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The Emperorâ€™s New .Coâ€™s

Clarke — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:25:43 +0000

Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new domains that he spent all his money on a vast collection. He had a domain name for everything and instead of saying, as one might, about any other ruler, â€œThe Kingâ€™s in council,â€ here they always said. â€œThe Emperor is on Googleâ€. Every […]

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Is your .uk online business at risk?

Clarke — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:32:04 +0000

This is a pretty long blog post but an important one; it brings to your attention your online business being at the mercy of whoever you bought your .uk domain from. Nominet has introduced a new service that will allow Registrars, if they suspect a domain name is being used for an illegal activity, to […]

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How To Get Professional Branding

Clarke — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:32:21 +0000

You reach a certain level in Affiliate Marketing where you have learned the basics on how to get sites to rank, customers to click from your page and buy from Merchants. It’s time to start paying more attention to your own mini-brands, how you look and what people think of your site. Normally the first […]

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Mistyped Domain Names

Clarke — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:03:36 +0000

Here is some advice about Mistyped Domain Names, this is relevant to Affiliates, Merchants and Networks, in fact anyone who owns a website. Here Is Why You Should Be Interested Last week I typed in our favourite Affiliate Forums URL but used .co.uk instead of .com. Now I have Google Toolbar installed on IE (also […]

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Jason Manford could be an Affiliate!

Clarke — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:12:45 +0000

Many of you may know Jason Manford off the telly; he is one of them sharp witted â€œ9 Out of 10 Catsâ€ comedians, amongst other things, plus he was of course the 2009 host of the A4U Affiliate Awards. I have been following Jason Manford (@Jason_Manford) on Twitter via my personal Twitter account (@Supercod), where […]

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NSPCC Letter from Santa

Clarke — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:37:59 +0000

Today OMG announced via Twitter that a rather excellent Â£20,000 has been raised by Affiliates so far this month for the NSPCC Letter from Santa campaign. Now I totally missed the communication about this when it first started and is the point of this blog post to raise awareness among fellow Affiliates. One of the […]

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Twitter Lists to Discover Affiliate People

Clarke — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:38:41 +0000

Twitter Lists is the latest add-on to Twitter, that allows you to organise people you follow in to lists both public and private. An example of a private list could be Family but the most interesting aspect is the public lists. Now my lists are great for me, as I can now follow better what’s […]

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My A4U Expo London 2009 Not-Review

Clarke — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:28:00 +0000

I started writing out this big long winded blog post about everything at the a4u Expo and then when I got to lunch time of day 1 at the conference I was like, â€œis anyone really going to read all thatâ€, maybe but probably not 😉 Plus letâ€™s face it there have been far better […]

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10% Additional Sales For You

Clarke — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:44:11 +0000

Affiliates have varying levels of technical knowledge, however, even those with minimal knowledge are aware that the tracking of sales via the affiliate channel can fail for a number of reasons if the Networks tracking technology is not robust enough to cover all contingencies. Examples of how sales may fail to track include, a Merchant […]

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A4u Expo, 14 Days to Go!

Clarke — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:46:42 +0000

Yes, I did just say 14 days (of course it could be less or evenÂ past depending on when you read this). So here is my pitch as to why you should go, now I am not preaching to the converted here, the usual suspects will be along and probablyÂ booked up weeks or even months before. […]

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Real Marketing Bull – Podcast

Clarke — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:27:19 +0000

It’s not often you come across great, interesting and funny podcasts that are made to the same quality as a radio program and I recentlyÂ came across two,Â the 1st one I am going to talk about is Real Marketing Bull hosted by Bo Bennett (who I had the pleasure of working with online and learning from […]

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Some Twitter Advice & Tips

Clarke — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:51:55 +0000

Here is a few bits of Twitter advice aimed at everyone, but focusing mainly on Affiliates, Merchants and Networks. I don’t claim to be a Twitter â€œGuruâ€, I am just sharing some advice I learned over past few months that I hope you will find useful. Length of your Twitter Name Basically the shorter the […]

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Existem AM Summer BBQ

Clarke — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:41:22 +0000

This blog is slowly turning into “thanks for the jolly good time at yet another affiliate event” blog 😉 But before I return to posting some actual content that doesnâ€™t involve drinks I simply couldnâ€™t allow one of the best networking and down right fun events this year to pass without gettingÂ the mention it deserved. […]

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Manchester & Edinburgh Roadshows

Clarke — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:11:13 +0000

Having finally recovered from last weeks a4u Roadshows in Manchester and Edinburgh I felt it was only right to give a quick thanks to those involved before we move on to the Existem AM Summer BBQ later in the week. a4u Roadshow in Manchester If you have not been to Manchester I will sum it […]

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Slap The Backing Abuse

Clarke — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:10:04 +0000

Some times in Affiliate Marketing some things just stand out like a sore thumb, it was only 2 weeks ago we had a forum member spam pages and pages of the blog section and today we have Affiliate Window rig what post should be at the top of the â€œHot Members Blogsâ€ section at the […]

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a4u Bristol Roadshow

Clarke — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:38:10 +0000

Got back yesterday from the a4u Roadshow in Bristol. Great event that had a reasonable turnout, but not as many as last time,Â however funnily enough the events that are not so crowded actually turn out to be the better ones. A good mix of Affiliates, Merchants, Agencies and Networks attended and special guest Brodie who […]

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Follow Friday on Twitter

Clarke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:45:05 +0000

Every Friday you normally see a bunch of names get recommended by different people as to folk they think you should follow if you like following them, you might just like what these people have to say. Normally the TwitterÂ message will have #followfriday or #FF in the message. Now the problem is you have […]

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AW Darwin is it this?

Clarke — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Affiliate Window has got a bit of a buzz going around about its new Darwin project, posting at the a4uforum, dedicated landing page and Twitter account all setup to keep us in the dark. Now when it came up it got me thinking, I am sure some Agency was doing something with Darwin, but I […]

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Can Business Trust Twitter? Suspended Accounts Error!

Clarke — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:28:15 +0000

Last night I was working away, decided I would send a twitter message out and noticed I had the screen of Twitter Death (suspended twitter account message) on my account! I was like, ah ok I have to been hacked unless itâ€™s breaking Twitter rules to talk to your friends or do business like arrange […]

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Thinking Outside the Box of Wine

Clarke — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:10:46 +0000

This week I was the lucky recipient of a â€œBoozeness Cardâ€ from Fraser (affiliateblog.co.uk), a handy wine carrier was delivered to my office with a printed out letter to tell me about Fraserâ€™s two latest sites RedWine.co.uk and WhiteWine.co.uk. Each bottle a Merlot and a Sauvignon Blanc had its own label promoting the site, so […]

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