This piece on mobile advertising and marketing ended up running rather long, but it is broken up into three sections for easy viewing: Creating monetizable events on phones is difficult. Three examples of mobile struggles. Where mobile does work. If you want to go right to the success cases, feel free, but I hope you [...]
Ben Silbermann, the CEO of Pinterest, called me this morning after reading my story on copyright issues. While he didn’t want to go into detail about how they will continue to address that issue, he did provide me with his take on the affiliate link modification story. Ben told me that it was never Pinterest’s [...]
Additional Update (2/15): Pinterest adds disclosure about how they (might) make money, my error about Skimlinks and a conversation with the Pinterest CEO. My post on Pinterest quietly generating revenue by modifying links to add affiliate codes got much more coverage than I ever could of imagined. 35,000+ unique visitors in 36 hours and write-ups in most [...]
Additional Update (2/15): Pinterest adds disclosure about how they (might) make money, my error about Skimlinks and a conversation with the Pinterest CEO. Update (2/9): Based on the considerable converge that this blog post received, I have published a new post that shares what I learned. I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a [...]
This is the fifth post in a six part series on Pinterest. What businesses should use Pinterest? In order to determine if you business is a good fit for Pinterest, it is best to understand why Pinterest is so popular, and then try it out for yourself once you understand the basics. Most businesses should [...]
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