Largely due to the current economic climate, and partly because of the very psychology of humans, coupon websites (majority of them – affiliates) are rapidly multiplying — new ones springing up every week. But how could a new coupon website stand out? First, let’s look at the commonalities of coupon […]
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Econsultancy has just announced the release of its long-awaited 55-page US Affiliate Census 2009. The full report may be purchased on this page. I have already had a chance to read through it, and here are some of the highlights: More than 600 affiliates took part in this first US
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This is the question I have been e-mailed by three different people shortly after posting my thoughts on How to Kill an Affiliate Campaign With a Landing Page. In addition to doing everything contrary to how things are described in that post, you want to also make sure that your
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I have my reasons to believe that eye health is one of the most neglected areas among online marketers of all sorts. Let’s be honest: how many of us are doing regular eye exercises, taking breaks and ensuring that the computer screen is positioned a little lower than the eye
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I was researching more on motivation in the course of the day today, and at one point while I was reading Frederick Herzberg’s article “One More Time. How Do You Motivate Employees” (Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2003) I realized that making all things go right within any given affiliate program
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Today I have been reading articles on motivation and emotional intelligence published by the Harvard Business Review over the past four decades. I was looking at all of them from the perspective of how I, as an affiliate program manager, could better motivate affiliates; and one of them especially stood
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Today I would like to show merchants that run affiliate programs how a landing page could kill an affiliate program’s campaign. Unfortunately, most merchants do not do a thorough enough job when putting together landing pages for promos and coupons they offer through their affiliate programs, and I feel like
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I’ve just bumped into this quote by the legendary change leader of the American petroleum industry, one of the richest men on earth even to this date, John D. Rockefeller: The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what interests you and you can do well, and put
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One of the questions that is most frequently asked by merchants — both those that have just launched an affiliate program, and those that have already been in this business for some time — is: Where, and how can I recruit some of those “super affiliates”? These affiliates [read my
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That’s exactly what the newest “World Wide Rave” book by David Meerman Scott is. I’ve received it from him last week, and finished skimming through it today. David states: It is virtually impossible to create a [word of mouth] Web marketing program that is guaranteed to become a World Wide
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