Sam Harrelson

Shoutwire, a Digg competitor, won’t let you submit a story that includes the keyword “Digg.” A fan of the Shoutwire service sent me an email earlier tonight with the tip to try and submit the previous’ post here entitled “Pay Per Digg” to the service.
This is the result (try it for yourself if you’d [...]

First there was PayPerPost. Then ReviewMe.
Just this morning Jim Kukral blogged on ReveNews about Agloco, which “pays you to surf.”
Now, we have Pay Per Digg.
Where Digg Submitters Pay for Digg Users to Promote their Stories.
And, Where Digg Users Make Easy Money.
Users are paid $0.50 for every [...]

It’s Black Friday here in the US and countless Americans are driving from store to store looking for deals and the season’s newest gadgets and toys.
In honor of the shopping season, over the next few weeks I’m going to be pointing out a series of acquisitions made by players in our space and asking your [...]

Following up on Wednesday’s post, here’s my podcast with a little more depth into my opinion of how and why we should move beyond links in affiliate marketing.
Agree? Disagree? Contribute too the conversation.
Homework is due Tuesday (see previous post)!
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Are links, as we know them in online and affiliate marketing, done for?
In order to answer this question, I’ve narrowed the discussion down to three areas: Leverage, Authority and Long Term Encouragements. Certainly, there are other areas and in the editing process of this post I cut a few of these out and merged [...]

Over on my marketing blog, I’ve created a short daily podcast that you can listen to for the days news in online marketing (from my point of view).
I liken it to a Coltrane show… jazzy, filled with flaws and scattered with moments of brief inspiration.  Should be interesting…
http://www.costpernews.com/?p=109 
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Every day, very early in the morning, I’m going to be recording a 3-4 minute episode of Cost Per News Daily Stat Sheet in partnership with the great folks at BlogTalkRadio.
This is the first episode and very experimental, so go easy, but do let me know what you think and what recommendations you have. [...]

It snowed maybe 3 times in my hometown of Mullins while I was growing up.
Mom called and said it was snowing pretty hard there this morning.  Crazy.
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At the beginning of the month, word spread that many affiliates using their links on MySpace were being terminated from networks such as Azoogle. However, it seems that the networks haven’t reigned in all of their affiliates.
Marketing on MySpace normally uses viral means of spreading a hot topic, issue, movie, album or tech [...]