Beginners Guide to Affiliate Marketing Basics

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How Wistia’s Growth Exploded with a Simple Content Marketing Strategy

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If you’re in the online marketing world, no doubt you’ve already heard way too much about the benefits of content marketing, and how you can use it to drive traffic and sales. As affiliate marketers, we literally live or die based on our…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #14 – Consider Dropshipping Companies

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If you want to take your earnings to the next level and have a relatively low number of products you’re promoting, all of which are physical products, you might want to consider finding a reputable dropshipping company to work with. How It Works…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #13 – Promote a Pay Per View Program

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Ever heard of impression based marketing? Also called CPM (cost per mille, or cost per thousand) or even just casually referred to as “display,” these programs aren’t likely to make you rich. They can, however, boost your revenue, especially if you have a…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #12 – Give Away an Ebook or Resource Page with Monetized Offers

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Have you ever noticed just how many sites are eager to give you free content in exchange for your email? Well, there are a lot of reasons for that, but we won’t get into the nitty gritty of email marketing tips in this…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #11 – Take Advantage of CPA Network Bonuses

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In the last tip we talked about how you can leverage individual offer contests in order to boost your earnings. With the worst case scenario, you make a sizable number of sales and earn cash through the offer, but under the best case,…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #10 – Sign Up for an Affiliate Contest

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This tip is definitely for the intermediate marketers out there. There are constantly, yes I mean constantly, offers circling around the major networks that offer huge bonuses to the top performing affiliates. They’re contests, and if you focus and work towards a clear…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #9 – Earn Lifetime Commissions

lifetime affiliate commissions

One of my biggest problems with affiliate marketing is that all too often I feel like I expend a ton of effort to drive users to a new company online, only to receive a one time commission, even if the customer becomes a…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #8 – Leverage Offline Affiliate Programs

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When most marketers think about using affiliate promotions to increase their earnings from a website, they almost always focus on digital products and services, or at least services where the actual purchase occurs online. But customers don’t just buy things online, as much…

Affiliate Tip #7: Sell A Multi-Level Commission Program

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I know we’re focused on affiliate marketing, but have you ever thought about combining that knowledge with a partner to create your own programs? If so, then this is the way to do it. How It Works First, you’ll need a friend or…

Affiliate Marketing Tip #6: Get Paid Per Page View

cpm networks for affiliates

This tip is a great add-on to increase income from other affiliate techniques, but by itself it’s not likely to make you a millionaire. How It Works This strategy works best when you already have a site in place that generates a decent…