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Affiliate Marketing Suffers in Video Game Season

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Game season... What? You know, the time of the year that all the best video games come out. Let's face it affiliate marketers play a lot of video games. Not all affiliate marketers, but an overwhelming percentage. Affiliate marketers say to themselves, "eh the campaign is on auto pilot, I'll pay some games today". I'm not saying this is completely flawed, if you are truly on autopilot then do whatever you want. But, how often are you really on auto pilot? There's not another … [Read more...]

Are you connected?

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No, I'm not talking about the mafia. And, no, I'm not really talking about who you know. I'm talking about socially. Social media. Are you connected socially? Do you know what my last Tweet was? Do you know what the last thing I liked on Facebook was? Did you know that I have an IMDB page? If not, then hello!? Where have you been. Why aren't you connected? Remember the old story about how the guy at the bar gave away all his best media buying sources? That's like … [Read more...]

Hard Sell vs Soft Sell

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A lot of affiliate marketers I know are all about the hard sell. Here's the typical mindset of the affiliate marketer: "How can I get someone to act NOW?" "How can I get someone to buy NOW?" While there is nothing wrong with trying to get someone to act NOW and buy NOW. There's also another approach to marketing. It's called the soft sell. It means that you're not trying as aggressively to get them to act NOW, this second and to buy this second. The soft sell is all about … [Read more...]

Free Pass To Affiliate Summit 2011

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First of all, congratulations to Mark for winning the Affiliate Summit pass from the Jonathan Volk webinar last night. I still have more passes to give away! I'm going to do a pingback, tweet & facebook contest, right now. Here's how to enter in the drawing being held on Monday: Link to this post on your blog or website and post the URL in the comments. Tweet this post. Link to this post via Facebook and post your FB URL. Digg this post and link to it in comments. So … [Read more...]

List Building Webinar Tonight

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I'm going to be teaching everyone about List Building tonight at 7PM EST. The webinar is with Jonathan Volk of JonathanVolk.com. I'll be presenting for about 50 minutes followed by a 10-15 minute Q&A session that Jonathan will orchestrate and field questions for me. Here's your chance to hear all about the REAL way of doing list building. I'm going to be giving a really solid foundation for you guys so you have the know-how to jump right into building lists. We'll follow that … [Read more...]

6 Mistakes That Most Companies And Marketers Do, Over And Over Again, part 1

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Sometimes when I consult with clients, I talk to their marketing and sales executives, and in many cases it always amazes me how incompetent people are when it comes to marketing, especially online marketing. Here are 3 (the other three will follow in my next post) of the most common mistakes marketers do, over and over again (sigh). 1.      Not knowing your demographic. I could write a book about all the clients I’ve consulted who’ve just put up a website, put a ton of cash into … [Read more...]

Wednesday Webinar on List Building

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This Wednesday I'm going to be doing a free webinar on List Building with Jonathan Volk. There are only 100 seats, so here's what you need to do to get into the webinar: Head over to JonathanVolk.com and sign up for his mailing list. A few hours before the event, he's going to mail out the registration link to that list. It's limited to the first 100 people, so get in there while you can. Speaking of events, if you are in or near Boston, I recommend you check this … [Read more...]

Daily Conversions to do live seminar in Boston!

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You guys asked for it, so we're doing it. We're going to be having a live seminar series, starting in Boston. The date is October 16, 2010. Register here. There are 100 seats available. They are going to go fast. All of our most guarded secrets are coming out. We're doing an early bird rate through October 1st, but there are limited seats at that price so get it while you can. http://dailyconversionsboston.eventbrite.com/ Check the link above for all the topics we'll be … [Read more...]

5 Free Silver Passes to Affiliate Summit West 2011

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I've been given 5 free silver passes to Affiliate Summit West 2011 at the Wynn Las Vegas on January 2011 (9th-11th). I'm creating a contest in order to give them out. Contest 3 ASW Silver Passes will be awarded to the top referrers of the free trial on List Playbook. In other words, refer your friends to sign up for a free 5 day trial and if you are amongst the top 3 in terms of referrals then you will get a free silver pass to ASW. Sign up here to get your own free List Playbook account … [Read more...]

Project Management Services

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How on earth do I keep track of everything? Project management services. Personally, I prefer the online stuff. So it doesn't matter if I'm on my desktop, laptop, iPhone or iPad. I'd also like to point out that I wasn't paid in any way to mention any of the services in this post. And, you'll notice no affiliate links as usual. OK, on to the recommendations. Google Groups I use this from time to time. It has all the features you need to stay in touch with your team. I would give … [Read more...]

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