1115 Media - Latest Comments in Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

1115media — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:51:34 -0000

Market Leverage is listing the winners. I'm not sure when they'll be done, but they have been announcing them on Twitter. The winner of this blog is TrishaLyn.

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

Miguel Alvarez — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:46:41 -0000

So... who won?

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

1115media — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:47:23 -0000

"Grade prize winners will be announced on January 5, 2009. The winning posts will be available on the Market Leverage blog."

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

Rajendra — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:17:22 -0000

any specific date? Or on 1st Jan ?

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

1115media — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:48:38 -0000

All winners will be notified in January. Thanks for entering!

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

Rajendra — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:24:42 -0000

Oops, hope i am not late.
As its Holiday season, I though I would write something on the related topic.

The Secret of Seasons To Make money from Affiliates !!

People want different products and services at different times of the year, so it makes sense to adjust your marketing campaigns to take advantage of the various seasons and special holidays. For example in the summer people are thinking about going to the beach, eating out and having picnics and BBQs, and advertising relevant products (with relevant keywords) can help you to attain much higher results on the search engine rankings, and encourage more visitors to your website increasing your overall earning potential.

Some holidays are also more commercial than others, the main one of course being Christmas, and it would be foolish to miss out on the opportunity to make some more money at this time. Here are a few tips on how to cash in on the changing seasons and holidays, and improve your affiliate earning potential.
* Keywords – when you notice important dates coming up such as Christmas or Easter, sit down and write a keyword list, including all of those words you think people will most likely be typing into the search engine around this time such as ‘Easter eggs’ or ‘tree decorations’. Go back over the content of your website and add new articles or amend existing ones to incorporate these keywords. Make sure all of your articles are unique and relevant, and avoid any copy/pasting as this will have a negative, rather than positive, effect on your search engine rankings. If you are going to mention any particular gifts or products make sure you do your research to get the right prices for the current year, as a lot of content on the Internet is often left over from the previous year and will be out of date.

* Products – there are many different affiliate schemes around, advertising hundreds of different products, and you may find that including one or two products on your website that are relevant to the holidays will boost your site traffic and earning potential. Only include new schemes if you genuinely think visitors to your site will be interested in them though, and avoid any products that you cannot make relevant – for example if you have a gadget related website include technology based Christmas decorations like flashing lights and audio mechanisms, but don’t bother too much with other decorations like holly wreaths or hand crafted nativity sets, as these are not likely to interest visitors to your particular website.

* Seasonal newsletter – newsletters are a powerful tool to help increase site traffic and generate repeat visitors, so take advantage of the holidays by producing a seasonal newsletter, full of relevant news items and articles. Try and write only a taster of each item though and refer back to the website for more info, as this will create a series of ‘hooks’ to encourage readers to visit the website. It is also a good idea to include some kind of contest or giveaway, as well as details of promotions and discount through the newsletter as this will encourage more people to sign up, and an extensive mailing list is a major asset to any successful affiliate marketing program.

Just head over to Marketleverage to find some great Xmas and New year campaigns to see your New year flourishing.

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Hope you will find the article interesting. If you can email back - if the entry is accepted or not, that would be great.
Thanks
Rajendra

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

1115media — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:38:16 -0000

I know, I'm definitely not an early adapter.

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

TrishaLyn — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:01:52 -0000

1. It's about time you added Disqus, as it is awesome.
2. I entered on Shawn's blog as that was the first place I saw the contest, but I'll toss in here too.

As I said there, my secret isn't really a secret - work smarter, not harder. I picked up the saying from one of my college roommates and I'm sure some genius generations before me coined the phrase, but I apply that mantra to everything. I try to make things more efficient and do things better so that my time is more effectively used and I can work smart without necessarily making things harder on myself.

To apply that to the affiliate example, I use MaxBannerAds on my blog. When I label the ads, not only do I add the merchant name but I also add the network name, i.e. Market Leverage, to help me to group them together when I go to look at reporting so I can easily group things for myself. That's just one small example of how I work smarter, not harder.

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

TrishaLyn — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:58:21 -0000

Is that allowed? lol

If so, I'm entering on ALL Y'ALL's blogs... the hubby wants an iPod and the in-laws would love a flip...

LETS DO THIS!

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

1115media — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:15:59 -0000

Thanks for coming by and entering Miguel!

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

Miguel Alvarez — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:30:01 -0000

Hey... Here's my tip to enter the contest:
"Skip the landing page game!"

When running CPA offers from MarketLeverage, most affiliates immediately jump
to design a landing page based on Google's "quality score". And that's where they
drive all their traffic to.

Those landing pages are good... but ONLY for Adwords!

My suggestion is to buy a separate domain and point it directly to the offer (skip
the conversion-reducing landing page) and use that domain to drive traffic from
all other sources like articles, blog posts and social media marketing.

If you're cheap (or on a budget), simply create a meta-refresh page on the same
domain where you host your landing page and advertise that on all non-google
places.

Try it and you'll see just how good things get when you don't have to jump through
big G's hoops all the time. ;)

Cheers!
Miguel Alvarez
http://MarketingFactor.com

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

MLDina — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:26:54 -0000

Thanks for hosting the contest, Mike! We're pretty excited about the prizes, too! You, Sam and Tim are going to have to fight me for them! :)

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

1115media — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:28:14 -0000

I didn't think of that. Actually I could use the HD Flip more than the kindle right now.

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

Tim_Jones — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:26:51 -0000

Yeah, I'm entering this contest on every blog hosting it (except my own, of course) just to get in the running for the Kindle. Gotta have one!

Re: Share Your Secret, Market Leverage Contest, Win Ipod or Flip

samharrelson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:49:29 -0000

KINDLE!!!1!

i've been trying to get networks to give them away forever.

glad ML listened.

plus, you can't find one for less than $750 on eBay since amazon is out of stock.

game changer!!