[ 25.01.2008 | sumberide.com ]
If you will lift your brows and cast a careful look on our online services industry, you will find countless affiliate programs and marketing agencies. The figures are very disproportionate as one good affiliate program can serve hundreds of publishers. Still, we have thousands of programs and many of which are created just to entice the publishers and exploit their resources.
Affiliate programs are provided by premier marketing agencies, merchants themselves and by affiliate networks. By signing up for an affiliate program provided by any merchant, you share a direct relationship with your partner or merchant. In case of third party services, like those provided by affiliate marketing agencies and networks, you have representative to pledge your case. In any case, the publisher runs a risk of falling to the wrong merchant or affiliate program.
There are quite a few ways wherein the merchant can take advantage of the affiliate. These are:
Merchant or Network not paying anything: This is one kind of exploitation where merchants or networks promise to pay the affiliate, but do not. The reasons provided are earnings less than threshold amount, click frauds reported from the affiliate, reversal of any sale or purchase, unqualified leads or simple refusal from the agency. The remedial procedure is to go for proper credibility check of the agency by interacting with them and interacting with any other affiliate that you may find.
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[ 15.01.2008 | sumberide.com ]
When your customer and/or merchant are nothing but a handle on an Internet website, the likelihood of falling victim to deceit greatly increases. In an age of credit card fraud and telephone scams it is imperative that sellers and buyers protect themselves.
Internet Fraud
The top ten Internet scams as listed by the National Consumers League’s (NCL) Fraud Center, in 2006 included:
1. Online Auctions – Misrepresented or undelivered goods.
2. General Merchandise – Misrepresented or undelivered goods not purchased through auctions.
3. Fake Check Scams – Consumers using fake checks to pay for sold items, and asked to have the money wired back.
4. Nigerian Money Offers – Deceptive promises of large sums of money, if consumers agreed to pay the transfer fee.
5. Lotteries – Asking winners to pay before claiming their non-existent prize.
6. Advance Fee Loans – Request a fee from consumers in exchange of promised personal loans.
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[ 12.01.2008 | sumberide.com ]
Bloggers, both old and new, are always looking for ways to continually improve their blogs. One of the simplest ways to improve your blog is to read other blogs.
How is reading other peoples blogs going to help you improve your blog? Just read this article and I will explain how this will happen.
Reading other peoples blogs will help you by giving you ideas to use on your own blog. I am not endorsing you go and steal content from somebody’s blog, no not at all. What I am suggesting is to look and see what they do to make their blog so popular.
For instance, preceding every post they place a blurb for readers to sign up for their RSS feed. Wow! what a brilliant idea you think to yourself and then you incorporate that to your blog. That is an example of how to improve your your blog by reading another blog.
Reading other blogs will also give you ideas to write about or give you insight to a trend that is developing in your niche. You can also find ways to make your blog look better, like a combination of colors that make the page easier to look at or a type font that is easy to read. It will also make you want to be like them, successful!
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[ 9.01.2008 | sumberide.com ]
There I was. Waiting in the lobby to meet my next client. Ahhh, the good life. While sipping a nice clean swallow from my filtered water bottle I catch the conversation across the way. What do you know; they too make a living on the Internet.
Then suddenly, as if my chair was ripped from underneath the perch on where I sat sending me hurdling to the floor; I heard it.
“We’d recommend you name your new website William.com.”
Now unless they were talking to Bill Gates or Billy Graham, and I was quite sure neither of those would be the case; I couldn’t believe my ears. Their client was a home business time management consultant. No one would look for his website through Google or any other search engine using his first name. I wanted to get up and scream, STOP! But I think I was half stunned from the pure ignorance being displayed by people in my field.
See, when choosing a domain name you want to use your strongest keyword within that domain name for the best results. True you can build name recognition over time in some cases like Google.com and Yahoo.com but I’m pretty sure that William the home business time management consultant was not interested in what it would take to make this happen for his first name.
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[ 5.01.2008 | sumberide.com ]
Anybody else out there who has a buddy who needs to rally support for a good cause or publicize something intellectually stimulating or just sell some funny T-shirts, please tell them about blog advertising. It will be good for your buddy and bloggers.
I am looking for advertisers for my blog.
The amount of money advertisers are spending on their own web applications has skyrocketed in thep past year, offering a chilling clue as to where the disruptive nature of the Internet is taking advertising. next. Advertiser spending in the “online marketing and promotions” category jumped 130% between 2006 and 2007 to an estimated $8 billion nationwide. That’s money that advertisers would likely have spent on conventional advertising before the Web.
Who Are The Advertisers?
The first group are the mass marketers. This group craves safety, as the Wall Street Journal noted last month. They are skittish about advertising on blogs. As a result, they will gravitate towards teaming with the larger players when it comes to experimenting with the medium.
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