Affiliate Business Opportunities
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Information Week:
On Monday, shopping search engine Jellyfish.com will begin to woo advertisers with what it claims is a better mousetrap: It will offer an alternative to cost-per-click (CPC) advertising by opening an online marketplace for advertisers to bid directly to customers for their attention and patronage. The company, which closed initial seed funding from undisclosed investors earlier this year, plans to give the customer half the ad revenue it collects from the advertiser upon making a sale.
The result is that Jellyfish users can get products for less because half the marketing dollars spent by advertisers go directly their customers instead of to a third party. At the time of this article, the cash returned can result in discounts of up to 24%, according to the company. This number will rise and fall daily as merchants bid for consumers’ business.
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The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:
We are always looking for new perspectives on business. If you’re interested in blogging for us, please contact Dane Carlson.
To advertise contact advertising@business-opportunities.biz.
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:
We are always looking for new perspectives on business. If you’re interested in blogging for us, please contact Dane Carlson.
To advertise contact advertising@business-opportunities.biz.
Yaro Starak:
I remember when I first discovered RSS feeds. I read reports of some bloggers who boasted a feed list of hundreds of blogs, which they watched each day. I think Dane Carlson said he had close to 500 or even more on his bloglines feed reading account. Whatever it was, it was a lot.
I started watching blogs too. I noticed many other bloggers were monitoring many feeds each day and filling their blogs with links to stories they found interesting on other blogs. It seemed like a circle of recycled content going from blog to blog.
As I started to watch blogs I found myself becoming overstimulated with ideas, most of which I never got around to acting on because there were even more new ideas the next day. I followed the pattern and blogged about other blog content, regurgitating the already recycled news which was going from newspaper to online news portal to blog and blog and blog. True, each blogger made things interesting by including their own point of view, but I noticed that the traffic results for me from regurgitated news wasn’t as good - heck, I wasn’t even interested in reading the same news on my own blog that I had just read somewhere else.
Harvey Segal:
When a company has a product or a service that they wish to sell they will often enlist ‘affiliates’ to do the job of finding customers for them.
You may know an affiliate by another name, for example: agent, reseller, associate, communicator.
Once the affiliate has managed to get the customer to make an order his job ends. The whole process of handling the order, the collection of payment, the shipping of goods, is done by the company (or distributor).
Who benefits ?
This is a tremendous arrangement for both sides.
Yaro Starak:
- Never start your pricing too high. It is better to error on the low side and get advertisers hooked, because then they will be willing to pay higher prices for your inventory when the pricing increases.
- Make sure your placement is worth buying, the popular sellers in the marketplace tend to be sites with the most premium inventory.
- Spend some time tagging your site and giving proper demographic information.
- In your site description provide ideas of advertisers that you think might convert well. You know your audience best.
- AdBrite is more successful if you sell a FEW premium placements as opposed to just MANY backfill placements.
- Hard code all placements because of the concreteness of “your ad here�. Putting AdBrite in rotation doesn’t perform as well.
- Allow a ramping period. AdBrite is a tool to help sell your own inventory, and think of it as a virtual salesperson for you. Any salesperson needs some time to gain traction. Just like an auction, the beginning price is never the final price.
- Entice advertisers with specials. You have full control to set pricing so make occasional specials to entice advertisers.
- Enable AdBrite’s auto pricing which will raise automatically as inventory sells, and lower itself as vacant inventory sits unsold.
John Battelle:
User generated content is hot - HOT! But if you’re a UGC (yup, I’m using the acronym) site, like RateItAll, Facebook, YouTube, or MySpace, how do you incent your members to post more great stuff, so you can make more money? Well, Google is only too happy to help you out there. Word has leaked recently (Eric was first) that Google is (reportedly) working on a new API that will allow content sites to distribute AdSense earnings to individual members. RateItAll apparently blew the embargo by posting a release discussing this too early.
Almost all AdSense publishers are looking for the most expensive keywords. Unfortunately, this strategy leaves a lot to be desired. If the keyword results in zero clicks per day, it doesn’t matter what your price is, there’s not profit! It’s cost/day (keyword price X clicks/day) that makes you rich, not keyword price itself.
Here is the list of the most PROFITABLE, not the most expensive AdSense keywords:
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:
We are always looking for new perspectives on business. If you’re interested in blogging for us, please contact Dane Carlson.
To advertise contact advertising@business-opportunities.biz.
