When I meet new people, the question usually comes up “Do you work?”.  Since I create small business sites on the internet, I sometimes find it hard to explain.  There’s an assumption that if the person I’m talking to has never heard of what I do, then it must not be real.  That’s what the expression […]

I have to seriously remind myself several times a day that I will survive not getting to Vegas for Affiliate Summit this next week.  The official Summit kicks off Sunday, but attendees have been comparing notes at ABW for weeks and the heavy-duty “Twitter me, call me, PM me, email me” connections are being finalized […]

This is a bit on the personal side instead of strictly business, but the business leaders in our community will all be counted tonight and it’s a great promotional idea, benefiting the local county Humane Society, and using Valentine’s Day and love as a theme.  Chocoholic’s Festival is an annual event, the major fundraiser, and […]

When you have multiple sites, some with multiple installations of WordPress, it’s a really sinking feeling to see “Security Fix - Upgrade immediately” on the dashboard when you log in to work.  This morning, DH got to work first and saw the news in a tech feed.  Oh, man - we weren’t done upgrading everything […]

I have to give them credit for trying, but once again I’m just frustrated when I get done.  My personal experience with Performics is that they do a great job sending links and offers via email and Orange Links so it’s easy to promote their nice, brand name merchants.   I probably wouldn’t bother with them […]

I’ll admit that I’m not out beating the bushes for affiliate network news, but I noticed something back in late October, early November and have yet to see it mentioned.  Has anyone else noticed that Performics  announces their online Think Tank on their front page of the affiliate interface?
I remember the announcement showing up after […]

My friend, Southbeachannie, is devoting more and more time to her affiliate marketing future.  She seems to have a real knack for identifying or at least recognizing a true niche when she sees one.  First, there’s her whole persona, which is totally Southbeach.  It’s where she lives, works, plays, and twitters.  If you follow Annie […]

Or are you calling this an “adjustment period”, too?   It’s obvious that the economy is going to be front page news for quite some time.  What’s the answer for affiliate marketing?  I am looking at it this way: when booms come to an end, the players that got in for the easy money drop out.  […]

I’m not going to Affiliate Summit this time - BUMMER!  This time last year was my first and I loved it.  I got to spend time with so many fabulous people.  It really made a difference in my work.   We just can’t make Vegas at this point in time, even though I’m really, really craving […]

I’m noticing this more and more lately, which I think is because we moved to a rapidly growing smaller town.  I’ll use an ad I saw a week ago as an example, because I saw the ad again this morning and it was partially corrected.
There’s BIG ad in our Sunday paper for an upcoming charity […]