Surprisingly enough, this week is flying by for me. It seems like a slow summer week, but at the same time I’ve been awfully busy with some new projects at work and some thoughts circling in my head about a new website I may tackle soon. The idea is all there, but I have to flesh it out and, really, decide if I have time to do it! Here are your links for this week – the word around the campfire in online business.
- Once again, the affiliate marketing industry attacked as douchebags. And by people who call themselves professionals, no less. Shawn Collins did all the lashing out necessary in his blog Consultants Can Fix Affiliate Marketing.
- Congratulations to Lisa Picarille & Revenue Magazine for winning the Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate Golden Link award at this week’s Linkshare Symposium. It was worth is for her to be able to say “Sorry, Jangro”. If you don’t get the reference, go to www.SorryJangro.com
- Just yesterday on the heels of Google partnering with Yahoo and more talk of a potential Microsoft bid on the company, Yahoo officially announced their reorganization plans. In laymens terms, they’re taking some time to get their shit together 🙂
- More confusion is being perpetrated about the PMA by Shoemoney. Try doing some research next time before declaring something is a scam with shady intentions. Affiliate Classroom is NOT running it, they’re just providing a website and vehicle for it. Other companies are providing resources as well.
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Trish thank you for the great compiled update. It was not a dull week. I agree that people in the industry need to do their homework before attacking their own kind. We are supposed to be helping each other and supporting the growth and well being of our performance marketing community. We need to all act as responsible community members.
Cheers!
Exactly… it really perturbed me that he'd make such uneducated remarks – and what's really frustrating is that since he's a super affiliate, people follow his “advice” really blindly like sheep. THAT'S where the real tragedy in that post was – the comments.
It's no wonder that other industry leaders have tended to write him off, from the opinions I've heard expressed.