The guys over at NetExponent did and Affiliate Survey earlier this year, and just released the results of it today :

http://www.affiliatebenchmarks.com/

Definitely worth checking out!

We were up against a very tough line of competitors, including Meebo & Delicious (owned by Yahoo), and it’s a real testimony to the growth in the popularity of our service.

SynthaSite now boasts well over 1m unique visitors per month, and still on a very nice upward trend! We also launched Blogging, Shopping Carts & Domain registration earlier this month!

I must apologize to my readers for not posting much over the past few weeks, but there are some very interesting things happening over at SynthaSite which has dominated my free time (I think I’m averaging 4-5 hours per night sleep!). I’m going to be picking up the pace, real soon!

San Francisco is really fantastic, and I’m enjoying every minute here, but I also do miss home!

Thanks again to everyone for voting!

Vinny Lingham discusses SynthaSite on SABC Africa from Vinny Lingham on Vimeo.

Retention Marketing Manager

Company:

SynthaSite’s vision is to enable anyone, anywhere to publish their own website. We’re a venture-backed start-up who recently raised our series A funding, released a beta product into the market and are ready to take the world by storm. We’ve grown rapidly over the past 6 months and need superstars to take us to the next level.

Position:

We’re looking for a ridiculously talented Retention Marketing Manager to lead our email and website marketing efforts. In this role, you’ll be responsible for both setting the strategy and running the day-to-day execution of our email and website marketing programs. If you’re right for this job, you’ll have strong email and website marketing experience and be looking for a place where you can use those skills to build a new program from the ground up. You’ll want to make a difference. If this sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Location:

San Francisco, CA

Reporting:

The Retention Marketing Manager will report directly to the Vice President of Marketing.

Key responsibilities:

* Email Marketing: Define, plan and execute SynthaSite’s email marketing strategy
* Website Management: Own the SynthaSite website, optimizing it for customer retention and monetization as well as working with the Acquisition Marketing Manager to drive conversion of new visitors to the site
* SynthaSite Blog: Own the SynthaSite blog. Define the messaging and collect content that will speak to the needs of our customer base
* Creative Direction: Work closely with creative team to develop marketing materials for email newsletters and the website
* Planning: Work with the VP of Marketing on quarterly and annual plans

Qualifications:

* 3+ years of related experience with email marketing
* Experience managing a marketing budget and preparing plans and forecasts
* Experience working with Graphic Designers to produce high-performing creative assets
* Strong analytical and quantitative skills
* Entrepreneurial drive

Compensation:

SynthaSite is prepared to offer an attractive compensation package, including a competitive base salary, health and vacation benefits, and company shares.

SynthaSite is an Equal Opportunity employer. Personnel are chosen on the basis of ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, in accordance with federal and state law.

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I’ve taken one of my most popular blogs posts on web apps and turned it into a slide presentation - this should be a fun talk!

Update: 9/11/08 - Here is the presentation: