Geno on February 4th, 2011

After a fairly long break from it (over three months have passed since my last #FollowFriday post/list), I’ve decided to return to my popular series of Twitter list posts. Today I’d like to bring you a list of the 10 must-follow affiliate marketing accounts — a list that’s long overdue, especially in a blog like [...]

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Geno on January 21st, 2011

Yesterday Josh Braaten, an Online Marketing Manager at Rasmussen College who also writes about SEO and web analytics on Big Picture Web tweeted: His tweet was a part of our brief conversation on how some of the online marketing-related professions are being misunderstood by people, but the wording of it got me really interested. So [...]

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Geno on January 20th, 2011

I know the parallel may seem strange at first, but there are actually a number of shared key points in these two tasks, and as someone who has been fighting a nasty flu over the past few days, and working in affiliate marketing for close to 9 years, I’d like to list the similarities in [...]

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Geno on January 18th, 2011

I believe that there are 5 main reasons why people fail at affiliate marketing: Lack of education — thorough (and ongoing) education saves you both time and money Laziness — there is no such thing as big-bucks-fast (if not at the expense of violating rules, of course), and you want to be prepared to work, [...]

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The famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse is known for saying: “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth.” For an affiliate marketer (and any online marketer, for that matter!) the “place to stand” remains the same as in 2010 — the Internet. Now [...]

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Geno on November 23rd, 2010

When you go to Google and type in “affiliate marketing”, one of the top suggestions is gonna be: Chances are that you’ve landed on this page precisely because you’ve chosen that “affiliate marketing for dummies” option. If you are trying to find out if there’s a “for Dummies” book (as in: from the world-famous Wiley’s [...]

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A lot of interesting and truly useful content is being produced in forms of articles and blog posts every single week. I do refer to some of them in my own daily blogging, but it is nearly impossible for me to devote individual attention to each one of them. So, as I have already done [...]

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It’s Friday again, but my today’s blog post isn’t going to be another thematic Twitter list, or not just a list of Twitter accounts you may want to follow, but also a list of invaluable content websites you want to visit if you’re involved in affiliate program management. I’ve hand-picked 15 resources (blogs, forums, and [...]

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Geno on October 10th, 2010

Yesterday I discovered a cool tool, tweeted about it, and obviously wasn’t the only one who loved the idea: So what exactly does Domai.nr do? It helps you search for domain names, but in a way that’s very different from what domain registrars traditionally offer you. Domai.nr searches for all available domain extensions and shows [...]

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Not too long ago I have found out about 2Performant, developers of “a CPA ad server” which is essentially another platform for in-house affiliate programs and affiliate networks. One of their newest products (not even launched yet), Graffly, is an interesting idea. So, I got together with Radu Spineanu of 2Performant who kindly agreed to [...]

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