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Actually, my first reaction was “Is it so?” As came across a few interesting reads with lots of data on the growing number of snapchat users, it made me revisit my initial reaction. I just couldn’t deny the information in front of me – Snapchat is in a race with Read more…
Unless you’re required to sell a product at a specific price point, like the MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price), then you’re in charge of the anxiety-inducing task of setting your prices in your store. It’s not easy, considering all the things you have to factor in: competitive pricing, customer Read more…
Just about every day, someone tells me about their amazing app idea. It’s always something that will blow up into something huge, getting millions of users, and obviously, earning millions of dollars. All with just word-of-mouth marketing. If you think about it, it makes sense. I mean, apps are MASSIVE Read more…
Social marketing strategies vary and opinions about them differ. There is only one obvious thing about them – to grow your audience, you must share interesting, useful, and original content. Creating good content takes a lot of you precious time – you have to spend hours on research, writing, and promoting it.
But what if you don’t have any audience at all and all the content creating process is just a waste of time for you? Then you are in a trap! But we know the way out.
There are still ways to spend less time and effort especially when you learn how to use the blogs of others to attract audience and build your own business. In this article we will talk about content curation, its benefits, and some excellent resources and tools to use to achieve better results.
Creating and implementing a marketing plan are good first steps to boost your business, but it’s also necessary to measure whether your tactics are working as expected. Some business owners try a marketing technique for a too-brief period, and potentially miss out on lucrative opportunities due to impatience.
That’s why it’s useful to intelligently track your marketing methods throughout history so you can tweak and revamp them as necessary. Keep reading to learn about why tracking your marketing performance is necessary, and find out about several solutions that can make keeping tabs on your marketing efforts easier than expected. (more…)
Email is the method of contact for an ever-increasing group of people across the globe. Some forecasts place the number of people using email at around 4 billion across the globe. Many people have multiple email addresses, changing them, using different ones for different uses. We check our emails on Read more…
Learning how to make extra money on the internet is easy. Figuring out what to do to make extra money on the internet is not as easy.
There are hundreds of categories that can be split into thousands, if not tens of thousands of ideas. This guide on how to make extra money on the internet, with a special focus on affiliate marketing. There are many other ways to make money online, but we will include a lot of affiliate marketing programs because:
Think of affiliate marketing as commissioned-based sales.
The 3 basic steps in affiliate marketing
- You recommend a product or service to people (your followers or people you know).
- Some of those people purchase the product or service based on your recommendation.
- You get paid a commission for those purchases.
That’s it. Simple, right?
~Amy Lynn Andrews
A company creates a product and commissions people to sell it for them in exchange for a percentage of the sale. Amazon, Best Buy and other major retail outlets have affiliate programs. That's right, you can set up an account with say, Best Buy, start selling flat screen TVs, and earn about a 4% commission. It is the affiliate marketer's job to send people to an offer to Best Buy, and if that prospect buys, they earn a commission.
Now, that is affiliate marketing at its very basic function. Here's the thing about affiliate marketing.
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After I left eBay as a seller to go after the bigger financial fish (as well as score a more stable income) I learned the hard way just how tough affiliate marketing can be for beginners. I persevered, and earned thousands of dollars per MONTH, but it still wasn't enough.
That is because you need a lot of traffic to be able to sell affiliate products.
Think of a funnel
Nowadays a long email list is all about making money out of it. However, without having a good email open rate, a list of subscribers is of no good use. The Benefits Email marketing is virtually like an ATM, from where you can withdraw cash as and when you like provided you have implemented the right technology.
Therefore, before thinking of making big bucks mesmerize your subscribers, take proper steps so that your emails suffer a good open rate.
In this blog post, I’ll be putting down the tips and tricks with which your emails will experience a high open rate. (more…)
Branding is more than just your company image or logo. It speaks of your philosophy, who you are, and a catchy slogan which gives people something to identify with you. It’s these elements that can often set you apart from so many other businesses competing for customers through effective branding. Read more…