Affiliates should be split testing their landing pages, but many I’ve asked have never bothered. For the uninitiated, split or A/B testing is a process where you serve up different versions of your page to different visitors to determine which is more effective. I’ve tried various ways in WordPress and found they were largely a [...]
There has been a steady drumbeat for years that we’re on the verge of video and/or mobile dominating the affiliate marketing landscape, but neither have really happened, yet. But I think this is the year curation becomes the new affiliate marketing hotness. Two curation tools I’m currently using are Pinterest and Shareist. One reason I [...]
I used to write a zine (printed, not online) back in the mid-90s called Velocity NYC, and I recently re-discovered a bunch of the stuff I wrote back then on archive.org. This is one of the editor notes that I liked from back then… What do we talk about when we talk about our dreams? [...]
I used to write a zine (printed, not online) back in the mid-90s called Velocity NYC, and I recently re-discovered a bunch of the stuff I wrote back then on archive.org. This is one of the editor notes that I liked from back then… I woke up the other day freaking. The clock mocked me [...]
I recently had a nice chat with Ken Evoy, founder of SiteSell and creator of SBI!, and we discussed the differences between blogging vs. building a theme-based content site. I’ve known Ken since the 90′s(!), when I read his book “Make Your Site SELL!” (MYSS!), and it was fun to catch up and talk about [...]
AWeber has introduced Facebook registration for AWeber email opt-in web forms. When AWeber users enable Facebook registration for their web forms, visitors will automatically have their name and email address displayed in your form if they are logged in to Facebook. Those not logged in to Facebook will simply see the normal web form. The [...]
Data feed solution provider GoldenCAN has integrated with buy.at advertisers to make their catalogs of products available for GoldenCAN users to promote. GoldenCAN affiliate data feed integration tools include Store Integration, Coupon Integration and Search Integration options for affiliates to showcase a variety of products in a storefront style, feature coupons, and to create a [...]
I have long admired Tim Carter and his success in monetizing video at his Ask the Builder site. He puts together high quality, well packaged content, and his audience keeps coming back. And now Tim has put out a sharp Ask the Builder Christmas Gift Guide, and his visitors can download it to make purchases [...]
Google has opened up business pages for the Google+ platform, and I just created a Google page for Affiliate Summit. I’d suggest you do the same for your company, since it’s a always a good idea to have even more control of your brand in Google. Google+ pages are similar to Facebook pages, except you [...]