Sponsorships Now Open for Performance Marketing Summit 2013
Sponsorship registration is now open for Performance Marketing Summit 2013, which is taking place March 12, 2013 in New York City. The one day conference will take place at the Baruch College Vertical Campus (site of Affiliate Summit Social Media in 2008 and the first Affiliate Summit in 2003). Space will be limited to 200 people, and there are very few sponsorships – only two companies will be able to have a table at the event. The Performance Marketing Summit is an Affiliate Summit event. BOOK A SPONSORSHIP
Last Call for 2013 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Nominations
The seventh annual Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards are going to be presented on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at Affiliate Summit West 2013, taking place at Caesars Palace Las Vegas. This will be right before the keynote address from Julie Clark, founder of The Baby Einstein Company. Nominations are being accepted for the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards through Friday, November 30, 2012. These awards recognize exceptional performance in affiliate marketing. This year, we are adding some new awards and dropping some others. Submit your nominations at Pinnacle Award Nomination. The post
Cyber Monday, Performance Marketing Summit Stuff, and @vinnyohare Becomes a Meme
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast (listen to the latest Affiliate Thing), Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about shopping on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, Amazon delivering groceries in Seattle, and big Christmas displays at houses. They also talked about speaking opportunities at Performance Marketing Summit, Vinny O’Hare pointing at stuff, affiliate marketing meetups, and expectations for Cyber Monday. Show Links Shop Online If You Love Your Family Christmas Light Display…
Submit Your Performance Marketing Summit 2013 Speaking Proposal
Speaking proposals for Performance Marketing Summit 2013, taking place March 12, 2013 in New York City, are now being accepted. The submission deadline is December 21, 2012. Any submissions after this date will not be considered. All sessions will be solo speakers that run 20 minutes. No panels. Accepted speakers will be notified no later than January 4, 2012. Due to the volume of submissions, we will not notify applicants if they have not been accepted. Therefore, if you have not been contacted by January 4, 2012, your …
Continued Growth for Rakuten LinkShare in Q3 2012
Rakuten LinkShare has reported significant growth throughout their network for the third quarter of 2012. Overall same store sales in the Rakuten LinkShare network in the U.S. increased by 36 percent year-over-year (YOY) for the third quarter. During the same period, the overall increase for online retail was 15 percent, according to comScore. The company also signed more than 125 brands in the third quarter in the US, UK, Canada and Japan. Additionally, the Rakuten LinkShare network in the UK experienced an increase of 28 percent year-over-year for overall same-store sales in Q3. This compares …
Use Word-of-Mouth Promotion to Boost Blog Traffic
This guest post is by Jeszlene Zhou of First Communication Job. I love the idea of using a blog as your personal hub, and how it creates a centralised space for all your social media sites, your portfolio, and more. Most bloggers and social media professionals promote a link to their blog or website, and shamelessly direct traffic towards their personal hub. Yet interestingly, they do not promote their personal hub via word-of-mouth in the “real world.” Here’s a true story. Over the past few months, I’…
5 Fatal Mistakes Your Paid Content Marketers *Are* Making (and How Much it’s Costing You)
Businesses wanting to reach users in more subtle ways are jumping on the blogging bandwagon. Well and truly. In a recent Australian study, 62{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} of respondents said “blogs are the most appealing medium for business to promote a brand.” If you’re in a business that’s paying an agency to create content on your behalf and place it on niche- and audience-appropriate sites around the web, you might be surprised to learn how far short your chosen agency is falling. As Content manager at Problogger.net, I see agency…
Become a Guest-post Ninja in 5 Steps
This guest post is by Timo Kiander ofProductive Superdad. There you are with a big smile, after slapping together another 400-word post. It took you 30 minutes to write, and now you are ready to submit it to some random blog. Although you didn’t really put your mind to the post, it got published anyway. Quite soon after this you start to wonder why you …
Are You Defining Your Niche Properly?
This guest post is by Charles Manfre of CodeConquest.com. When I started my blog, I made the mistake of not defining my niche well enough. In fact, I defined it with one word: “coding.” Defining the niche my blog targeted with one word was never going to be enough. Perhaps for the pioneers of the internet it was okay, but in this day and age, with millions of websites in the competition, you need more than a one-word topic name for a niche. I can’t emphasize how important it is to define your…
Blog Design for ROI Rule 2: Highlight Your Key Content
This guest post is by Gab Goldenberg, author of The Advanced SEO Book. Previously in the Blog Design for ROI series, I discussed the importance of prioritizing your email optin form within your page layout. The next best use of space in your design is to highlight your key content. Why does highlighting your key content matter? There are a few reasons why this is important. …
How to Target 25-40 Year-olds Online
This guest post us by Genevieve Flintham of www.stagweb.co.uk. Pictures of the day’s events, winter landscapes, and memorable quotes. Titles laden with puns, facts, and intrigue. An architectural layout that’s accomplished, savvy, and uncomplicated. Each target group demands a different set of things when it comes to websites and blogs, but in this instance we’re going to look purely at users aged between 25 and 40. This is my target market. With ten years of experience …
Can You REALLY Make Money Blogging? 7 Things I Know About Making Money from Blogging
Every now and again I am pulled aside at a conference or am emailed and/or tweeted by someone wanting to get the “real” scoop on whether it is possible to make money blogging. Is it really possible to make a living from blogging? Is it just a small number of people making money from blogging? Is it only really possible to make money blogging if you write about the topic of making money blogging? I completely understand the questions and would probably want to add…
All ProBlogger Ebooks Are $10 for the Next 10 Days Only
Today is my tenth anniversary of starting blogging and to celebrate I’m offering all ProBlogger ebooks at just $10 each—that’s a 50-90{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} saving on their normal price. 10 Years of Blogging Ten years ago when I hit Publish on my first blog post, I could never imagined how that moment would change my life. Having read my first blog only minutes before I spontaneously decided to give it a go myself—registered a Blogspot blog and quickly wrote my first post. In that moment…
How to Establish the Right Priorities to Grow Your Blog and Profits
This guest post is by Nathalie Lussier of The Website Checkup Tool. Here’s a harsh nugget of truth for you. Once you get this, your blog will not only take off, it will become way more profitable. Are you ready for it? Here it is: You don’t need more how-to’s or to-do’s… You need priorities. As bloggers and business owners, we’re constantly introduced to cool new tricks, …
How to Publish Your Blog on Amazon Kindle
This guest post is by Ali Abbas of thenextgenwriter.com. Have you published your blog on Kindle? If not, you should do it, pronto! It’s easy, it’s productive and it’s free. We’re not talking about publishing ebooks or PDFs, but your dynamic and regularly updated blog. Rather surprisingly, not a lot of bloggers have considered this option hitherto, but some…
Holy crap and nice to be back
Last thursday I checked out of the hotel I was staying in for SES.. Met my friend Michael Sprouse for lunch, then checked into a new hotel where my wife was going to join me through Sunday. I got settled in my room… about to take a 2 pm call and pull out my computer from my laptop… Where was …
Too White Crew hip hop group is awesome
Last saturday night in Chicago my wife and I got to hook up with some of my high school friends. We went to the Cubby Bear to see this group called Too White Crew. They perform all 90′s rap/hip hop. They were awesome and hilarious. Their attire was very spot on for the genre. Here is some video of them: if (typeof jQuery == ‘undefined’) document.write(‘</sc’+’ript>’); .mejs-inner img max-width:100{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4}; max-height:100{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4}; margin:0 ; padding:0 .mejs-overlay-button, .mejs-overlay-loading…
Info on the hottest party during ASW
Just when you think networks are done blowing it out, here comes a crazy party during Affiliate Summit West 2013. Mundo Media is throwing a huge bash at the Penthouse in the Cosmopolitan Hotel on January 14th, 2013. The event is a Candyland-themed party and it will be stacked with alcohol and local talent. What …
SpyFu’s New Word Split Testing Tool (FREE)
A couple weeks ago I talked about how I got beta access SpyFu’s tool and it showed me that the word “demo” beat out “free demo” and “contact us” on our PAR Program website. So after split testing it… it was indeed right on the money with 30{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} more clicks. They have now opened the tool up for free. Here is a Video
Free Shirt Friday – Boresha Skinny Magic
The world’s ONLY fat-burning coffee & tea? Well thats pretty damn cool id say… B Skinny Magic actually sent us a bunch of free samples to try out around the office and I will say it does taste pretty good. If you would like to see your website or company featured on Free Shirt Friday click here. Looking for an SEO service that won’t get you banned?