Turn-Key Solutions for Affiliates
Got an email from an affiliate which goes as follows: “I’m a new affiliate and I would like to know if you know of any Turn Key operations available at this time.” While you can certainly purchase an already functioning affiliate website, and start your affiliate journey this way, I would highly recommend you start by building something yourself. First of all, because purchasing a successful affiliate website will undoubtedly be a more expensive way to start as an affilia

What Are You Thankful For?
For me, this long Thanksgiving weekend has come as much needed and long awaited one. No, not because of the affiliate sales that are quickly climbing up and only expected to grow all the way through the Cyber Monday, but because of the time I am able to spend with my family. Many of my readers know that my little Princess, my first born daughter, entered this world on November 26, and this year her sixth birthday coincided with the Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. Needless to say, it has ended up being a very special day of celebrations in my house.

Black Friday: To Buy or Not to Buy?
A few days ago in their “Black Friday Anti-Deals: What Not To Buy” post Gizmodo wrote: …many of these “deals” really aren’t deals at all. Often, Black Friday sale products are priced differently between stores, or they are priced at or above deals you can find elsewhere any day of the week. You might see a particularly juicy deal in a flier on a big ticket item like an HDTV, only to discover that the store only had a few units to sell. The bottom line is that you need to do your homework… And they were spot on!

Who Made Black Friday Deals Available on Thursday
Recalling the “Black Friday by the Numbers” info-graphic that Permuto published last week, today I have decided to go back to the list of online retailers that have seen the best 2007 to 2008 growth in Black Friday audience reach, and see which of them are waiting until the actual Friday comes, and which are taking advantage of people’s holiday shopping mood, and their day off on Thursday (by the way, Happy Thanksgiving, America!). It is this part of the Permuto’s graph that I’m referring to:

Facebook Advertising: IKEA Thinks Outside the Box
A few days ago a Toronto-based affiliate marketer, Lorne Fade, has published an ad spending infograph based on Nielsen AdRelevance data. Among other things the infograph reflected the distribution of the top advertisers (by impressions and spend) on Facebook: A day earlier IKEA published a video on how they are using Facebook by kidnapping the platf