Great Affiliate Industry Reads: Tips, Experts, and Need-to-Knows

Being an avid reader both online and off, I was interested to know what Adsmarketeers read to stay informed about the affiliate industry, which might help our readers and clients pick up a tip or two. So, this week I asked a question around the Adsmarket offices: “What are you reading?”, which is a dangerous question, as choices made in reading can be very revealing. Here are some recommendations from some of our team members for affiliates, advertisers, and all motived free-thinkers just like us!

Daneka Soudak (Me), Marketing Communications: “What I read for work and what I read for fun are rarely the same, but funnily enough, there are a lot of great affiliate blogs out there that I visit a lot because I simply like what they have to say about everything!”

1. Uhuru, by Robert Ruark – My current bus-ride companion. It’s a glimpse at Kenya in the late 1950’s. I picked it up off a park bench, and it’s fascinating.
2. Webpronews.com – A lot of coverage of everything that’s going on in web business.
3. yoast.com – For us Wordpress users, this blog from Joost deValk, creator of lots of yummy plugins, is a gem.
4. Get Elastic – For one thing, a chick writes this one, and for another, she’s got amazing, real advice on ecommerce and online marketing.
5. Murray Newlands - Murray manages to be everywhere at once, covering every convention, interviewing all the who’s whos.  He is very interactive with his readers too, so you can ask him anything!
6. Dennis Yu – This guy has a ton of experience and believe in true transparency.  Affiliates and Advertisers alike will enjoy this read.
7. GrowMap – This blog is a university of learning for those interested in social media and building a “map’ to “grow” your online business.  How to make money online? Read GrowMap!

Maor Sadra, Director of Sales: “I mostly read www.techcrunch.com. TechCrunch is a technology blog with some of the best scoops about anything and everything technology- related. The blog posts articles about anything from software to hardware, with a very nice portion dedicated to the online advertising world. It features editorials about new startups and companies, and it helps me to keep up-to-date in the world of technology and online advertising in general.”

Martin Fuchs, Sales and Business Development Manager: “Right now I’m reading Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
Other stuff I would highly recommend:

1. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
2. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by
   Albert-Laszlo Barabasi”

Yaron Kaplan, IT: “I read Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) – It is a good source for general information about the tech world. Although it may cause epilepsy for non-geeks.”

Yuval Ben-Harush, Advertiser Relations Team Leader:
“Here’s what I am reading currently:

1. Books:

• Purple Cow – The great Seth Godin about marketing and thinking out of the box.
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea – I find it inspiring.

2. Sites I visit all the time:

• K.co.il – a very good forum (in Hebrew) about SEM and affiliate marketing
• http://www.seomoz.org/
• The Adsmarket Blog, of course!

3. Newsletters I get:

• clickz.com – News and advice for the digital marketer.
• Elance.com 

Liat Arbesman, Publisher Recruitment Team Leader: “Is it enough that read 10,000 Facebook and Twitter statuses all day?”

1. Blogs I read:
   http://www.nickycakes.com/
   Great feedback from a young, experienced, and “rough” affiliate. He said what he thinks, with no limits!
   I loved his review about the ASE O9.http://www.murraynewlands.com/
   Murry is a nice guy, has his own affiliate network and is always updated in everything, with tips for affilitaes all the time
2. Great reads on the social networking scene, you get all the information about new events on FB , apps, games and more:
   http://www.insidesocialgames.com/
   http://www.insidefacebook.com/
3. http://www.mediapost.com/
   http://www.clickz.com/
   http://www.abestweb.com/

Shameless plug: All of the links for books will take you to Better World Books, a site I love because they have an amazing inventory of used and new books, free shipping in the US and cheap shipping anywhere else. Also they give money from their sales to fund literacy programs around the world. So if you see something here that you want to pick up, buy from them!

Comments

1. November 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm

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2. November 12, 2009 at 7:18 pm

   GrowMap says

   I am honored to be included in those you read, Daneka. Thank you. You know I read Murray – although he posts faster than most of us can keep up!

   I'll be checking out your other suggestions and just added a link to this list and your more recent list from my Gift Affiliate Program post.

   That post stays on the first page of Google and is where I have accumulated a huge number of affiliate related reference resources.

   I had not come across Better World Books and will definitely be visiting them too. Thank you for sharing what they do.

3. November 15, 2009 at 9:55 am

   Daneka at Adsmarket says

   I need to add more to this list. Every day I come across more and more hidden gems in the blogosphere and it's not enough to bookmark them for my own benefit.

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