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Subscription Commerce Will Eat Your Lunch

by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on October 22, 2012

The subscription commerce sector is growing fast and is acting as an intensive prototyping lab for what works in selling products online. The benefits of creating a subscription … Read Article

Google Profits Down 20% As CPC Plummets 15%

by Sheila K. Fox on October 22, 2012

  The day’s big news of Google’s precipitous drop in share price concealed the fact that Google’s average CPC is down 15% from a year ago. This decline … Read Article

Forget About Clicks! Facebook Scrambles

by Revenue Performance Staff on October 22, 2012

If someone asks you how well your ads work, answer a different question. Facebook is facing skepticism on how well Facebook Ads actually work so, rather than showing … Read Article

The New Google Webmaster Guidelines Are Killing Affiliates

by Sheila K. Fox on October 15, 2012

Affiliates have been complaining for a long time that Google keeps changing the rules of SEO. Most of the time it claims that it is doing it for … Read Article

Facebook FBX Retargeting Ads Worth 3x More

by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on September 27, 2012

  As Facebook’s new FBX exchange kicks into gear the networks brokering the inventory are reporting that the market rate for the retargeted ads are significantly higher than … Read Article

Achieving ROI With Social Media

by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on September 20, 2012

At a time when pretty much every organization or affiliate has a social media presence, it’s amazing how many don’t have any idea how to make it pay … Read Article

11 Keys To Content Marketing Success

by Revenue Performance Staff on September 20, 2012

Getting your content marketing strategy right is more important than ever. Understanding your audience, your objectives and the landscape in which you are working is critical. Here are … Read Article

$2 Million Refunded From "Google Money Tree" Scam

by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on September 20, 2012

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 93,086 refund checks totaling nearly $2.3 million to consumers who allegedly were charged hidden fees tied to a bogus work-at-home product. By … Read Article

Cupid Media Expands Internationally with DirectTrack

by Revenue Performance Staff on September 19, 2012

Press Release         PITTSBURGH – September 13, 2012 – Direct Response Technologies, a leading provider of global performance marketing solutions, announced that Cupid Media is … Read Article

The Future Is Bright for Digital CPS

by Revenue Performance Staff on September 10, 2012

Affiliate marketing is in a constant state of flux and with the recent changes in the CPA space it is easy to see why many online marketers have … Read Article

Q&A with LinkConnector on Event and Cookie Attribution

by Revenue Performance Staff on August 29, 2012

How does a merchant decide to apportion the credit for a sale? Should the commission be paid to the last affiliate who touched the customer, or to the … Read Article

Let’s Call it ‘Anti-social’ Media

by Peter Klein on August 2, 2012

I’m confused why we refer to this world of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Pinterest, YouTube, Google+, MySpace, etc., as “social” media. From everything I’ve experienced, it should really … Read Article

Twitter Might Be The Key To Mobile Performance Advertising

by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on July 12, 2012

Twitter could change the performance marketing sector if they only made self-serve, auction-priced advertising available. That would open up a massive audience of mobile device users: news-aware, location-aware, … Read Article

Daily Deals Dead? Or The Future Of The Industry?

by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on July 12, 2012

The former darling of the daily deals industry, Groupon, yesterday suffered a terrible day on the stock market, falling 6.5%. It is now worth just one-third of the … Read Article

Facebook Mobile Ads Delivering $10 eCPM

by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on June 28, 2012

TBG Digital reports that Facebook’s mobile-only Sponsored Stories ad format is getting 1.14% CTR, $0.86 CPC and $9.86 eCPM. Those figures represent almost twice the CTR and nearly … Read Article
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