http://pistol101.co.uk Affiliate Marketing Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:39:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a comment from Lee, about a lack of post i though it was time to fire up the blog again! 2009 has started by being incredibily busy. As AffiliateFuture is the market leading travel network, January is therefore one of our biggest months of the year. Many people aren't aware ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=32 Christmas shopping is well underway, but whats really happening? Well good news is that online retail is up on last year, bad news is that we're not seeing the massive increases we have in the past few years. The reason for this is that is consumers are being more careful with ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=29 On Thursday night we attended the Interactive Marketing and Advertising Awards (IMAA) at the Royal Lancaster Hotel. We had been shortlisted for the 'Best Use of Affiliate Marketing' award so the dinner jacket was out as 10 of us attended. To get shortlisted we had to jump through a number of ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=24 The 2nd A4U Expo got underway this morning at Excel in London. After the pre-event networking party last night there were some serious sore heads floating round the venue. Hannah and Bruce from Existem AM took the prize for looking like they hadn't been home. First piece of news is the ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=22 I've just read a presentation from this summers Adtech saying that affiliate marketing is a no risk marketing chanel...Wrong and infact so wrong it's unbelievable. Affiliate marketing if done correctly is a very powerful advertising channel (please note it's advertising) if set-up and managed correctly. The online sector is still in ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=16 It's that time of the year again. Every few months i run the www.theIDM.com affiliate marketing sessions. The affiliate marketing training course is run every 3-6 months and is a training course for people wanting to understand the basics of affiliate marketing. The course is an all day session run in ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=14 I made a quick trip around Adtech this morning. This is the first time we haven't advertised there as results weren't great last year and actually looks like it was a good decision. The exhibition had more than halved in size this year. Adtech is traditionally a lead generation conference and ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=12 I've had the blog up for 2 weeks now and already getting a steady stream of traffic. Record daily traffic is 72 unique visitors and this actually happened 2 days after a posting. Hopefully i can break the 100 mark over the next week or so. Several blog posts have actually ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=10 Having just spent two days ill, stuck in front of daytime TV I feel like the world is coming to an end. Every programme was just predicting doom and gloom. It’s been pitched as the worst financial week since 1929, but really! I don’t think it’s all bad. Lehmans Brother shutting ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=7 After Chris Clarkson's excellent post about how Sunshine.co.uk dealt with the XL closure  http://www.pfft.co.uk/2008/09/12/xl-dealing-with-the-aftermath/ i thought i'd post how it affected AffiliateFuture.7am -  We'd all been alerted to the news that XL had entered liquidation thanks to news.Now this hadn't been a complete suprise, the news at the start of September ... http://pistol101.co.uk/?p=6