Affiliate Marketing Tips – 10 Facts You Cannot Ignore About Email Lists

You must have heard about the all powerful Lists. You make your email subscribers’ list & start promoting your products & affiliate services & you will see the dollars rolling in. While that statement is theoretically correct, there are several facts about growing your lists that you should keep in mind.

In this post on the continuing Affiliate Marketing Tips series,I will share 10 Facts about email subscribers & how to grow & manage lists. These facts are from our practical experience in running multiple affiliate niche websites over a period of 2 years, so in all probability you will be able to relate them quite easily.

We manage our email lists here with AWeber (Click Here to Sign Up with AWeber) and a few others for our other websites (Click Here to See What Email Services we Use).

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Social Bookmark Popularity – What Share Buttons Work for You

Social bookmarking has taken a turn in the last couple of months. Back in 2008 almost every website & blog were devising newer ways to build in fancy social bookmarking buttons.

Technorati, Digg & StumbleUpon buttons ran on almost every website & blog. But with Twitter & Facebook gaining popularity in 2009 as an alternative social bookmarking tool, the others have taken the back seat.

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Twitter & Social Media Advertising – Twitter Gives Over 600 Percent ROI

While my normal advertising experience varied with different advertisers, in this article in Blogging for Money Series, I will highlight how we got a ROI of over 600% in Twitter advertising.

Advertising with traditional contextual advertisers have usually given us low returns when compared to our experiment with Twitter advertising. They usually varied from 5% to about 20% in most cases. Publishers are also affected by stricter (and often erroneous) click forensics – Harsh Click Forensics Affecting Publisher Incomes – Are you Affected in your CPC Earnings from Blogs Websites?

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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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Weekend Blogging Strategies – Getting High Visitors on Weekends

My websites & blogs usually get about 60% – 70% traffic on weekends compared to any other days from Monday through Friday.  I usually write one or two posts every weekend, but I have not been regular.

I usually spend the weekend relaxing, reading some of the blogging books, spending time on photography for my photo websites Photo Duniya & Journal Image & then a lot of time with my dogs – Atom & Tipsy.

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Video Interview with Yale Economist Robert Shiller – Root Cause of Economic Downturn

Yale economist Robert Shiller was interviewed by Rik Kirkland, McKinsey’s director of publishing, in March 2009. In this short but candid video, Shiller explains his thoughts on the reasons behind the economy’s fall.

While most of us are eager to hear experts give us a date when the economy will again spring back, Shiller observes that we need to be cautious in the days to come.

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PwC Report Shows Internet Ad Spend Up by 10.6% in 2008 – Digital Video Ads Spend Rising

A report released by the Priceware House Coopers & Interactive Advertising Bureau shows that internet advertising increased by 10.6% in 2008 from the year before. Even while the US economy was dipping in the last quarter of 2008, the internet ad spending was still increasing at 2.8% over the same period last year.

The video ads saw a meteoric rise. Internet Advertising spend in the Digital video category shot up from $324 million in 2007 to $734 million in 2008. The Internet advertising in the United States grew to $23.4 billion in 2008.

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Data Driven Approach to Competitive Business Analysis – Statistics & Data Mash Up

The Mozenda Web Agent Builder 3.0 software is one of the products of the products from Mozenda, that allows business analysts to gather, compile & represent useful information available in house or on the internet.

This Web Agent Builder 3.0 is a digital content manager & can grab precise parts of website content and organize it into usable formats. So as long as the information is available on the internet, in a visible format, they can be captured & stored into your own database for use.

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Stats Comparison for the Best Social Networking Tool for Bloggers – 2009 Compete

Social networking has been one of the best ways for bloggers to connect with their readers. The entire process begins with chosing the social networks to building your brand, reader & customer base & finally leading them to your conversion point.

The 2 key elements in making a strong progress are (a) choosing the network that suits your blogging style & content & (b) using all the festures of those few sites to build & expand your brand.

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