Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Five years ago, Mark Goldstein and three partners recognized that loyalty programs were becoming a cottage industry. Coming up with the right way to manage those programs, he believed, would be a neat trick. So would finding an effective way to lure in customers. “The toughest part of the business is the selling,” Goldstein, founder of San Francisco-based Loyalty Lab, told CRM Buyer.
Simplify. That, at its heart, is the purpose of XBRL — extensible business reporting language. XBRL employs a common set of tags for financial terms, making reports more searchable and transparent to everyone who uses them. Designed to provide information to investors and anyone else researching financial markets, it is an open standard that is operating system agnostic.
For those who are hungry for some good economic news, venture capitalists apparently are seeing green in clean technology. Indeed, so-called green technology — everything from eco-friendly auto parts to alternative fuels to smart buildings to streamlined manufacturing processes — appears to be blooming, even if the world economy is in wilt mode.
Immigration is becoming as nettlesome to high-tech companies as it has long been in the agriculture and construction businesses. Although technology firms don’t reach into the same labor pool as do ag comglomerates or building contractors, their problems are converging. The challenge, advocates of immigration reform say, is a lack of government responsiveness to their need for brain power.
For public utilities, the world seems to be taking on a green hue. Their customers are the beneficiaries of an effort to preserve resources — and save a bit of cash in the process — as they move toward electronic bill payment, have their lights dimmed automatically, and place orders online.