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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On May 14, Google announced an adjustment to their “trademark policy in the U.S.” which has been changed “to allow some ads to use trademarks in the ad text.” The reasoning behind loosening up on trademarks was reported in light of aiming “to improve ad quality and user experience.” Just
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Now that we know why affiliates should have access to merchants’ product feeds, it is a good time to list the most frequently repeated mistakes that merchants make in their affiliate data feeds. It’s sad, but the following 7 problems are very common: 1. Problem with Images – Do not
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I am happy to announce two of my Summer 2009 speaking engagements. This summer I am scheduled to speak at the following two events (which I hope you will be able to attend): Event: eComXpo Dates: July 8-9, 2009 Location: online Official Website: www.eComXpo.com Presentation Details: I will be speaking
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First things first, and we should start with a definition. What is an product feed, or data feed? Any data feed is essentially a file (.CSV, .XML, .XLS or any other type) that lists all your product information, such as product ID, product name, description, price, stock availability, etc. The
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