the newspaper: September 13, 2014

September 13, 2014

Blogging Tips - Increase Traffic and Engagement with Facebook Contests Facebook contests are often talked about, but many blogs and brands still have yet to actually set up their first promotion. The good news is that Facebook is still growing by thousands of new users every minute, so never think that it’s too late for you to jump right in! With the holidays an...

affilorama - 3 Social Media Tools You Should be Using to Improve Your Social Traffic Where do you go to see what your friends are up to? Where do you go to find out the latest interesting news? Heck, where do you go to find out if people are officially in a relationship? I’m talking about social media.  If you think it’s not important, think again. Check out the in...

ViperChill - SEO and the Stock Market: How to Profit from Google Penalties We all know that Google updates can be highly frustrating, especially when Google are never forthcoming about exactly what changed and what you can do about it if you feel you were unfairly penalised. For some though, Google changes can slice millions of dollars off the valuation of your company. Wh...

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Smart Passive Income - The #1 Skill All Bloggers and Entrepreneurs Should Learn. I Tried…and Here's What Happened. I've been consuming a lot of information lately, but this ONE SKILL I just learned is going to have a dramatic effect on all aspects of my life - business and personal. Here's what it is, and the free YouTube video I watched that taught it to me. The #1 Skill All Bloggers and Entrepreneurs Should Le...

Mike Chiasson - Fail Campaign Friday: Local Town T-Shirts Every few months on the Aff Playbook forums we do a really fun Follow Along contest where a goal is set and people will tackle that goal and post their results. Typically its pretty generic but like “Facebook Campaigns” or “Pay Per Call Campaigns” etc. A few months back we ha...

PPC Hero - These 3 Ethical Advertising Notions are Archaic

HubSpot - The Essential Pre-Conference Packing and Preparation List I just got out of a meeting where our #INBOUND14 event leader told us to remember to bring a bunch of stuff to the BCEC next week (we're having out big annual conference -- if you still want tickets, they're available 'til Sunday!) ...

AWeber - Converting Facebook "Likes" Into Subscribers If you were one of the brands that scrambled a few years ago to obtain the sacred Facebook “Like” from as many fans as possible, it’s okay. You weren’t the only one. At the time, it was the most valuable social currency around. But ask yourself this: Now that you have all of ...

AffiliateTip - How Jason Calacanis Helped Our Business I’ve been following what Jason Calacanis has had to say since he was publishing the Silicon Alley Reporter back in the 90’s. Back in February 2008, Jason was a keynote at Affiliate Summit West 2008, and it was a privilege to have him up on the stage. Anyhow, shortly after that he wrote a...

John Chow - List Building Webinar Encore Presentation Did you miss my webinar on list building last night? Fear not. We’re doing an encore tomorrow (Saturday September 13) at: 12PM Pacific 1PM Mountain 2PM Central 3PM Eastern My guest on the webinar will be Tim Paige. For those […]...

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the newspaper: September 12, 2014

September 12, 2014

ConversionXL - Why Keyword Themes +Modified Broad Match = Winning PPC Strategy Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. So let’s talk about how to do that for real, shall we. By combining Ad Group theming and Modified Broad keywords, you can create targeting that rewards you with qualified tr...

Charles Ngo - Make More Money with Faster Implementation photo credit: Two Big Paws via photopin cc When affiliate marketers launch a campaign, they only care about the bottom line – the profit. Although profit is always the goal, I also work on improving my operational efficiency. One way of doing that is focusing on the speed of implementation...

Gauher Chaudhry - Launching A Profit-Generating Affiliate Program Sometime back I had the pleasure of recording an interview with marketing legend Marlon Sanders who runs a very successful affiliate program. Marlon is one of the early Internet marketing trainers and I have been following him since the mid 1990’s. I brought Marlon onto the interview to share ...

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PPC.bz - Affiliate Summit 2014 – You Should Go to the Vegas ASW in 2015 For…reasons, I didn’t want to post this at the time of writing. Days turn into weeks then weeks turn into months…and here we are. If you learn anything from this post, Affiliate Summit West is a great event for affiliate marketers! Another year, another drunken trip to Vegas. If yo...

JayKnowsCash - Let me change your life today! People ask me all the time what I would do if I had to start all over again and there simply is no magic bullet, but i have an answer for you! The answer is taking action. Massive action in no matter what you do. In our adult affiliate marketing world, the plan is almost …The post Let me chang...

Backlinko - Viral Marketing Case Study: How a Brand New Blog Generated 17,584 Visitors In One Day Today I’m going to show you how one entrepreneur used The Skyscraper Technique to generate 17,584 unique visitors to a brand new blog. In one day. Oh, and he accomplished this despite having: Zero connections. Zero Twitter followers. Zero marketing budget. In this case study I’ll walk yo...

Ring Partner - Succeeding with PPV Marketing in 2014 – Webinar Recording David Ford, owner of AffPlayBook, talks about PPV marketing in 2014. Learn what works, how to get started, and how to discover niches for PPV marketing. We discuss several topics related to PPV marketing and how to get started. David explains the opportunities within PPV and how publishers can use t...

Marketing Experiments - Website Optimization: Testing your navigation Testing for websites often focuses on pages, such as homepages and landing pages, that can show immediate results in metrics like conversion or bounce rate. One potentially overlooked aspect for website testing is the site's navigation. Read on for some testing opportunities you can experiment wit...

Inside Facebook - What can marketers learn from Facebook's Audience Insights? The value of social has always been reaching consumers in a unique environment where they are deeply engaged and generating a meaningful conversation between those engagers and a brand. To do this well, we have to deeply......

PPC Hero - Get Proactive And Reactive With Your Keyword Research

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the newspaper: September 11, 2014

September 11, 2014

John Chow - 7 Things Internet Marketers Can Learn from the iPhone 6 By now, you’ve surely heard about the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Positive or negative, these new smartphones have very much become the talk of the town and you can’t flip over a Facebook rock without discovering another […]...

PPC Hero - Morning Clicks: Facebook becoming a Threat to YouTube? Twitter Becoming a Store?

Blogging Tips - How to Boost Your Email Subscribers? Tip #2 List building and email marketing had been one of the hot topics in the past few years. People are starting to see the benefits of getting their visitors, keeping them and increasing the trust factor to easily sell their products, not once, but multiple times. It was even reported that the return on...

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OfferVault Scoop - ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – What your business can learn from Sarah Palin The "Holy Grail" of any marketing campaign is being able to create viral meme's on demand. So it is no wonder that when an idea like "planking" or the guy that raised thousands of dollars to make potato salad takes root, marketers start writing opinions about what we can learn by studying ...

HubSpot - The Elements of a Compelling Sales Story This post originally appeared on the Sales section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. Story time isn’t just for kids. In my analysis, top sales reps use stories at almost every stage of a deal -- clarifyi...

AWeber - How To Put Testimonials To Work For Your Business Consumer testimonials. You either love them or hate them. But regardless of how you feel as a business owner, they have become an integral part of our everyday decision-making. In the mood to try a new restaurant? You turn to sites like Yelp! to read reviews. Searching for a new doctor? You make an ...

ConversionVoodoo - Voodoo Alerts Launches New "Is My Site Broken?" Tool Cool Free Tool: Is My Site Broken by Voodoo Alerts Voodoo Alerts has launched a cool free tool that accurately and quickly checks any website for breakages, browser incompatibility, and many more factors that commonly cause poor user experience and failed conversions. This great free website check t...

Missy Ward - Succeed in Spite of Your Disability – An ADHD'ers Guide to Getting Ahead What do Sir Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Airlines), Paul Orfalea (founder of Kinkos), David Neeleman (founder of JetBlue Airways), and Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA) have in common? Well, besides the undisputed... more →...

PPC.org - Ralph Lauren – Analyse A Real PPC Campaign The last article in the ‘Analyse A Real PPC Campaign’ series had a look at Fitbug who had, what can be seen as, a very disappointing PPC campaign that had an advert in the wrong format and a landing page that lacks the ability to gain a high percentage of conversions from PPC traffic (fo...

Copyblogger - Why You Must Not Ignore The Call to Adventure The following is an excerpt from Chris Guillebeau’s new book, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life. In ancient myths, most quests were ones of discovery or confrontation. A kingdom was under siege, so it required defending. A minotaur in a faraway la...

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the newspaper: September 10, 2014

September 10, 2014

Internet Codex - SEOs Don't Do Affiliate Marketing & Most SEOs Are Depressingly Broke In a 2014 Industry Survey BrightLocal.com quantified some key metrics about local Search Engine Optimization providers that actually sheds light on something that nearly all affiliate marketing professionals already knew: 1. Most SEOs are broke. 2. Most SEOs are totally clueless when it comes to af...

Copyblogger - 5 Ways Listening to Community Data Can Expand Your Content Marketing Strategy When talking about content marketing, discussions often focus on decisions about topics, headlines, platforms, and distribution. But how much do you consider the data that supports these decisions? I’m not talking about demographics, like age, gender, or location — although those matter,...

HubSpot - 45 Tweetable Quotes About Creativity to Inspire Your Next Big Idea Though people know that creativity can help them get ahead in business, creativity often feels elusive. Maybe they don't know how; maybe they don't allow themselves the time or freedom; maybe they just feel stuck. Regardless, it often isn't part of peop...

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AffiliateTip - Vote for Affiliate Summit West 2015 Sessions Affiliate Summit needs your help to pick sessions for Affiliate Summit West 2015. Voting will be open through September 19, 2014. The speaker proposals have been pared down to the titles, speakers, descriptions, and classifications (experience level, target audience, and main subject). Vote for subm...

PPC Hero - How Callout Extensions Helped Increase CTR by 221%

KJ Rocker - Clickganic advertising platform raises $300K from Clickky and a business-angel Backed by WannaBiz business-incubator, Clickganic advertising platform has raised $300K from a business-angel Eugene Medvednikov, and an advertising company – Clickky, for a minority stake in the project. Clickganic is an advertising platform, that helps increase publishers' revenues, servin...

John Chow - The Two Most Valuable Aspects of Making Money Online (Hint: It's Not the Money) There are many reasons why you may be interested in becoming an Internet marketer or an online entrepreneur. Perhaps you’ve gotten tired of being at the mercy of your boss for forty (or more!) hours a week, every week. Maybe […]...

Malan Darras - Anxiety Is A Multi-Headed Monster I talk to a few of my newsletter subscribers on a regular basis. I was recently talking with someone who, like many people has been dealing with huge amounts of anxiety for the last few years about not having enough money. He’s been busting his ass to learn affiliate marketing and with a lot...

Adotas - Digital Advertising for Political Campaigns: The Political Playground of Dynamic Creative Most political campaigns still infiltrate the TV airwaves with ads in the run-up to primaries and general elections. TV ads serve an important purpose, but there's nothing that screams "old school" like a TV ad.  Political campaigners have fortunately converted to the power of digital adverti...

Zac Johnson - ROTE 032: Oliver Roup Wants to Make Every Link Intelligent and Valuable Imagine how many web sites and blogs there are in the world that link to products and services directly, with no affiliate link in place.... The post ROTE 032: Oliver Roup Wants to Make Every Link Intelligent and Valuable appeared first on Zac Johnson. ...

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the newspaper: September 9, 2014

September 9, 2014

PPC Hero - Landing Page Games: Science vs Magic [New Landing Page Critique Webinar!]

John Chow - How To Get Your New Blog Ranked On Google In 24 Hours Yesterday, I announced the launch of Traffic Masters Academy, a new traffic generation course created by a group of successful Internet marketers (I created the blog traffic module). Since then, I have received quite a few emails asking to see […]...

Tyler Cruz - The Easiest Way to Watch Netflix Outside of The United States! Disclaimer: The following is a "paid plug" and was not written by me, but by the advertiser themselves. If you're interested in purchasing a paid plug, please visit my advertising page. I've decided to arrange with Tyler Cruz a guest post to help people unblock online services, so you can ac...

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Adotas - Five Things a CMO Should Know, But Often Doesn't You put in your time, worked hard and you're now a CMO. Good for you, now get to work. No, seriously, get to work! Your plate is already full.  Back in the day a CMO was responsible for things like brand identity, brand awareness and corporate marketing, but today's CMO is responsible for a gre...

WhatRunsWhere - 5 Questions To Ask Before Making The Mobile Jump If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? We've all heard the question before and the same logic applies now – but with Mobile Marketing. Everyone who hasn't been living under a digital rock knows how big of a deal Mobile Marketing is in 2014.  We no longer live in […...

Marketing Experiments - Email Marketing: 3 resources to help you optimize your next campaign Optimizing to improve your email marketing efforts can be a little overwhelming when you consider all of the moving pieces involved. Read on for three resources to help you optimize your email marketing program. ...

ViperChill - 72 Hours Only: How to Become a Podcast Millionaire I recently did something I’ve never done before: Whipped out my credit card in the middle of a packed club and punched my digits into an order form to purchase a WordPress plugin. It’s a plugin that has totally transformed how I look at publishing information online and something I expec...

ConversionVoodoo - 6 A/B Testing Mistakes You're Making A/B testing is the best way to find out how you can mold your website to optimize conversions. However, it does not guarantee better numbers for your business. If you go about A/B testing incorrectly, your efforts could amount to striking the air—leaving you frustrated, tired, and with nothing to...

Ring Partner - 3 Pay Per Call Marketing Myths Pay per call marketing is a vital tool that can help any business, regardless of its size, spread the word about its brand, product, or service, while driving business and improving return-on-investment for marketing dollars. However, there are a lot of myths floating around about pay per call and ...

HubSpot - 6 Costly Landing Page Mistakes That Are Easy to Fix Imagine travelling all the way to the INBOUND 2014 conference and forgetting to exchange business cards with all the people you met. You’d be kicking yourself, right? You would’ve had jovial conversations with a bunch of interesting people and pr...

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