Free Affiliate Summit Webinar: Killer List Building Techniques that Work (Email + Social)
Join us with Hunter Boyle on Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 1pm EST for a webinar presentation called “Killer List Building Techniques that Work (Email + Social).”
Register now – space is limited: Killer List Building Techniques that Work (Email + Social)
What is the webinar about:
This special presentation will be an overview of the power of list building. Let’s face it: We all know email marketing doesn’t have the sizzle of social media these days. But what it does have is a much higher ROI, as research shows us time and again. Are you doing enough to capitalize on this vital channel?
In this webinar, we’ll explore several ways to quickly and easily optimize your marketing efforts with email, from opt-in forms and autoresponders to social media tie-ins and landing page tweaks. These proven tactics and tips will help you build up your email marketing list and increase retention for greater overall profitability.
About Hunter Boyle
Hunter is the Senior Business Development Manager for AWeber, a leading email and social media service provider. As a multichannel content marketer and optimization strategist, Hunter brings 15 years of experience to his role leading AWeber’s affiliate and partnership initiatives. His track record of ROI gains for clients and brands includes a 575% email sales increase for 1800Hotels, and growing social media reach by 1,400% and lead-gen webinars by 185% for MarketingExperiments. With a dual background in journalism and marketing, his work as an editor, speaker and trainer has helped thousands of marketers optimize their own efforts.
About AWeber
Based in the Philadelphia area and founded in 1998, AWeber Communications develops and manages opt-in email marketing tools. Its growing 110,000+ international customer base includes small businesses, entrepreneurs and affiliate marketers that use AWeber’s email services to grow their enterprises.Be sure to register for the this FREE Webinar Killer List Building Techniques that Work – space is limited.
If you are interested in presenting in the Affiliate Summit Webinar series, please contact Mary Poiley by email or by phone at 813-438-6279.
Also, you can see a list of all past and present webinars on this page.
Looking forward to this!
The War Against Affiliate Marketing Continues via @smallbiztrends
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Internet Marketing October 21, 2011 By Susan Payton If you’re an affiliate marketer, it seems to keep getting harder to run your business, thanks to companies that don’t want to support affiliate marketers.
This is also bad news for small businesses that would like to create or already offer an affiliate program to help sell their products. If it’s harder for your affiliates to do business, you may find that sales channel more difficult for you, too.
First Google started sending signals that it didn’t like “thin” affiliate marketing sites. Then states started their tax attacks against companies that sell through affiliates, leading some companies like Amazon to terminate their affiliate programs in these states.
And now — even your email marketing service may not want your money if you are an affiliate marketer.
According to Art of Blog (as well as MailChimp’s own terms of use), affiliate marketers are personas non gratas, just like adult escort services and pornography. Those are strange bedfellows to lump affiliate marketers in with, considering the affiliate industry is a multi-billion dollar industry with its own conferences and blogs.
Some of the world’s bluest-of-the-blue-chip companies maintain affiliate marketing channels to sell their products and services. Top brands from MasterCard and Western Union, to Staples and Amazon, to Microsoft and the Wall Street Journal all offer affiliate programs to entice other websites to sell their products in exchange for “affiliate commissions.” Google even runs an affiliate ad network.
So if affiliate marketing is good enough for them, why does an email marketing service not want affiliate marketers?
Missy Ward, co-founder of Affiliate Summit, the largest affiliate marketing conference in the U.S., says:
“While I understand that MailChimp wants to maintain good deliverability, it’s silly to block an entire marketing method or group of marketers for what amounts to a small group of bad apples. Every industry has them — some intentional and some because they’re not educated enough in specific marketing techniques to know how to do things the right way.”
In Warrior Forum, affiliates are outspoken about MailChimp’s policies. Many suggest alternate email marketing companies that are more affiliate friendly, like AWeber and Infusionsoft. Other affiliates find ways around the problem, such as linking to a presell page rather than an affiliate link that will flag the account for spam.
MailChimp seems to want to do one thing, and one thing only: Help business owners create newsletters. If you’re an affiliate marketer looking for a place to share affiliate links via email marketing, you’ll have to find some other company to help….
About the Author
Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Communications, an Internet marketing firm specializing in marketing copy, press releases, blog and article writing. She is also the blogger behind The Marketing Eggspert Blog
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I use aWeber, Vertical Response and Constant Contact and have not run into any issues.
Affiliate Marketers Fitness Challenge Podcast on @geekcast
There is a new podcast at GeekCast.fm for you to check out, Clydesdales and Athenas – Affiliate Marketers Fitness Challenge, with Daniel M. Clark, Greg Hoffman, Jamie Perez, Jared Saunders, and me.
The Affiliate Marketers Fitness Challenge podcast covers fitness, weight loss and our own successes and failures in the quest for a healthy, fit lifestyle.
The podcast was born out of a Facebook group focused on affiliate marketers losing weight and getting into shape.
The first episode includes introductions, goals, challenges we’re facing. Looking for some inspiration to work on a healthy mind and body as an affiliate marketer? Come join us.
Listen to the Affiliate Marketers Fitness Challenge and other GeekCasters at http://geekcast.fm/.
Also, be sure to subscribe to the GeekCast RSS feed or subscribe in iTunes.
Can't wait to listen to this one
Getting Started as a Female Affiliate Marketer | PayPerTrends @samharrelson
Merianna is a talented teacher and thinker and is now exploring the idea of using affiliate marketing in her educational business.
I’ve encouraged her to sign up for the main networks and a few CPA networks I’m close with, but I neglected to do much in the way for introductions to the folks in the affiliate community who would steer her in the best direction. Part of that is on purpose and part of that is because I hadn’t realized how strong the community of female affiliates had grown lately.
That is a fantastic development, of course, and points to a healthy future for the industry.
What got Merianna particularly fired up was this post from Missy…
Kickass Resources for Women Entrepreneurs by @Sugarrae — MissyWard.com
From there, I’d point her to the AffStat Report on Women in Affiliate Marketing 2011 that was also published by Missy and Shawn in July as discussed on this episode of AffiliateThing.
From its beginnings, affiliate marketing has had a healthy dose of strong female leadership and voices. That is one of the qualities that makes the industry so vibrant and democratized.
So, where else would you suggest Merianna look as she ponders her potential part of the affiliate industry?
"Affiliate Marketing Shatters Glass Ceilings": http://www.missyward.com/2011/09/01/affiliate-marketing-shatters-glass-ceilings/
Driving Traffic to Your Website
Quality, original content is a key ingredient in a successful website, but it doesn’t matter how well you write if there is nobody there to read it.
So, I am going to share the key sources for my website traffic.
There are lots of ways to drive traffic to your site, and it is important to diversify, so you don’t suffer if one of your traffic sources stops working out for you.
Here are the methods I leverage to drive traffic to my sites…
- Site Scrapers and Syndicators
- NetworkedBlogs on Facebook
- Twitter Tools
- AWeber RSS to Email
- YouTube Descriptions
- Meetup.com Perks
- LinkedIn Applications
- Paper.li
- Flickr Links
- StumbleUpon
- Podcasting
- Facebook Ads
You will also get some traffic from the search engines, based on your content.
Back when I was going over WordPress Plugins, I mentioned Google XML Sitemaps to help search engines index your blog.
Be sure to install those plugins if you haven’t done so already.
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