When I read the headline “Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?“, I fully expected to read the article, say “yep, bad idea that will surely fail”, and go on with my day.
Turns out it’s an interesting idea. It might still fail — definitely an uphill battle ahead.
I’m sure there’ll be [...]

I just posted a new case study video on YouTube showing how I’ve used an affiliate bonus offer (offering a bonus product to people who purchased something through my affiliate link) to earn $3,759.96 on auto-pilot.
Internet marketing “gurus” often use bonus offers to steal affiliate sales from other people (and each other!) during big product [...]

Russell Brunson’s making some changes to his affiliate program. One in particular caught my eye: refer at least 100 leads, and in addition to the commissions you’ll earn, he’ll send you a free Kindle 2.
There are other prizes at different levels (everything from a fruit basket to a home theater package to a Segue to [...]

I got this funny idea this morning that if you want something, you should ask for it, and be very clear about what you want. That much seems obvious, but what I haven’t seen it applied to very often (if ever) is creating business partnerships.
It may be that the only partnerships some people are looking [...]

“Viral Affiliate Resale Rights Products”. It sounds vaguely buzz-word compliant, but what on earth does it mean? Let me explain.
Resale rights products sound like a great idea when you first hear about them — somebody else creates a product, and possibly even a nice sales letter for it. You buy the right to resell it. [...]

Yesterday morning, I woke up a hour early with a few ideas that wouldn’t let me go back to sleep. So I got up and got to work, and now I’ve got a bunch of new testimonials, complete with photos, on my squeeze and sales pages. And I’m confident I’ll also get more traffic.
Big idea [...]

I read a post by Jonathan Leger today about the SEO benefits of an affiliate program, in which he recommends that merchants do a permanent redirect from the page their affiliates link to to their sales page (for example, from http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/?assoc=1 to http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/ — ie., just remove the affiliate ID).
The idea is sound, but two [...]

Here’s how to decide for yourself whether Armand Morin’s heavily promoted “Internet Marketing Explained” will be worth the price tag: check out the things he’s giving away free to drive traffic to it.
I came across his exceptional series of free internet marketing training videos today, and I highly recommend checking them out — I’ve got [...]

Yesterday, I finally finished an upgrade to Fast JV, adding support for the new “Fast JV Transaction Verification Protocol” (or “TVP”), which will enable any shopping cart system with affiliate support to work with Fast JV to increase sales. Fast JV enables affiliates to offer additional bonuses to customers who buy through their links, and [...]

Have you ever wondered exactly how ClickBank calculates the “gravity” number it displays for each item in the marketplace? The ClickBank website explains that gravity is the:
“number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the publisher’s products. This is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each [...]