I was reading Ray Theakston’s Blog at the weekend, and a comment he made about not attending the a4uawards as they “didn’t seem quite right for bedroom affiliates like myself” totally hit home with me. One of the main things that I loved about Affiliate Marketing when I first went... 

Well, it’s (already?) That time of the year – Time to vote for the a4uawards, and once again, I’m sharing my votes publically, as well as giving my reasons why I’ve given my votes to these people – My reasons are personal in many cases – Fully deserved winners will... 

Isn’t Karma a wonderful thing? – Who says there’s no justice in the world? Just five short months after “leaving the cast of Eastenders (Plymouth Argyle) to play King Lear (Leicester City)”, perennial liar Ian Holloway managed to add yet another relegation to his CV, this... 

Running on auto-pilot – You’ve got to love Wordpress haven’t you? If I hadn’t told everyone I spoke to for a few weeks beforehand, you wouldn’t know that I’ve actually been on a fortnight’s holiday – Thanks to the mighty WP (as well as a couple of colleagues,... 

If you thought that Nadeem Azam managed to burn the candle at both ends, then you might be surprised to learn that he’s got a rival for the hours put in by the subject of this week’s Day in the Life… I mean, getting paid to party.. how hard can it be? Over to Laura Przybek, Events... 

It’s a bumper “Day in the life of” this week, as we take a peek at the typical working day of the hardest working man in Affiliate Marketing, Nadeem Azam. Nadeem is CEO of Azam Marketing, and one of the friendliest people I’ve ever met. So without further ado, it’s over... 

Part Two of “A Day in the Life of…” shows us a typical day for Helen Southgate, Affiliate Director at DGM. I’m grateful to Helen for agreeing to give us this insight into her daily workings, and indeed to everyone who has agreed to let us spend a virtual day with them. We have... 

During an interview with Chris Frost last month, I mentioned that it would be a fab idea for everyone in Affiliate Marketing to spend a month doing a job-swap with someone from “the other side” – i.e Networks become affiliates for a month, and affiliates spend a month working for a... 

Next try to start building bridges – It’s been interesting to see that i-level, the agency “managing” Next on Buy.at and Affilinet have this week announced a couple of events to try and address the uproar that they caused a few weeks ago arrogantly branding affiliates as “polluters”... 

Today sees the launch of Looflirpa.com, the UK’s first network to exclusively offer a range of merchants paying affiliates 0% commission. Having seen the success of programs such as Dixons, Comet and Cartridge Monkey getting affiliates to sell their various products free of charge, CEO of Looflirpa... 

POR resurrect deadlinks More – We must all remember the true meaning of Easter – No, it’s not all about Eggs and Chocolate (whose idea was it to discover a hidden love of KitKat Chunkies and Mini-Eggs two weeks before going on a beach holiday?), but of course Easter was when the Easter... 

AF move to cookie-less tracking More – I don’t know if I’ve even mentioned it, but I’m not the most technically-gifted affiliate out there. But even I understand how cookies work in the context of Affiliate Marketing – User clicks on a link, a file (cookie) gets placed on... 

Next: Adding to the pollution – More, More, More More and More – At last, a merchant that lives up to their name – Every time I see “Next” in the product feeds or merchant listings, I automatically skip to the next merchant in the list! The rate they’re going, they’re... 

Can you hear me now? – First of all, my apologies for the silence over the last two weeks. Things have been so manically busy as we approached the end of some major projects that it’s been very difficult to find even 5 minutes to post to the blog. Normal service will be resumed from here... 

Buy.at/Holiday Watchdog sales More and More – It’s the time of the big money sales again. I have to say no-one deserves it more than the two Chris’s from Holiday Watchdog (Who will have to become known as the two Chris’s from Sunshine now) – They show that you can start...