Some of these have been announced earlier elsewhere, while others are really fresh baked, but here are the 4 new tools I haven’t yet blogged about, and want to mention them before I get swamped with other topics for blog posts:
1) NexusAware Database — it is a brand new (and one of a kind) [...]
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As any marketing program, affiliate program requires a budget. While it is true that comparing to many other types of online advertising, affiliate marketing generally requires a significantly smaller budget, it does require one. Below you may find a basic breakdown of expenses that you should be prepared to incur:
First of all, you will [...]
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The amount of business and even e-commerce literature that equates affiliate marketing to multi-level marketing is substantial enough for me to address this common misconception in my blog. Paul Ford, for example, in his Multi-Level Marketing brochure states that affiliate marketing is just another term for MLM marketing, a name that appeared due to recent [...]
While I fully understand that the motivation behind this particular article was to generate affiliate sign-ups for one given “CPA network” — and this fact alone makes the endorsement highly subjective — I do feel that it is important for me to address a few misconceptions that this article is spreading. There are at least [...]
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I am sure, at one point or another, you have you have received a referral marketing type offer from a company you’ve worked with. I certainly have been getting these on an ongoing basis. The most aggressive ones have been those from DirecTV, and they advertise their offer on their website as well:
Last week my [...]
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Yesterday’s FIFA 2010 World Cup qualifier between Russia and Germany drew over 100 million of people to their TV screens. If you haven’t watched it, you’ve missed one interesting game. It was a game between two of the best teams in the world: the silver and bronze medal winners of UEFA’s Euro 2008.
Germany won: [...]
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Three days ago Forrester Research, Inc. has published their “US Affiliate Marketing Forecast, 2009 To 2014″ based on based in interviews of “vendor and user companies, including Commission Junction, Intuit, LinkShare, Pepperjam.com, Performance Marketing Alliance, Stateless Systems, ValueClick, and Vertive” [details]. In it Forrester forecasts the affiliate marketing industry to grow from $1.9 billion in [...]
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Building a successful affiliate program is in many ways akin to lawn mowing. The mower symbolizes your affiliate program, whereas the lawn is the market. There are three integral elements without which the lawn cannot be mowed effectively, even with the presence of the mower. They are: (i) fuel, (ii) motor oil, and (iii) persistence.
I [...]
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Looking through the 100 Thoughts on Marketing list Valeria Maltoni has put together earlier today, and thinking of what works best in affiliate marketing, I have decided to compile a list of practical tips for affiliates to use. I’ve come up with 30 thoughts, some of which I have borrowed from Valeria’s list, others — [...]
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