At the end of last week Rae Hoffman-Dolan (aka “Sugarrae”) has published an excellent infographic explaining what affiliate marketing is, and how exactly it works. Before Rae’s “step by step visual” the one that I’ve seen used more frequently than anything else was this one and variations of it (example […]
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When a friend or family member asks you: “So, what exactly is it that you do for living?” what do you reply? How do you explain affiliate marketing to someone who has never heard of it? I love how Eric Nagel puts it in the header of his blog: defining
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With the fairly recent Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Update multiple bloggers (affiliates in particular) became concerned (subject also brought up by Joe Sousa in his recent post here), and started wondering if they (as content producers) may be affected by it. The short answer is: “No, as long as what you
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I’ve had a privilege to speak at PubCon South 2011 which, as is already customary for the Spring PubCons, took place in Austin, TX on March 8-9, 2011. Beautiful weather, great crowd of people, quality sessions, and great discussions. Even though I flew over just for the first of the
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Since the beginning of this year, a number of excellent articles and blog posts were produced by affiliates who provided us, affiliate program managers, with some invaluable information, and I just can’t help but point out 3 of these articles to you. Here they are in a chronological order (read
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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