For some companies, affiliate marketing is a great way to increase sales and online visibility at a very reasonable price in comparison to traditional avenues where you pay strictly for impressions, which, as we all know, don’t necessarily contribute to your bottom line. While signing up for an affiliate program and having hundreds, perhaps thousands of affiliates start pushing your brand may sound easy, there is actually quite a bit of work involved and a number of Do’s and Don’ts to keep in mind, which will have a direct impact on the success or failure of your efforts.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Props Where Props are Due : Google Talk Chatback Widget

In the first of what I hope to be a set of weekly posts, I would like to call out Thanks to the plugins that make our new Ninthlink.com site possible. In particular, this week I am thankful for the Google Talk Chatback Widget plugin, which now appears in the floating footer across our site, whenever anyone chooses to Chat with a Pro. READ MORE
There’s a new Evite in town

Fantasy interactive has re-designed the worlds favorite electronic invite website aka Evite.com. Thanks to these amazing Swedish designers you can now create your evites with ease and keep track and socialize with your evite. The site is currently in beta stage so it is not overflowing with evite goodness but it is worth playing around with. I love the work of Fantasy Interactive, keep up the goodness.
Take analog pictures with your iPhone

I heart analog photos. The Hipstamatic App for the iPhone is simply amazing. You can buy different film, lenses, and flashes to get your snap on. You can instantly share to Facebook and email photos as you take them. And dropping soon is the ability to purchase up to 10 inch prints of your photos. Be advised this app can swallow hours of your life and give your finger a cramp.
Retargeting Ads : You can run, but you can’t hide…
Has it ever seemed like you were seeing the same ad over and over again while you were surfing online, almost as if you were being followed? Well if this sounds familiar, chances are you were being served retargeting ads, which can follow you from site to site as you browse.
Bike storage family edition

I think the picture says it all with this bike. Throw the kids, or the farm in the back and get pedaling. Not sure how easy it would be to ride around the streets of San Francisco or any city with hills but it is stylish and a great idea for a bike. Check out more on their site.
Ad Networks : Get noticed beyond the search engines
If you’re searching for additional avenues to increase your brand’s online visibility beyond search engines, an ad network may be the channel you’ve been looking for. Advertising networks or ad networks are companies that connect third party websites that want to host advertisements with advertisers who want to run them.
Win amazing stuff from HermanMiller

Enter your name and alert your friends and family because the giveaways rely on the amount of people that sign up. I don’t recall ever seeing a giveaway structured like this one. They will only give away the prizes when the sign up amount is reached. Nice work people and good game.
Slimming Down Facebook (FBML) Tabs
The news came out a month or two ago. After however long of allowing custom FBML tabs at 760px width, Facebook decided they liked them better at 520px so the general info column could stay on the left. At that time, nobody knew when the change would happen, though estimates were for October. Since then, the change has been made, and any custom tabs that were set for the 760px width are now getting cut off and losing that last 240px off the right side. Lets just hope the powers that be don’t decide to shrink the pages further before they all get cleaned up…
Banksy is the new face of Pop Art
I love artists that make very bold statements about the world we all live in. Banksy takes the next step with his pop influenced art and puts it on the street, farm animals, and even sneaks his art to the walls of famous museums. For me art is all about self expression, and Banksy is fully expressed and fully in your face. Enjoy this preview of Exit through the gift shop.





