Marketing Newb
Build Your Marketing Campaigns Around Public Holidays
A quick note on a technique you can use to create a promotions angle around any product you like. GetResponse just posted a nice calendar representing all major holidays in the USA. Here it is below, and you can see the original post here. The idea of marketers leveraging holidays and other major events to [...]
Updated: The Best WordPress Affiliate Link Manager Around
This morning I got an email from MaxBlogPress, saying that they had just updated their Ninja Affiliate plugin. I have been using this plugin for years on many of my WordPress sites (including this one.) It is extremely handy, and one plugin that I would certainly miss if I didn’t have it (I’ll tell you [...]
Starting Internet Marketing: Choose Your Weapon
It’s probably the biggest understatement in the world to say there’s already a lot of Internet Marketing (IM) information on the web. Every man and his dog is promoting failsafe methods to generate crazy amounts of cash on the Internet. Let me tell you – 95% of that is pure marketing – it’s going full [...]
TweetAdder – Your Twitter Automation Assistant
Only time for a short post now, but I’ve been using TweetAdder for a couple of months now and it has become one of my essential tools for niche Internet marketing. There are not many tools that I use daily, but (along with Scrapebox) this has become a core part of my marketing toolbox. On [...]
Affiliate Marketers Need Sunshine
A little health tip today. This one is aimed at affiliate marketers, as they are prime candidates for being chained to a desk (yes, that affiliate pimp lifestyle is irregular at best), working mostly at night, and generally staying in doors. Although, really, this applies to all office workers, especially those who live farther distances [...]
Cloaking a WordPress Post Based on the Referrer
The Scenario We want to change the content of a post based on the referring URL. Why would we want to do this? Well, in an affiliate marketing context, we may want to display a certain offer based on where the reader came from. e.g. We have a review blog with 10 informative articles and [...]
Filtering the Social Media Firehose with Yahoo Pipes
Coming from a technical background, I love this kind of stuff. Church of the Customer’s Jackie Huba writes about the speed with which Salesforce.com responded to a post she wrote about them on Twitter. How did they find this so fast? Do they have a special vanity search division, polling the major search engines constantly? [...]
Starting off on the right foot
From the keyboard of Quadszilla, an inspirational blog post to start my own blog off in the right vein. I strongly identify with what he’s written here, and it interests me that it came from him. The reason being: if you read all of his blog posts you will see he’s a smart guy and [...]