How to Be Successful at Affiliate Marketing

To day I will teach you How to Be Successful at Affiliate Marketing

Just like many other people affiliate marketing is how I have created a steady stream of income. There are many people that use affiliate marketing as a second source of income; I on the other hand can truly label myself as a full time internet marketer.

This has been a 6 year learning curve, but it has been worth every second . Internet marketing can be considered a “hit and miss” type of business. This is something that takes certain skills, mindsets, and a financial investment. The truth is most new affiliate marketers waste the majority of their start-up budget on things that don’t work and have proven to be unnecessary for their success.

Here are the most important things you need to know to be a successful affiliate marketer:

1. How to Generate Traffic

2. How to Choose the Best Offers to Promote

In order to make this clear I have to share my story. Being new at affiliate marketing, I put a lot of money into software and other products that promised me success that I never received. “Buy some my programs and…” Don’t get me wrong, I am not against people educating others on how to become affiliate marketers; I am doing the same thing. My issue is people getting away from the core principles that helped them become successful in affiliate marketing. If you do choose to spend money on a certain course, just make sure that it actually teaches things like SEO and other techniques to help you generate traffic to your links. Although we all like a good pep talk here and there, it’s not worth spending your money on. Ok back to the information you really want.

Getting the Traffic You Need

With affiliate marketing traffic is the life of your business. This is more important than what you’re selling. How is this true? It’s simple, a lot of times you make your money off the traffic and not always from the sale. Where can you generate traffic? There are things called organic searches, Google Ad Words, Email Marketing, YouTube and more. No matter what platform you choose, be an expert at it and learn all there is to learn.

How Do You Know What Offers to Promote

When you have a solid plan on what you are going to promote it will help you increase your success as an affiliate marketer. There are some products that will have a bad conversion rate no matter what you do. Pick products and offers that create solutions to people’s problems. This requires that you pay attention to the conversations people are having and the things they are complaining about. Finding products that create solutions to these problems are things you know are sure to sell.

So to recap the big secret to affiliate marketing success is to find out what the people need, and promote it by generating traffic. Traffic and a solid product equals affiliate success and the ability to carry my title as a full-time affiliate marketer.

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How to Be Successful at Affiliate Marketing

Marketing E-Mails Your Clients Want to Click

How do you stay out of your customers’ spam inbox and get your customers to click on your e-mails? A recent study by Constant Contact looked at more than 2.1 million customer e-mails that were sent to more than 100 recipients over a 13 week time span to find out which e-mails had the highest click-through rate.

Overall, e-mails with three or fewer images and about 20 lines of text tended to have the highest open rates among e-mail subscribers.

Evaluating by industry, Constant Contact researchers found that real estate professionals saw the highest click-through rates when their messages were limited to around 35 lines of text. Also, the e-mails that were specific to new listings tended to get the highest click-through rates.

Ron Cates, director of digital marketing education for Constant Contact, emphasizes that to get higher click-through rates, e-mails should be concise, to-the-point, accurate (avoid misleading readers by using words or jargon that don’t offer a clear representation of your message), and courteous.

“While every brand and business has their own ‘voice’ in terms of communication, the general rule of thumb is to keep it nice and friendly,” writes Nicole Leinbach Reyhle, author of “Retail 101: The Guide to Managing and Marketing Your Retail Business,” in an article for Forbes.com. “Sure, you can offer a sassy twist if that’s your style, but keeping it courteous is always in style, as well.”

Watching your click-through rates on your e-mails is important in judging the success of your campaigns.

“Click-through rates are perhaps the truest measurement of the quality of an email’s content and its effectiveness as a marketing tool,” Christopher M. Litster, senior vice president, sales and marketing at Constant Contact, told Forbes.com. “Regardless of industry or customer base, click-through rates convey how often you are able to get your e-mail subscribers to go where you want them to go and complete your call-to-action. This new research is a big step forward in helping small businesses craft e-mail content that will result in even more successful campaigns going forward.”

Marketing E-Mails Your Clients Want to Click

Build A Website and Get Your Feet Wet In Affiliate Marketing

Summary:

If you want to have a business online, you need to build a website. A website helps to promote your products, as well as, identifies you on the Internet. When I created my website, I went on the premise of “wanting to learn how to do it” as I experience the essence of building my business. I realize now, that even though I learned quite a bit, it did slow my progress down. Read on, I’ll tell you want I mean.

This article from The Online Master is about: how to build a website, how to get started in affiliate marketing, dos and don’t of website building

If you want to have a business online, you need to build a website. A website helps to promote your products, as well as, identifies you on the Internet. When I created my website, I went on the premise of “wanting to learn how to do it” as I experience the essence of building my business. I realize now, that even though I learned quite a bit, it did slow my progress down. Read on, I’ll tell you want I mean.

A Little History First

After attempting to do typing on the Internet — you’re right — my first newbie scam. It wasn’t a true scam, because I was paid. However, I put in long hours for very, very little pay. Does that read green, naive newbie all over it? Yes, I’m afraid it does. Needless to say, I gave that up and began looking for something that would give me a viable income — affiliate marketing was the answer. Thus, my adventure began.

Getting a Web host and Domain

Well, after much reading, I realized I needed to get a web host and a domain if I was looking for a long-haul attempt at making it in affiliate marketing. I found a pretty good web host, paid for my domain — And, now I was ready to build my website…

My first advise here is — If you are inexperienced in web construction and you want a quick presence online, I would go with a web host that has web tools which includes Site Studio. It saves you time, money and gets you up and moving quickly.

Building My Website

I decided to use FrontPage (with a dash of HTML) to create my website — in my first attempt. Well, my first attempt was beyond words — no one wanted to hurt my feelings — the website was beyond bad and the color was what I call Medicine Yellow. But I was still in the glow, and I must say, working

with blinders on. (This was my first mistake, my knowledge was limited — I should have utilized Site Studio that was available to me.)

Needless to say, my first attempt did not stay up long. I went back to work, restructuring my ugly site — my second attempt. I changed the color to a dark green with a base of gray. At the time it looked good, I thought. I actually got, “you’re improving” from a friend. But somehow, it looked, well –downtrodden.

Third restructuring came when — after a year, I came upon an article that stated, “if you are using Times Roman — even though it is easy to read, it reads amateur all over it.” My first internal thought was, “Crap, I’ve got to do my website over again.”

So, once again, I began restructuring my site. This time around, I decided to go with a lighter green for my website (just as well, I was going to have to change everything anyway), revamped by Google Ads (4 times), and changed the lettering to “Arial”.

By the way, it has been said that either “Georgia” or “Arial” are the two fonts that will give your website a professional look. And you know — they were right. After changing from “Times Roman” to “Arial” — it gave my website a cleaner and more professional look.

Color as well, is important to your website — it is part of your total presentation of your site to prospective visitors. How important is color — if they don’t like it, they are just a click away from removing your site from their vision.

After all the overhauling and tweaking of my website, I believe it is now presentable, brighter and personable to my visitors. However, I, as well as you, should realize that you are never done with your website. You should always be looking at ways to improve the appearance, products, and service available to your visitors.

Becoming An Affiliate

You cannot be an affiliate marketer without affiliate products. With that being said, you can start your journey as an affiliate marketer by looking at the following sites for items that fit your theme and of which you can make a commission.

Commission Junction

ClickBank

BeFree

Now, don’t be disappointed if some of the vendors turn you down in the beginning — after you have your website up for a while, you will find that some vendors will be dropping you an email and requesting that you sell their product for them. It’s flattering, however, be sure that you can blend it nicely into your website theme.

Getting Your Feet Wet

The water may be cold, tepid, or hot — it depends on your skill level when you begin your journey online (I believe my feet were in the cold phase when I started) — but you have to get your feet wet. Do your research, get all your ducks in a roll, and begin your journey. If you sit on the fence too long, you will never jump in.

Get what Internet tools you can, read all that you can, and stay positive, even if it means you have to step away from your computer for a day or two to regroup your thoughts.

As you can see from my experience, I jumped in, had some setbacks, some disappoints, but also some individual triumphs. The most important thing to remember is to close your mind to your own negative thoughts, and the negative words of those around you. Why? They can cripple you, and slow or even end your journey toward success.

If you know in your gut, that what you are doing will succeed — say nothing — just keep on keeping on. Soon, the naysayers will be saying something positive.

Build A Website and Get Your Feet Wet In Affiliate Marketing

Absolute Digital Media Publish Email Marketing Case Study

The case study reveals how Absolute Digital Media were able to increase the open rate of Luggage Superstore’s emails

The award-winning online marketing specialists at Absolute Digital Media are pleased to release a new case study of how they helped one client transform their email marketing campaign.

Offering one of the best selections of luggage online, Luggage Superstore has operated within the market for more than ninety years and is one of the most respected names in the industry. Already running successful SEO and affiliate marketing campaigns with Absolute Digital Media, the two parties began collaborating on their email campaign towards the end of 2014.

The case study reveals how Absolute Digital Media were able to increase the open rate of Luggage Superstore’s emails, increase their conversion rate by 23.7% and achieve a click through rate of 3.2%, substantially above the industry average of 1.9%. It also explains their methods for achieving this success and challenges they were presented with along the way.

Speaking about the campaign, Andy Steadman, Director at Luggage Superstore, offered the following comment:
“Since Absolute Digital Media took over our email marketing, we are pleased to report that they have been able to significantly improve the opening rates, delivery rate and conversions. We’re also really pleased to say there’s been a notable boost in sales.

“As with the SEO and affiliate campaigns, the correspondence with Absolute Digital Media has been excellent, and we look forward to working with them further.”

As well as the Absolute Digital Media website, the case study can also be found published on Figaro Case Study.

Absolute Digital Media is a full service fully integrated digital marketing agency, specialising in a range of services including SEO, PPC, social media engagement, content marketing and web design. Fusing market intelligence with creativity, their aim is to deliver digital campaigns that encourage engagement, focusing on clients unique selling points, seeking out which channels are most effective to communicate them and making sure that they reach the right people at the right time.

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Top 5 social media marketing trends to dominate 2015

Social media is present in many people’s everyday lives. In fact, there are many who cannot survive without it. Their first thought in the morning is to check the latest updates. This has led to a rise in the need for social media marketing. The following five are likely to dominate this coming year:

1. Ello

Ello is a new social media platform and looks set to go head to head with Facebook. It has deliberately taken a very anti-Facebook stance. It emphasizes the fact that it is ad free and that it will never sell its users details to another party. This new platform is currently by invite only. At present it may not offer the full level of tools that a Facebook user can enjoy but it is pushing an ethical stance far superior to Facebook’s. Despite this it has the potential to grow in 2015 and potentially mount a serious challenge to Facebook.

2. Facebook advertising

There’s no doubt that both the cost of this and the demand for this will increase during 2015. This has been a clever strategy on the part of Facebook. The continued weakening of the Facebook post has decreased its effectiveness as a marketing tool. Less posts available to users means that the demand for promoted posts and the ads that go on these pages will increase. This creates a bigger audience for these ads which will result in a bigger price tag and demand for one of these advertising spaces.

3. Twitter and business advertising

It is highly likely than many more businesses will join Twitter during 2015. This is because Twitter now offers much more control over how and what a business pays for in respect of their advertising. A new fee structure ensures businesses pay for performance based actions as opposed to clicks or re-tweets. This will be of particular benefit to the small business owner who can pay for results and not just to ensure brand awareness. The new campaigns will allow businesses to control re-tweets and replies, website clicks, conversions, app installs and new followers. It will be a much more powerful marketing tool.

4. Google+’s decline

Google+ offers nothing new compared to its main competitors – Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Its competitors are already firmly established in their respective niches and Google+ is already in decline. This has been aided by the departure of Google+ chief Vic Gunotra in the beginning part of 2015. In addition to this, Tech Crunch has declared Google+ to be the walking dead. It is quite likely that before the year is out Google+ will simply be seen as a platform and not a product. This will mark the end of its competition with social media sites.

5. Instagram

Founded in 2010 it has grown from strength to strength year after year. It now has 200 million visitors a month. It is the predominant market force when it comes to image based social media marketing. Research suggests that nearly half of the marketers surveyed intend to increase their use of this platform during 2015. Instagram does have competition in the video marketing arena from Vine but it is likely i 2015 that as additional efforts are put into this area of the market Instagram will make significant advances at the expense of Vine. Instagram has also introduced ‘in-feed marketing’. This allows marketers to target an audience based on age, gender and location. This will be of great interest to those who are attempting to capture the young, affluent consumer.

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Top 5 social media marketing trends to dominate 2015

Facebook messenger set to enable money transfers

Facebook messenger will soon make it possible to transfer money between users.

It will be possible for users to send money to family and friends through secure technology that will initially be rolled out to users in the US on the iOS, Android and desktop formats over the coming months.

Users will be able to send money through the service whenever they begin a new messenger conversation by tapping the $ icon, which will prompt them to enter the amount they want to pay and their credit or debit card details.

In order to retrieve money, users will need to open up conversations and tap the “add card” option. When their personal information is entered, money will be transferred instantly, but it could take between one and three working days for it to become available.

After the feature has been used once, people will have the option to add PIN protection to provide extra security for the next time they spend cash, meaning they will not need to re-enter their personal details.

In a blog post, Facebook explained: “These payment systems are kept in a secured environment that is separate from other parts of the Facebook network and that receive additional monitoring and control.

“A team of anti-fraud specialists monitor for suspicious purchase activity to help keep accounts safe.”

Facebook also emphasised that security is one of the top concerns for the team, stressing that the protection it uses will meet the highest security standards possible in the market.

Now that online banking has proven to be an effective way of managing money for many years, more and more companies are looking into online payment services. 

The technology could open up new doors for marketers looking to increase their revenue from social media and, in future, it will be interesting to see if Facebook takes the plunge into the retail market. 

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Web Metro Becomes Revana Digital

DENVER, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — TTEC, +0.24% today announced that WebMetro, a leading digital marketing agency acquired in 2013, will now be known as Revana Digital. WebMetro’s deep expertise in digital marketing, analytics, technology acquisition and results will now be directly embedded into Revana Growth Services’ award-winning, end-to-end sales and marketing platform to boost revenue growth and seamless customer experiences from search to sale.

“The customer journey today starts so far ahead of the brand interaction, and the possible touch points where businesses can make a difference are rapidly growing,” said Judi Hand, Revana Growth Services president and general manager. “Marketing and sales teams, more than ever before, need to work together to understand, reach and engage customers in the moments that matter, with the right message. That’s why we’ve turned to WebMetro, now Revana Digital, to complement our strong sales and customer experience results with the best of integrated digital marketing.”

“Working with Revana Growth Services was a natural progression for WebMetro, and has allowed our digital marketing expertise to thrive in an ecosystem that focuses on the entire customer journey, from search to sale, and beyond,” said Michael Behrens, senior vice president of eMarketing at WebMetro, now Revana Digital. “We’re now able to access and leverage much larger data sets to deliver more personalized customer experiences at more touch points, while also staying ahead of and experimenting with new channels and technologies with TeleTech.”

The announcement was made during the fourth annual Revana Growth Services Forum, where current and prospective customers gathered to hear about the latest customer experience, sales and marketing innovations and applications. This year’s speakers included Don Peppers, founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, and acclaimed author and expert on customer centricity, and Doc Searls, a prolific thought leader in business technology, journalist and published author.

Revana Growth Services is one of TeleTech’s fastest growing divisions, and was recently awarded several new Stevie® Awards for its outstanding sales performance, including a Gold award in Sales Growth Achievement of the Year category for its work with Intuit and support of their U.S. QuickBooks sales pipeline. For more information about Revana Growth Services or Revana Digital, visit www.revana.com.

ABOUT REVANA DIGITAL

Founded in 1995, Revana Digital (formerly WebMetro), named as one of the largest and fastest-growing U.S. search marketing agencies, provides digital marketing expertise in acquisition leading to results.  Competitive brands engage Revana Digital to create and implement successful integrated marketing strategies for increasing online market share, lowering acquisition costs, and penetrating new markets. The digital performance agency provides paid search, display, SEO and user engagement, as well as strategies including conversion rate optimization, social marketing/advertising, and email acquisition. Revana Digital is a wholly owned subsidiary of TeleTech Holdings, Inc. TTEC, +0.24% and a key part of TeleTech’s Customer Growth Services division, Revana. For more information about Revana Digital, please visit www.revanadigital.com.   

ABOUT REVANA GROWTH SERVICES

As a recognized leader in technology-enabled revenue generation solutions for over 20 years, Revana Growth Services helps top brands navigate and profit from contextual, in the moment customer engagement. Utilizing the latest technology and best practices, Revana Growth Services provides integrated sales and marketing solutions for digital demand generation, lead nurturing and qualification, acquisition sales, growth and retention, sales advisory services, sales and marketing analytics. Revana Growth Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of TeleTech Holdings, Inc. For additional information, visit www.revana.com.

ABOUT TELETECH

TeleTech is a leading global provider of customer experience, engagement and growth solutions.  Founded in 1982, the Company helps its clients acquire, retain and grow profitable customer relationships. Using customer-centric strategy, technology, processes and operations, TeleTech partners with business leadership across marketing, sales and customer care to design and deliver a simple, more human customer experience across every interaction channel. Servicing over 80 countries, TeleTech’s 46,000 employees live by a set of customer focused values that guide relationships with clients, their customers, and each other. To learn more about how TeleTech is bringing humanity to the customer experience visit TeleTech.com.

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B2B Marketing Automation Platforms 2015: New Market Intelligence Report

Our sister site Digital Marketing Depot has just published a new Market Intelligence Report, “B2B Marketing Automation Platforms 2015.”

You may have noticed the increasing number of options for automating marketing tasks such as landing page development, email marketing, lead nurturing, tracking website visitors and analyzing results. This 46-page report will help you navigate those choices and make a more informed decision about the current market of B2B marketing automation vendors.

This guide analyzes the current market for marketing automation platforms including the types of vendors serving the market and the capabilities available. If you are considering licensing a marketing automation platform, this guide will help you decide whether or not you need to. It provides recommended steps for evaluating which is best for your business and contains profiles of leading vendors.

Click here to download your copy.

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MailChimp: We helped feds foil spam scam

MailChimp, the fast-growing Atlanta email marketing company, unwittingly played a part in an international cybercrime that recently led to federal indictments against three men.

The company was among several whose legitimate services, prosecutors say, were used to send spam to millions of email addresses, occassionally luring recipients into paying for bogus products, such as fake security keys for software access to software suites (think: Adobe).

MailChimp helps customers reach large groups. The alleged schemers used addresses stolen from other such companies, along with sometimes bilked billing information, to set up customer accounts and transmit malicious email, said Valerie Warner Danin, MailChimp’s general counsel and privacy officer.

MailChimp is an Atlanta company that offers email services to clients that want to reach large audiences.

“To be clear, our system was not breached, no data loss occurred, and no servers or databases were compromised,” she said in a statement.

Warner Danin added that MailChimp, among other victim companies, helped the feds uncover the alleged scam after noticing supsicious activity. The scheme netted roughly $2 million dollars in ill-gotten gains, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta said this month.

Two of the men indicted — one described as a hacker and the other a skilled spammer — are Vietnamese but operated at some point from the Netherlands, according to the indictments. One has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud after being extradated to the United States. The other is a fugitive.

The third, a Canadian who helped on the financial end of the scheme, was recently arrested at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. He was arraigned earlier this month.

At least one other email service provider in Georgia got caught up in the deception, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. The indictment did not name any of them.

Warner Danin told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that MailChimp believes that between 2008 and March 2012 someone used its services to send spam to at least 2 million email addresses.

It worked something like this, according to both the indictment and Warner Danin:

First, tens of millions of email addresses were stolen from several companies — one of which was Texas email giant Epsilon, the blog KrebsOnSecurity recently reported — through phishing attacks against employees. They enabled one of the suspects to gain access to some of the companies’ computer systems and email addresses.

The crooks then started to send out spam. In the process, they created legitimate MailChimp accounts using convincing customer credentials, enabling them to send emails via the service.

“When we detected the illegal activity we stopped sending the emails immediately,” Warner Danin said in the statement. “The accounts in our system that these messages were sent from were either fraudulently created or taken over through the end user.”

Email service provider customers, such as auto makers or retailers, upload lists of email addresses they collect. The providers then send marketing emails on the clients’ behalf to tell customers about promotions or deals, and they are adept at making sure getting such messages past spam folders and into inboxes. The AJC uses MailChimp to distribute email newsletters on Georgia politics and Atlanta air travel to people who sign up for them.

Such a service can be valuable to retailers and consumers — but also enticing to spammers.

“When you think of an email service provider, people don’t automatically think that we have value. But the truth is: if you have a list of email addresses… then you have a market there,” Warner Danin told the AJC in an interview.

She cited the 2011 case in which Epsilon notified its customers — Kroger, Walgreens and Honda among them, according to KrebsOnSecurity — that hackers had stolen email lists.

About that time MailChimp tightened some of its security controls, providing its customers with text message and email security alerts, as well as multifactor authentication, among other such services, according to the cyber security blog NakedSecurity.

Warner Danin said spammers can easily fool consumers if they expect to get emails from a certain place they’ve shopped.

“If you hear (regularly) from a large company and you get an email from a large company, than maybe you aren’t checking the header, you aren’t checking the URL. If it’s close enough, you’ll click,” she said.

One reason MailChimp was able to help shut the scheme down, Warner Danin said, was its abuse prevention initiative, Omnivore. The system involves machine learning algorithms constantly churning through emails to gauge the likelihood that they are legitimate.

MailChimp also maintains an email genome project that evaluates new companies looking to send marketing emails as they sign up. Warner Danin said MailChimp has prevented hundreds of thousands of emails from being sent through both its computer tools and an internal review department that has final say on whether to block customers.

In 2013, after the indicted men’s alleged last attempt to use MailChimp, the company turned over its customer logs to law enforcement after they were subpoenaed, Warner Danin said.

“We’re obviously very glad that this investigation has brought some of these individuals to justice,” she said. “And, hopefully, it will indicate to people that these types of crimes have repercussions. That being said, sending spam is something that we’ll always have to deal with.”

MailChimp: We helped feds foil spam scam

Blogs helps in generating revenue for affiliate program

Summary:

Blogs are assumed to be the best business resource for making money online. Not only that many people have understood the concept of blogs and its benefits from business viewpoint.

This article from The Online Master is about: affiliates, affiliate marketing, credit card processing, affiliate program

Blogs are assumed to be the best business resource for making money online. Not only that many people have understood the concept of blogs and its benefits from business viewpoint. However, most people trying to make money from blogs are doing it wrong. For this reason, a lot of people fail to realize the money making prospective of blogging and write it off as another Internet trend. This belief is far from the truth.

For earning money through Blogs it’s essential to understand the power of Affiliate program and how an affiliate program can help us to generate revenue. Affiliate programs are one of the most important factors in making money with blogs.

There are two ways that you can generate revenues in Affiliate Program. Either you join an affiliate program or run your own affiliate program. You can sign up for an affiliate program directly or you can join through an Affiliate Program Provider (APP). APPs are a third party provider that collect payment and provide reporting for affiliate providers and their affiliates. AAPs are completely free to join and once you sign up you can promote e-books and other products immediately.

E-books are a natural tie-in to the blogging. When you blog, you are providing information and by offering AAP products you allow your readers to get even more information on the same topic.

After you’ve picked the topic of the blog (hopefully a profitable topic!), look to AAP for ebooks that you can sell as an affiliate.

The AAPs’ site has many helpful statistics that can assist you in determining which products are the most profitable. There are products listed in nine different categories to allow you to narrow down your search. Each product listed has a set of statistics underneath that give you information about the profitability of the product. There is a figure titled “[Earn %]” that lets you know how much an affiliate will receive from each sale.

The “$/earned per sale” cues you into the average amount that affiliates earned per sale. This is the net amount and includes any refunds that the ebook provider may have had to give out. The “% referred” reveals how many of the products were sold through affiliates. “Gravity” tells you how many affiliate have sold the product in the last 60 days. The higher the number, the better. Although you’ll want to avoid products that are flooded in the market, it is important to pick something that is selling well and selling consistently.

Using affiliate programs with Any AAP can be one of the fastest ways to make money through blogging. With a little planning, you can tap into the money making power of blogs and be on your way to Internet riches.

Blogs helps in generating revenue for affiliate program

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Why Marketers Shouldn't Be Seduced Into Using Believable Bots

Sex and advertising are usually a reliable mix. Unless, of course, you trick consumers into thinking they might have a chance of hooking up with your deceptive spokesbot masquerading as an online dater.

Willful indulgence in fantasy is one thing, but catfishing potential customers is another.

That’s what the new movie Ex Machina essentially did with a marketing campaign on Tinder, creating a fake profile with a photo of the film’s lovely Swedish star and messaging potential daters. The campaign was part of the movie’s South by Southwest debut in Austin.

After Adweek broke the story, the movie’s marketing effort garnered praise and quite a bit of criticism online. Some marketing experts raised concerns that it was the kind of idea that could take the industry down a dark path, and consumers would not want to come along for the ride.

“The consumer’s point of view seems to get lost here,” said ad veteran Tim Geogeghan, who has been both a creative director and marketing educator. “It’s creative, it’s clever, but take a step back and ask, ‘What do we want to leave people with?"”

He said it would be like tricking a consumer into thinking they were about to get a job opportunity, and then serving an ad for deodorant with some message about staying fresh under pressure.

Ex Machina is about robots and the ability to experience love, so the Tinder promotion did fit the theme. The 25-year-old woman in the profile began by messaging users with this: “Have you ever been in love?” And then continued with further robot-like comments about “humans” and attraction, before sending users to an Instagram page for the movie.

“While this was a great ploy to get people to view the ad for the premiere, it clearly would leave people irritated that they fell for that sort of trickery,” said Ken Wisnefski, CEO of WebiMax, a social media-marketing firm. “Honestly, if that was me who fell for that, I’d feel somewhat embarrassed and would in no way have any interest in going to the movie premiere because I would be irritated the marketing toyed with me.”

The studio that produced the movie, DNA Studios, did not return a request for comment.

On Tinder, daters make a match after they both swipe right on each other’s profiles, allowing them to text one another. Spam marketing has been a problem on the app, particularly from sex-peddling automated accounts that just match everyone and then send messages with links to spam sites.

Of course, Tinder is not alone in unwittingly hosting such tactics. Twitter has long been plagued by millions of fake marketing accounts, often bots, and newcomers like Kik combat similar spam messaging. Facebook, too, has waged an everlasting purge against fake fans.

The movie Ex Machina is simply the latest brand to set up a fake profile and go swiping for an audience. The Gap clothing brand has even set up a promotion on the platform, although it didn’t lead users to believe they were communicating with a potential soul mate.

Talking directly with consumers is an increasingly important component of social media management, and marketing on these new messaging platforms is still new territory. It was unclear if Tinder had any knowledge of the movie campaign before it ran, but in the case of Gap, it did not.

Tinder is still working out how advertising will appear, at least for users who choose the free tier of service. The company could not immediately be reached for comment.

Why Marketers Shouldn"t Be Seduced Into Using Believable Bots

Facebook (FB) to Enhance eCommerce Ads, Buys TheFind

Facebook, Inc. (FB - Analyst Report) recently reported that it has acquired online shopping search engine TheFind Inc., based in California. The financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed.

TheFind, launched in 2006, has become a popular search engine for shoppers as it offers personalized search results and recommendations for its users, acting as a bridge between people and products. Facebook intends to tap the potential of the booming e-commerce market by incorporating the capabilities of TheFind in its advertising service.

Facebook will be leveraging TheFind’s technological expertise to make its ads more relevant and in tune with user requirements while simultaneously cutting down on ads that are no longer relevant to users.

On the other hand, TheFind will benefit from the phenomenal exposure of the platform, which will enable it to scale up and drive growth. However, the TheFind website will be pulled off as per the deal.

The social media giant has been eyeing the e-commerce market for a while. However, the company’s prior attempts like Facebook gifts, tie-up with retailers and direct shopping endeavors have not been fruitful.

In fact, the e-commerce market is dominated by key players like Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN - Analyst Report), eBay Inc. (EBAY - Analyst Report) and more recently, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA - Analyst Report) is making itself felt. So adding to its existing capabilities to gradually edge into the space seems like a good idea.

This apart, Facebook has also launched a number of new features and applications for its platform. Launched last month, its Product Ads feature allows retailers and marketers to showcase their product catalogs to people efficiently. Facebook also launched a separate Ad manager app for iOS users.

Most recently, the company unveiled its latest tool called Topic Data which is designed to provide their marketing partners with more information about what their customers are talking about. This in turn will enable marketers to better advertise their products on Facebook and other channels.

The aforementioned acquisition will further boost Facebook’s ecommerce capabilities, supplementing its already-strong and growing advertising business.

In the last-reported fourth quarter results, the company’s advertising revenues soared 58% on a year over year basis to $3.7 billion. The growth was driven by increasing mobile engagement, higher number of marketers, continuing investment in new products and robust performance of its newsfeed ads. Furthermore, of the total advertising revenues, Mobile ad revenues surged 108% to $2.5 billion thus contributing around 69% of total ad revenues.

Recently, Facebook revealed that its active advertisers’ base achieved a milestone by crossing the 2 million mark. We believe that given the platform’s massive user base and access to personal information, the company is just getting started.

Though the news is a positive, it failed to impress this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company’s investors as shares slid 12 cents (0.15%) in the afterhours trading session on Friday. 

Facebook (FB) to Enhance eCommerce Ads, Buys TheFind

Avian hires consultants as part of £250k marketing push

Written by: Pádraig McGarrigle

Posted on: 16 March 2015. Tags: Avian Telecom, marketing, Simon Price

CofE partner also looking to recruit additional sales staff as part of drive to grow revenues

O2 Centre of Excellence partner Avian Telecom has hired two experienced telecoms marketeers as part of a £250,000 marketing push.

Paul Leonard, formerly head of commercial sponsorship at BT until 2006 and Simon Ingman who was BT’s head of brand and reputation until 2005, will head up the company’s in-house marketing team. They are being employed on an ongoing consultancy basis.

Avian says that it is looking to capitalise on an upturn in the economy and the rapidly expanding portfolio of telecoms services it is able to offer.

Avian Telecom sales director Simon Price also revealed that the company was recruiting for new sales people as part of their drive to increase sales.

“We’re also recruiting sales staff to capitalise on this upswing because we are determined to take a consolidated approach; ensuring we have the capability to capture and handle all the response that our marketing activity creates,” he said.

Avian hires consultants as part of £250k marketing push

Dating site eHarmony dumps net ads and courts TV viewers

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Dating site eHarmony dumps net ads and courts TV viewers

One Hundred Top PPC Management Companies Revealed in March 2015 by topseos.com

NAPLES, FL–(Marketwired – March 15, 2015) - The independent authority on online marketing services, topseos.com, has reported the 100 best pay per click management firms in the March 2015 edition of the ratings released online. Businesses searching for prominent pay per click management firms access the ratings at topseos.com. Each firm showcased within the ratings has been put through a meticulous evaluation to decide how well they perform compared to industry standards and competitors.

The One Hundred Best SEO Companies for March 2015 are:

1) JumpFly

2) Netmark

3) Disruptive Advertising

4) Lead To Conversion

5) 1SEO.com

6) HigherVisibility

7) Zero Company

8) Bruce Clay

9) Addion

10) Visibility & Conversions

11) Leverage Marketing

12) Relevant Response

13) Acquirgy Inc.

14) iProspect

15) Reputation Rhino

16) eMarketing Concepts

17) Acxiom Digital

18) Acronym Media

19) Reprise Media

20) Mediative

21) Shimmer Digital Media, LLC

22) Local Management

23) Razorfish

24) Morpheus Media

25) KeyRelevance

26) Optiem

27) SEER Interactive

28) Efficient Frontier Inc

29) RedFly Marketing

30) WebRanking

31) Internet Marketing Inc.

32) Spark Inbound Marketing

33) Netvantage Marketing

34) Marcel Media

35) 7strategy SEO & PPC Agency

36) Best Rank

37) Jenesys Group

38) Jellyfish

39) LoveClients

40) The DG Group

41) Avalaunch Media

42) Levert Marketing

43) Exults

44) Distilled

45) Geary LSF Group

46) .Com Marketing

47) 01webmarketing.com

48) 20/20 Creatives

49) 21st Century Technologies

50) 360Partners, LP

51) G3 GRoup

52) Hanapin Marketing

53) Resolution Media

54) Elliance

55) Softline Solutions

56) Search Influence

57) Accelerated Freelance

58) TargetClick Marketing Solutions

59) Fusion92

60) Titan SEO

61) Greybox Creative

62) adSage

63) 323 Ventures

64) Sebo Marketing

65) Evantage Consulting

66) Fathom

67) 540 SEO

68) SoVi Digital

69) 3Sixty Interactive

70) VisionPoint Marketing

71) Terrakon Marketing

72) Hit Exposure

73) eSearch Agency

74) Leadgenix

75) Ephricon Web Marketing

76) ROI Revolution

77) SEO Logic

78) UpWord Search Marketing

79) Search Placement

80) 15miles

81) Found Search Marketing

82) readyBUZZ

83) NetX

84) KBK Marketing

85) SDH Interactive Corp

86) RepuVision

87) Industrial Traffic

88) Perfexion

89) Reciprocal Consulting Inc

90) Qualified Impressions

91) A to Z Net Ventures

92) Flyline Search Marketing

93) ProspectMX

94) 003SEOCompany

95) Forward Digital

96) Exclusive Concepts

97) Target Logic

98) Adcore Technologies

99) Net Media Group

100) AJC IT Solutions

The topseos.com independent research team spends time analyzing PPC management services by taking an in-depth look at key strengths and competitive advantages of competing internet marketing services. The ratings are produced through the use of a set of evaluation verticals. The five verticals used to measure and compare services include campaign analysis, keyword selection, automation, create effective ads, and CPA minimization. Internet marketing services are put to the test to ensure the best services are featured to assist businesses in selecting the absolute best services to meet their specific needs.

ABOUT topseos.com

topseos.com is a well-known independent authority on search marketing. The central ambition of topseos.com is to identify and proclaim those individuals or firms supplying the top online marketing solutions all over the world. A specialized team of researchers examine thousands of applicants each month who are seeking to be ranked as a top online marketing product or service by the independent authority.

One Hundred Top PPC Management Companies Revealed in March 2015 by topseos.com

Golf course management problem evolves into problem solving business

SHREWSBURY — Andrew Langlois knows first-hand the difficulties small business owners face as they attempt to make sense of the all of their data.

As the manager of several golf courses in the area and chief operating officer for an irrigation supply company, Mr. Langlois, said realized that technology was the solution to improve efficiency. During the economic downturn, he shifted the company’s systems to the cloud, which enabled key employees to focus on the core business instead of managing hardware, software and servers.

That project ignited Mr. Langlois’ passion to assist other businesses. He launched his own company, Synergy Business Solutions, and its first product is Bizhelm, a concierge service tied to ShopKeep, a point-of-sale system for the iPad.

“I am a certified channel partner for ShopKeep,” Mr. Langlois said. “But what we do for our customers is we build the back end, so that when we go to do the installation, all of the stock is already loaded.”

The iPad or iPad mini functions as a register, and business owners can download their reports from the cloud to a laptop or desktop, Mr. Langlois said.

“There is a whole lot of functionality in the system,” he said. “It collects email addresses, and emails the receipt to customers, but it also stores the data so that business owners can do segmented, targeted marketing, which they can then leverage with social media.”

In addition to email marketing, ShopKeep’s functionality includes inventory management, hourly sales tracking and an employee time clock. Mr. Langlois said ShopKeep also connects to QuickBooks, the bookkeeping software used by many small businesses.

ShopKeep is already able to accept both ApplePay and microchip embedded cards, as well as those with magnetic stripes.

“Merchants are going to be required to accept the chip cards by October 1, 2015, so this gets them ready,” Mr. Langlois said. “The chip cards are designed to reduce fraud, which is disproportionately high in the United States. Credit card companies will put the fraud liability back onto merchants, who don’t accept the chip cards.”

Mr. Langlois said that he has been working with ShopKeep since 2011, but he has only been full time with Bizhelm since January 1.

“East Main Automotive in Northboro was one of my early adopters,” he said. “But now have I about 16 clients that stretch across the state from Pittsfield to Hingham, and Rhode Island.”

His clients include independent retailers, salons, spas, ice cream and quick serve restaurants, a vineyard and a country club.

“At the country club, we actually have multiple operations — a bowling alley and a pool — that use our system,” Mr. Langlois said.

Mr. Langlois said that while ShopKeep is available directly from the company, he provides customization services that make it completely ready-to-use.

“The opportunity I saw is that for every business owner who is comfortable ordering ShopKeep direct, there are ten more who want to have an in-person installation,” he said. “The majority of the tools ShopKeep offers are under-utilized, and we can deliver the product in such a way that it makes a business owner a marketing wizard, even if they weren’t before.

“Point of sale is a really critical piece of their business, and the better job we do for them, the better they do.”

Golf course management problem evolves into problem solving business