On Friday, May 21, online merchant 6pm.com, a sister site to Zappos.com, accidentally marked the prices of nearly all items on the website at $49.99. Over some 6 hours (from midnight until about 6 am PST) the website was taking orders for products (some of which were originally priced over […]
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Having looked at the blogging platform options for affiliates, it is only logical to continue the topic by looking at the top affiliate plugins and WordPress-friendly tools. Below you will find my list of plugins and tools that affiliates use, and rate highly. The order is merely topical (network-offered plugins,
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Whether you’re starting a blog as a support platform for your affiliate program (i.e. as a merchant), or as a marketing vehicle (i.e. as an affiliate), the question of the best platform to choose inevitably springs up. The supply is bountiful — WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Movable Type, etc — but
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John Woden, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach, is known for saying that “perhaps the most important part of offensive basketball is the part played by each man without the ball.” Why is it so important? Because unless you play well without the ball, you don’t get the ball!
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I’ve just finished reading yesterday’s iMediaConnection article entitled Performance marketing: Avoid the newbie mistakes. Overall, it’s a good article, but there is one thing I cannot agree with. The author wrote: A little secret in performance marketing is that more than 50 percent of total performance transaction volume is driven
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I’ve conducted an experiment whereby a newly opened affiliate account, which had one website listed, applied into 4 affiliate programs. All of these programs were in the niche absolutely unrelated to the niche that the affiliate website was listed in. The first three responses were: So, two pending applications, and
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Last week I was reviewing the yearly stats of one of my sites, and was once again struck by how seasonal the interest in some niches can be. Here’s a very illustrative chart of that particular site’s visits: My December 2009 Holiday Niches or How to Make Annual Salary in
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Yesterday evening SearchEngineJournal.com has announced the 2010 Search & Social Awards winners, and I am excited to see AM Navigator top the list of affiliate marketing blogs! Thank you all for your support. It is an honor. Here’s the full list of winners: Best SEO Blog – SEOmoz Search News
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If you are subscribed to Revenue Performance, you have probably already seen it. The magazine that has historically been the oldest in the affiliate marketing industry has published an interview with me in its newest Summer 2010 issue, and I think it turned out pretty cool. Here’s my favorite part:
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Reading through thousands of tweets, blog posts, affiliate program descriptions and other material related to affiliate marketing on a monthly basis, I see the same set of words and phrases being used over and over again… to the point when they no longer strengthen the content, but do exactly the
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