After months of anxious nail-biting for the shortlisted finalists (Azam included!) the a4u awards are over for another year. Last week’s ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel in London’s Mayfair was a fabulous event with hundreds of publishers, merchants, agencies and network staff turning out in their bow ties and posh frocks to celebrate the very best in affiliate marketing.
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I’m excited to announce that Azam Marketing has launched a new affiliate program for Trade Your Games.

Tradeyourgames.co.uk was the very first UK site to bring the concept of trading games to the web, and has unveiled a new website allowing gamers to sell and trade their old and unwanted video games and consoles at great [...]

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I feel like doing the samba because my colleague Karen has been shortlisted for Affiliate Manager of the Year for the a4u Awards 2010 and would like to offer a heartfelt thank you to everybody who nominated her.
I wrote the following last year on her Linkedin profile and it summarises everything I believe about Karen:

“There [...]

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Well, last week was certainly a week of mergers, be it the Orange and T-Mobile merger that’s been recently approved by the European regulators or closer to home and our hearts at Azam, Affiliate Window acquiring Buy.at.
‘T-Orange’ or ‘Orange-T’ (or whatever you prefer to call the merger between the mobile giants!) will have a combined [...]

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I recently took some time out to be interviewed by keen blogger and affiliate marketer, Murray Newlands. In the interview I discuss why I love working for Azam Marketing, my top affiliate management tips and how I keep on top of those pesky brand bidding publishers.
Read the interview in full here.
p.s. I’m not the only Azam team [...]

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Almost three months in at Azam and what an action-packed time I’ve had.
People let this phrase roll off their tongue without really meaning it, but I can honestly say ‘time has flown by…’
Before even starting my new job, I was given the opportunity to meet my London-based colleagues. We had, what was to be my [...]

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Azam Marketing is pleased to announce we are now managing the UK2.Net affiliate program.
UK2.Net is one of the biggest and fastest growing web hosting companies in the UK and has been a major player in the web hosting industry since 1998, having sold over a million domain names, and being host to thousands of websites [...]

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The European Parliament has seen sense and rejected its earlier opt-in amendment for cookies that would have wreaked havoc amongst internet users by requiring repeated pop-up windows or other intrusive virtual labels upon every web page visited by a user. (Full details can be found here.)
The EU was trying to protect or alert consumers from tracking [...]

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We’re pleased to announce that Azam Marketing is working with Jim Kinloch at Signature Gifts to manage the affiliate programs for Gone Digging and Historic Newspapers, two of the UK’s fastest-growing brands for personalised and unique gifts.
The affiliate programs have been available on the Webgains network since 2005, and we’re looking forward to assisting [...]

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I’ve had a lot of people contacting me requesting the slides of my talks at the A4U Expo and so am making them available in this and the next post.
I am not a disciple of the ‘Death by Powerpoint’ school of thought and firmly believe Powerpoints should help annotate a presentation, not be the [...]

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