Infolinks 2012 Publisher Review – In-Text Advertising
For the last few weeks, I have been using Infolinks and in-text advertising to monetize my website. With what you could call an ‘upbringing’ in blogging where I learnt the best and only way to make money from blogging is through Adsense, I was interested to try out other forms of advertising: inparticularly in-text. I have always heard of great stories about in-text advertising gaining great click through percentages which ultimately means the blogger will make more money. However, the …
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 …
A Few Ways PPC Can Improve
When you look on the internet for articles based on the publisher or advertiser side to PPC, you will most likely fall upon an article about tips, tricks and helpful information. I want to make this article different from the typical informative article. Just like with everything, nothing is perfect. As much as pay per click advertising has revolutionised the way we look at advertising in general, it will and does still have its flaws. For this reason, below are, what I feel, some flaws of PPC which programs such as Adwords and Adsense can improve upon. Publisher…
PPC Account Review – What Not To Do In Your PPC Account
In this post I will go through a live account review – what not to do in your PPC account that I’m working on. I’m working on a screensaver account today. I’m doing this for a friend and I’m not going to give away what their company name is. When I do FREE work on an account, most of the time I will blog about it as to have fun with the account and give real…
Affiliate Marketing Success Tips
Affiliate marketing can be termed as the performance-based marketing which includes the business records, the industries mainly has the four important branches that is the merchant it is also known as retailer, the network that provides offer, the publisher and the most important customer. Affiliate marketing is somewhat just like Internet marketing. It includes the advertising methods that are used for the promotion. Search engine optimisation is also included in this affiliate marketing, paid per click service and also the E mail marketing. …
How to Setup a Remarketing Campaign If you Failed The First Time Out
This article is going to teach you how to set up a remarketing campaign. Perhaps you have already tried to market your product or service on websites like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Did your marketing campaign fail? Did you end up spending a $100.00 of your hard earned money to only find out that you got $0 in sales? This is not uncommon. Did you know that 95{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} of online e-marketers fail the…
The Rise of the Content Marketing Moron
In case you didn’t hear, there’s a new craze in town. It’s called Content Marketing. There’s a serial site-killing Google Penguin on the loose, and he seems to be eating bad SEOs for breakfast. Many of those bad SEOs have been reincarnated as bad Content Marketers. It goes like this: Stage 1: “Hmm, I sure would love to rank highly on Google. It&#…
Good to Great Copywriting in 24 Hours
David Ogilvy, the godfather of advertising once wrote, “Never send a memo or a letter on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning – and then edit it.” David Ogilvy: One of the greatest ‘Mad Men’ that ever lived. We may have abandoned the…
These 5 Moonlighting Tips Will Rescue Your Sanity
The fastest way to change career is to quit one job and start another. If you intend to work for yourself – and have no prior experience – this path is also stupendously reckless. The smartest way is to moonlight. Moonlighting — v. The act of balancing one job on top of another, often in the dirtiest recess of the night while mere mortals are sleeping. Many Internet Marketers grow in to their jobs by slowly increasing their online earnings until they can afford to work without…
How to Become a Guru (and Dominate Any Market!)
Anybody can be a Guru on the Internet. And unfortunately, nearly everybody tries. The Internet Guru has become a caricature figure tainted by laughable self-promotion, boundless ego and really poor end product. Some of the ill-sentiment is driven by jealousy, and most of it is entirely justified. It’s depressing for a new blogger to commit blood, sweat and tears to a project and still only reap 14 hits per day while a bumbling Super Personality typos his way to the next million. If you are moving in to a new …
A Memorable September
September has been one of the more memorable months of the year, and to a certain degree, my life. I started the month by getting engaged. Pop culture suggests that ‘if you like it then you should put a ring on it‘. Well, I like her. So I tried to put a ring…
Neuromarketing: Social Proofing on Landing Pages (Part 1)
Neuromarketing is one of those buzz terms used to describe a recent infatuation with new technology. It’s promise is simple. Consumers make buying decisions based on unconscious factors that are out of their control. The purpose of neuromarketing is to anticipate unconscious reactions and provide the ultimate sales platform: an emotional and logical boot in the direction of your checkout cart. It is a study driven by the emerging field of neuro web design. When I look at the challenges facing web designers in 2012, I’m grateful that I never …
Neuromarketing: The Weapons of Mass Conversion (Part 2)
Note: This is the second of a two-part series on Neuromarketing. Read the first part here. Previously we looked at how social proof can lead to more conversions, more sales and more money in your bank account. Social proof is a cornerstone of neuromarketing. But it’s not the only child. In this post, we’re going to look at three of the most powerful selling techniques known to man…
Change of Plans: I’m Moving to America
By now, you are surely familiar with Finch’s twice-a-year, “I’m Moving to…” post. I change plans faster than a badger in a honey maze. The latest twist should therefore come as no surprise. Only a few months ago, I revealed that I was trading London for Bangkok (where I lived in 2010/11). Much has changed since then. For a start, I got engaged to an American girl. Engagement raises a lot of ‘life…
Banners Broker Scam – Don’t Let It Affect You
Banners Broker is one of the most popular MLM programs of recent times. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated and bloodsucking ponzi schemes I have ever come across. Banners Broker is based around an industry we know a lot about – online advertising. Before I continue, let me point out the obvious. This post is not written for my…
How to Learn by Osmosis: The Traits of a Successful Affiliate
There are many blogs, forums and ebooks where you can learn the intricacies of online marketing. Some are great, some are poor, but nearly all are inferior to the process of learning by osmosis. Osmosis is the art of unconscious learning. It is where we stop studying materials, and start absorbing them. 1) Park balls on knowledge 2) … 3) Profit $$$ Learning the Facts vs. Learning the Meaning Imagine two kids go in to a lecture. One has a stack of notepads and pens. The other has his hands in his pockets. We’ll call them …
How to build your own traffic source
Never put all your eggs in one basket. I am sure you heard that one before and diversification is now more important then ever. We all noticed the ever rising costs of traffic, the daily influx of new affiliate marketers and all the dying networks around us. Affiliate marketing is like a warzone – only the strongest will survive! If you want to be on top of the game in 2013, you should: – grow your own traffic sources – build your own offers – have your own affiliates Traffic sources are getting more competitive and it certainly wont…
Build your own offer in 5 easy steps
Creating your own product / offer is a crucial step to long term success and financial freedom. Wouldn’t it be great to have a digital product which requires no shipping, no handling and you can sell it over and over again? I will show you exactly how to do that! We don’t have to lower our standards and become a sneaky low life selling ebooks on clickbank. That has nothing to do with running your own business. If clickbank goes down, you go down too and you are left with nothing but your balls in your hand. Lets not …
$1,000 Profit per day Adult Campaign Guide
Like most affiliate marketers you are probably stuck with facebook ads, plenty of fish and maybe some pay per view traffic. Don’t get me wrong, those sources are great and I love to work with them but what if I would show you a traffic source that is cheap, has huge volume, very…
Get paid 300{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} more for your leads – Why API leads are the future
In recent years, API leads have become more popular and more widely accepted amongst advertisers. Smart affiliates are taking advantage of API’s for years to monetize their leads over and over again. Before I got into detail why API leads are so important, you need to understand what an API actually is first: API means nothing else but “Application Programing Interface” – that probably still doesn’t mean anything to you but let me give you a real word example: Your standard dating campaign looks like this: Ad -> Landing Page -> Offer With an API your structure would …