Online customers are becoming more and more savvy, critical, and skeptical. What can merchants and affiliates do to put an end to their moderately successful storming of the bastion of the end-users’ hears and minds, and really start convincing their target audiences? Eric Brantner, a business copywriter, has put together […]
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Earlier this morning I have been listening to Shawn Collins’ and Missy Ward’s InBound Marketing Summit presentation entitled “Five Successful Strategies for Monetizing Blogs”, and Shawn has mentioned some interesting statistics. Apparently, out of the 100 online retailers ranked by Internet Retailer as the “Hot 100 Retail Web Sites”, 75
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All leadership comes in one of two forms: assigned leadership and emergent leadership. Assigned leadership is based on being appointed to a position within the organizational structure. Say, you have been in charge of a SEO or web design team within your organization. With time your company decided to launch
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The subject has been revived over the past few days, and I think it’s important to link from my blog to some useful data on the topic of affiliate link cloaking. What is Affiliate Link Cloaking? Let’s start with a quick definition. To cloak is a beautiful verb that Webster’s
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What’s an easy way to explain affiliate marketing to a friend, colleague or family? I am sure every affiliate marketer had to ponder on this question at one point or another. Let me suggest a simple explanation that you may find of help. Short Explanation You’re a kid. It’s a
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In recent blog post entitled “The Future of Affiliate Marketing” Frank Watson made an interesting proposal, which essentially means automatizing the optimization of both affiliate ads, and merchant’s landing pages. The suggested process would mirror “a lot of the work being done by successful affiliates already”, but would need both
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If you are running out of ideas of how to promote a merchant, here’s something you can do: peel their inventory to arrive at long tail key phrases to target. Say, you are promoting a footwear merchant that has an extensive inventory of different brands and kinds of shoes. Let’s
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Time and again I see “affiliate marketing” and “affiliate marketers” represented in images similar to this one: Is this an accurate way to describe this business? I personally believe, it is not. While successful affiliate marketing does bring about a tremendous freedom, it is simply unjust to portray affiliate marketers
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Among all other methods of affiliate recruitment, e-mail is by far the most commonly used one. In A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing I wrote that affiliate program managers should strive to make their recruitment e-mails “attractive, yet not too lengthy and hard to follow” (p. 74). Today I would
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You know who Gary Vaynerchuk (aka @GaryVee) is, don’t you? He’s the guy that is being predicted to become “bigger than Oprah” [source], and mostly due to his passion, drive, and authenticity. To me Gary is living proof of the fact that the trait approach has the right to live
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