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Digital Thoughts: The Evolution of an Expo
It’s not always intentional, but it seems that whenever I go to a tradeshow, despite my best efforts, I end up writing an article about it. That certainly happened as a result of my last trade show experience. It involved a visit to New York City for Advertising Week.
Trends Report: The Future of Direct Navigation
If you read this week’s Digital Thoughts, which of course you did, you would have read about a small conference that very few in our industry attended. For those of us that did attend, such exclusivity won’t last long as this space should soon become a significant player in the world of online advertising.
Google: All Your ‘Base’ Are Belong To Us
The Mountain View based company earlier this week unintentionally provided a sneak peek at what appears to be an impending expansion into classified advertising — a move that would have the search engine giant going toe-to-toe with online marketplace eBay
Warning: Adults are Letting Children Become Adults, Proceed With Caution
I’m a regular lurker of http://www.Adrants.com - a site that spoofs advertising and all its zaniness and generally allows for casual social commentary, some good, some bad, and more often than not, shows an inordinate amount of boobs, which I’m certain...
DM Pimping Cartoon V4
Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.
DM University: Media Buying
Online marketers must make numerous decisions when it comes to media buying, such as which media products to buy ‘space’ from and how much should be budgeted and spent. One imperative decision an online marketer will surely face is whether to buy media on a CPA or CPM basis
DM University: Adware vs. Spyware
Most of us know that not all online advertising is created equal. This includes desktop publishing, in which there’s a fine line between doing it ethically and doing it unethically. On one side, you have your respectable adware companies, who adhere to...
DM University: Publisher vs. Advertiser
In regards to online advertising, an advertiser is any person or organization, typically a website that sells a product or service, accepts payments, and fulfills orders. In general, an advertiser places ads on other websites (a.k.a. publishers) that are regularly...
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QualityHealth, a leading marketer and publisher, is looking for experienced online marketers for consumer-based direct marketing campaigns in the healthcare space. Individual must be creative and self-driven, organized and analytical, and have a strong working knowledge of online marketing strategies and metrics.
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Jazette Pester
affiliate.com
The capabilities of social media advertising seem to grow almost daily.
For example, Facebook just launched some great new tools that allow you to target thousands of additional cities with your ads.
Staying on top of the latest advertising tool updates may be a challenge, but it can have a real impact on the success of your campaigns.
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Lizbeth Cardozo
BlinkAds
Last week I suggested you "get out there", network and meet your potential affiliates.
While networking, be genuine.
People like to do business with people they like, and nobody likes a pretender. Most people can spot a faker and will run in the other direction. Be yourself. Being authentic will leave a lasting impression and people will want to work with you.
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Craig Richey
NeverBlue
Facebook and other social networking sites are great traffic sources. Most allow you to target specific demos and user interests, and don’t just limit your traffic to the United States.
Internationally social network traffic is a huge opportunity with less competition and, in most cases, less restrictions on what campaigns you can promote.
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Dan Buontempone
GlobalizerNetwork
As an affiliate, don't fall victim to banner blindness.
See which offers are being promoted most on websites, social media sites, etc. If you keep seeing the same offer over and over again, it's likely to be a successful campaign. If a particular offer fits within your niche, or even if you feel like testing something new, visit a site such as Offervault to see which networks have the best rates and go from there!
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Divya Patel
Swish Marketing
With the current economic state budgeting is key. But remember, be realistic
yet flexible. A sensible budget allows you to spend on testing offers, but
allows you to save at the same time.
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Andrea Blass
IronOffers
most of these affiliate marketing tips are no huge secret to being successful. the only real thing you need to be successful is to be a committed hard worker.
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Sean Wagner
InfiniteTraffic
Be careful who you trust in life and in business.
Our industry is abundant with money hungry and short sighted individuals who often times will sell anyone and anything out to get a quick buck.
Make sure you know who you put your trust in when it comes to your business. After all it only takes 1 bad seed to ruin a good thing!
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Samantha Singer
Bloosky Interactive
Listen to your publishers' feedback.
When your publishers give you suggestions on how to make a campaign perform better, take those into consideration and see what you can do with them.
Not only will this help to build your relationship and credibility with those publishers, it will also keep you on your toes and give you insight into what works well and what doesn’t for others in the space.
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Eugen Ilie
LeadPile
Consistently communicate with your publishers regarding reporting and tools they would need to have available to make their advertising more successful. Depending on whether your publishers are posting leads to you or sending you direct traffic, allow them to have more transparency in terms of what's been purchased by your advertisers and why. The more information is sent out there, the better ROIs for all parties.
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Jenny Solodukha
Direct Agents
Keep an eye out for sites with user-generated content.
These would include review sites, forums, etc. Placements with these sites convert well and placing there is a great way to reach an audience interested in a particular product or service. The number of these sites in the affiliate space grows all the time.
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Christina Meono
Advertise.com
“March is here! Have you sent the March Madness creatives to your affiliates?
Stay on top of seasonal trends and keep your affiliates informed of what’s available to them; they will thank you.”
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Sam Sim
Guppy Media
Its certainly proven that if you make calls to follow up with your prospects, as opposed to generic email blasts or even personal mass emails, your close ratio will almost always be higher.
As we all know, sales is a two way relationship and must be carried out and engaged with a personal touch to have any effectiveness. No automated tool or functionality can ever replace a live human's voice on the other line :)
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Rick Ahuja
Affiliate Venture Group
To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be comfortable in
your decision-making.
This means you have to try to acquire as much knowledge as possible from a variety of sources, while surrounding yourself with experienced people whom you trust.
You want to be sure that if you need to know something, you
can get the answer quickly.
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Victoria Hansen
Qwik Media
"Beware the ides of March!
Not like Caesar should have been aware, but be aware that traffic will pick up.
There will be seasonal spikes from St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) and Easter (April 4th). You need to have those campaigns up before the ides of March are upon us."
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Lisa Galansky
W4.com
Don’t just stick to one offer - If an offer is working for you try others in the same vertical and see if they convert better for your data.
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Cydney Moora
XY7
How about something simple that I think we tend to forget...in work life and in our personal lives...Treat people how you want to be treated. It goes along way! :)
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