Archive for October, 2007
Professionalizing Your Affiliate Business – October, 2007 Issue of AC Magazine
Posted by AC Editorial Team in Affiliate Classroom Magazine, Affiliate Marketing, Best Business Practices Sunday, 7 October 2007 14:00 1 Comment
“Professionalizing Affiliate Marketing” by Mark Thompson shows you how to use subscriber emails properly, and how to write them so they actually get read! Then find out if negative Affiliate marketing is still a viable option when doing PPC advertising.
“Expanding Horizons – 10 Tips for Becoming a Professional Affiliate Internationally,” by Katalin Torok , helps answer International Marketing questions.. You’ll learn how to do Market Research internationally, and get advice on dealing with payment and shipping problems before they arise.
What are “The 10 Biggest Unprofessional Mistakes That Many Affiliates Make?” You’ll find out as Kathy Jackson explains mistakes that can happen in Email marketing, product selection, website development and seven other areas.
“What Affiliates Don’t Know Can Hurt Them,” by Gracie Brown ends the magazine by explaining how Internet business rules differ from traditional business rules, and how you can avoid making big mistakes.
Find it all in the Free October issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine. It’s a PDF publication; you can download it directly (no email address required) at:
eComXpo Opens in 5 Days
Posted by AC Editorial Team in Affiliate Classroom Events and Products, Affiliate Marketing Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:06 No Comments
The world’s largest tradeshow for eCommerce Marketers is only five days away!
The show will open on Tuesday, October 9 at 9:00 AM Eastern, and will remain open until October 11 at 8:00 PM Eastern. Mark your calendars now to visit with the exhibitors and attend the great lineup of presentations.
eComXpo will feature more than 100 exhibitors including Affiliate Classroom, Venture Direct, Website Magazine, Revenue Magazine, UpSellit.com and more.
In addition to this exceptional list of sponsors they will also be featuring dozens of live presentations from industry luminaries, including Bill Urschel (Microsoft and AdECN) and a panel lead by Amanda Waltington (Founder of Searching for Profit).
Beefing Up Affiliate Sales
Posted by Gracie Browning in Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing Tuesday, 2 October 2007 18:00 2 Comments
At first I thought the term, ‘beefing up’ was maybe just a Texas term, but come to find out it isn’t. According to Answers.com: “beefed-up ( ) adj. Informal. Having been made greater or stronger.”
Now, none of the dictionaries that I consulted could define ‘beefing up.’ But the Answers.com definition is close enough! That is precisely what beefing up is. The term means getting stronger, bigger and better. Isn’t that the idea of an affiliate marketing businesses?
There are several ways that you can beef up your affiliate marketing sales. One of those ways is to promote yourself as an expert on the topic that your products or services relate to by writing articles, ebooks and reports on the topic, and submitting them to article banks and ebook repositories.
Each time an article, report or ebook is reproduced, as the author you gain credibility and establish yourself as an expert.
Another way that you can beef up your affiliate marketing sales is get out there, join and participate in blogs, forums and chat rooms that are about the topic that your products and services are related to.
Blatant advertising won’t be permitted but with your sig tag, you can still promote yourself and your products and services to the people who are most likely to buy them.
Creating your own free ezine or newsletter is another way that you can beef up affiliate marketing sales. People LIKE “free!”
Your ezine or newsletter doesn’t have to be fancy or 50 pages long. It just has to be helpful to those who care about the topic of your website.
You can use your free ezine or newsletter to build your opt-in list and thereby do some serious beefing up of your sales.
