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Plenty of Fish Does Advetising At It’s Finest

James Bird — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:54:06 +0000

Plenty of Fish does some of the best advertising online. At first it was to it’s users with it’s famous: “You have mail at plenty of fish.” Now it’s this directed at affiliate marketers.

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Is P90x the Next Acai

James Bird — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:56:43 +0000

So Acai is getting harder to promote and merchants aren’t liking the rebills anymore so what are all the CPA marketers to do.

Will The Answer Be P90x

Only difference is that P90x has helped some friends of mine get into some serious shape. Crazy right. Plus it’s doing a huge 2010 media push which will help sell the offer.

It will be interested to see the CPA world get cleaned up a bit. Maybe we can even start using the term long-term and mean something longer than 2 months. If not there is always Cash4Bling

Also on Monday I’ll be presenting at Think Tank Live a Milwaukee Search Engine Marketing & Social Media Summit 2010 . I’ll be speaking on PPC. Stop on by.

What makes a good ad network?

Affilaite Summit West 2010 – I’ll Be There

James Bird — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:35:35 +0000

I’ll be at Affiliate Summit Las Vegas in January. So if you are going hit me up. The days before I’ll be in Montana at a ski resort. If you know me and are also there don’t let me know as it would be stalkerish.

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The Diet/Get Ripped Flogs Still Abound

James Bird — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:24:06 +0000

It’s December 2^nd and the diet/muscle man flogs are still in full force. I’m not going to link to them. If you don’t know what a flog is then you probably shouldn’t be reading this site.

There is one in particular that has done some huge media buys and is still going strong with some very large ad networks. Seemingly they don’t mind the flogs or maybe they were fooled also. Depending on their floggers interpretation of the FTC ruling I wouldn’t be worried either. If you think the worse you can get is a $13,000 fine or whatever it’s up to now then who would care. They guys are making more than that a day.

To me what is really interesting and what I think a lot of people can learn is that “bridge” pages often can work better than direct linking to an affiliate offer. In this case they promote two products saying that it’s the secret sauce. Good idea. So even if you lose a hypothetical 20% of conversions by not direct linking you can possibly make more (and I’m sure they are) by getting commissions on both. Congrats to them.

End the end it’s about affiliate advertisers, publishers, and networks ethics. Something I’ll try to write about in the coming weeks.

What makes a good ad network?

James Bird — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:47:26 +0000

I’ve been using banner ads on ad networks. Some are great and some are just horrible. Here are my thoughts today, at this moment, and probably incomplete:

Experiences I have liked:

Getting a nice intro auto responder that was nice, gave me some tips for using there system and encouraged me to ask questions.
Even better – Actually answering my email when I did get in touch. Thank you for that.

Experiences I haven’t liked:

Getting a 20% CTR on a contextual text ad and none of it converts on an offer that historically converted like gangbusters before. IE your traffic is crap or more than likely fake.
Telling me you will have your “campaign optimizers” look into the campaign. Then they adjust my campaign in which I then get NO MORE IMPRESSIONS. When I get back to you a week later you have no recollection of speaking with me and tell me that I need to just bid on more categories.
Not having an automated system. Do we really have to really solely on the old media buy system. I really don’t want to call on a rep and have a long drawn out process to run an ad on your network.

This isn’t all there is to a good and bad ad network. It’s just what I’ve been thinking lately. I’ll hopefully be writing more soon.

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The Funniest FAKE Affiliate Offer

James Bird — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:44:18 +0000

Cats For Gold

This is just absolutely hilarious. I think it highlights pretty well the situation that is silly ass CPA offers. Even though if we could melt gold and make real live kitties that would be sorta awesome.

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Top 3 Reasons to Have Affiliates Promote Your Product

James Bird — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:12:18 +0000

1. In regards to the online marketing arena, they are better at it than you.

They can do more in less time than your or your in house marketing department could do.

2. You only pay them when they sell something.

It’s the easiest 100% commission sales force you’ll ever get. They don’t get paid until you sell your product or service.

3. Costumers you would have never thought of.

They will think of new ways to find costumers interested in your product that you never would have found.

What are your thoughts.

Get A Following By Getting Affiliates

James Bird — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:10:49 +0000

This blog will recount my journey of connecting companies with a loyal armada of affilaites for their products.

I run my own private affliate network. I allow people to work on their product will I empower a loyal army of affiliates to promote and sell their product for them. The army does what they never could. At least on a good day.

I am James Bird. I am an affiliate consultant and run an affiliate network and this is the story of Marshal Firth.

Top 3 Reasons to Have Affiliates Promote Your Product