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Building Your List through Joint Ventures
Posted by: | CommentsBuilding your list with joint ventures is the quickest and easiest way to build your list. I know, I’ve said it a thousand times, but I wouldn’t be harping about it if it didn’t work. After all, why go through all the effort of building your own list when you can hit on someone else’s?
Start Looking for a Partner on Marketing Forums
If you’re just getting started, you’d probably have to sell the family farm to make it to a marketing convention. That’s why marketing forums are good. It takes some work and some time, but if the conventions would break your bank, this is the place to go.
The first rule you need to know is to observe for awhile before you start making posts. You’ll want to get a feel for the place before saying anything. Warrior Forum isn’t too snarky, but you can sure bet that on Wicked Fire, you’re going to get negative comments, Rick-Rolled, or worse, if you just jump in and ask for advice, tools, or partnerships.
Building Your Brand in the Forums
With that in mind, you should be building your brand before you start talking about partnerships. No one is going to want to partner with a newbie. You have to Read More→
Sometimes a Failed Affiliate Marketing Campaign Can Be Useful
Posted by: | CommentsThe true key to success in anything, affiliate marketing included, is persistence. The cases of “instant success” are the ones where some lucky Joe just blunders into an open niche and gets stupidly rich are – in all likelihood – preceded by a string of failures. Nobody really gets it right the first time.
Even if you have been at it a while and had a lot of successes, you’re bound to eventually encounter a failed start. Even though you’ve spent all kinds of time and energy during research and development, you sell a dud. Every so often, duds waiting to happen will get through. As long as it wasn’t such a spectacular failure that you’re off to the poor house, you can get something from it.
An Example: A Blocked Affiliate Link
Let’s say, for example, that you create an affiliate link that a person can post in their blog. During the testing phase, it makes bank. Everyone gets excited about the idea, and you decide to sell this product. At first, everything goes well. The next thing you know, your customer support desk starts sending up complaints that the program doesn’t work. Eventually, you find out that the blog server is blocking your software.
Now, since you promised a money back guarantee, you find yourself having to pay everyone back. You try to save the project, but Read More→
Bing and Twitter are Getting Traffic to Your Website
Posted by: | CommentsBing, the website that’s being touted as Google’s staunch competitor, has given you a new tool for getting traffic to your website. There are also plans for doing a similar thing with Facebook. Do a Bing search for “Twitter,” and see what I’m talking about.
The First Thing You See In the Bing Search
Once you’ve done this Bing search, what’s the first thing you see? You see Tweets given by Twitter. What’s more, you may get to see mentions of other Twitter members and hyperlinks to Twitter Tools and exterior websites.
Interested yet? Now do a Bing search on Ashton Kutcher. Now you’re seeing pictures along with his Tweets. Now, are you excited? Hang on a minute, there’s one more thing you should do. Bing search yourself and see what happens.
Wait…I’m not On Top of the Search Page
You’ll see one of two things. Either your Tweets are at the top of the search page, or they aren’t. More than likely Read More→
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