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ShareASale ?Under the Stars? Party at Affiliate Summit
2008-02-25 12:46:00 Here are some pictures and a clip from the ShareASale "Under the Stars " party that took place on Sunday, February 24th at the 2-story Sky Villas on the top floors of the Palms Hotel "Fantasy Tower". Mike Allen, super-affiliate of Shopping-Bargains Brian Littleton, founder and CEO of ShareASaleBrian of ShareASale at the piano! More About: Party , Affiliate , Summit , Affiliate Summit
The PartnerMaker Party at Affiliate Summit
2008-02-25 01:40:00 Here are some pictures from the PartnerMaker party co-sponsored by AMWSO that took place Saturday, February 23, 2008 at the Wine Cellar of the Rio Suites Hotel in Las Vegas. James Martell of Affiliate Marketers Boot CampKurt Lohse, founder and CEO of super-affiliate KeyCode and Jamie Birch of ConverseonDavid Delisle and Jeff Molander of The PartnerMaker More About: Party , Summit , Affiliate Summit
LinkShare China is go.
2008-02-24 20:23:00 Well while everyone is raving about the new LinkShare Publisher Dashboard I decided to take a look around the rest of the site to see what had changed. Heading straight to the international section and then over to jobs, and low and behold what do we see jobs for LinkShare China in Shanghai. So it would appear the rumours were true and LinkShare is finally heading into China!Not much else available that I can find on the China launch, the last time it seems to have been mentioned was back in early 2006 in an article in Revenue. Well it will be interested to see whether they launch with a focus on eCommerce or lead generation and what they have learnt from the the success and failures of the early network entries into the China market
Basics Of Affiliate Marketing
2008-02-23 16:07:00 One of the very first affiliate marketing companies was Gillette, yep, the razor people. The Internet was not even really started at that time, but still these visionaries knew affiliate marketing would be the way to go. You can almost think of each affiliate marketing effort, including those with Click Bank, Commission Junction, etc., as tiny “JV’s” or ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , Profit
Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Email Footer?
2008-02-21 20:16:00 It's been a while since we've picked apart an email campaign. I'm not really a fan of being negative, but a great example of what not to do came across my desk the other day, and I can't help but share it with you. Please don't make the same mistakes with your email footer that these guys did. The Offending Email Ethan, one of our web developers here at AWeber, was puzzled at an email he recently received from a ticket sales website. He had absolutely no idea who this company was. He couldn't remember ever doing business with them. He eventually figured out (after going to their site and trying a login/password combination he rarely used) that he had purchased tickets to an event through them — over a year ago. As we often remind people looking to collect subscribers offline, permission isn't indefinite - it expires, and if you email subscribers out of the blue after a long time, they lodge spam complaints because they don't remember you. That's not what caug... More About: Make , Footer
4 Quick Tips To Bigger Adsense Profits
2008-02-21 05:26:00 Adsense is one of the quickest ways to make money online. It requires no active management on your part except putting the code into your website and directing traffic to it. But like any other business, you will have to apply some known principles and best practices to achieve the greatest earnings. To generate more clicks, ... More About: Tips , Quick , Profits
A Begginer?s Guide To Pay Per Click
2008-02-21 05:23:00 Pay Per Click (PPC) is a type of marketing strategy whereby you pay the PPC Company some specified amount of money for every click on your ad. It is one of the most cost-effective ways to advertise on the net as your only pay for action taken on your ad and not just the number ... More About: Google , Adsense , Pay Per Click , Guide
3 Most Essential Elements Of Every Google Adwords Campaign
2008-02-21 05:17:00 Adwords is the prime PPC option on the Internet today. Despite its ease of management and acceptability, you have to master the program to enable you to get the best out of it. Here are three things you can do to optimize your Adwords PPC campaign and boost your ROI. Designing your adverts. Write your ads so ... More About: Google , Elements , Google Adwords , Campaign , Adwords
3 Tips to Optimize Your Email Landing Pages
2008-02-19 15:34:00 The success of our email marketing campaigns does not rely entirely on the success of our email. What I mean is, if the goal of our email is not only to drive traffic to our websites but ultimately to convert that traffic into sales, our websites need to do their jobs too. Email tracking and analytics let us know how our emails are performing. In order to make sure our marketing campaigns are performing as we'd hope as a whole, we'll also want to take a look at the web pages we send our subscribers to. Make Sure Your Web Pages Work, Not Just the Links Before we send our email messages, we should always test them. In doing so, one of the things we're looking for is working links. This entails clicking on each link in a message to make sure the correct web page opens properly in a browser. If they do, we tend to close the browser window and move on to the next step in our sending routines. But wait! Here are 3 other things we should look for before we close out the window: ... More About: Tips , Landing Pages , Landing
A Begginer`s Guide To Adsense
2008-02-19 01:24:00 A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ADSENSE Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Adsense is an advertising program developed by Google Inc. The prime aim of the program is to enable publishers or owners of websites to display Google ads in return for a percentage of ... More About: Guide
3 Things Every Adsense Publisher Must Know
2008-02-19 01:18:00 Beginning your journey into the Adsense world is as easy as ABC. But to ensure that you are retained on the program, you would need to pay attention to some do’s and don’ts of the programs. These prohibitions are spelled out in the Adsense signup agreement, but many overlook them. First, you must know that not ... More About: Things , Publisher
3 Most Essential Elements Of Every Google Adwords Campaign
2008-02-19 01:13:00 3 MOST ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF EVERY ¸GOOGLE ADWORDS CAMPAIGN Adwords is the prime PPC option on the Internet today. Despite its ease of management and acceptability, you have to master the program to enable you to get the best out of it. Here are three things you can do to optimize your Adwords PPC campaign and boost ... More About: Google , Elements , Google Adwords , Campaign
How to Let Blog Readers Choose Their Email Frequency
2008-02-14 17:30:00 In the comments of a post discussing our recent FeedBurner integration, Mike Hill asked a great question about email subscription options: The scheduling would be more useful if it can be setup by the subscriber, not by me as the publisher. Is that a possibility with any subscription services on email?To me, this would be far more useful to my readers than me picking when to get it. I’d even consider subscribing some of my blogs on email instead of RSS if this was available.View this comment on the original post While creating a signup form that gives subscribers an unlimited number of frequency options would be tough to pull off without making the form look awkward and intimidating, it's easy to offer them a couple of different options. All it takes is a little HTML know-how and a few minutes to set up an extra list or 2. First, Create 2 Lists In this example, we're going to give our blog's email subscribers the option to sign up for daily emails, or weekly ones. First, ... More About: Email , Readers , Blog , Choose , Frequency
How to Survey Your Customers and Prospects
2008-02-12 23:09:00 It's tempting to ask your subscribers a laundry list of questions when they sign up to your list, isn't it? You want to know things like how they heard about you, what competitors they were looking at, what questions they have for you, do they want you to contact them by phone (and what's their phone number?). The trouble, as we've discussed before in several posts and in our web form webinar, is that the more information you ask for in a signup form, the fewer people fill it out. So how do you learn more about your potential subscribers without driving them away? Read on for ideas and a short video. Survey Customers and Prospects The key to getting subscribers to tell you all about themselves is to be patient. Start by building a relationship with them, and then, once they're comfortable enough with you to do so, prompt them to tell you more. One of the most popular ways to do this is by emailing a survey to your subscribers. But Don't Surveys Cost Money to Create ...
Can you make BIG money in Affiliate Marketing?
2008-02-12 02:07:00 Yes, you can! Paul from Uber Affiliate just put up a new site compiling some of the pictures and earnings from a few large affiliates over at S.eriously.com. Those checks and earnings reports can certainly be motivating. Of course now these aren't net earnings, as a lot of that traffic might have been paid for via paid search ads. So even though an affiliate gets a check for say $100,000, they might have to pay $99,000 to Google, Yahoo or MSN for search advertising. Then of course, there is this other tried and true method of "earning big money via onlne marketing" :) However, who can argue with an extra $1000 in the pocket. Plus, there can be ancillary benefits. Imagine if you're paying for all of those search ads on a credit card that gives cash back, or rewards points. 99,000 rewards points can add up to some nice all paid vacations in a short amount of time, or cash back, or any other benefits offered by credit card companies. How can you start earning some of ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Money , Make
Great headlines and subject lines made easy!
2008-02-08 19:03:00 Whether you use traffic exchanges, email advertising, newsletters, autoresponders or blog, writing good quality ads to get your affiliate traffic to visit the vendor site is paramount. It is second only to writing effective SUBJECT lines, particularly when it comes to email and newsletters. This is because if the subject is not provocative enough to get someone ... More About: Great , Profit , Made , Easy , Headlines
Are These Email Messages Missing From Your Inbox?
2008-02-07 15:48:00 If you aren't sending a continuous campaign of emails using the feature available to you, there certainly may be messages you should be sending to subscribers that you aren't. So, we just recently posted on why email marketers nearly always should use both follow ups and newsletters for their campaigns. What I'd like to point out today are some of the email messages you may be missing from your own inbox that should be there. A Few Mess ages That Can Improve Your Marketing Email is a technology that can help you to market better not only through what you send, but also what you receive. Here are a few of the emails you might want to find in your own inbox: Unsubscribe CommentsAs Justin has said before, sometimes unsubscribes are good for our email campaigns, when we allow the subscriber to leave comments. They can provide feedback on ways we might not be engaging subscribers who have not unsubscribed yet -- and who may not at all if we use the feedback others have provided... More About: Missing , Inbox
Performance Marketing Support Group re-launches Monthly Teleconference for
2008-02-07 15:24:00 Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, at 4:00pm Eastern Time, Allan Dick from Vintage Tub & Bath and Jeff Molander host a conference call to help e-marketing and e-commerce professionals find solutions to any issues or problems faced on a daily basis. Issues are discussed amongst peers, and advice will be offered from industry experts on the call. This is a great opportunity to hear what your peers are facing, and listen to new insights on solutions to problems. The call on February 20th will center around the debate on how to balance paid search with affiliate marketing strategies. We at AMWSO are certainly keen to listen to the thoughts of other retailers and consultants on this very hot topic. The monthly calls are a life blood for me. As the sole person charged with e-commerce marketing management at a mid-sized multi-channel retailer, I need a support group that speaks my language, - Trish Tickle of Kitchen Collection. Even after the call finishes, participants are in... More About: Marketing , Performance , Support , Group
Blog Broadcast: FeedBurner Integration, Click Tracking
2008-02-05 15:06:00 Fresh on the heels of the advanced rss to email scheduling options released last week come two new enhancements to help bloggers send email newsletters. With these features, you'll be able to take greater advantage of the social proof that Feedburner 's subscriber counts provide, and more easily track what actions your email subscribers take when they get your newsletter. AWeber Now Reports Email Subscriber Counts to Feedburner We now report how many email subscribers your blog has to FeedBurner. So if you have a little chicklet on your blog like this: showing how many people subscribe to your blog, and you collect email subscribers via AWeber, you'll see that subscriber count jump as Feedburner counts your email subscribers along with your RSS ones — just use your FeedBurner URL when setting up your Blog Broadcast ! I recently mentioned in passing to a blogger that we would be rolling this out soon, and like the blogosphere got excited even before this went live... ... More About: Integration , Click
Video + Blog = More $$
2008-02-05 05:14:00 Did you know your Profit Mart hosting package includes the world-famous WordPress blogging system, built right in? Did you know that blogging, the keystone to social networking, is the fastest growing area of affiliate marketing? Have a listen to Shawn Collins, one of the kings of affiliate marketing, in the podcast below. Please ignore the first couple of minutes or ... More About: Video , Video Blog , Blogging , Blog
The Three R?s of Affiliate Marketing
2008-02-04 22:45:00 THE THREE ?Rs? OF AFFILIATE MARKETING By Ron & Rick Davies The Davies brothers are web marketing systems developers and affiliate marketing consultants. Responsible for the creation of 1stPromotion.com, Profit Mart.com, and a host of other highly successful online marketing systems, they remain focused on affiliate marketing and are highly respected for their innovative ideas and ?no hype? approach. You?re ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate
Valentines Day for Affiliates
2008-02-04 10:24:00 Next to Christmas, Valentin e's Day is one of the biggest shopping holidays of the year. Close to a billion dollars will be spent for Valentine's day, and affiliates are in an excellent position to grab a piece of the pie. Most of the shopping is done the week prior to the 14th of February, with another surge occurring just a couple days before the day as shoppers search for those last minute ideas and gifts. The expected usual suspects: jewelry, flowers, chocolate and other gifts are the hottest items for the Valentine's Holiday. Thankfully, most respective merchants have affiliate programs in all of these niches. Men average over $100 spending for the holiday, with woman averaging just over $50. While it's true that many people are actually turned off by the commercialization of this day, 30% of people surveyed by the NPD Group appreciate the romance of the day, and 8% are pressured into making a purchase, "so they don't get into trouble." Jewelry and th... More About: Valentines Day , Affiliates , Valentines
ProfitMart Re-Invents ?Refer-a-Friend? Right in the Affiliate PowerBAR!
2008-02-04 04:12:00 ProfitMart continues to lead the field with first-to-market innovations that quite simply have never been made available by any other program. The latest in our arsenal of marketing tools that create real leverage for our members is the marriage of our incredibly powerful Affiliate PowerBAR with a re-invention of the old refer-a-friend system, albeit with a few twists not ... More About: Profit , Friend , Refer
Problaze has the Potential to Rocket your Sales!
2008-02-02 19:37:00 Hello Fellow Profit eers/Portal Members, Problaze has the potential to rocket your sales. Safelist are made by its members, and members are the key to make a list grow. This one of the reasons Problaze is paying commissions to its members - as we grow your income will grow. We Pay Pro, Premium and Executive. Just so you understand ... More About: Sales , Rocket
It?s Alive! Yes, ProBlaze is back, and better than ever!
2008-02-02 05:27:00 One of the things Rick and I wanted to make easy for Profit Mart members right from the start is the web site promotion part. This seems to be the “sticking point” for many new web marketers, yet there are a couple of easy ways to get started in promotion. One of the easiest has to be ... More About: Back , Alive
Upcoming System Maintenance This Weekend
2008-02-01 17:14:00 AWeber's development team will be performing scheduled system maintenance this weekend from: Saturday, February 2nd, 11:00PM EST - Sunday, February 3rd, 7:00AM EST During this time, the AWeber Customer Control Panel will be inaccessible. Planned maintenance sessions like this help us avoid unplanned ones down the road and continue to deliver the fast, reliable system that our users have come to expect from us over the past 9+ years. During this time, you'll still be able to access the parts of the site that you don't have to login to get to (such as our blog, Knowledge Base and videos). Anyone who signs up to your list during this time will be collected and stored in AWeber, but they won't be added to your list until we bring the control panel back up. This helps ensure that nothing we do during maintenance inadvertently causes you to lose any subscriber data. If you have any questions, just get in touch with our Customer Solutions Team and we'll be happy to help. Thanks... More About: System , Weekend , Maintenance , Upcoming
PayPal deposits for ProfitMart affiliates go out tomorrow a.m.!
2008-02-01 01:04:00 Affiliate payments for the monh of January go out tomorrow morning! Congrats to all those getting instant deposits to PayPal! Note that if not using PayPal, you will need to request payment by cheque and snail mail. If using PayPal, please be sure the email account you have in the Affiliate Panel for PayPal is valid. Affiliate ... More About: Paypal , Profit , Affiliates , Tomorrow , Tomo
Here?s An Easy Way To Do Video Emails
2008-01-30 18:00:00 Videos are a great marketing tool — they your prospects' attention, they let you show (not just tell) about your products, and they get passed around (helping you to get more subscribers virally). However, as many people have found out, creating "video emails" by embedding the video directly in an HTML email (like you would on a web page) doesn't fly. It's simply not reliable because most email programs disable or strip out the video. But that doesn't mean you can't take advantage of video's appeal in your emails! You just have to get a bit creative... Easily Send "Video Emails " Using Image Links In a recent addition to our Knowledge Base, we've shown step-by-step how to drive your email subscribers to watch videos that you've posted to your site or video hosting sites like YouTube. How Can I Add Video To My Messages? A Couple Pointers I recommend using an image to link to your video — you can use text, too, but the image will natu... More About: Video , Easy , Easy Way
What has your experience in affiliate marketing been like so far?
More articles from this author:2008-01-30 16:58:00 Please tell us what your affiliate marketing experience has been like so far. This can include any affiliate program from ClickBank and CJ to Affiliate Classroom and the like: Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Profit , Experience 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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