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Re: BC Ferries wants resident priority on Route 3 ‘ended soon as possible’

asrguy — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:48:08 -0000

East fix: charge $250 for the reservation and you get $220 credited back when you show up.
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Re: Inbot InToken (InToken) - ICO Rating and Overview | ICOmarks

asrguy — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:22:35 -0000

Great team!

Re: 8 Satellite Data Startups Doing Geospatial Analysis

asrguy — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:17:00 -0000

Please check out www.simularity.com - AI driven smart change detection for satellite and drone imagery. They can send you a brochure/video info.

Re: KFC Canada Is Accepting Bitcoin for Fried Chicken - CoinDesk

asrguy — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:57:04 -0000

Bitcoin is hopeless for buying chicken and generally useless other than storing value and buying other coins. Should accept XRB - no fees and takes just seconds.

Re: Crypto and Blockchain Could Create $10 Trillion Market, RBC Analyst Says - CoinDesk

asrguy — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 23:54:22 -0000

Raiblocks/XRB is about to take a huge bite out of Bitcoin, Visa, and M/C - already fast and $0 to make a transaction. It will need to get on more exchanges before people start to take notice.

Re: BTC Price Tech Analysis for 01/16/2017 – Pulling Out of the Drop?

asrguy — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:59:20 -0000

How predictive is BTC historical data for determining it's future price? Do you think BTC is more or less predictive than other currencies and stocks?

Re: Suspicious Web Domains Cost the Online Ad Business $400m Per Year

asrguy — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:11:45 -0000

Another scam is the use of typo domains to send traffic back to the real brand owner, and instead of fraudulent traffic they are sending "good" traffic (brand searchers who miss-key the domain) and earning fraudulent commissions. Luckily there are sites like TypoAssassin to catch these bad affiliates.

Re: Are Affiliate Managers and OPMs Responsible for Disclosure?

asrguy — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:17:00 -0000

I'm not sure why anyone would want "auto approve" of affiliate applications. It costs more to undo damage than any time you save by not reviewing the apps up front.

Re: Hollywood Docket: Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman Loses Cybersquatting Dispute

asrguy — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:09:47 -0000

The registrant offered to sell them the domain. If the price was more than the $10 registration fee then they had intent to profit from the domain - is that right?

Re: Are Affiliate Managers and OPMs Responsible for Disclosure?

asrguy — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:15:53 -0000

"But if your top 10 revenue-driving affiliates are all violating the guidelines and you do nothing about it, you are opening your merchant up to a lot of liability."

One of the constraints is that AM's are typically paid a % of affiliate sales, unless they are somehow a stakeholder in the business itself.

In an ideal world we'd all like to say that they don't look the other way, and that it's in the AM's interest to look out for the merchant re liability and lost profits (e.g. in the case of typo domain affiliates making commissions).

But the world is not ideal and in our experience many AM's are just out there looking for themselves. It's not entirely their fault - it's a fault of the compensation systems they are under and the business owners not overseeing what is really going on.

As for your comment "I’m surprised that affiliate managers and Outsourced Program Managers (OPMs) haven’t jumped on all of this." - really? Is it such a surprise.

Maybe I'm just getting cynical but until the business owners adjust the compensation to reward AM's to address issues that can reduce commissions but reduce risk and increase profits, it shouldn't be a surprise.

Luckily some AM's out there are ahead of the curve doing the right thing, and helping to clean up their programs at the risk of losing some commissions.

Re: 22 Tons of Fake Beef Seized in China

asrguy — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:43:00 -0000

I bet even the pork they started with was fake...

Re: Six Opportunities Steve Ballmer Missed at Microsoft

asrguy — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:19:36 -0000

@Matthew K - there's actually 7. You missed the same huge opportunity that I mentioned personally to Steve Ballmer during a job interview at Microsoft in 1986 lol.

Re: The Perils of Launching a Sub-Affiliate Platform

asrguy — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:13:07 -0000

looks like they have decided to "switch gears" if you check their home page. Some nice stats but bottom line was nothing spectacular I guess.

Re: How do I import the XML file (exported from NameCheap) into Microsoft Excel? (Managing Account FAQs) • Namecheap.com Knowledgebase

asrguy — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:10:36 -0000

good instructions. you might want to add a link to this help article from the "export" page that's in our panel.

Re: The SaaS churn challege: How to hold onto your customers

asrguy — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:26:22 -0000

You missed one key point: continue to deliver value to the customer and make sure the customer sees the value/ROI month after month.

Re: Do You Have One of the Top 5% Most Viewed LinkedIn Profiles for 2012?

asrguy — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:50:27 -0000

I got one too, but I don't see much value in paying to see who's looking at my profile. If they want to reach me they can.

I think they're just stirring things up just like those "endorsements" you get regularly.

Re: Upstart Donuts’ Grab for Domain Names Triggers Web Scam Concerns

asrguy — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:50:09 -0000

There are bound to be thousands of ecommerce sites/brands setting up shop on those tld's. If they have affiliate programs they are going to be subjected to typo domain affiliate commission theft. Thankfully they can be caught with tools like http://www.typoassassin.com

Re: Report: Fewer Than 1% Of Sales Can Be Tracked Back To Social Media

asrguy — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:04:04 -0000

Any ideas on what % of the traffic came from affiliates?

Re: The Perils of Launching a Sub-Affiliate Platform

asrguy — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:00:53 -0000

hmm I'm not so sure this will fly. As 95% of the revenue is generated by 5% of the affiliates (or even less), most of the savvy 5% affiliates will simply sign up directly and cut out refer.ly. That leaves them with little traffic left to share.

Re: This YouTube Break Up Hurts

asrguy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:05:18 -0000

UPDATE DEC 1, 2011 - Christmas came early today. I got this email from YouTube, after trying to contact them for an appeal:

Hi there,

Thanks for your email.

After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube

account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have

unsuspended your account. This means your account is once again active and

operational.

==============

So my vlogging account is back online, except for my most popular video which simply explains affiliate marketing. Go figure :)

-Peter

Re: California: the New Greece for Affiliates

asrguy — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:23:47 -0000

One subscriber emailed me that I should be quiet since I live in Canada and we take all our services for granted.

Lol. We pay for those services out of our taxes so it's not like it's "free" here.

The point here is that the misguided legislators seem to have come up with some zany law that basically is a lose/lose scenario, since the retailers will obv. cut off those affiliates, resulting in reduced income for the affiliates, and thus less tax revenue for California. Similarly large advertising and affiliate networks will suffer reduced ad spend by affiliates in California.

Surely based on previous experience in other states, the California law makers could have worked out a better solution to increase their out-of-state online tax revenue while keeping those performance marketers in business and paying their taxes in California, no?

Re: This YouTube Break Up Hurts

asrguy — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:01:43 -0000

Video blogger Gideon Shalwick gives some advice to avoid the "YouTube Kiss of Death", and also posts an audio interview with David Jenyns here:
http://gideonshalwick.com/y...

...but it's still a mystery who they are targeting and why... and how to get your account reinstated if you feel you didn't violate their terms

Re: This YouTube Break Up Hurts

asrguy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:32:34 -0000

David Jenyns had it happen to him, but somehow he got it back:
http://www.davidjenyns.com/...

Re: This YouTube Break Up Hurts

asrguy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:10:06 -0000

Thanks John!

Re: This YouTube Break Up Hurts

asrguy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:09:46 -0000

Paul Colligan's related post here: http://www.paulcolligan.com...