Throughout my own blogging experience, as well as watching other blogs grow in their success, I have pinpointed 11 factors that may contribute to a blog’s success. They are: Posting valuable content Putting together meaningful titles Timely replying to comments in your blog Creating communities around blogs Leaving comments on other blogs Posting regularly Being [...]
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More and more affiliate networks, and CPA networks, are actively utilizing Twitter — both to provide affiliate and merchant support, and to announce new programs, contests/promos and enhancements. I thought you may appreciate a list of these with their corresponding Twitter accounts. Here’s what I’ve been able to put together (the lists are merely alphabetical; [...]
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As I was pondering on the recent leave of Dick Advocaat from FC Zenit [source 1 | source 2], the football (American English: soccer) team that I root for, I couldn’t help but look at it through my own prism — that of a manager. To me the football team’s manager job is very similar [...]
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All marketers are liars – Seth Godin Do you always read the fine print? I do most of the time, but not when it’s the type of fine print that comes in the mail after everything is paid for, and you’re already a member/customer. Today Allstate Motor Club has taught me a lesson that has [...]
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Two affiliates on different sides of the globe (U.S. and Australia) blogged about the same topic during the same week of August 2009. They talked about the things that make the life of an affiliate unnecessarily difficult, and they obviously wanted affiliate program managers to hear them. I am referring to the “5 Things That [...]
Someone was searching my blog for a phrase “networking with affiliate managers”, and I’ve decided to devote my today’s post to this. There is, in fact, a place where you can discuss affiliate program management questions with colleagues, meeting other affiliate program managers online. It is the Affiliate Program Management group that I run on [...]
As I was searching the web to see if a particular merchant offers coupons, I came across numerous affiliate sites which by optimizing their webpages accordingly make it look as if that merchant may have coupons when, in reality, they do not. It got me thinking in two directions: (1) how ethical is such a [...]
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As I was searching the web to see if a particular merchant offers coupons, I came across numerous affiliate sites which by optimizing their webpages accordingly make it look as if that merchant may have coupons when, in reality, they do not. It got me thinking in two directions: (1) how ethical is such a [...]
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In my post on the affiliate program setup expenses to be aware of I have mentioned that not all affiliate programs are based on affiliate networks. Many are being run in house: on self- or remotely hosted (and sometimes even internally-developed) software. Amazon and eBay, for example, run their affiliate programs in house and on [...]
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After receiving my pricing, a prospective client, who is looking for an outsourced affiliate program manager (OPM), wrote: I wanted to know whether there would be any other fees that I should be considering? I suppose the software companies like Linkshare and others, would charge a fee also. Are those types of fees covered in [...]
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