ProBlogger

JULY 17, 2013

Over on Reddit today someone asked for some advice on switching from monetizing a blog using just ad networks (like AdSense) to selling advertising directly to advertisers. So for me in the early days I started with AdSense and a little affiliate marketing (Amazon’s program).

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The same thing happened when I moved from just having advertising and affiliate promotions as the bulk of my income and then started to create ebooks. Advertising networks, that was my first one. Different sized ads, some ads, there are more advertisers targeting those sites. That almost doubled my income over night.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The same thing happened when I moved from just having advertising and affiliate promotions as the bulk of my income and then started to create ebooks. Advertising networks, that was my first one. Different sized ads, some ads, there are more advertisers targeting those sites. That almost doubled my income over night.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

They aren’t particularly interested in click-and-buy posts that lead them to a purchase point. Content creation expenses and staff salaries for videography, graphic design, and social media marketing. Promotion expenses, such as influencer fees, affiliate commissions, advertising costs, etc. Image via Sprout Social.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 15, 2021

I started cold-calling business owners and asking if they wanted to advertise on my blog. After a lot of knockbacks I got my first advertiser, who paid me $20 a month to advertise his business on my blog. And if I wasn’t doing it full-time by then I had to get a full-time job doing something else.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you’re talking specifically through social media, you could look to building a strong following on Twitter, for example, and then use services like Sponsored Tweets ( [link] ) or similar services where people will pay you to tweet advertising messages to your followers. as to if advertisers will want a space.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 6, 2011

Bloggers everywhere need to rethink their approaches: display advertising needs reinvention: who’s it working for? guest posting is the new content marketing. affiliate marketing: how do you pick a product and make it worthwhile? I work in advertising. It’s not something I identify with—&# advertising,&# that is.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 27, 2012

My strategy for the first two years on dPS was to build the audience, and if I could cover my costs, which were very low, with some advertising, then that would be a bonus. So I had advertising and affiliate marketing on the blog before I developed the products. Challenges of a product strategy.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If you’ve been meal-prepping all week and have been waiting for just this sort of product suggestion to come into your life, clicking on the pin will take you directly to Glad’s website to buy some for yourself. Become an affiliate marketer. Do your keyword research. Source: FastCompany on Pinterest. Source: Pinterest.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

I could become a news / content site that makes money through advertising. Instead, I’m going to go back to my favourite type of marketing: affiliate marketing. Not necessarily the name of the product, but buying phrases that would likely result in a sale if this person landed on my website.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

23 Social Media Marketing Tips from Dell, Comcast, HP, Wells Fargo, Best Buy, General Mills, Ford, UPS, Home Depot, Cirque du Soleil (Online Marketing Blog): Lee Odden takes advice from the best minds in social media who have worked in the corporate world. She has some great comparisons. Sending products to bloggers helps too!)

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ProBlogger

MARCH 3, 2012

To create a blog, you’ll have to do research on your target market, figure out the operational and start-up costs, and so on. For your blog, your business model might be selling services, selling other peoples products for commission (affiliate marketing), or something else. This is very important. Step 4: Finance.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 8, 2017

Promoting affiliate products is still one of the most effective ways to make money from your blog. Jayson DeMers points to affiliate marketing as an excellent entry-level place to begin monetizing your blog in this Forbes article , because it is easy to implement and free to start up (just taking a bit of your time).

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 29, 2022

This is great news for marketers who are revving up partnerships across several networks at once. Our research found that more than half anticipate using Instagram, Facebook and TikTok for creator collaborations within the next three to six months. You wouldn’t buy a car without taking it for a test drive first, right?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 24, 2012

You may have a readership that, in all probability, buys things related to the subjects you blog about. It’s only a matter of time before marketers invade your inbox like cliché-spouting terrorists with shiny shoes. You’ll build a base of contacts that’ll be useful if and when you need to verify or research posts.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 21, 2022

Even if you’re an experienced retailer with a keen eye for Facebook advertising and selling — what happens if you’re not selling as many products as you’d like? In fact, 76% of internet users aged 16 to 64 use social media platforms for brand research. Set up an affiliate program. How do you take your Facebook sales up a level?

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Her latest posts include Brand Naming Online , Using Gmail Search for Keyword Research and Inspiration , and 3 Obvious Truths I Cam to Understand When Creating and Promoting My Projects. Her blog on Making a Living Online advertising, making money online, site promotion, social media, and more. Follow her @seosmarty on Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 24, 2012

Did you buy, Jim? Jim : That leads me to believe… what you said right there though is that are people buying the stock because they’re fans, or are they buying it because they’re a good business decision? I’m a marketer. Why did people buy this stock? I’m not a numbers guy. for Google.

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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

Ranking Fast: A Unique Keyword Research Strategy The problem with these huge industries is that you could be waiting over a year to see any results for your hard work in terms of search engine rankings. Not unless you have a huge link-buying budget and know how to get paid links that still count. What do you think?

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Your Escape From 9 to 5

JULY 8, 2022

Discipline : The discipline of reading, researching and creating will lead to personal discoveries of abilities you may not even know you had. This is also sometimes called “affiliate” marketing. If you are looking for a “get rich quick scheme” then stop reading now and buy a lottery ticket. Blogs, trade magazines, books?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Social media scientist Dan Zarrella has some excellent research on social content best practices. Don’t make assumptions – test them. Vary time of day, day of week, phrasing, link placement, and other options, and thoroughly document your results. GREAT INFO!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

The newsletter, which was sent within the first week of the month, would include new research findings from surveys conducted by research groups such as the Pew Research Center, new discoveries from a marketing firm’s eye tracking study, or data that was recently culled across a multitude of SEO agency case study reports.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

You should know that using some types of ads like Kontera (contextual advertising) and the likes on your blog will irritate a large percentage of your readers but using AdSense the right way will not affect your blog. All of these blogs also make use of affiliate marketing and it works for them since they have a large audience.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 8, 2010

8 quick tips for developing a Facebook marketing strategy – competing with search engines, community pages, and more. Interesting research and statistics. 7 tips to mastering Facebook advertising – do you know the difference between an ad for a Facebook URL vs. and outside URL? Be sure that yours stays good!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Content Development/Marketing. Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Marketing. Affiliate Marketing. The Expert’s Guide to Keyword Research for Social Media (WordStream): This really interesting guide discusses how you can benefit from diverse keyword research strategies, which you’d think is for PPC and SEO only.

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ProBlogger

JULY 2, 2013

This a guest contribution from full time affiliate marketer, Nrupen Masram. Using your blog to earn a passive income through affiliate sales is something many bloggers aspire to. Word-of-mouth advertising is by far the best, strongest and most effective form available…and it’s free! Isn’t it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

With Internet Marketing, there are many ways to go, from affiliate marketing to SEO to social media to email marketing. Affiliate Marketing : Affiliates are individuals who market a particular product or service and who get paid commissions by a merchant when they make the sale.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 19, 2010

Feeling bad about making money is silly because people will only buy something if they want to buy it. If you launch a product to your audience and they buy it in droves, realise that they made the transaction because they want the value you have to offer. and would maybe be interested in buying something I sell.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2013

A few years ago I wouldn’t have written a blog post about affiliate marketing. Stage 2: How to develop an “ultimate article” that soft-sells your affiliate. The idea now is to create an article that serves as the “final point” in the process before the reader buys the product.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2015

I’ve talked to every contact I have, conducted research, done free and paid courses and classes, read real books and e-books, watched videos, attended webinars, and have tried a lot of these strategies myself – if it’s not on the list, it probably doesn’t exist or just doesn’t work. Display Advertising. Mobile Advertising.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

I also created an affiliate website builder called affiliateSkin, which I no longer sell, and have my fair share of successes and failures which have taught me a few lessons. Step #2: Market Research. Market Research. Market research wasn’t so straight forward on this one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

She did receive many gifts, and emails circulated frequently taking up collections: “We want to fill her room with flowers, buy her a digital camera, a scanner, send her to Disney World&#. i wrote, researched (and proofed) most of this well past the time any sane woman would have gone to bed, and i was definitely woozy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Monier suggests that it could be flawed, however, as in describing a “diamond:&# what if a baseball enthusiast chooses to buy his wife a nice piece of jewelry? I, like Loren Baker , feel that Mahalo is one of those sites that had its skeptics in the beginning but is growing to become a valuable research tool.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

While it’s possible to make big money from industries that have no interest to you – I’m talking outside of traditional paid ads and affiliate marketing here – it’s rare. Don’t allow research to last forever in place of action but do give it a significant time investment.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Research these potential influencers to get a handle on their credibility. Audiences there are large, but they are there to connect, not to buy. You’re right; it’s not much different from other types of marketing. Affiliate marketing, for example, comes to mind. After all, time is money.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 8, 2010

I won’t deny that it’s getting much, much harder in the affiliate marketing space (how I make money) but persistence, determination and creativity can take you anywhere. I focus mostly on my blog, but am tempted to try developing an affiliate marketing site. You make it all sound so easy. Thanks a lot!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Run a StumbleUpon Advertising Campaign for Your Blog (Problogger): I’m noticing that a lot more people are running advertising campaigns for their blogs since this article came out. Anatomy of a Viral Sensation (Pronet Advertising): This post by David Chen explores how content can be a viral success.

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