Affiliate Marketers Give Back, Support Breast Cancer Awareness

Posted by Luke | July 1, 2008 .

Hey! It looks like you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s truly awesome to see Affiliate Networks (and their affiliate managers) doing good things and giving back. That’s why I got really excited when I discovered that Jen, our affiliate manager from MarketLeverage, is teaming up [...]

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The MOTHER of all MarketLeverage Contests

Posted by Luke | June 23, 2008 .

Well, as all of the afore mentioned MarketLeverage contests come to a close, the “Cow Next Door” John Cow today announced the biggest MarketLeverage contest to date. The Cow is lucky enough to have gotten the chance to give away a brand new iPhone 3G courtesy of MarketLeverage!
Although the prize is different than the other [...]

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The Mistakes We’ve Made and What We’ve Learned

Posted by Luke | June 22, 2008 .

As I sit here working on some new campaigns (and tweaking some old ones), I’ve been thinking a lot about what Nate and I have done wrong so far in our short-lived affiliate marketing careers and what we’ve learned from it. I think all of our mistakes really fit into three tidy little categories:
Rushing Things
There [...]

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Design Coding: The Rap

Posted by Luke | June 21, 2008 .

I found this awesome YouTube video today from some guy known as m0serious, aka the “SEO Rapper” about designing the perfect landing page and how to optimize the page for search engine spiders. Give it a listen and turn it up for a little inspiration when the time comes to launch your next campaign:

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An Example of Thinking Outside the Box

Posted by Luke | June 17, 2008 .

Today I was driving home from work when I heard a radio commercial for a website where you can “enter your email address, follow the redemption instructions, print out a coupon and have a free xbox 360 mailed right to your door”. I immediately thought “affiliate site!” and went online to check it out [...]

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Time Management is Solid Gold

Posted by Luke | June 11, 2008 .

One of the most important things to practice when it comes to part-time affiliate marketing is time management. When you only have a few minutes (or hours, if you’re lucky) a day to devote to affiliate marketing, it’s important to schedule those minutes wisely.
As I’m sure everyone with half-a-mind and even basic understanding of affiliate [...]

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May Income Report

Posted by Luke | June 2, 2008 .

Well, Although we had some income this month there still isn’t a profit to report. But I’m still very happy with the way the month went, all the same. And I think to expect a profit in our first month of affiliate marketing would be pretty unrealistic. Most importantly, I do think that we set [...]

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It’s All About the Ad Groups

Posted by Luke | May 25, 2008 .

Although We’re definitely still new to the AdWords world, I’ve quickly discovered that, if you want any help at all from Google en route to success, it’s all about the ad groups. If you’re running a PPC campaign in AdWords its certainly possible to just lump all of your keywords together in one unnamed ad [...]

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Thanks MarketLeverage!

Posted by Luke | May 19, 2008 .

Just a matter of days after signing up with the MarketLeverage Affiliate Network, we received a care package in the mail from them. Which just further proves my initial comments about the level of customer service at MarketLeverage. Even though we have yet to make a lot of money with MarketLeverage (I’m hoping that will [...]

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Going Beyond Keywords: Who Clicks on Your Ad?

Posted by Luke | May 17, 2008 .

Obviously the keywords you target are the meat & potatoes of any PPC campaign and there’s no way to be successful without the right ones. But, in order to really separate yourself from the competition, try thinking about who is searching for those keywords. Who is the typical user for the campaign you’re running (i.e. [...]

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