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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Earth Day is a celebration, but also a recognition that we all must be part of the solution involving global environmental problems.
ShareASale, in recognition of Earth Day 2007, has pledged $5,000 to the CarbonFund.org to help offset carbon emmissions from our business activities.
You can increase the size of our pledge ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Happy Wednesday everyone... I am extra pleased today because tomorrow is the first day of a vacation for me. :)
But, before that... I want to introduce you to a (hopefully) fun project we are calling the "Star Identity Crisis".
Due mainly to over-ordering, we ended up with a whole bunch ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
On Friday March 23rd we plan to release the new datafeed format to affiliates, with additional fields added to help everyone further work with these feeds.
The current affiliate datafeed is:
ProductID|Name|MerchantID|Merchant|Link|Thumbnail|BigImage|Price|RetailPrice
|Category|SubCategory|Description|Custom1|Custom2|Custom3|Custom4|Custom5|La
stUpdated|status
The new order will be:
ProductID|Name|MerchantID|Merchant|Link|Thumbnail|BigImage|Price|RetailPrice
|Category|SubCategory|Description|Custom1|Custom2|Custom3|Custom4|Custom5|La
stUpdated|status|manufacturer|partNumber|merchantCategory|merchantSubcategor
y|shortDescription|ISBN|UPC
Which means, the following 7 fields are being added to the end of the ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Spring Cleaning is almost upon us! And with spring cleaning comes the new household projects, remodel the kitchen, paint the garage, fix up the bathroom, and those all important YARD SALES!! Well who better to feature this week then PlumberSurplus.com (www.plumbersurplus.com). Some of the biggest projects are for the ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
One of my favourite aspects of my position is the ability to help affiliates learn and grow their businesses. I am constantly presented with questions regarding a range of topics starting with "How to become an affiliate", up to how to integrate "advanced" methods.
On that note, I ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
I was recently asked a question on what I considered three top "Best Practices" to follow in managing an affiliate program... so I wanted to share my answers...
What do you consider the top three best practices to be in managing an affiliate program?
1. Listening
2. Knowing where you are going
3. ...
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
I was asked the other day what it took to run a "clean" network, as it was put... and I hadn't answered that question in quite a while - so I wanted to share with everyone some thoughts on the subject.
"Clean", of course, is all relative ... ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Yes, I know it is March 1st and technically the "Month of the Interface" has ended...but as many of you know, we had to take a few days off in the middle of the month due to my travel schedule... so we are making up the days in March.
Take a ...
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