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Digital Window buys Buy.at

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

http://blog.affiliatewindow.com/?p=1054

Wow

Wow

Doug

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Affiliate buys Uswitch

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

Serious shit boys and girls

Neil Hutchinson amemeber of A4U has purchased Uswitch

Well done Neil and all the best

Neil Hutchinson on A4U

Forward

Uswitch Press Release

Is this you Neil????

I know the gossip prices but alas not my place to say, doubt it as the£220 million that it sold in 2006 for, but it was more than a Big Mac

Doug

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Google launches its product comparator for Adwords

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Google written by Doug Scott

Not really looked at it properly yet, but interesting

Adwords Comparison

Doug

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Curious????

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Paid search written by Doug Scott

This is an odd thought going through my head………why don’t people do this??

1. Signup as an affiliate of lastminute.com
2. Resign as an affiliate of all the other travel sites
3. Bid on the brand names of all other travel sites and direct it to Lastminute
4. Some will convert??

Doug being curious?

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Jason and Doug Got to Leicester – Phew

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Fun written by Doug Scott

All day yesterday Jason Baker had to cycle slowly behind Doug, so that I did not stop and so he could admire the view.  We eventually got to Leicester after 40 miles of cycling through some lovely English countryside and some nice back lanes ….as I did not let Jason decide what the route would be.

The cjblog should have some more phots probably with me with less clothes on if their corporate people let it show…if not I will show it….alas I did not get any nudes on Jason. Maybe we should be catwalk models…ha ha ha

Cheers Jason for a great day of fun….can we do it again?…..We need to persuade Carl White that well known Birmingham City fan who is the CEO of Valueclick that he needs to allow his staff to have more paid fun……and not the stuff you used to get upto in amsterdam Carl:):)

Think we need to leap into some hot tubs or something nice Jas:)

Doug with a sore arse.

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Jason Baker of CJ is stupid

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Fun, Sport, people you should know written by Doug Scott

:):)

In collaboration with CJ , Jason Baker is cycling from Liverpool on the west coast to Lowestoft on the east coast of England, 350 miles in total, and having meetings with publishers & agencies along the way. He is doing this next week and you can read about it on the CJ blog http://www.cjblog.co.uk/

He is doing this in aide of the charity Valueclick supports, Kids Company http://www.kidsco.org.uk/about-us

You can sponsor him here

Me being a stupid idiot have agreed to try and cycle with him from Lichfield to Liecester.

MORE HERE

Doug is stupid

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Zanox to buy Affiliate Window – Gossip

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

I heard some gossip:

1. Affiliate Window lost money due to paying affiliates but not being paid by merchants who have since gone bust.
2. Affiliate Window needed to raise some money
3. Zanox are offering to bail them out

Anyone heard anything?

Doug

Ps. Minor news Google sold it’s share in AOL to Time Warner for $5.7 billion

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Are networks operating illegally?

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

Ok I am about to duck…but here goes….

Assumption
Networks are there to help a merchant create extra business and are legally obliged to do so
Networks are more informed as to how the affiliate business works than a merchant
Merchants pay networks and assume that networks work in a merchants interest

If the above is so then why does the following happen in Europe:
Networks allow affiliate to operate rate catchers (pop ups that sit on desktop and appear saying click here to save 5% off this site – used by discount sites and cashback sites)
Networks work with people who cookie stuff
Networks work with people with toolbars that drop cookies
Networks work with scumware

I assume as most networks do not allow this to happen in the UK they deem it unethical/illegal.

Does that mean we have board members/directors of Public quoted companies knowing that their company is operating in an unethical/illegal manner in Europe. If so then is that criminal offence?

Directors are obliged to operate legally and ethically in the the interest of their shareholders.

Doug ducking

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Merchants, Networks and Affiliates Open Disclosure

Affiliate Money Grabbers, What we are doing written by Doug Scott

I was at the IAB meeting last week and an issue was raised. The issues was that merchants and networks sometimes reject affiliates from a program as they do not really know what that affiliate does.

There were numerous suggestions to fix this including:

affiliates to have a simple site showcasing their main sites
affiliates to update their profiles on the affiliates4u forum

We already run www.asapventures.co.uk but I have also updated our a4u profile

Seems like a good and simple idea.

Now we wait for the merchants to disclose what the rules are that they use to remove sales…deduping etc:) Seems only fair that affiliates can see when they will be paid and when they won’t be. Disclosure can’t only be one way.

Doug
Ps. Sorry to Paul Lowndsy as I met him on Thursday and he seemed a nice bloke.

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Lee Griffin Of Tradedoubler is not that pretty

Affiliate Money Grabbers, other written by Doug Scott

I just spent the day with Lee Griffin of Tradedoubler , so I thought I would have a little play and see if I can tell the world that after all his efforts to be classed as the pretty boy of affiliate marketing it did not work and he was beaten by Jason Baker by CJ in my poll.

Obviously this is only my poll:)

Lee Griffin of Tradedoubler

Shame Lee

Doug

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