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Affiliate Marketing Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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Affiliate marketing is an excellent source of online revenue. It’s a process through which marketers promote other people’s services or products and earn a commission whenever there’s a sale completed. It gives bloggers a chance to start selling on their sites without going through the mind-numbing process of making their own products.

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FTC to Penalize Questionable Blogging Practices

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Specifically, the agency now requires bloggers to disclose relationships with sponsors, whether the blogger is paid or merely receives “free” products and services; and for celebrities to disclose their paid relationships with sponsors. an advertiser hires a blogger to test out and then review a new body lotion.

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Who Are Your Twitter Fab Five?

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Vruz is an example of what makes Twitter amazing: You’ll meet people from different walks of life, half way around the world, that you would never have met IRL. She’s one of the auto industry’s best observers and bloggers. Christopher is also a really smart marketer and all around decent guy. See how smart he is?).

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Five Things Jesus Looks for in a Blog Post

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I was chatting with a friend about the motivations behind the sensationalistic and predictable headlines bloggers use to attract attention. It’s about things like affiliate marketing programs, paid endorsements, and other hidden forces in social media that consumers and business/organizational users need to understand.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work. Last year, the Associated Press announced it would “attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s The nature of the copyrighted work.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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The concept that e-mail is in decline, rather than dead, is too complex for many bloggers, and the technique of declaring things “dead&# is a tried and true blog traffic generator. Gizmodo, for example, responded with Email is Dead? Unfortunately, the Journal didn’t say e-mail was dead, but reported on Oct.