Consumerism has defined how we celebrate holidays. Thanks to the creative minds of marketing professionals most of our holidays are now tied up to discount offers or time-sensitive sales. Well, for obvious reason that people are free to do a lot of non-work related stuff such as 'shoppping' on holidays, stores are competing with each other during such occasions to get a chunk of our greenbacks. This common marketing practice helped in evolving our consumer spending habits on holidays. Yah... Read more »
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$75 Free Traffic to try out MyAds Advertising Platform!
In previous blogs, I gave you generous free credits on Facebook and Yahoo Search Marketing. Today, I have another exclusive opportunity so you can run advertising on the MySpace network. You can get a special holiday $75 Click Credit for all NEW MyAds account. By the way, this offer is courtesy of ExperienceAdvertising.com.MySpace recently launched their MyAds marketing tool which provides exclusive targeting feature so you can advertise to millions of U.S. users. With MyAds you can pinpoint a n... Read more »
Tools To Help You Find Top Affiliates
There are a few tools to assist in mining for possible true affiliates and publishers that may either publish articles with links, place banners, etc. Most web researchers would usually use popular researching tools like Alexa, Quancast, or Google Search. Well frankly, I am no different from them just that I am using additional tools that complement my web research. I would like to share them with you today.Below are other resources or tools you can use: * Seomoz.org Sign up fo... Read more »
Free Advertising Credits from Visa Business Network
As a small business operator, I've found great value in joining the Visa Business Network. The business community is an online network of small business owners where they share, connect, learn and pursue their passion for their business.I jumped into this community few weeks ago after I was enticed by the free advertising credits. Yet in such a short span, I already gained a lot interesting learning experience to help me grow my startup business. Aside from interesting success stories, I also ge... Read more »
Bar Coded Google
No there's no problem with your screen. It's not infected by virus as well. The bar on your Google search is just a way to pay tribute to the day, i.e., on 7 October 1952, US Patent # 2,612,994 was issued for a "Classifying Apparatus and Method" now popularly named Bar Code.A group of three intellectuals headed by Bernard Silver put their mind together to work on a system in which they described both the linear and bullseye printing patterns, as well as the mechanical and electronic sy... Read more »
Hanging out at Facebook?
Well it’s official. Nielsen's Consumer Market research had confirmed that more and more people are spending their time on Facebook. In fact the research company findings show that people spend almost 4x more of their time on Facebook than YouTube and 3x more than Google. While it’s true that the number may have been pulled up by highly engaging flash games like Texas Holdem Poker (guilty!) and Mafia War, this new reality also underlined the current trend that more and more people ar... Read more »
The Recession is Over!
Happy Days are here again - or at least knocking at our door - as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recently told US Congress. The financial crisis that had changed the way consumers spend may have already stopped its contraction. Mid-term reports had shown that seven of the 10 indicators in the Conference Board Leading Economic Index pointed upward, including manufacturing hours worked and unemployment claims. There is now a growing consensus among analysts that economic activity will... Read more »
Marketing Calendrical Anomalies
Are you ready for 09/09/09?Looks like we are heading into another calendrical anomaly! Well many marketers are excited about the symmetrical date as many are synchronizing their product launch, movie premieres, weddings, sale pricing and promotions to the magic number 9.This numerical occurrence is certainly a good idea for marketing campaign and promotional gimmicks. It is always good to play on the imagination of people. Here are some ideas you can use:Tees for $9.99 as a 1-day saleSteak Meal ... Read more »
Reading the Affiliate Terms and Conditions
When signing into an affiliate program, affiliates are presented with the program terms which they should carefully read and understand to its full extent. Though this is a very important piece of information, many publishers are taking it for granted resulting to conflicts as they start to be deprived of their earn commissions due to ignorance of the prohibited type of promotion. One of the common conflicts is on the use of the Trademarked terms. Many advertisers do not allow their ... Read more »
Do You Need a Website to be Successful as an Affiliate?
You might be one of the online marketing newbie who had been dilly dallying on venturing into affiliate venture. One of the reasons why many people like you remain hesitant is the notion that having no website is a serious impediment in marketing affiliate products. Admittedly, investing money on a website does take a chunk in your budget. A short list of usual expenses on website set up includes domain registration, hosting fee, website design/template, and promotion expenses. All the... Read more »