I feel a lot of new affiliates and experienced ones, feel that there is a barrier to becoming a super affiliate. I know I feel that way, or at least I did for the last 5 years and am only starting to change my mind set.
For some reason we feel that the super affiliates have some sort [...]
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Barriers to Affiliate Success - They’re Not What you Think!
May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Business & Strategy, General, Make More Money
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A New Journey Begins
April 24th, 2010 · No Comments · General
It’s feel like forever (or at least a few months) since I’ve posted anything new here.
I’ve gone through quite a few changes in my business and am coming back around to getting this on track.
The beginning of this year I started some partnerships directly with merchants (not via affiliate networks). I was very upbeat and [...]
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VisitorSpy Quick Update
January 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · General, Make More Money
I’ve decided to not continue to use VisitorSpy. While the concept is neat they are lacking a few features that make it cumbersome to use.
1.) You cannot just look at the visits to an individual page easily unless it’s the only page you have the tracking script on.
2.) The videos are as I thought re-plays [...]
VisitorSpy Review - Can you Really Spy on your Visitors? .
December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · General, Make More Money
For those that aren’t familiar with VisitorSpy.com, it’s a new program launched by Matt Callen (brother I believe to Brad Callen, SEOelite creator) designed to “record” your visitors while their on your web pages to see what it is they’re doing when they visit your site.
A Quick Overview of Why You’d want to Use a [...]
Tags:analytics·crazyegg·heat mapping·landing page optimization·visual spy·visualspy
Affiliate Business Planning for 2010 - A personal rant
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · General
The new year is almost upon us. It’s an exciting and also stressful time for those of us who run our own businesses. I love the idea of putting pen to paper to start planning for the new year ahead of me, but I also know that some of those plans/goals will fall to the [...]
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5 Tips for Curing Affiliate Analysis Paralysis and Self Doubt
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Make More Money
One thing that causes a lot of affiliate marketers to stall and often become paralyzed in their marketing efforts is not knowing if what they’re doing is going to work or make them more money.
We’ve all been there. I call it analysis paralysis and it happens to all of us.
I always think back to a [...]
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How Many Affiliate Programs Are Your Promoting?
December 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Content, General, Make More Money
One of the most frequent things I get asked by other affiliates is how they aren’t making any money. They are getting 500, 1000, 10,000 uniques a month their site but aren’t making more then what they feel is chump change.
Each of these webmasters is suffering from one of 2 problems:
Not really selling
Too many programs
I’ll [...]
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Focus on the Things You Can Control
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Make More Money
I’m as guilty as the next person of what I’m going to talk about in this post.
Worrying, Focusing and wasting time on the things I/we cannot control in our affiliate marketing businesses.
Affiliate marketing is just that “marketing”. It’s almost a science. You can test, tweak, measure and modify based on results. It’s a beautiful thing, [...]
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The Secret Ingredient Super Affiliates Use to Sky Rocket Commissions…. Conversion Rate
May 9th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Make More Money
For those that know me, I’m a big organic SEO guy. I don’t do a lot of PPC, I tend to get frustrated with it. How ever I’m sure that if I did do more PPC I’d be a better writer, more diligent tester, and probably pay more attention to my conversion and click through [...]
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How Will Google Sidewiki Change Affiliate Marketing?
December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · General
When I first saw Google Sidewiki yesterday when I fired up my browser I had some mixed feelings. For those that aren’t 100% familiar with what it is I’m talking about, Google Sidewiki is basically a collection of comments about a particular webpage stored in the “side bar” wiki.
Here’s a Screen shot of the example [...]
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