Posts Tagged ‘Netiquette’

AM Affiliate: Virgin Airlines Makes Flying Fun, Is Texting While Talking the New Rudeness, + More

- So how is one air carrier defying the odds and “making flying fun”? By leveraging new media. That air carrier? Virgin Airlines. [AdAge] – Affiliate marketers! We’re some of the most overworked people on Earth, but does that still give us a right to thumb through our smartphones when we’re in the middle of [...]

10 Facebook Habits That Might Be Hurting Your Affiliate Marketing Career

Social Media has transformed affiliate relationships. With affiliates, affiliate managers, and advertisers all present on Facebook, managing your online reputation has become a crucial element in your success within the industry. We’ve assembled 10 tips to making sure you come across as yourself on Facebook without jeopardizing your affiliate marketing career. 1. If at all [...]

6 Terrible Twitter Habits to Kill Before 2011

With it being the end of the week, perhaps it’s a good time to start figuring out how to start planning for 2011…by implementing strategies effective next week. As affiliate marketers, we’ve all (well, most of us!) done one thing right: We all set up Twitter accounts! Well done! But many of us are still [...]

AM Affiliate: 26 Ways to Kill Comic Sans, Facebook Seeks to Trademark “Face”, + More

- 20 places where ideas come from. [Seth Godin] – Lisa Barone stops by Shoemoney‘s blog to tell you about five lessons affiliates can learn from SEO experts. [Shoemoney] – Three things to do before Thanksgiving. [GetAds] – The affiliate marketing world is known for its proclivity to party like rock stars…but that doesn’t mean [...]

AM Affiliate: Measuring Unmeasurable Social Media, Affiliate Marketing Internships, + More

- “Small investments in unmeasurable media almost always fail. Go big or stay home.” – Seth Godin [Seth Godin] – Are you ready for ad:tech New York? [BPN] – Internships in affiliate marketing: It happens! [

AM Affiliate: How to Tell White Lies Online, The Marketing Value of Gifts, + More

- How to be good at blogging about the affiliate marketing world. [ClickBooth] – Could mobile marketing’s true value be in customer retention–not customer acquisition? [MediaPost] – Telling white lies online can be difficult, now that social media has made fact-checkers out of everybody. So tell the truth isntead. [CNN] – 10 great guerrilla marketing [...]

AM Affiliate: The Perks of Niche Marketing, SF-Based ISP Offers Unlimited Bandwidth, & More

- With the CPA space getting more and more crowded each day, the success for new affiliate marketers lies in living on the fringes and banking on niche offers. [Finch Sells] – New market for affiliates promoting via mobile traffic? Research shows that 72% of all adults are text-messaging now. [MSNBC] – If you’re still [...]

What Social Media Invitation Netiquette Can Teach You About Customer Relations

As affiliates across the country wind up for next week’s AffCon 2010, it’s important that in addition to upgrading your networking chops, you remember how to keep your pitch effective without becoming a living, breathing infomercial.