) Netflix customers.  In case you are making the universal monkey face that signals confusion I’ll explain. Netflix apparently … Read more

Datran Announces Email +1 Program

From Press Release: Today, Datran Media announced the expansion of its social media capabilities for its digital marketing platform, StormPost. In addition to the platform’s ShareThis and Facebook sharing toolsets, StormPost now makes it easy for marketers to share their email content across Google+. With StormPost’s Google +1 button, recipients can share the full email … Read more

LeadSpend

Enhance your sender reputation, increase your inbox placement rates and maximize your ROI with LeadSpend’s active email validation.  LeadSpend’s real-time email validation determines if an email account is valid and deliverable, when you want to use it.  If you’re in the lead generation, email marketing or email services business then you know that keeping your … Read more

$10k a Day on Content Unlocking?

Content unlocking has received a lot of press of late. Not only because it is the new kid on the block in monetizing the web, but because it yields real results. Content locking is now considered the best way of giving returns to webmasters, bloggers, forum administrators as well as owners of any type of … Read more

MailChimp Blocks Affiliates

In late “breaking” news on this Friday night, it seems that MailChimp, a email service provider for newsletters has made changes that includes banning a great deal of marketers from using their service. According to insiders, this was done because MailChimp was facing significant problems with their deliverability caused by a few less-than-ethical marketers. Since … Read more