Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives
by Madeleine Bunting

 
 
 
 
In John Maynard Keynes’ 1928 essay "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" he writes, "Let us for the sake of argument suppose that a hundred years from now we are eight times better off than we are in the economic sense than we [...]

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The vibes at two online marketing events in the last week couldn’t be further apart with Technology for Marketing and Advertising proving to be a runaway success and Search Engine Strategies a damp squid.
On the way back to the office in central London from visiting our client Purple Parking at Heathrow, I stopped at Earls [...]

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With new affiliate networks launching left, right and centre, the more mature internet economies of Scandinavia, UK, the US and Canada are now exceeding the ratio of one network per million people. Nadeem Azam speaks to zanox’s charismatic Vice President of Publisher Management Tim Nilsson about this and other trends in the affiliate and online [...]

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I received an email on Thursday from an affiliate saying he wanted to have a white-label cashback site from our client eDealsUK because cashback sites “may even wipe out traditional affiliate sites in the future. This is why I want to get on board now!” It brought to the forefront of my mind yet again [...]

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There are several wise messages in that video but, in terms of affiliate marketing, the bit I’d like to pick out is Chosen Ninja’s statement about “diligence and hard effort” being the route to success.
The single biggest reason I see people fail in business - and life - is because they lack persistence. They give [...]

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The most exciting times in affiliate marketing for me were 1999 to 2002, mirroring the peak of the dotcom boom, and I thought those frenzied days might not return, but 2007 was the year when the music blared out with more tempo and people started jiving with increased vigour once again.
UK sales from affiliate marketing rose from [...]

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Our Christmas present for affiliates is 16 eye-catching new banners for the eDealsUK affiliate program which we manage. The banners have been uploaded to Affiliate Future and are available now.
 
Existing creative has been replaced with the new brand banners and, wherever possible, I have tried to match the existing banners - so a red banner has [...]

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The dot.com bubble returned in 2007. They say, as human beings, we never learn and this year I read more nonsense about the internet than at any time since 2001.
Sure, there are some sound enterprises which are earning real money and many others which are wisely investing in the future, but if you look beyond [...]

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Some shareholders in IBG, parent company of AffiliateFuture, have expressed concern about the decision to effectively sell the network to direct marketing company TMN Group (formerly TheMutual.net). The reason is because the acquisition values each IBG share at a miserable 12.75 pence and the whole of IBG at a mere £9.84 million.
This compares to a share price [...]

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A low down on the biggest and best travel vertical affiliate marketing gathering ever. Affiliate Future’s event took place on a docked ship on London’s Thames river.

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