Posted on 22 February 2012. Tags: adwords lead generation, adwords leadgen, google communication extension, google leadgen, lead arbitrage, leadgen, leadgen advertising, leadgen affiliates
Google has rolled out a new beta program within its “communication extensions” program. This will allow adwords advertisers to collect email addresses directly from their adwords ads. At first this sounds like an amazing opportunity for any leadgen advertiser; however, this could potentially spell trouble…particularly for affiliate leadgen advertisers. Lets take a look at a [...]
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Posted in Affiliate Marketing, CPA Marketing, Industry News
Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: market trends, research shopping trends, seasonal advertising, seasonal marketing
Now that Valentine’s Day is over, do you feel like you’ve capitalized on the holiday, or do you think you could have strategized better and come out of the holiday more profitable? Seasonal advertising takes a great deal of planning in order to be successful, but more importantly it requires a deeper understanding of consumer [...]
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Posted in Affiliate Marketing, CPA Marketing
Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: facebook advertising, facebook marketing, facebook mobile ads, facebook mobile advertising, facebook mobile marketing, mobile ads
Another piece of news on the mobile marketing front…and once again another opportunity to potentially cash in huge. According to the Financial Times, Facebook is set to launch advertising on mobile devices. This comes as no surprise for a few reasons: 1 – Facebook is looking to increase revenues any way possible for the IPO [...]
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Posted in Affiliate Marketing, CPA Marketing, Mobile Marketing
Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: admob, mobile ad networks, mobile ads, mobile advertising, mobile affiliate marketing, mobile cpc
Recently, admob made an announcement that they are changing the AdMob auction for their CPC ads. Checkout their official announcement: To ensure that we deliver the most effective mobile ads marketplace to our customers we are changing the AdMob auction for all cost-per-click (CPC) ads. Effective February 15, 2012, AdMob will move to an AdWords-style [...]
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Posted in Affiliate Marketing, CPA Marketing, Mobile Marketing
Posted on 08 February 2012. Tags: Affiliate Marketing, demographic research, demographic targeting, online market research, target marketing
At this point you should have a basic demographic profile of the type of person you are looking to get your ad and offer in front of. You should have information like: gender, age, race, education, income, etc. After my last post, I got a ton of questions about the basics of demographic targeting and [...]
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Posted in Affiliate Marketing, CPA Marketing
Posted on 08 February 2012. Tags: Affiliate Marketing, demographic research, online market research, psychographic data, target marketing
As affiliate marketers, we have to make significant investments on promoting our campaigns on advertising platforms such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Each platform has its own way of determining how ads are ranked as well as determining the user profile so that the ads delivered are as contextually sensitive given the users [...]
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Posted in Affiliate Marketing, CPA Marketing
Posted on 08 February 2012. Tags: affiliate management, affiliate manager, network manager, online marketing campaigns
In the expansive world of internet marketing, making connections with strong partners and utilizing all of the resources available is key in running a successful business. If you are working with a network, one of those invaluable resources is your affiliate manager or advertising rep. These professionals have extensive training and their career path is [...]
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Posted in Affiliate Marketing