Category: Online Marketing Tips
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Why the Affiliate Leaderboard is Important
The first time my name appeared on an affiliate leaderboard I didn’t even realize it until someone alerted me. The leaderboard is the list of top affiliates in any give affiliate contest. Usually the product creator will post the top five or ten affiliates, but sometimes they will list as many as twenty names if…
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Refunds in Affiliate Marketing: What Now?
Affiliate marketing refunds are a natural part of this business model. You may be wondering what happens when someone asks for a refund for a product you have recommended and promoted. There are actually two answers to this question. The first one is that the platforms we all use to sell and track our sales…
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Affiliate Marketing: What Should You Recommend?
Affiliate Marketing for New Online Entrepreneurs Knowing which products and courses to promote as an affiliate marketer needs careful consideration. When I was just getting started I was taught to choose the most popular products and those that paid the highest commissions. But that did not feel right to me, so I abandoned that advice…
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Affiliate Marketing Tips: Recommending What You Love
Affiliate Marketing Tips: Recommending What You Love When I made the decision to leave my teaching job and part-time real estate business to come online back in 2005, I had no idea how I was going to earn a living. Looking back I realize that I took a leap of faith and believed in myself…
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Success Tips for Entrepreneurs: You Can Do It!
Since coming online as an entrepreneur in 2006 I’ve made a study of successful people and what they do to achieve and maintain ongoing success. The success tips I want to share with you here are based on my informal, non-scientific research, as well as on the results I have been able to achieve over…
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Customer Service: The Story of “El Guapo”
Customer Service: This is Crucial to Both Online and Offline Businesses Recently I was driving by the location where a bicycle shop once did a brisk business in the city where I reside in southern California. The shop is now long gone, and in its place is a pool supply store. It made me think…
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Money Mistakes New Entrepreneurs Make
3 Money Mistakes that Keep Your Business Broke Poor money management has been the cause of more business failures than any other single issue. And it’s no wonder. We aren’t born knowing how to manage money. Most of us aren’t taught how to handle it either. We figure it out along the way, through much…
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Self-Discipline and Productivity for Entrepreneurs
Improve Your Results with Self-Discipline and Productivity I did not grow up in a disciplined home, so it just made sense that I would not become a disciplined adult. It was just my mother and I from the time my parents divorced when I was three years old, and we had a more relaxed way…
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Setting and Achieving Goals as an Entrepreneur
There is a well known and often quoted saying from motivational speaker, Jim Rohn that goes like this: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” When I first heard this I thought about the people I was spending time with and realized just how true this was in…