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Form Tools we salute you!

We have been using Form Tools (a genergic form processing, storage and access script) for just over 6 months to process the data from all of our various feedback forms and corrolate it in one central database. Everything was working fine with the script until i got an email from my webhosts…
From: <abuse-team@1and1.com>
To: […]

Must Have Word Press Plugins

More and more affiliates are using Word Press as an easy, out of the box website. To get the most out of Wordpress as an affiliate there really are some ‘must have’ plugins. Here is a list of plugins that we use on every affiliate site we publish, if anybody has any plugins that they […]

This morning I had a really interesting meeting with the director of an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company. The objective of the meeting was to discuss optimization on some of our clients sites but ended up in me giving a lesson on affiliate marketing to this SEO guru. (I’ll call him Mr SEO from now […]

Earthquake in Chester

Bit of a random one, but i’ve been working late with Conrad and we both felt the floor moving, we looked at each other, didn’t say anything and both dismissed it thinking we where suffering from sleep deprevation! I’ve only just come back home and flicked BBC NEWS on and seen that there has actually […]

Research firm Superbrands has announced that Google is now the number one brand in the UK. Google, which replaced the BBC in the top spot is remarkably the ONLY firm in the Superbrands top 50 to have been established after 1990.
TOP 10 BRANDS IN THE UK
1 - Google
2 - Microsoft
3 - BP
4 - BBC
5 - […]

Lack of updates

Just thought I should drop a quick post to let everyone know that I am alive and kicking! Sorry for the extreme lack of updates over the last seven days, things have been really hectic in the office. Over the next week the following interviews will be live on our ‘industry insiders’ section of the […]

Fraser’s latest Podcast

I’ve just finished listening to Fraser’s latest Podcast, discussing Network terms & conditions and how they are enforced. The guests on the Podcast are Kevin Edwards from Affiliate Window and Matt Bailey from DGM. It really is worth a listen as it covers some pretty important topics. I’m looking forward to the next installment Fraser!
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The great Black Tie saga

The details were released for the Affiliate Marketing Awards 2008 earlier this week and from what I have read there is a definitive split between Affiliate thinking and its quite interesting. You’ve got the Affiliates that are all for the idea of having a Black Tie sit down awards and those that are SERIOUSLY opposed […]

buy.at | AOL Acquires buy.at

AOL announced today that it has acquired buy.at, a leading independent affiliate network that provides a platform for performance based e-commerce marketing programs to advertisers and publishers. buy.at will operate as a wholly-owned business unit of Advertising.com, part of AOL’s Platform-A organization.
“This transaction will position Advertising.com to serve merchant and retail advertisers with the industry’s […]

dgmAffiliates have made some changes to there payment terms which will be in place for the next payment run on the 15th February. The long and short of it is they have reduced the payment threshold from £100 to £20 for BACS payment and they have updated Payment Reports in dgmPro, but here is a […]

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