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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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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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A few AR applications have been rolled out by progressive marketers and other organizations this year, but 2010 will be the year AR explodes. Some of the most interesting applications will be outside of marketing and promotion. Geekspeak marketing and lack of public awareness will hold AR back. PowerPoint is ubiquitous.

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Please Comment on WOMMA’s Ethics Code

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The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA ) is seeking public comments on its Ethics Code until January 5. If you are involved with any business use of social media (which includes blogging), you should review the code and make suggestions. For some, the business ethics of social media present a quandary.

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Who Are Your Twitter Fab Five?

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She’s one of the auto industry’s best observers and bloggers. She’s an online marketing pro, not one of the “make $3 million a day” kind but the hard working kind who knows SEO, e-commerce, content management, etc. Christopher is also a really smart marketer and all around decent guy. The letters and responses are a riot.

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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. Every marketing manager is eager to create a video that will be viewed 1 million times on YouTube, making the company’s name a household word.