Affiliate Marketing Tips – 8 Reasons to Use Craigslist in Viral Marketing

In this article in the Affiliate Marketing Tips Series, I wanted to look at another great website that has not been mined effectively by the serious affiliate marketer. In fact, Craigslist often does not figure in most of the affiliate sellers’ marketing plans!

The reason probably is quite simple – Craigslist is overshadowed by Facebook, Twitter etc. And the second reason is probably the fact that there is absolutely no advertising about Craigslist – it hardly shows up in any of the Social Media news. It’s rarely that we get to hear from Craig Newmark about the immensity of his website.

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Blogging for Money – 10 Ways to Use Twitter Effectively for Advertising & Making Money

This post is a continuation of the Blogging for Money Series, where we will look at 10 Simple Steps to use Twitter Effectively. This post is not about the Twitter technology, but more on how Twitter could be used in conjunction with a blog to increase effectiveness.

The extended content of this post is in the 12 page ebook. The ebook is mailed to all our subscribers. This post will have the excerpts from this ebook.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips – Setting Up Your Affiliate Networking Software

In continuation of the Affiliate Marketing Tips Series, this article will describe one of the best & most popular Affiliate Networking Software Systems available to us. This is an invaluable software especially if you are a growing affiliate marketer & you are planning on expanding your own affiliate network across various niche markets.

The best part of this popular Affiliate Networking Software Systems is that it completely integrates with your existing websites & blogs & you do not have to be a technical expert to host, run, expand or maintain it!

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Effective Blogging – 5 Easy Ways You can Use FaceBook Twitter to Promote Your Blog

In less than 2 hours you can set up Facebook & Twitter together to be a marketing face of your business or personal blog. In this post on Effective Blogging Series, let us look at how to use Facebook quickly & effectively with the use of Free online Social Media Tools & Applications.

You can use both your personal profile to promote your business & campaign your promotions and / or create separate Business Facebook Pages for your products. Since each Facebook Page comes with a unique URL, you can promote each of them separately.

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Effective Blogging – Creating Communities with Blog Readers Part 2

This is Part 2 in the 2 part post in the Effective Blogging Series & the concluding post on Creating Social Communities with Blog Readers. Here is Part 1 of the post Effective Blogging – Creating Communities with Blog Readers.

This article will focus on using technology & tools to help you build your online communities. Remember though, if your business model & marketing plan does not include building online communities, it is perfectly all right. You can still read this & pick up the tips in case you still want to build micro communities around your products.

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Effective Blogging – Creating Communities with Blog Readers Part 1

Social Media applications have made it easy to form communities with your blog readers, affiliate marketers as well as with advertisers. More often I have seen bloggers persuading their readers to join their community on Facebook, Twitter, Google etc. Advertisers & marketers can also be valuable members of your social media community – and there is value for them as well, making it a win-win for all.

This is a 2 part post in the Effective Blogging Series covering the why it’s necessary to build micro communities, where to build communities for best exposure & how to build communities with available technology.

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Blogging Tips – Twitter Still Open to Advertising & Sponsored Tweets

In a recent update to their Terms of Service, Twitter’s owner Biz Stone announced among other things, that Twitter is Still Open to Advertising Tweets.

Advertising—In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising. We’d like to keep our options open as we’ve said before.

Probably the reason being they are still not sure how far Twitter would evolve & if they could make a revenue channel off these advertising tweets.

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Video Profile – James Surowiecki on Turning Point for Social Media

Back in 2005 James Surowiecki made an interesting presentation at TED on the Turning Point of Social Media. Looking back, this was one of the first presentations by James Surowiecki on the evolution & growth of Social Media.

Social media is now very much a part of our daily life. And people seem to spend substantial time on social networking sites like FaceBook & Twitter.

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Email Marketing Trends – Right Email Marketing for Blogging Business

Email are now synonymous to personal IDs. Email marketing has been a very strong marketing tool for years. However, with the tighter (and often confusing) control of spam & junk emails, email marketing is facing a challenge.

Reference:

1. Study: Deliverability Could be Better on MediaPost

2. E-mail’s Killer ROI Less Lethal by the Year: DMA on DirectMag

How is this affecting bloggers, especially who have been trying to build their email subscription list in order to sell & market more.

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Performance Review of Best Advertising Networks for Blogs – Ad Tips for New Bloggers

Advertising is a very crucial expense for all successful bloggers. With the increasing number of blogs & the dropping quality of most of them, it is important that you partner with the best ad networks to advertise your blogs.

Read more on our recommendations of the best ad networks for new bloggers.

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