This post could also be titled “which is better, chocolate, vanilla, or Neapolitan?” I’ve found a lot of people looking for a true answer to the question of which is better natural search or ppc for affiliate marketing. I think the answer lies in the model that you take. Here’s some food for thought. For [...]

Do you have a list where you can collect emails? Do you send out monthly newsletters? If not, you’re missing a big opportunity.  Email lists can remind people to return to your site, as well as help you to upsell new products to an already satisfied customer.  Just think about it this way – if [...]

In case you haven’t seen the headlines, Verizon just won a 33 million dollar lawsuit against OnlineNic for registering trademarked domain names – according to articles published on the web, these include – myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com and around a million others relating to all kinds of popular brand names.  For those of you who think this [...]

Did you ever hear someone say “write what you know”? The same techniques work best for affiliate marketing.  It’s easiest to write sticky, convincing content when you care about what you’re selling.  Much easier than, say, selling something that you’re trying to sell because it’s a good “google” word.  Think of it this way.  There [...]

When we think of comparison shopping sites, we usually think of mega sites like pricerunner.com that let people review and compare.  However, a comparison site doesn’t have to be a mega site.  Think of it this way – how can you present the best of 4 options? Who’s better netflix or blockbuster? Which ebook gives [...]

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It’s Christmas time and everyone is scurrying to make the best of the 4th quarter.  For those of you who don’t know, all retail “profits” are made in the 4th quarter.  That is to say that most stores operate in the red until black friday, when the borrowing stops and sales are made for the [...]

Jeremy Palmer’s  Quit your Day Job guide to performance marketing is now a free download.  Go get it off the presses while it’s still hot. This is probably one of the best guides to PPC that I’ve read, although I must admit that it’s not 100% complete. Jeremy takes you so far, but he leaves some of [...]

Today I was wading through a list of new publishers for an advertiser’s program that I oversee, and I was amused to find that someone wrote that their site incentive was – and I quote –  ”I give you kiss if I make sale.” Someone else preceded to enlighten me that Travelocity and Office Max [...]

I open up my inbox occasionally and read the emails from CJ.com that say something like so-and-so advertiser is no longer in the program or has deleted you from their program and I immediately hit the delete button. After all, I didn’t really want to promote that guy anyway, never really managed to make that [...]