User Experience vs Monetization by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book, March 21, 2010 Here’s the fundamental challenge for the performance marketing industry: how do we move from a short-term mindset that rewards us with a small reward today, to a long-term mindset that make us truly rich tomorrow? Let’s look at what’s going on. It is fair to say that the affiliate marketing sector has been going through a bit of an identity crisis for some time. There’s a definite image problem, to the point that many in the industry prefer to avoid using the term “affiliate marketing” altogether in favor of the more descriptive yet also less precise term, “performance marketing”. Filed under: Revenue About the Author Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book Chris Trayhorn is the Chairman of the Performance Marketing Industry Blue Ribbon Panel and the CEO of mThink.com, a leading online and content marketing agency. He has founded four successful marketing companies in London and San Francisco in the last 15 years, and is currently the founder and publisher of Revenue+Performance magazine, the magazine of the performance marketing industry since 2002.