Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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You’re probably seeing this everywhere today. It’s called AffiliateTheme by UBD.
AffiliateTheme will be used on a lot of new sites over the next few months. So, does that mean it will become saturated?
Honestly, I had mixed feelings in the beginning. But, now that I see how it really works, I’m seeing that anyone with half a brain can make this theme super customized without hacking through any code…so it’s nearly impossible for it to become too saturated, IMO. At least not for a while…
There’s so many options available for this bad boy, and you can easily build out quick landing pages or mini sites without knowing HTML, which is awesome for anybody…even newbies. ESPECIALLY newbies, to be honest. At first I thought “this is way too expensive for newbies.” And, it is very expensive - but since you have to have Landing Pages and Mini-sites, I think it would be a GREAT investment for any Affiliate Marketer.
Definitely check it out and see the examples and the video!
[UPDATE]
After playing with this thing for over 24 hours, I actually like it a lot. This thing is like XSitePro on steroids, IMO. It’s using Wordpress as a backbone, since it’s just a theme, which makes it far better than most products out there.
All SE’s love Wordpress, and there’s a reason why. The system is based on Blogging, and it’s well known that it’s very professionally coded and has been designed especially with search engines in mind.
A lot of people think this system takes a lot of time to learn. Not true. Actually, you can learn this system in a matter of 2 hours, tops. They supply you with Videos, Tutorials and even a Support forum.
What makes this theme even more special is that it’s easily customizable…as in you can quickly create your own Banners and Backgrounds based on this theme, within a few minutes. If you’ve got basic Photoshop skills, it’s not a problem at all.
Are you good with CSS? If so, this theme lets you bring in your own CSS with a few clicks.
Know your way around Wordpress? That makes it even better… you can obviously, EASILY customize this theme with ease, through the code itself.
BUT, if you don’t know ANY of the above, that’s what makes this theme awesome. It’s made for people of all levels, and it makes it really easy for those who don’t know HTML, or have never built their own website.
I prefer the Super version, as it comes with a ton of extra banners and stuff. It can also give you more ideas for future Layouts/Banner versions for other projects. While it is a bit expensive, it’s FAR, FAR cheaper than hiring an LP designer, or buying Dreamweaver and trying to learn it. 
If you’re a newbie - I highly suggest this theme. ESPECIALLY those of you who don’t know much about HTML, or don’t have the time or patience to learn it.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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Top 100 Advertising & Marketing Companies, inc5000 Article - Inc. Article
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* How to Identify a Target Market
Business Advice
* Start-Up
* Technology
* Inc. 500|5000
* Women in Business
* Finance & Capital
* Marketing
* Sales
* E-Commerce
* Human Resources
* Leadership
* Law & Taxation
* Retail
* Business Travel
* Personal Finance
* Office & Operations
* Global Business
* Franchise
* One-Person Business
* Buy & Sell a Business
* Inc. Life
is your arsenal for developing and maintaining sound financial plans and business strategy.
Inside: Budgeting | Compensation | Valuation
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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About Tweetizen
Welcome to Tweetizen! Tweetizen is a simple web-based tool designed to help you filter the daily influx of tweets, and easily find the ones that are relevant to you. Use Tweetizen to create twitter groups, and you'll be able to stay on top of what's happening in all your areas of interest. Imagine having instant access to breaking news and the latest tweets on news, politics, technology, gossip, fashion etc. all in one place, rather than having to create multiple twitter accounts just to be able to find what you want.
Our filtering mechanisms will go through the millions of tweets and come up with the pertinent ones by taking tags and keywords into consideration. You can share your group with others and invite your friends to be an active part of each group you create. This includes not only family and friends but also colleagues and associates, as it befits the situation and the uses you put Twitter to.
We have some big plans for Tweetizen. Our future releases will include the ability to embed your groups on your own websites and blogs - taking twitter to a whole new level! We're also currently working on multiple blog plugins to make it easier for you to embed your groups to your blogs.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Tweetdeck Incorporates Facebook Status Updates
The Tweetdeck interface
Tweetdeck, a desktop client reportedly used by about 13% of Twitter users, launched an update that features Facebook integration, reports AllFacebook.
Tweetdeck aggregates data streams from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, and Stocktwits. It allows users to split feeds, organize those they follow into groups (work, personal, etc.) and conduct searches across the twittersphere to monitor topics of choice.
The Facebook integration incorporates status updates from the social network into the mix. (The new version is still in beta, but available to the public (download).
To use the new feature, users sign into Facebook and give Tweetdeck authorization. Then, from within Tweetdeck, they click on the Facebook icon at the top, which will add a new column that shows their Facebook friends' most recent status updates, which can be tweeted or emailed out to anyone. The stream updates once a minute.
Tweetdeck also supports real-time chat with Facebook friends, Mashable points out. If the person's name is green (signaling that they are online), users can initiate a Facebook chat session from within Tweetdeck.
Tweetdeck is maintaining its existing brand identity, but word has it the name might change in order to reflect the Facebook encompassment.
Facebook had struggled with streaming status services in the past because of a delay in response time to status.get calls. The API upgrade in early February gave developers access to users' status updates, links, and notes, however, "slowly tearing down the wall around its silo," observed ReadWriteWeb.
Exposing more data to the outside world will help Facebook better realize its ambition of becoming a channel for sharing among members. Twitter has contributed to this atmosphere by making real-time communication crucial to such sharing. The fresh status update API, closer ties to Twitter and dynamic updates may give the social network a more live feel.
At the start of 2009, Nick O'Neill predicted Facebook could "kill" Twitter by doing just this, declaring that "if Facebook opened up statuses tomorrow, Twitter would essentially become a ghost town."
In Nov. '08, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks whereby Facebook tried buying the microblogging service for $500 million worth of its own stock. The two sides could not agree on a price, nor on a structure for the hypothetically integrated companies, reports The Guardian.
Last Saturday, Facebook announced that Facebook Connect now works with iPhone apps and desktop apps like Seesmic, remarked TechCrunch. And last week social media news site SocialMedian announced that users can now sign in to the site using their Facebook login.
A recent report claims one in 10 online adults in the US has microblogged on Twitter or elsewhere. For its part, Twitter — which is increasingly perceived as less of a service than a utility — has yet to find a viable business model to support such use.
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Sooner or later, you’re going to be involved in designing, or managing the design, of a landing page. Or maybe you’ve been working with landing pages for years.
No matter which end of the landing page spectrum on which you fall, you’ll probably find episode 86 of Susan Bratton’s excellent Dishy Mix podcast to be compelling listening. Susan spends a solid hour talking with Tim Ash, President and CEO of SiteTuners.com and the author of Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions.
It’s well worth a listen (or a read, since a transcript is conveniently included on that link above, too) — and not only because Tim answers my question, one I’ve wrestled with over the years, that being: How do you balance the need for selling with the need for educating the potential buyer on any given landing page? (Thanks, Susan!)
Takeaway for marketers: Listen to this podcast. If you’re a relative newcomer to dealing with landing pages, there is a ton of info here that you need to know. If you’re a landing page veteran, you’ll have some food for thought and probably be reminded of some best practices you may have let slip over the years. Either way, it beats spending an hour watching Becker reruns.
Monday, March 16, 2009
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17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe | FlowingData
17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract.
Network Diagrams
Twitter is a social network with friends (and strangers) linking up with each other and sharing tweets aplenty. These network diagrams attempt to show the relationships that exist among users.
Twitter Browser
Thursday, March 12, 2009
10 differences between UK and US affiliate marketing | Blog | Econsultancy
10 differences between UK and US affiliate marketing
A month after our UK affiliate census went live, we’ve just published our first US Affiliate Census, produced in association with MediaTrust. I thought it was worth outlining some of the key differences - and also the similarities - between affiliate marketing on either side of the Atlantic.
Both the US report and the UK Affiliate Census (produced in association with Affiliate Window), were based on surveys of affiliates carried out in January.
Increasingly, geographical boundaries are becoming less important. More than a quarter of UK affiliates (27%) promote US merchants and nearly a third of US affiliates (32%) promote UK merchants. Large numbers of affiliates are also promoting merchants from all over the world, irrespective of where they are based, both reports found.
But despite the increasingly global nature of affiliate marketing, there are some notable differences between the US and UK markets.
In keeping with blogging fashion, I thought I would narrow this down to a nice round 10.
1) US affiliates are more likely to be full-timers
Just over half of the 450+ US affiliates (51%) surveyed work full-time in the industry, as opposed to being part-timers or hobbyists. This compares to a third of UK affiliates who work full-time on affiliate marketing.
2) Women are better represented in the US
Less than a fifth of UK affiliates (18%) are female, compared to 17% in 2007 when we carried out the first Affiliate Census. Women are better represented in the US, where 27% of responding affiliates are female. This is still low.
3) Health, Sport and Fitness leads the way in the US
In the United States, Health, Sport & Fitness is the most popular sector in affiliate marketing, promoted by 41% of respondents. (This came as no surprise to me because I'd witnessed such a big presence of these merchants at the Affiliate Summit conference in Las Vegas last year.)
In comparison, only a fifth of UK affiliates promote this sector. The biggest vertical in the UK is Travel & Flights, promoted by 33% of affiliates.
4) PPC is the most significant affiliate ‘method’ for US publishers, while SEO ranks highest in the UK
Paid search or pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is the most significant category for US affiliates (48%), marginally ahead of true content (SEO) on 46%. Just under half of affiliates surveyed say each of these methods is important to them in terms of revenue generated. The UK research found that True Content (SEO) was the most important method to affiliates, by some distance.
Other methods of affiliate marketing include blogs and forums, social networking, cashback & reward, shopping comparison and directories, email marketing and voucher / coupon codes. The rise of cashback and voucher sites is well documented.
5) Affiliate Window is the most significant UK network, while CJ is the biggest in the US
Affiliates were asked to indicate which networks are the most important to them, judged by revenue generated through the network’s merchants.
Half of all US affiliates surveyed (50%) said Commission Junction was one of their top-three networks. The next most significant networks are Linkshare (32%), ShareASale (21%) and Google Affiliate Network (also 21%).
According to our UK research Affiliate Window is the biggest network, with 43% of affiliates surveyed ranking them as the most important to them for generating revenue. Just under a fifth (18%) said that TradeDoubler is most important while 10% said that Commission Junction was their top-ranked network. (It should be noted that virtually all the major networks promoted the UK Affiliate Census to their affiliates, and not just Affiliate Window.)
6) More affiliates are promoting B2B merchants in the US
US affiliates are more likely to be involved in promoting business-to-business advertisers. More than a third of US affiliates (38%) promote B2B merchants compared to 27% in the UK.
7) Google perceived as more of a threat in the UK
The arrival of Google in the performance marketing space (i.e. through its Google Affiliate Network) is more likely to be regarded as an opportunity by US affiliates than a threat. In the UK, the reverse is true. Affiliates are more likely to view this negatively.
8) More direct partnerships in the US
US affiliates are (slightly) more likely to have a large number of direct partnerships with merchants who use an in-house affiliate program - 30% of US affiliates have more than 5 such relationships compared to 15% of UK affiliates.
9) In the US, there is more explicit talk of performance marketing.
Most people know that the advantage of affiliate marketing is that it is performance-based. In the US, people talk more about 'performance marketing' and the performance marketing industry. Yesterday our US office published an interview with Brad Waller of the Performance Marketing Alliance.
It is also worth noting that the lead generation market is still relatively embryonic in the UK compared to the US where it is huge business.
10) US industry fears Amazon Tax
A big talking point in the US is the so-called Amazon Tax. Recent New York legislation means that the state government can collect sales tax on out-of-state retailers such as Amazon.com. Other states are now trying to follow suit so that they can impose a sales tax on revenue driven through local affiliate websites.
Enough of the differences ... here are some striking similarities .
1) Quality and quantity of links an issue
There is universal frustration among affiliates about the quality of links from merchants which is the biggest reason why affiliates don't promote a merchant after signing up.
Poor conversion rates is the obvious cause of merchants being dropped and publishers complain that many merchants need to sort out their websites and their proposition if they want to sell anything.
2) Concern that the 'last click wins' model is not sustainable
The last-click-wins reward model is generally the standard way of allocating credit for affiliate sales or sign-ups. Some believe performance marketing is about the last click by definition. In both the UK and US, only around a third of respondents (36%) believe the last click should always win. Many affiliates believe that the latest technology could enable a fairer allocation of commissions.
3) Affiliates want more communication from merchants
The majority of both US (64%) and UK affiliates (70%) have 'limited communication', 'indirect communication through the network' or 'no communication with their merchants'. Both UK and US affiliates want to be kept better informed and to build better lines of communication.
In the US, affiliates are more vocal about getting better incentives and rewards from merchants. Perhaps the Brits are too polite to ask ...
4) Publishers want transparency from networks and merchants
Affiliates around the world are united by a desire for networks and merchants to be transparent about what is happening, not least regarding the commissions they may or may not be owed.
5) An upbeat mentality even in the midst of the mother of all recessions
Affiliates in US and UK are more likely to be positive than negative about the recession, and more likely to see it as an opportunity rather than a threat.
You can read more here ...
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Econsultancy and MediaTrust publish first US Affiliate Census
Econsultancy and MediaTrust have today published the first US
Affiliate Census, containing in-depth research about the performance marketing industry.
The report examines the make-up of the affiliate marketing community
and looks at how much revenue affiliates are generating for merchants, how they are getting their traffic and which linking methods they are using.
Key findings include:
* One in six affiliates surveyed (17%) is generating at least $600,000 a year in revenue for merchants.
* Paid search or pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is the most
significant category for US affiliates (48%), marginally ahead of
true content (search engine optimization) on 46%. Just under half of affiliates surveyed say each of these methods is important to them.
* Health, Sport and Fitness is the sector most widely promoted
by affiliates, promoted by 41% of survey respondents. The next
biggest sectors are Gifts / Gadgets (28%) and Books (27%).
* Affiliates are very positive about the increased use of the mobile Internet. The wider use of cell phones for accessing the Web is seen as an opportunity by 58% of respondents.
* The entrepreneurial spirit of affiliates also means they are also more likely to see the economic crisis as an opportunity than
as a threat.
Econsultancy Research Director Linus Gregoriadis said:
"The report looks in detail at the nature and quality of the relationships affiliates have with networks and merchants, revealing that many of these publishers have issues with the level of transparency in the industry and the quality of communication from merchants."
Trip Foster, Chief Marketing Officer at MediaTrust, said:
"Performance marketing is evolving rapidly and the input and
feedback of the publisher-base is critical to the success of the
ecosystem that exists among marketers, publishers and end users.
"As the performance marketing model implies, we all benefit only when all members of our ecosystem are satisfied. This means that an ongoing dialogue is necessary among all parties in this ecosystem and important to our collective evolution as an industry."
The survey was promoted to affiliate members by networks including Advaliant, Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network and Pepperjam.
The research comes a month after Econsultancy published its UK Affiliate Census, produced in association with Affiliate Window.
Report URL
http://econsultancy.com/reports/us-affiliate-census
Journalists
Journalists and bloggers can email Linus Gregoriadis for a complimentary copy of the report and / or further information.
Linus Gregoriadis, Research Director, Econsultancy
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An award-winning online publisher, our reports cover best practice, user experience benchmarking, market data, trends and innovation, and supplier selection aimed at Internet professionals that want practical advice on all aspects of e-business.
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MediaTrust is a digital performance marketing company that offers the Advaliant performance marketing platform. Advaliant enables affiliate publishers and marketers to create and deploy diverse pay- for-performance digital marketing campaigns that increase traffic,leads, and sales.
Transparency still an issue for affiliates » Adotas
Transparency still an issue for affiliates
ADOTAS — One in six affiliates is generating at least $600,000 a year in revenue for merchants, a new study shows. In addition, paid search or pay-per-click advertising is the most significant category for US affiliates, slightly ahead of search engine optimization, according to the report done by Econsultancy and MediaTrust, in their first US Affiliate Census. Health, sport and fitness is the sector most widely promoted by affiliates, with the next biggest sectors are gifts/gadgets and Books.
“The report looks in detail at the nature and quality of the relationships affiliates have with networks and merchants, revealing that many of these publishers have issues with the level of transparency in the industry and the quality of communication from merchants,” said Econsultancy Research Director Linus Gregoriadis.
In a previous report focusing on the UK market, criticism was leveled at merchants for a lack of communication regarding changes or problems. The vast majority of affiliates (70 per cent) have limited communication (33 per cent), indirect communication (27 per cent) or no communication with merchants (10 per cent).
The recent US report examines the make-up of the affiliate marketing community and looks at how much revenue affiliates are generating for merchants, how they are getting their traffic and which linking methods they are using. The survey was promoted to affiliate members by networks including Advaliant, Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network and Pepperjam.
Other findings include:
- Affiliates are very positive about the increased use of the mobile Internet. The wider use of cell phones for accessing the Web is seen as an opportunity by 58% of respondents.
- The entrepreneurial spirit of affiliates also means they are also more likely to see the economic crisis as an opportunity than as a threat.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
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