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The Death of PPC?

When a giant like Google slaps those who’d been feeding it since it started making money with Adwords and Content Ads (Adsense) it means one of two things: either they are losing ground to other search engines due to the low quality of user experience with paid ads, or they’ve found a huge source of income that Adwords revenue dwarfs next to it. I have my reasons to believe that it’s both. The millions of annual spendings of individual affiliate marketers are not stable, and are declining anyway (as will be explained in a minute). Compare that with fixed advertising budgets from big brands whose advertising aims mostly at branding and not at  making direct sales. Due to the shrinking of profit margin expected from direct sales generated through Adwords more and … Read entire article »

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Specialization or Diversification?

Carrying on any type of business comes with a certain amount of risk depending on the nature of that business. But no matter how secure your business looks and how stable your market sounds, the risk is there. For this reason you might have heard a lot of business coaches, or from your instructors in the business school, that you need to diversify your business and never to “put all your eggs in the same basket”. Sounds wise, no doubt. But it also means a lot of distraction if you are going to do business in 3 or more different markets. In order to succeed in any business you need to focus. How would you focus and diversify … Read entire article »

Iceland Volcano Can Make You Rich

It’s almost one week now since the first eruption of the Iceland volcano. Smoke and ash clouds have been costing airlines tons of money (in the $20 million/day range). Both airlines and passengers (including the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harbor) are canceling their flights to Europe due to the ash clouds. I truly feel sorry for those trapped in the airports waiting for their governments to make other arrangements to get them back home, and for developing countries that are loosing millions of their originally tiny income from exports to Europe. But as a marketer this is what I see: Developing countries like Kenya exports flowers and fresh vegetables to Europe. For Kenya in particular, these exports account … Read entire article »

Yahoo! Kills Yahoo! Publisher Network

Yahoo! Kills Yahoo! Publisher Network

One of the highest quality and at the same time the cheapest of paid traffic that I’ve ever had in my whole online marketing career was from Yahoo! content network. If you are not familiar with it, it is Yahoo!’s version of Google’s Adsense program. It was only open for US residents, that’s way it wasn’t as popular as Adsense. On … Read entire article »

The #1 Ingredient In The Long Term Success Recipe

Ted and Robin are both Internet marketers. They both follow the same strategies and techniques. They both build lists, buy advertising, sell on the front end, back end, offer an upsell and a downsell, and follow up with autoresponder series to promote affiliate products. Although they do every thing similarly, after 5 years Ted is very successful while Robin is still struggling with his irresponsive list, building a list after another to refresh, and doesn’t seem to be able to take himself out of the equation. The difference is that Robin promotes everything and anything to his list, and is only thinking about how to get them to open the emails and buy from my link. … Read entire article »

Brand Names Are Taking Over

During the first quarter of 2010 it was obvious that the biggest names in affiliate networks are flirting with brand names. And although these networks are criticizing the Google slap and it’s impact on the affiliate marketing industry, they are doing the same. Small affiliate marketers are now having their accounts terminated or suspended for low volume. This means that small affiliates are now facing the challenge of either growing into big boys or losing their business. This challenge is time sensitive. And affiliate marketers who are just starting and those who lost their Adword accounts are supposed to find an efficient way to grow their business according to a plan. The picture is not different … Read entire article »

Employment Vs. Slavery

Not everyone can be a business person. For some, being employed is much more important than freedom and making more money. The way I see jobs is not going to appeal to most people, because for me a job is a modern disguise for slavery. In your job you trade your time and freedom willingly (as if you have the choice) until you retire, for  money that is hardly enough to pay for your shelter, food, and other needs. On the other hand, slaves trade their time and freedom against your will for the same things; shelter, food, and other basic needs. If you disagree with me, as most people do, search for the answer of … Read entire article »

The “Not So Secret” of Super Affiliates

If you have been around doing affiliate marketing for a while you must have noticed that there are some names that are always at the top of the list of super affiliates. And since you have been around for quite a while you must be at the same time on some of the lists of those super affiliates. Whenever a new product is about to be released you’ll get emails from those top super affiliates giving you heads up about the new product, warming you up and preparing your mind set to be in the buying mode. And when it’s time for the launch you’ll receive an email (or several ones) telling you about their bonus … Read entire article »

Seasonal Affilaite Marketing

No doubt, affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to make money online without any virutal real estate. You don’t need a website or a mailing list if you want to make money from affiliate marketing. Of course, virtual real estate could, and will, make you even more money with affiliate marketing, but you don’t need them to start. Just drag traffic directly to your affiliate link and you’ll start making money. But how to make money competing with the thousands of affiliates out there who are trying to make money promoting the same thing that you are promoting? There are several ways to compete in the affiliate marketing field. One of the strategies is to … Read entire article »

Forex is where the real money is

I have been working online for years, and this is how I provide for my family. But recently I attended a webinar by a real estate and forex multi-millionaire and I was shocked. It turned out that the real money is in the trading of oil, precious metals, and currencies. The real money is in FOREX! Every day, every single day, there is an average of $3.91 Trillion being traded. Can you imagine how much is that? Every day more money than enough to feed the whole world for years is being traded in certain places accessible from anywhere as long as you have a computer and Internet connection. You can buy and sell oil, gold, sliver, platinum, and foreign … Read entire article »