I’ve been mulling over this partly out of curiosity and partly because some merchants I do affiliate management need this kind of information to make decisions on how to incentivise their affiliates, I touched on the fact that you need to budget for these here, and that affiliates like to be incentivised with ‘things money [...]
Affiliate marketing involves a lot of networking both for affiliates to meet other affiliate and for networks agencies and merchants to get in on the mix and meet even more affiliates, its a great way of negotiating deals and having a good night with like minded people, I’ve not been to an event where the [...]
Affiliate marketing isn’t cheap, its not just about paying on a cost per sale or CPA. Ultimately a merchant should look on affiliate marketing as business partnerships, where the merchant is the supplier and the affiliate is the distributer. Put simply, the merchant has products and needs customers; affiliates have potential customers but need products [...]
I spent the weekend running experiments rather than watching the tennis, and I have to admit it was a very successful weekend from a learning perspective. First I tried the ECU wp-o-matic technique, and it took me about a hour to setup the site, figure out how to work a cron job and build a [...]
Affiliate marketing isn’t like a poster campaign, where you can set it up and leave it, affiliate marketing is more similar to sales, in the sense that you need to be reactive to the climate and peoples desires, as such this makes planning an affiliate campaign far more involved than traditional advertising, with better and [...]
Battlefield was an awesome multiplayer first person shooter where you were able to freeroam, ie. do what ever you like in the game. Since if first emerged as a game by EA Games it’s gone from strength to strength with expansion packs and new variations of the game being produced. It seems the Battlefield have [...]
Easy Content Unit is the ingenius idea of Lammo, from Big Idea media, essentially its an amalgamator tool that allows an affiliate to create datafeed populated widgets from merchants across any network. The Widgets can be fully customized and added to any site or blog that accepts Javascript. There are two versions of the tool, [...]
I had a chat with a ‘black hat’ SEO affiliate today, about the techniques he uses to make ‘quick bucks’ on the network, whilst there’s no doubt these techiques are quick winners, they don’t exactly drive the kind of quality or offer the consumer the kind of value-added that would make such strategies viable in [...]
I’m definately no expert in PPC, my expereinces in this area are limited to say the least, primarily to keey my account with CJ open, but PPC is a real art that just needs to be mastered and there are some great experts in PPC out there, Kristy is one such affiliate, she’s now full [...]
Smingle is one of the best Niche SEO affiliate marketers out there, not least because of his generious giving of useful and legitimate advice. You can see some of his tips here . Smingle has also written a great basic guide to SEO here, which covers the onpage SEO basics for any site, and forms [...]