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There are many reasons why you would want to find yourself in a niche with Affiliate Marketing: Less competition Unique products Defined audiences These are all great benefits but there are times when you may be tempted to take your niching too far. Doing so has you backing yourself into a corner. You're now susceptible to the niche blogging dangers. It’s natural that you would want to carve a slice of your own in the marketplace. But... there are issues. The Problems of Sub-Niches and the Niche Blogging Dangers Bound to Happen Sometimes you find a valuable keyword with little...
Popular posts rely on content formulas because they have been successful time and time again. It’s why we see certain types of headlines come in “waves” while others remain staples no matter what the niche. If you've got a good headline... you've got a good idea for a post. Once you understand these headline formats you can start generating dozens, even hundreds, of article ideas within hours by playing with the parameters. Here are a few to get you started (and may actually be the only ones you’ll ever need). Along with them are a few reasons why they work...
Affiliate marketing is amazing because you don’t have to create a product or service. You leverage your understanding of the Web (such as content publication, social media, or advertising) to push affiliate offers and earn a commission. The way that sounds gives you the impression that there aren’t any risks involved with the industry. On the contrary. Affiliate marketing, like all other industries, does have its host of issues. There are plenty of hidden dangers and big risks involved when you get involved. This post wasn’t made to dissuade you from giving affiliate marketing a shot. It’s here so that...
An age old debate I still see on a regular basis is the question of how frequently you should publish content to your website and its blog. I’m a firm believer in the idea of writing at least 500 words a day but this doesn’t mean each one of those pieces are going to be published. In fact, there’s a whole lot of downsides to publishing too frequently. The same can be true if you take too long in between updates. Your challenge as a blogger is to find the happy medium. It’ll depend on your niche. It’ll depend on...
Your email list is pure gold if you increase the effectiveness of the campaigns. This means: More email opens Better response rates Don't have email blasts going yet? That’s a shame because the list is really where the money’s at. Use our email marketing guide to get things going. For everyone else? You could be doing a few things with it that seems somewhat successful. It’s not giving you the type of ROI you were expecting. No worries. We've got six ways to improve email marketing (and improve response and open rates)... 1. Set a Higher Threshold to "Weed Out"...
Buzzfeed, Upworthy, and Cracked are pretty dang great at crafting social content. The type of content that gets social media users buzzing. The type of content that challenges ideas. These blogs absolutely dominated the social media landscape. Since we first wrote this post we used these three as the big examples. Cracked is going through a recent shake-up. Upworthy isn't nearly as big as it used to be. But Buzzfeed is still going strong. Each gives us something to learn -- something we can apply to our blogs and how we form this social content. The interesting thing: There isn’t...
We’ve seen major AAA titles do phenomenally successful in the market. New systems have just launched. Streaming services are a plenty. eSports, the growing community around competitive gaming, is bigger than ever which is why I’d like to take this time to go through its popularity and what opportunities are available from the affiliate angle. The Rise of eSports Just how popular are eSports? Considering that 32 million people tuned in to watch the League of Legends championship it’s easy to understand that this is going to be big. Gaming has gone mainstream. Platforms like Twitch have thousands of gamers...
When you make that transition from being an employee or traditional business owner into the world of affiliate marketing you bring along a lot of baggage. An employee has been trained to follow specific rules for their position. They aren’t allowed to think outside the box and solve problems their way, usually. Established business owners, too, get into a mindset of “if it’s not broke then don’t fix it”. Most of them have developed traits that set limiters on their ability to grow, in business. They may not see it immediately but it would become very apparent if and when...
