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Re: Who’s Reading your forum? Does the Internet Affect a Player’s Trade Value in Professional Sports?

72kilowatts — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:01:38 -0000

I couldn't just hand you the whole deck of cards.

Re: Creek Fly Fishing in a Kayak

72kilowatts — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:49:52 -0000

Thanks Geno. Let me know if you have any questions. Picking the right kayak can be tough.

Re: 100,000 Page Views

72kilowatts — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:02:27 -0000

Thanks, H :)

Re: Holiday Gifts for Kayakers and Fishermen

72kilowatts — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:00:11 -0000

Based on this comment, we adjusted the Bamboo fly rods page, and removed that merchant. There were other issues, but this one was the clincher.

Re: Affiliate Marketing on Ice

72kilowatts — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:01:57 -0000

@ Jason: How about hot shot MBA's starting a CPA business? LOL. Although I love Malkin.

@Jangro: Sorry. But I can still see Brad Park blowing one past Donnie Edwards (or was it Bob Sauve?) to elimnate us from the playoffs. You probably can still hear May Day ringing in your ears though.

Re: 72 Kilowatts Internet Marketing » Blog Archive » Some updates on me….

72kilowatts — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:55:01 -0000

Thanks Chris. Appreciate the well wishes, and I hope things are good for you where you are.

Re: 72 Kilowatts Internet Marketing » Blog Archive » Great E-Mail Marketing Permission Reminder post by Ben at MailChimp

72kilowatts — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:33:18 -0000

A good permission reminder isn't necessarily the secret to good email marketing. My hope is to always push for unsubscribes from those not interested, and not Spam reports....

Re: XMPP as the Marketer’s Golden Egg; Latency as Magic Beans

72kilowatts — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:12:51 -0000

Thanks for this post Sam. I wasn't aware of this at all, and should have been.

Re: Findings on Affiliate Status and the Amazon Tax

72kilowatts — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:23:31 -0000

Actually, I don't have your email address :)

Here's the documents though:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhb7zz4d_10fj...

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df8mcjj8_2fv5...

Thanks Brad!

Re: Findings on Affiliate Status and the Amazon Tax

72kilowatts — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:11:29 -0000

I'll get you a PDF if you can get the appropriate number printed. Save a receipt and we'll reimburse you. Thanks Brad.

Re: Findings on Affiliate Status and the Amazon Tax

72kilowatts — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:23:15 -0000

What day is that, Brad? Saturday?

Re: You’re being watched….

72kilowatts — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:13:35 -0000

There's other reasons though. Certainly, dropping a bad manager is never a bad thing.

Especially in the case of OPM's we've seen programs bring them on because of their popularity, then drop them after a short recruiting period.

And I guess that's ok too. Some affiliates, however, do prefer to work with certain OPMs, and if they build sites based on the fact that a specific OPM is managing a program, they tend to get ticked if they're gone *unexpectedly*.

It's a dangerous premise though. With very few exceptions, OPMs move on quite frequently.

Re: NY Affiliate Legal Fund

72kilowatts — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:50:24 -0000

And working now. Thanks again for the heads up.

Re: NY Affiliate Legal Fund

72kilowatts — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:47:26 -0000

Thanks Scott. Tough to include it in a post sometimes.

Re: Flip Video vs. Vado Pocket Video Cam

72kilowatts — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:34:46 -0000

Shawn: Which of the video settings did you have the Vado on for this comparison? I missed it if you stated it...

Also, I need to check if the Vado has an underwater case, which the Flip does. Want it for my kayak fishing website, so you can see where that might help :)

Re: An Open Letter to the Affiliate Marketing Industry Leaders

72kilowatts — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:00:10 -0000

Kris:

I think it's fair to note that I mentioned Pepperjam for a reason in this post. To me, PJ is diametric when considering the stay at home mom (or dad).

I can all but guarantee that you and I don't see eye to eye on many things, and actually, that's great.

It's one of the things that I welcome about an organization, especially one with a backbone and teeth. While I certainly wouldn't wan it to become a witch hunt in any fashion, I would hope that things that PJ does, things that I do, and things that Shareasle does alike will all be visible to the members, and eligible for debate and discussion.

Re: An Open Letter to the Affiliate Marketing Industry Leaders

72kilowatts — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:54:29 -0000

Thanks for the comments, folks.

Shawn, I was speaking specifically about the well documented speech given by Mr. Calacanis. In it, I think he showed a tremendous level of misunderstanding, even though in some regards he was correct in indicating that there's a lot of bad with the good when you break down what tactics affiliate marketers, email marketers, and loyalty marketers are currently using.

Re: A Framework for Discussing what the Nexus Tax Means

72kilowatts — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:27:07 -0000

Thanks for the comment.

I didn't go far enough in this post in indicating the importance of the "at will" nature of the contracts involved in affiliate marketing.

If, for whatever reason, someone were to be in favor of internet sales taxes, New York has left a giant out for merchants that they wanted to act as tax collectors for them. Simply eliminate the affiliates, and you eliminate the liability. An unintended effect to be sure, but a glaring one. A merchant is free to terminate any sales affiliate, at any time, for any reason. "At will" indeed.

So it goes without saying, that whether or not you oppose the tax, New York has done a brutal job in:

a.) Writing the tax bill
b.) Explaining it

With the law itself being Strike One, strikes two and 3 sure came quick thereafter.

Re: Unhappy Friday Reading, and a Message to New York State

72kilowatts — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:59:04 -0000

I'd certainly like more info on the grass roots organization to see what you're working on. As I mentioned, I'm not suggesting that I pick up the torch and run, but rather throw my time at it. I believe that the issues are serious enough now, and will become more serious in short order, that everyone in this industry needs to check their ego at the door, and get things done.

Re: Leveraging Social Media in Affiliate Marketing

72kilowatts — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:06:29 -0000

I'd like to hear what you consider "tweetable", and what you don't. Many sites have incorporated full RSS to Twitter, and I rarely follow those. Fortunately, most also have a separate Twitter account for the blogger themselves, which I do follow.

I'd like to see what you think about how this kind of medium is being abused in that regards. I tend to call it "over convergence".

Re: It’s not just Trademark Poaching

72kilowatts — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:16:23 -0000

Often too, they call it Trademark bidding when in fact they haven't trademarked the terms, much less prohibited it in writing. That's actually a separate issue :)

Re: What Happened to Affiliate Bloggers?

72kilowatts — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:25:48 -0000

I just started again myself. To me, it was a case of so much work for so little real effect. Similar to posting at ABW as much as I do. At the end of the day, for all we've said and done, can we show tangible results in the industry?

Maybe a few... and perhaps a bloggers job is just to point out and educate, but I'd still like to see a bigger impact. Perhaps Brook's post on a "governing body" is an important one.

While we can't police the industry, per se, at least having a coalition might further get the point of what affiliate marketing should and shouldn't be more centralized, and accepted.