Net Affiliate Revenue for One Site - $31,070.44
One of the things that people don't seem to understand is that you need to create value when doing affiliate marketing. Here's an example site, Best Buys Zone. Best Buys Zone is an affiliate site I did three years ago. In 2006 it generated $31,910.44 in revenue and 129,027 leads for businesses.
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Eating your own dog food. Or how by being your own customer you improve your product!
There's a common business phrase "eating your own dog food." It dates from the earliest dog food commercials in television when ultimately would the dog eat the food. It doesn't matter how good a product looks if the consumer doesn't use it, it's useless.
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Fathead Affiliate Program Reviewed
Ok since I am pretty effective affiliate for Commission Junction I have opted to recieve their mailing for affiliate programs. One of the recent program offers I recently received was for Fathead.com. I took a look at the program and decided join it and review it for the site.
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Review of the AC Lens Affiliate Program
AC Lens is web based contact lens retailer. They have requested a review of their affiliate program. I often review affiliate programs for my readers since the first way they often get into ecommerce and making money online. I review their health affiliate program in this post.
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Who Runs Bestbuy.com's Affiliate program?
The Best Buy Affiliate program is run by Befree. I was confused by all the consolidation in the affiliate management marketplace.
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How to build an cool shopping application. No programming required. Part One.
As promised this the first part on my series on how to build a shopping application like Best Buys Zone United Kingdom. I suspect building a mashup will only get easier in the future. The recent introduction of Google's My Maps I suspect that it's only a matter of time before there are easier ways to build a mashup than the way I am going to show you. The great thing about this approach is that ANYONE who is comfortable with basic web hosting should be able to do it.
There are some basic things that you can do to prepare for building your own shopping comparison like Best Buy UK.
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How to build an cool shopping application. No programming required. Part Two.
Hopefully you have downloaded Associate-O-Matic and CaRP. PLease note both have free and limited versions. Your next step depends entirely if you are setting up a stand alone site or as a adjunct to an existing site. As I have noted before Associate-O-Matic is a powerful tool but it's initial design was as an adjunct to an existing site.
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Monetizing Blogspot Blogs with Shopping.com & Grouper
I always think of new ways to monetize content. Let's face it there are many Blogspot bloggers out there who are not taking full advantage of the power of the Blogger platform. I thought of this post as I was working on how to build a cool shopping mashup with no programming required; Part 1 and Part 2. Since many people start out with Blogger platform, it's important to build multiple revenue streams beyond Adsense.
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How to build an cool shopping application. No programming required. Part Three
In the first two parts of this series I showed you the tools that I used create Best Buys Zone UK and how you can create a similar site your self. This post covers something pretty important in making this work, namely your niche, monetizing your site and a bit on marketing said site.
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Wow Auction Ads SRSLY SUCKS
After Shoemoney sold Auction Ads, it didn't take long for the service to go completely to shit. I was running Auction Ads on my Bobby Orr memorabilia site.
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Holiday Sites. No, I didn't crawl into a hole and die.
I have been incredibly busy this holiday season. Comparison shopping is my niche and I really try to launch new properties. Last year it was Early Miser. This year I launched quite a few new properties and relaunched some old ones.
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Going Global
Global expansion is something large corporations do all the time. It's also good idea for any affiliate marketer to consider. I recently launched a Canadian shopping portal, a Faire du shopping which is a French shopping portal. That's not all either.
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