Have you noticed that affiliate programs don’t make it to the cover magazines like BusinessWeek or Wired? Maybe it’s because affiliate programs aren’t as cool as social networks or aren’t as fun to talk about as iPhone apps. But I got to tell you, they’re a huge growth engine online.
In this program, you’re going to [...]

The guy made selling fun. I pulled together a few of my favorite Billy Mays Commercials to show you why I think he was an incredible pitchman.

This post also has a brief history of his career.

A lot of successful entrepreneurs have come to Mixergy to talk about the different changes their startups made before hitting it big. Those were all stories told in hindsight.

Here’s an example of an entrepreneur who’s still building his company making that kind of a change. I had the transcript typed up for you.

When: Monday, June 29 @ 11 AM Pacific
Where: On Mixergy.com. Watch (and interact) from your desk.

I’m going to talk to Brandon about the whole story of his startup, IMSafer, from conception to sale. But I want to pay special attention to the challenges he had AFTER he got funding. Many entrepreneurs seem to think that…

When: Wednesday, July 22nd @ 4 PM Pacific
Where: On Mixergy.com. Watch from your desk.

Today his company TWiT is insanely popular with geeks (like me). I want to ask him how he did it and include his story in my upcoming book on scrappy startups.

When: Thursday July 16th at 11 am (Pacific Time)
Where: On Mixergy.com. Watch from your desk.
About Gegg Spiridellis

Gregg Spiridellis co-founded JibJab in September 1999 with his brother Evan.  According to Wikipedia,  The “company achieved international acclaim during the 2004 US presidential election when their video of George W. Bush and John Kerry singing “This Land is Your [...]

When: Friday, July 3 @ 11 AM (subject to change)
Where: On Mixergy.com. Watch from your desk.

The Web’s most famous cartoonist comes to Mixergy to talk about creativity, his book, “Ignore Everybody,” and how to stand out online. Watch him live.

When: Thursday, July 2 @ 11 AM Pacific
Where: Here on Mixergy.com. Watch from your desk AND CHAT IN REAL-TIME.

Gary Vaynerchuk is ringing up millions in sales and making himself famous at the same time. Learn how he does it.

In the chart above you can see how LOLquiz.com — a site that’s less than a month old — is becoming more talked about on twitter than the iPhone.

Read this post to see how you could use quizzes to grow your business.

Roy Rubin was a student trying to make extra money on the side when he founded Varien, the company that went on to launch Magento, an ecommerce platform that enables billions of dollars in online sales.

He came to Mixergy to talk about why Varien grew (it had a lot to do with focus) and how the company launched Magento (his developers pushed him to do it).

This is the raw (VERY raw and full of mistakes) transcript of my interview with with James Hong about how he founded HOTorNOT.

I’m posting it here because a reader asked for it.

One of the most surprising lessons James Hong of HOTorNOT taught when he came to Mixergy was that simply increasing his site’s speed helped him grow his sales. (Watch more from James on Mixergy.)

For Google, increasing speed was worth a billion