In case you haven’t yet heard of Unguru.me, it’s a project started earlier this month by Jim Kukral and Shawn Collins to establish a “community for small businesses to network and learn (without the hype)” and they have recently released their 2011 Unguru.me Report. The main question they tried answer […]
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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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Important: The title must really read 20 not 12 hours. See details in this comment by a LivingSocial affiliate, and the one right under it. How many of you have heard of LivingSocial before today? We all know Groupon, but “Living” Who? Well, they’re Groupon’s direct competitor, and they have
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The news of the day is Starbucks’ launch of nationwide mobile payment system. The official press release reads: Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced the launch of mobile payment in all U.S. company-operated stores, allowing customers to pay for in-store purchases with select smartphones. Building on the earlier introduction of Starbucks
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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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It’s that time of the year when the flu is going around, and those of us who are still healthy want to say that way, while those who have already caught it, want to get rid of it a.s.a.p. and without any complications. eHow.com has an article on how to
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Having recently returned from Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, today I’d like to share with you my 7 tips on the things not to do if you’re attending a conference in the “Sin City”. Here are my tips: Don’t rent a car unless you’re planning on traveling outside Vegas,
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Just a couple of days ago I returned from an extremely busy, information- and meetings-packed Affiliate Summit West 2011. However, this post isn’t going to be about the lessons learned or sessions attended. For the first time ever I had a truly great camera on me (a Sony Alpha55 with
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Remember my Puma Affiliate Program Manager Doesn’t Get It post on 1/7/2011? Well, checking my affiliate account’s email box today I’ve found a follow-up message which reads as follows (highlighting mine): At first, when I just started reading it, I thought: “Awesome!! They finally get it!”… but as I read
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