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Jeremy from Facebook just called to let me know the success many affiliate marketers are having with Facebook. He also wanted to let me know they have relaxed some rules affecting affiliate ads so I wanted to share this with you.
Good news! Facebook recently began allowing affiliate ads in categories that were previously prohibited. [...]

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Allure of money, the perception of the ease with which some made it, less than FTC abiding style with which it is made doesn’t give much hope of a litigation free year or the perception of performance marketing

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Good video from the SESConferenceExpo YouTube Video Channel.
“Jeff Molander, CEO of Molander & Associates, interviews Lee Gientke, Partner/Affiliate Development Director at Orange Soda, who discusses how advertisers, publishers and affiliates can overcome various challenges to help them work more productively together.
Lee says for affiliate networks to survive and avoid having publishers bypass them, they must [...]

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While older and recent hot marketing techniques may be dying out, new tricks and methods are being discovered daily. Most recently there has been a massive increase in marketing with President Obama. While there are many ways to market products or services using Obama’s picture or status, government grants have seem to be most successful and noticeable. Though that may soon come to an end…

As reported by Bloomberg News, the White House is trying to limit the commercial use of the President. The article states:

“Our lawyers are working on developing a policy that will protect the presidential image while being careful not to squelch the overwhelming enthusiasm that the public has for the president,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Obama’s calls for change and his “Yes We Can” campaign mantra are being evoked to sell assembly-required furniture in Ikea’s “Embrace Change” marketing campaign, bargain airfares during Southwest Airlines Inc.’s “Yes You Can” sale and “Yes Pecan” ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. shops. (continue)

How long before we start to see legal effort put into place and people get made examples of? We already know the BBB and FTC are starting to crack down on the fake testimonial weight loss blogs… but with the White House getting involved on the President’s image, things may heat up even faster with Obama’s fake in the flog blog mix.

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What do the best franchise owners know about online marketing that you need to know, too?

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In baseball-crazed Boston, sponsoring the Red Sox earned Exotic Flowers a marketing award and a mass of new fans.

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When it comes to our drinks, green isn’t just for tea anymore. Break into the beverage industry and find success in going green–from the ground (water) up.

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I have been exceedingly frustrated at times by technology being abused to the point of causing schisms within our industry… For years now I have worked to outline a model for adware behavior

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It’s the end of an era. After 8 years of being online, one of the most offensive and successful web sites is finally closing up shop, the one and only TShirtHell.com. I’m sure most of you have seen the site at least once in your online journeys, but if not, the site thrives off selling some of the most offensive shirts you can buy. Whether it’s race related, or even making fun of serious attacks against our own country, TShirtHell has always found a way to cash in. Even with a bad economy, they are still selling over 3,000 tshirts a week.

With approximately 100,000 unique visitors per month and over 500,000 pageviews daily, TShirtHell ranks among the top tshirt retail sites as well as humor sites on the internet. Not only will the owner of the site, Sunshine Megatron (formerly, Aaron Landau Schwarz), be taking a hit on the income from the site going down, but also all of the affiliates who have signed up and promoted their tshirts for years. Through their affiliate program, TShirtHell was/is paying $4 for every shirt sold through their site, resulting from your affiliate link.

Now that you know TShirtHell’s background, let’s recap on why Sunshine Megatron is finally shutting the web site down. Apparently, he just can’t take it anymore! You can read the final farewell letter on their site. In short, Sunshine is taking his profits and closing up shop, in hopes to never see another “stupid” email again from people visiting his site and complaining about his shirts…. but what do you expect with such shirts as “The School Shootings Tour” and “What About All The Good Things Hitler Did“.

Just a small sample of the offensiveness offered at TShirtHell.com

Reality hit the site’s owner hard back a few years back when Sunshine Megatron was poisoned by someone who was offended by his site. This action resulted in the site removing their “Worse than Hell” section… but was soon active again, as they did not want to be the victim of others.

The site is in their final two weeks and are giving 10% off of everything and are due to close on Feb 10, 2009. As mentioned in his goodbye letter, Sunshine Megatron has no plans to keep the site up, or sell it for millions… he wants to go out in style and tell you all to go to Hell!

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With a new administration, there’s sure to be more changes to U.S. trade policy. Here are eight areas you should be paying particular attention to.

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