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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My post from earlier this week on Affiliate Networks and blogs got me thinking about the bigger social media picture in the affiliate network space.
Engaging clients via social media is pretty much a no-brainer by now, though many businesses remain [...]

I’ve come out of my two month blog hiatus (caused by a perfect storm of home and business activities) to discover that yet another of the big US affiliate networks has launched a blog. As of October, Linkshare has apparently seen the light and jumped into the blogging fray. Good onya Linkshare.
This prompted [...]

This is my first political post ever, possibly my last. But there’s something weighing heavy on me as a small business owner as we go into election day.
We’re a growing small business. I’m proud to say that even in these uncertain times that we’re not only profitable, but we’re growing. In the [...]

I have a strange thing for logo contests. I don’t know if it’s the idea of dozens of people working on something for you, hoping to win the business, or if it’s the chance to see so many creative people at work, or that it is just just an amazing application for the web.

The [...]

RevTrax is an affiliate network and technology solution that tracks from online into a store through printable coupons.
I met with the co-founders, Seth Sarelson and Jonathan Treiber, early on when they had some smaller regional tests going on. At the time, the prospect of making much headway promoting a restaurant local to [...]

I get asked a lot about my tips for success and my approach to business, usually specifically related to affiliate marketing. As if I’m qualified to give tips for success, but let’s put that aside for now.
There are lots of ways to make money on he Internet, and Affiliate Marketing (or Performance Marketing as [...]

My long love affair with Disqus came to an abrupt halt several weeks ago after they introduced their new API plugin and the comment import functionality.
I was a little concerned about using it because I have a post here with over 1000 comments, and pulling all those via API on the back end [...]

At Affiliate Summit East in Boston, Shareasale was handing out toddler-sized t-shirts. I was only at the show for a few hours, but I managed to get my hands on one of these hot items.
And thankfully, I’ve got just the toddler to wear it.

Alex never stops moving, so this was as close to a [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the experiences I had with looking into grid and VPS server solutions. Here’s a bit of an update on what’s going on there and a look at GoGrid, a “cloud computing” hosting solution that is taking on Amazon’s Elastic Computing service.
SliceHost Update
This blog is still [...]

You ever read any of those “Annoyances” books from O’Reilly Press? Titles like “Windows Vista Annoyances”, “Microsoft Office Annoyances”, actually they’re mostly about Microsoft. Who’da guessed it?
The ideas of these books aren’t so much to bash Microsoft (maybe a little), but to help users work around the annoying things in the operating system [...]