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Affiliate Technology News Syndication

A clear example of how social media works as a marketing and business tool..

We recently hit our distribution channels hard with mentions of AvantLink Mobile, a new Android phone application for Affiliates and merchants. This Android app allows people to check their Affiliate program stats, and do some other cool things from their smart phones. As you might have guessed, the impact my social media contacts had on further distributing this news was significant.

I spent about an hour in the morning posting the smart phone app news to various channels we have at our disposal like ABestWeb, @AvantLink on Twitter and our network Affiliate marketing blog (not to mention a custom RT @GaryMarcoccia and @GeekArm, etc., which automates to my Facebook status update). By noon quite a few people had re-tweeted the news, and there were even Affiliate bloggers writing it up!

BTW there is an iPhone app available as well, in case you're wondering.

Although I have been dabbling over the last few years, it's been tough to really sink my teeth in fully to social media channels...what with building our Affiliate network from the ground up and all. But now that I'm getting more time to really test and measure the effectiveness of Twitter and Facebook (among others), I'm a believer all the way.

The value of industry peers and contacts advancing your news far exceeds the exposure you get on any one web site...like you didn't already know that