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Month: November 2012

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The 9 Most Important Copywriting Articles on Shock Marketer

Copywriting is the act of writing words that sell. I’ve found just by changing a paragraph, it can result in 2 to 4 times the sales. Some have found the difference can be 19.5 times more sales. How can you write these “magical” sentences? See some of my favorite copywriting articles: Overview: 93 Year Old Ad Gives You the Exact Formula to Write Amazing Copy – Using teasers, benefits, credibility, and “the push.” Follow this 1 Rule to Guarantee the Profitability of Any Campaign – All of your advertisements should keep this “equation” in mind C =…

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Best Ways Of Using SEO To Get Website Traffic

Search engine optimisation is the popular technique to enhance the website rank and visibility. Follow the on page and off page optimisation tactics to increase the traffic to the website. Some of the popular ways to improve traffic to the site are: Directories: In SEO directory submission plays an important role. It improves visibility and backlinks to the website. These directories will reflect your website in the popular search engines like Google, yahoo which boosts your ranking. Before submitting these manuals make sure that all the content is well optimised, check your email id, insertion of keyword in your …

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Why Do You Write?

Why do you write? Sounds like an odd question, doesn’t it? A couple of months ago, I’ve written an article here telling my readers why do I blog. I’ve asked them to share their reasons too and got great response and different reasons from bloggers on that. Today I thought to make it more interesting by asking you why do you write? Identifying the reason on why do you write has a big impact on how do you write and It can help you improve your …

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The Importance of Customer Service For Online Retailers

Great customer service leads to loyal customers which is a key element of customer retention. From my previous post on customer retention, you’ll know how extremely important this is to growing and building your business as profitably as you can. It’s easy to forget your online customers because you can’t physically ‘see’ them or interact …

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$70,000 in one week arbitraging traffic with Redirect.com

Some of you have been following my fb group, facebook postings, and twitter posts regarding the screen shots of my arbitraging traffic with this platform called www.Redirect.com started by the guys over at Media Breakaway aka Cpa Empire aka Affiliate.com. Now I been working with Scott Richter and the team over at www.Redirect.com on arbing traffic with them

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Trip Report: Leeds, Scotland, and Bangkok

    It’s been a month since leaving the US, and it is crazy how fast the month has gone by.  It has been fast, with lots of stories to tell and experiences to learn from.  I could write all day about each one, but instead, I will give a summary of my last month.

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So I’m Thinking About Attending ASW 2013…

I don’t attend conferences for a number of reasons, the top two being cost and the fact that I hate the actual "travelling" part (it’s a bit of a pain traveling from an island in Canada to the US). In fact, I’ve only ever been to one conference before, and that was BlogWorld way back in 2008, 4 years ago. It happened to be in Vegas, and I had an absolute awesome time – far better than I had expected. We ended up staying for 8 days, as it was our first time in Vegas …

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Using Sponsored Stories to Generate Blog Traffic

Facebook Ads are dead. That’s something I’ve been hearing from a few months now and while it may be getting harder and harder to get your affiliate campaigns approved, I have been seeing awesome results from Facebook Ad campaigns I have been running lately. You just need to be a little more creative and use the new features within Facebook Ads to your advantage. One example …

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Affiliate Summit East 2013 In Philadelphia – Save the Date.

The votes came in and after four years in NYC, the people chose Philadelphia for Affiliate Summit East 2013 on August 18-20, 2013. This will be the 24th Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit East to date (again!). Affiliate Summit East 2013 in Philadelphia On a personal note, although NYC is my hometown and I love it there, …

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Designers Love Using iPhones in Web Design, But They’re Wrong

As a designer, one thing I’ve noticed as a web-design trend lately is to feature Apple products in the design, primarily iPhones. While I understand that they are beautiful devices I don’t think they are as beneficial to a design as many may believe. While I do believe that showing shots of your application or site being used is fantastic because…

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Week In Review: College Football & Haters

This week in review covers quick paydays, exclusive pre-game football parties with Shoemoney, affiliate marketing investment and much more! “Ultimate College Football & Internet Marketing Experience“ – If you’re a college football fan and an Internet marketer, you’ll want to check this out. Doesn’t dinner with Shoemoney…

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Craigslist Becomes a Scammy Nightmare for NJ Flood Residents in Need

There are billions of dollars of money being flooded into New Jersey right with all of the insurance companies and FEMA making the rounds. Throw in auto insurances and every other way to make money with construction, contracting and scamming, you are sure to make a killing, be killed or play by the rules. Right now there is basically NO WHERE to find a place to live or rent 30-40 miles from the shore. Throw in pet ownership and you are really screwed. You can contact your local realtor, which we already have …

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Destination and Display URL Not Matching?

Okay…geeky blog post coming…you’ve been warned… The BlackHatters were interested earlier this week when we were searching for the term ‘cocktails’ in Google (don’t ask!) If you Google ‘cocktails’ you get the following SERP delivered… We were particularly interested in the Smirnoff ad… The display URL is www.youtube.com/Recipes but when you click on the Headline of the

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Try AdWords Express – Get Double Matching on Your First $125

This morning I was greeted by several emails from Google offering up to 2 free months of advertising on AdWords Express. So is that a good deal? What is AdWords Express exactly, how does it work with Adwords?  Try AdWords Express today, we’ll show you why. What Is AdWords Express Google touts the product as “the easiest way to start marketing your small business to customers online.” Upon closer inspection we see that AdWords Express differs from the regular AdWords platform in these key ways: Locally targeted by default Automated campaign…

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Facebook proposes data-sharing with Instagram, end to site governance voting

Facebook today proposed changes to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that will allow the company to share information with affiliates like Instagram and put an end to site governance voting, among other more minor changes. New language about “affiliates” has been added to the Data Use Policy to cover Facebook’s relationship with Instagram, which it acquired this year. The proposed policy reads: We may share information we receive with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Facebook is part of, or that become part of that group…

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Why *Joshua Rhodes* Is A Marketing Genius

Let’s be honest. If you’re in this industry and are ever on Facebook, you know of Joshua Rhodes. Yes, the one that *types* like THIS! Since some people don’t understand how truly genius this is, let me explain. In the midst of hundreds of affiliate/marketing Facebook groups, thousands of members of each group, and hundreds of thousands of posts floating around, how many people are actually making their name stick? Truth is, unless they’re a major blogger, affiliate network, or a very large publisher, not many. If you…

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An Early Gift to the Industry From POF. Click Here to Unwrap :)

We have decided to remove the “Previously Converted” targeting option because we thought that we could do better. It’s a very cool option, don’t get me wrong, but you guys deserve the best so here it is. Instead of targeting people who have converted on a global level, we are now offering the ability to EXCLUDE people who have already converted on YOUR stuff… at a CAMPAIGN level. This will allow you to no longer show your ads to someone once they’ve been tagged as a converter. In other words, you …

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Mobi Gold Secrets a Robert F Carrera Theft

UPDATE: Looks like the thief deleted his thread after he got called out. As most of the readers of this blog know, I have no interest in becoming a guru. I release all my training for FREE in the hopes that as affiliates become successful in mobile they will join my network or sign up to use our tracker. Thanks to a gentlemen from Warrior Forum it has come to my attention that someone decided it was a good idea to jack my copyrighted material and sell it without permission. http…

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Outkast At Affiliate Ball West 2012?

As you know I’m a big supporter of Affiliate Ball.  For this next one in Las Vegas they signed Outkast.  Yea yea, everyone is going to say way to go getting 90′s artists but If I recall, everyone had a blast with Nelly last year!  Here’s the official release: Affiliate Ball signs Big Boi of

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NDemand Affiliate Meetup in the Bahamas

I recently just got back from the Bahamas. It was an amazing experience to be on the islands, especially it being a just a bit cold in Atlanta. Last year I was at the NDemand Affiliate Meetup in Puerto Rico and it was a great experience to hang out privately with affiliates, especially big boss affiliates. This year was no different, Mike from NDemand did round 2 this year and held his event at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas. Just like last year…