One of the questions in the recent Affiliate Marketing Census was ‘how do you describe what you do to friends and family?’.
I don’t know whether the responents to this were full-time professionals, or the 50% who made less than £500 in 2006, but here are a few choice examples:

“Akin to a pippa dee (or Anne [...]

Yesterday saw the results of the affiliate census carried out by e-consultancy and Jess Luthi of Affiliate Program Advice.
The biggest thing that struck me is the huge influx in new affiliates over the last 2 years who have made almost nothing from their efforts. As an affiliate since 1999 This seems a little odd, but [...]

Following my post on choosing an email system the following, is a useful little checklist if you are running one on your own servers, or to ask the IT guys at your hosted provider about.
- A properly configured mail server
- Reverse DNS correctly configured
- Correct MX records setup
- an SPF record/SenderID record
- Correct To and [...]

Another self congratulating article I read on e-consultancy today has inspired me to write this post. Usually written by some sales suit who has never been near the sharp end of a large email campaign, these articles are full of unanswered rhetorical questions, so this time I’m going to answer them. The post was written [...]

Front page of yesterday’s Evening Standard, and on various news sites around the web is the story of Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto jailed for jaywalking
It didn’t take long to stumble across the professors own account of the incident on Youtube. I was rather impressed by the speed [...]