It’s been nearly 2 months since I promised more insight on the future of the mobile web that I gained from my week with Nokia. Well, most things are better late than never, so here goes…

This is an interview with Jeremy Belostock, the director of sales and marketing for Nokia’s Near Fields Communication (NFC) department. […]

A recession can also be a chance to meet a wholly new set of market opportunities. After all, while consumers are going to want savings, merchants will want more control over their marketing dollars, and anyone who can deliver those may not only survive, but possibly grow. For example, there are recession proof niches, such […]

Lately we’ve been blogging about recession blogging and making a profit in a recession. The underlying point has been that as more and more consumer pinch their pennies, there’s an opportunity for those that can help them do that.
The point is that bean-counting is taking over decision making, and as far as marketers are concerned, […]

Last week I posted here about how I’d recently attended a Nokia Open Lab workshop on social media and the future of the mobile web. Well, Nokia has recently released some of the footage they share, and this is a video of me kicking off my workshop on how business can adopt social media and […]

Last week I traveled to Helsinki to run a workshop at Nokia Open Lab 2008. Nokia invited 35 people from all over the world and different industries to spend three days discussing and learning about social media, the mobile web, and they’re both going. Spending that time with so many passionate people was truly inspirational, […]

Share Results has just launched RealPatrol.com, a brand new real estate affiliate program that joins our network’s growing selection of quality brands for affiliates to promote. RealPatrol.com, is a reliable source for those who are hopeful about real estate in spite of the current state of the housing market in the US.
RealPatrol.com is a leading […]

Rumors have begun to re-surge that Google is about to buy-out Digg. Although the story’s initial appeal is that an Internet giant is about to swallow up an internet sweetheart, the real intrigue lies in what this means for the future of traditional news outlets and, as a result, the watchdog of democracy.
Essentially, when GOOG […]

Fantasy sports is a lucrative niche industry–one that affiliates and advertisers need to take advantage of more aggressively. A new press release has revealed what many fantasy game enthusiasts already know; North Americans are on fire for fantasy sports. In a survey conducted by Ipsos, 11% of Americans and 10% of Canadians 12 years of […]

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed how to use video to increase sales. What it really came down to was a mix of showing consumers the product in action and creating a multi media user experience. There are also considerable SEO advantages to producing online video.
If those rationales haven’t convince you to make video […]

The difference between performance based and cost per click affiliate marketing extend well beyond what count as an action (i.e. how an affiliate gets paid). Because of the way the different models actually work, affiliates approach their relationship with merchants in very distinct ways.
Whereas performance based affiliates look to work with reputable brands so that […]

Affectionately known as ‘The Father of the Internet’, Vinton Cerf - vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google shared his vision at the 2008 OECD Ministerial Meeting in Korea on how the crippling high gas prices isn’t all bad and that it actually may be a good thing for the Internet.

Cerf acknowledges that […]

Learners affiliates has just been accepted as a contest in the exciting new first real-time affiliate marketing reality program Top Affiliate Challenge!
The show, developed by John Chow, Ken McArthur and Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker will span three weeks and divide affiliate contestants into teams where they will compete against each other by promoting real affiliate products […]

Blog comment spam has been a problem for a while. It’s kind of a bit of a surprise that it is because if it actually gets though (1) no one really looks at comment spam if, and (2) a little while ago, Google developed the NoFollow tag to help combat blog spam. I wish someone […]

With 5,000 attendees, the Internet Retailer 2008 conference is currently on in Chicago (June 9-12). Covering it for Marketing Pilgrim, Greg Howlett (who also writes for WebProNew) is posting some of the more interesting highlights. Over all, it looks like online retailers are not only doing just fine, but are poised to enjoy continued success […]

So we know that the largest provider of online payment solutions is PayPal, and the largest search engine is Google. But with 37% of all online purchases starting with a search and online shopping searches on the rise, it looks like Google is really stepping up its efforts to compete with PayPal.
Built in the pseudo-open-source […]