http://www.convert2media.com/blog Get Your Affiliate Swerve On With Convert2Media Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:18:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en LeadsCon is taking place February 23-24th at the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Once again I will be attendance along with Steve and Michael. If you would like to meet up with us, shoot me a message (anywhere - AIM, phone, email, Facebook, Linkedin blah blah) and we ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2010/02/17/leadscon-las-vegas-february-23-24th/ One of the best groups I have joined on Facebook is the Internet Advertising - People Who Dont Pay Group. This has been a helpful resource in researching Advertisers and has allowed us personally to dodge a few bullets this past year. One of these bullets has been PROLERO. I am ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2010/02/03/join-facebooks-internet-advertising-people-who-dont-pay/ Later on this week, Google will now be introducing AND enforcing their new URL adjustments for Adwords Advertisers. In an attempt to break Adwords Advertising Subdomain "spammers" (apologies for this word, this is what most of whom are using these tricks are being referred to as) will have another crackdown ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2010/01/12/exact-match-the-subdomain-url-policy-for-adwords/ I caught this story on MSN Money and wanted to share a few thoughts on it. For awhile now, anyone familiar with AOL in the Performance Marketing Space has known that something like this was coming. From all of the reps I've personally talked to over the last year, it ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2010/01/12/struggling-aol-to-lay-off-1200-workers/ http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2010/01/08/meet-us-at-affiliate-summit-west-2010/ Before we dive head first into this post, I would like everyone to know that what you read from here will likely be the ONLY source of publication for a topic of this nature (unless of course you catch the wickedfire forum thread). (Thanks go out to Mike and Gennadiy ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2009/12/31/the-death-of-rebills-i-think-not/ If you are anything like me then you probably have a ton of newsletters that hit your inbox daily. One of the things I have is a filter that has all my traffic source newsletters, emails and everything else filtering into one easily managed label in gmail.  I guess I ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2009/12/30/myads-newsletter-tips-and-50-free-advertising/ I wanted to incorporate a company review section of the blog. If you notice, I've sort of revamped the blog to only include categories of topics I'm most interested in writing about. With all of the traveling, trade shows and publisher managing, I've been able to get some really good ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2009/12/29/adbuyercom-adbuyer-review/ AdExchanger has released their 2009 Year End Report. If you are a marketer online, these reports are absolute goldmines. Remember to not just start skimming the reports, important information lies throughout all of the reports. Company Names Contacts Traffic Sources There are over 350+ pages of articles from Ad Networks, Agencies, Lead Generation Companies, ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2009/12/24/adexchanger-releases-year-end-reports/ UPDATE - Apparently the board is still reviewing whether or not Dennis Yu will be speaking (out of his ass). So I hope this post helps for the Summit to do the right thing. Although, from what I know, I have no idea why the hell it needs to be ... http://www.convert2media.com/blog/2009/12/04/affiliate-summit-put-shoemoney-back-on-the-facebook-panel/