InPhonic, along with other companies like Apple, Walmart, American Express, are using the LinkShare affiliate tracking solution. So, if you know how LinkShare works, you’ve got a good handle on how the InPhonic affiliate program operates.

InPhonic is all about cell phones, so affiliates with niche related sites should take a look at their program. Wirefly/InPhonic has won awards as Best in Overall Customer Experience for their wireless services (Awarded by Keynote Systems). If you’ve dealt with cell phone companies, you know that’s a coveted award, and probably the reason Wirefly is the number one seller of cell phones and wireless plans.

To find out the rest of their affiliate program’s terms, you have to join or be a member of the LinkShare Network. So, I’d say if cell phones are your niche this is worth taking a look and seeing how you can partner with InPhonic.

I’m going to cut them a break because clearly their website is new, but their affiliate page needs a whole lot more information. So, when you email them to inquire about the affiliate program, be sure and ask all the important questions you need to know as an affiliate.

Who knew Yard Signs would be an unexploited niche?! Maybe I need some bumper stickers for the Affiliate Guild?!

However, I can’t help but think that if you ran a promotional site as clean and polished as DealKing’s site, that you’d be able to entice those merchants back into the world of promotional affiliate marketing.

Recently DealKing asked me to take a look at their site and give you and them some feedback. I like DealKing’s site. It’s very user friendly and clearly promotes the special that they have … right now looks like the best deals are on Cingular Go phones and Prepaid T-Mobile phones.

If you are a promotional affiliate or thinking about going into that, I think one of the ways dealking.com gets their edge is with their cash back offers from sites such as Buy.com … good stuff.

So, what parts didn’t PayPerPost buy?

According to Nick Wilson of Performancing, the purchase does not include their Partners Ad Network, nor their PFF.

What it does include is the Performancing Metric technology, the domain name Performancing.com, and the Performancing Exchange technologies.

The chat amongst the blogging community is mixed as always. It’s controversy and we bloggers live for these moments. Some are delighted that PPP will now have the type of metrics that will afford them huge amounts of blog statistics, and that’s what Marketing professionals live for. Others see any chumming by Performancing with PPP to be beyond their grasp to comprehend. But when the dust settles, what we now know as Performancing will be moving over to PPP. PayPerPost’s bloggers will now be able to track visitor stats and monitor AdSense auditing for their blogs.

The parts of Performancing not sold will find a new domain and brand identity … also something Marketing professionals live for.

Let’s face it guys, the landscape of blog advertising has changed forever. The world of professional blogging has just expanded by another 28,000 bloggers.

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