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comScore released its February 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings yesterday, announcing that 14.5 billion core searches were conducted, with Google Sites taking 65% of the search market.

The comScore press release listed Yahoo! Sites next, taking 16.8% of the search market, followed by Microsoft Sites (11.5 percent), Ask Network (3.7 percent) and AOL LLC (2.5%).

While the numbers are encouraging to the affiliate marketing industry, they are down 5% from January 2010 figures. On the plus side, Facebook.com showed a whopping 10% increase to 436 million searches, and Craigslist jumped to fifth position with 629 million searches.

We found this drop a bit surprising, considering that February includes Valentine’s Day, which usually makes for a busy search season. Plus, the Olympics were taking place, which often has sports enthusiasts searching for athletes and results.

On the other hand, February is a shorter month, and I’m wondering if, since it seems fewer people searched for Valentine’s gifts, perhaps there were a few more Americans slumped in front of their TVs during the Olympic Games—with broken hearts.

Now, who can search with a broken heart?

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If you spend enough time around people who use computers to make their living, eventually you are going to run into a Star Wars fan. Really, it is so obvious that it almost doesn’t warrant a mention. Nevertheless…

Mark John’s Law states that for every 1.272727 computer users, there is one Star Wars fan.

I have worked as a computer programmer, currently make my living in the online marketing business, and I am a Star Wars fan. Of the 14 people who sit within about 25 feet of me and use computers for programming, SEO, writing and design, 11 of them are Star Wars fans to one degree or another. That is 1.272727%. While this is a very small test group, I know, I am reasonably certain that one could extend this over a broader group and still get very similar results.

As a Star Wars fan, every now and then, when I am faced with a difficult task, I ask myself, “What would Luke Skywalker do?” And this morning, as I was thinking about writing a blog post, I asked myself that question and it got me to thinking that Luke Skywalker would make a great affiliate marketer. Here’s why:

He got the right training from a mentor
If you’re a new affiliate, I highly recommend spending some time with someone who knows the business. Make friends with them and ask them to show you the way. Luke had several mentors. He got training from Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda on how to leverage The Force to meet his needs. Without that training, he’d probably still be on Tatooine farming moisture. Just like young Skywalker, new affiliates need a mentor.

Talking to an affiliate manager who can spend some time with you is a great way to get your start as well. Those who know and understand The Force in affiliate marketing are often very willing to share their knowledge with new affiliates, so don’t be shy, get out there and ask for help!

He can sense disturbances in The Force
Affiliates have to stay in tune with current trends and practices. For example, the recent inclusion of certain types of social media in Google search results may take some affiliates by surprise, and they could end up losing out on some excellent opportunities if they’re not following the latest technology developments.

It’s also important to keep up with industry trends. Seasonal trends are just as important. Can you imagine getting to the holiday season and not using it to leverage your marketing campaigns? It is important for affiliates to understand what’s about to happen in the world of online marketing, and how to adapt.

Use your instincts. If Luke had not followed his heart and used The Force to destroy the Death Star, who knows what untold horrors would have befallen the Rebel Alliance!

He got his hand cut off and kept going
Many affiliates have seen their sales decline dramatically, or watched their rankings in search engines drop off. If Luke Skywalker had this happen to him, would he have given up? No way!

Tenacity is a quality that an affiliate marketer can’t do without. Regardless of what might happen, it is extremely important to hang in there and renew efforts to make affiliate marketing campaigns successful. Remember that no matter how bad it gets (and it can’t get much worse than your dad chopping off your hand with a light-saber), hang in there, and all will be well.

He made friends with robots
In the same way that Luke could communicate in robot language with R2D2, affiliates with websites need to make sure that they are communicating with search engine bots in a way that’s going to get them on their side. Make sure your code is up to date and you’re creating relevant, keyword-rich content that the bots and spiders can understand. When the robots are your friends, they’ll help you along on your quest.

He did not give in to the Dark Side
As tempting as it may have been, Luke Skywalker never gave in to the Dark Side. There is a lot of temptation for affiliate marketers to employ Black Hat SEO techniques to get business. Some affiliates use other questionable tactics to get traffic, but we all know by now that the most successful affiliate marketers are the ones who are straight up and honest about what they do. Take a cue from Luke and don’t give in to the Dark Side.

He had Han Solo and Chewbacca on his side
Make friends! This industry is blessed with a great community of affiliates who love to explore new ideas with each other. Of course, it’s not an entirely Utopian society where people are holding hands and skipping down the street with each other, but there are some great people to get to know. Take advantage of the great community aspects of affiliate marketing. You never know when you’re going to need a ride on the Millenium Falcon.

Jedi Mind Tricks
This is not about manipulating people into taking action on websites, but a call to action is imperative to making a sale. “These are not the droids you seek” is probably not exactly the kind of thing you’re after. However, you will find that your results will increase when using the right language in your Call To Action.

Can you think of any other reasons why Luke Skywalker would make a great affiliate marketer? Let us know in the comments section below!

May The Force be with you.

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For any questions at all, send us an email at 1plusaffiliates@shareresults.com

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Whether you’re just getting started as full-time affiliate marketer, or are thinking about moving into full-time efforts, if you’re going to be working from home, we have a list of the top 10 working from home survival tips to help you make it.

Many people think that working from home means an easier life, but it’s not always the case.  As someone who worked at home for several years, I can tell you that I came by these tips for working from home by trial and error. However, after experiencing it for myself and discussing the right way of going about things with people who had experience at working from home, I came up with these 10 tips for surviving in your home office. Here they are!

1. Get Your Own Space
It’s probably fair to say that at the last place you worked, you didn’t sit at a kitchen table, or on the couch. To be able to get to the task at hand, you are going to need to cordon off a space that is yours for work. Carve out a niche in your home with lots of light that is quiet, and allows you to concentrate on your work.

2. Eliminate Distractions
This does tie in a bit with the first point; however, it’s worth mentioning that in order to get quality work done, you will have to find a way to eliminate any distractions that might come up throughout the day. Don’t keep the television on all day, as it will only take you away from concentrating on your work. If there is someone else in the house at the same time that you are, make sure that they understand that this is your time to work.

3. Regular Hours
One of the most important working from home survival tips is working regular hours. The tendency might be to do your work when you’ve done whatever else you’ve got going on that day, but remember that unless you are getting it done, it’s just not going to get done. Be accountable to yourself, pick regular work hours and adhere to them. Remember, you’re running a business.  And more importantly, you’re running your business.

4. Get Dressed!
It sounds like a funny thing to say, but for myself, I couldn’t get in the right mind frame for me to get my work done during the day until I had dressed like I was going to work. This doesn’t mean that I wore a suit everyday to walk down the hallway to my office; it just meant that I didn’t walk down that hallway in my bathrobe and slippers. Feel comfortable, but feel like you’re going to work.

5. Don’t Juggle Home and Work
Wouldn’t it be great if you could take care of your kids, do all the housework, and work for a living, all at the same time? If you’re going to work from home, you’re going to have to forget that you’re at home.  By doing so, you’ll be able to ignore the fact that there are dirty dishes in the sink, your kid’s clothes are on the floor and your partner still hasn’t done their laundry. It’s hard to do, but you have to separate you’re “at home” time from your “at work” time while you’re working from home.

6. Take Regular Breaks
Just like working in any other office, you have to take some time away from the monitor to refresh your eyes and your brain. The danger here is getting caught up in your “home life” while you’re supposed to be at work, so find a way to get that break done without returning to the swing of things in your home. Remember number two on the list of working from home survival tips and incorporate it into your break-time strategy.

7. Find Social Time
Working at home by oneself can be a lonely proposition, so make sure to take some time to be social. When I worked from home, I lived alone, so in an effort to remain a social being, I would go for lunch somewhere every day. If the only contact I had in a day was with the waitress who took my order, then at least I had some human contact. Like any other job, making time for friends and family will increase your overall feeling of well-being, invigorate your energy levels and make you a more productive person.

8. Exercise
Chances are that you want to work from home because you have a desire to improve your life, so don’t let the desk and chair get in the way of your health. A sedentary lifestyle can greatly reduce your quality of life, so be sure to incorporate an exercise strategy into your day, even if it just means a 15-minute walk.

9. Be Prepared for Long Hours
Working a 9-to-5 lifestyle is mostly possible when someone else is paying you, or if you have people working for you. Working from home as your own boss means that if you’re not doing it, then it’s not getting done. So, a very important working from home survival tip is to make sure that you are prepared for the fact that you may have to put in longer hours than you might at a traditional job. It’s not going to happen for everyone, but it will for many, and especially at the beginning of your business venture.

10. Monitor your ROI
What is your time worth? Are you working 20 hours a day and only making $4/hr? Are you willing to invest that much time in a small profit margin? If not, it might be time to re-evaluate your at-home business or, at the very least, the way you’re going about it. If working from home means working twice as much, ask yourself if it’s worthwhile. Of course, one can expect to put in more hours, especially in the beginning of your own business, but the goal is to strike that balance that all of us are trying to achieve.

These are some of the tips that I have found helpful when working from home.  They have helped keep me focused and productive, and moving my business forward.  What kind of strategies do you use for working from home?  Tell us here!

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Welcome to the newly redesigned Share Results blog. We’ve been working hard to make this space more accessible for affiliates who are looking for information on the industry, affiliate marketing tips and techniques and information on how to use the Share Results software to leverage their affiliate marketing campaigns.

Not only does the site look a lot different, we have also added some new functions to open up the space to encourage interaction between affiliates and commenting on blogs. The intention of the redesign was to create a forum where affiliates and merchants can learn more about the business, and get involved in the conversation.

Our goal at Share Results is to provide merchants and affiliates with the tools they need to spearhead successful affiliate marketing campaigns. Lately, we have been writing blogs about how Facebook might affect affiliate marketing campaigns, what makes for effective affiliate managers and tips for merchants on brand bidding. Of course, we also use this space to let affiliates know about promotions that affiliates can take advantage of by being a part of the Share Results network. And if you’re looking for tips on how to write effective blogs, you’ve come to the right place.

If you like a blog entry, you can use one of around 220 different networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to immediately share it with your friends. You can also vote on each article to let us know whether you like it or not. And be sure to let us know why in the comments section!

The whole team at Share Results gets involved with blogging. You will find posts from our marketing department, affiliate managers, and even our designers like to get in on the blogging action from time to time. If you’re looking for entries by a specific person, you can now click on their name, read their bio and find all of the articles that they have contributed.

Affiliate marketing works best when it happens within a community, and we’re proud to present an arena for affiliates to become a part of a community. We also want to share with you some posts by other bloggers that we think are pretty great, so look for lots of interaction and information.

Stay tuned for more great articles and exciting affiliate offers. We have some great contests coming up for affiliates, so make sure to come back and check us out regularly.

We’d love to know what you think about the new blog and our articles. Make sure to leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

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Social Media is a complex and highly integrated marketing practice and at times can be quite more bamboozling than necessary.  DaveFleet put together a visual model to highlight social media as an evolving tool in a “marketing media ecosystem”.   His model visually describes different marketing media including social media and how they can connect to a corporate brand including Linkedin, facebook, msn, etc [personally I would have loved to have seen affiliate marketing in the diagram ]

Secondly,  he put forward the idea that social media should be a forth model considered in Corcoran’s Model on owned, paid and earned media.  Corcoran describes that all marketing media can be categorized into these three groups and Dave has put forward a forth, “social”, because these categories on there own do not singularly encompass social.  Irrespective of how you wish to define your media in your marketing mix,  these models pose interesting questions to an affiliate marketer including:

-          Am I leveraging the most opportunities available to me to promote my message?

-          How does our approach to affiliate marketing impact on the brand we represent?

Furthermore, depending on your philosophy and approach to affiliate marketing your affiliate program can infiltrate into all forms of marketing media. 1) As a brand you own your affiliate program  creatives/messages – via affiliates we influence how we are seen on the internet and the community.  2) If your budget is big enough you can buy affiliates’ real estate with commissions, bonuses, prizes or 3) You can earn your affiliates by building trust and transparency through good affiliate management practices and affiliate software.  4)You can use social media to support your affiliate marketing activities and strengthen your overall marketing mix.

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If you read our blog regularly, then you know how much we like to talk about the importance of testing different things on your sales, or landing pages. One of the important aspects of those pages that should be taken into consideration is the color of your page. There are a lot of psychological influences at work with page colors, and these can be used to build a sense of trust from the audience that you are targeting. Here are a few tips on how to use colors on your website to put your customers in the right frame of mind to purchase the products that you are selling.

Basically all colors can be divided into three groups. Thus, blue and green are considered cool colors, whereas red, yellow, pink and orange are warm ones. Black and white are neutral.

Blue represents a feeling of security and trustworthiness. Subconsciously it is associated with the sky. This particular color is recommended for business-related websites (e.g. banks).

Green, on the other hand, represents wealth (deep green) or calmness (light green). Emotionally it is related to the color of money (”the color of success”), while light green is related to trees and spring. Therefore, dark green is suggested for finance related websites. As for light green, it is recommended for entertainment and leisure related websites.

Among warm colors, red is a very powerful color, able to grab attention and make one energetic by subconsciously activating one’s pituitary gland. Red is recommended for eye-catching logos and calls to action.

Black is also a very powerful color. It creates a feeling of color absence, and should be used for promoting expensive products.

Yellow is a color of optimism, subconsciously associated with the sun. This is why yellow is often used on attention-grabbing websites, especially when it is used in contrast with other colors.

People often think of pink as a feminine color. Hot pink stands for energy, while lighter pink represents romantic feelings. Both should be used for websites related to products for young women and girls.

Orange is a cheerful color, making us think of citrus fruit. You will quite often see these associated with children’s websites.

White is the color of simplicity and purity and effectively catches the eye. There are numerous associations related to this color, from weddings to hospitals. It is why the response to this color can be unpredictable. White is highly recommended for health-related product sites.

The main purpose of colors on a website is to put your visitors in a mindset that is in tune with the goal of your site. All these techniques are widely used to improve the appearance and effectiveness of websites. This is because our subconscious minds consist of our feelings, thoughts and aspirations. So, in order to make a connection on a subconscious level with visitors, it is important to put them in the right mind frame by using a color that makes the right association with the product that you’re promoting.

Have you played with color on your website? Tell us about the kinds of products you promote, and the colors that you use to convey your message. What colors work best for you?

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Have you started taking advantage of the cash bonuses the 1-plus.com affiliate program has made available for March at Addition Elle?

If not, you should log in now to Share Results and become an affiliate for the 1-Plus affiliate program - because for this week Addition Elle has some exciting promotions ready for their online clientele only!

From March 3rd to March 9th, 2010 Addition Elle is offering all their online clientele the chance to Buy 2 Bras and get the 3rd one FREE! This is an excellent opportunity for retail affiliates to write some value-added content, highlighting all the features of The Convertible Bra – a versatile, comfortable, flexible bra with seamless design.

For more information on how to promote this brand, send us an email at 1plusaffiliates@shareresults.com

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When it comes to best blogging practices, one of my favourite resources is Copyblogger. In fact, I took the format of this headline from some of their blog-writing tips: “[Fill in the Blank] That Everyone Ought to Know About”, because I trust that since it came from them, it might help my blog get some extra attention.

And that’s really the goal, isn’t it? Getting the most eyes on your blog, the most comments—and of course, ‘going viral’.

A lot of the affiliates that we work with in the Share Results network use blogs to generate traffic, and create a buzz around the product that they’re promoting.

We love blogging at Share Results, and because it’s a team effort, it’s always a lot of fun to bounce ideas off each other, and come up with some pieces that we feel are really going to be effective for our readers.

Most recently, our writing team teamed up with our SEO experts to present a training seminar on Best Blogging Practices. We got a lot of great feedback on this training, so we thought we’d include these tips on our blog to help out some of our blogging affiliates, and anyone else involved in blogging.

1. Make Sure Your Headline Rocks
In a world of RSS and Twitter feeds, where the headline of your blog is all you have to pique a reader’s attention, it’s so important that it be a good one. Take one of Copyblogger’s most recent blogs, for example: The Mr. Rogers Guide to Blogging from the Heart. I mean, as a blogger, I could barely click on the link fast enough. (Not to mention, I have a bit of special spot in my heart for Mr. Rogers). And really, that’s the effect you want to have every time.

A tip that I recommend when it comes to writing great headlines is, summarize your wow-factor. If one of the merchants you are promoting has a product that you have tried and made you look ten years younger, I suggest you get that in your headline—it’s your wow factor!

2. Hook Your Reader with a Great Lead
Ok. So you’ve managed to garner some reader excitement with your great wow-factor headline; next in line is your lead paragraph. In terms of best blogging practices, after the headline, your lead paragraph is the second most important element of your post. Readers are busy, and there is an abundance of really great blogs out there, so if they’ve given your blog a chance, based on your great headline, then the goal of your lead is to hook them into reading your whole blog.

Say something bold, get personal, expand on your wow-factor, but at all costs, engage your reader. Report on some unbelievable new research that is affecting the industry, the most interesting aspect of a product you’re promoting or state a product benefit that you know will be of interest to them. Whether you like to use humor, or prefer a more serious approach, be like Mr. Rogers, and convince your reader that what you’re about to share in your blog has real value, and that you care.

3. Keywords, Anchor Texting and Inter-Linking
Keywords are essential for obtaining blog traffic from search engines. Keywords should be incorporated into your headline, and then every 75-100 words in the blog post. In this blog, for example, I am using the keyword, “Best Blogging Practices”. You will find that keyword as part of my headline, and then I have used it throughout the rest of my blog. For best blogging practices, you also should bold your keyword on the second mention.

In addition to using keywords, interlinking to other blog posts should be done with every entry. You can use your own blog for this, and even link out to other blogs. You want to use an anchor text to link to the blog that uses your keyword from your article title, or if not, then a related keyword to the text of the entry.

4. Closing with a Strong Call to Action
A good call to action will not only prompt a reader to take the steps you are suggesting, but will get them to take that action NOW. You may want a reader to visit a merchant’s website, sign up to your newsletter, take a demo of your affiliate marketing software solution, or simply provide their feedback. Whatever it is, make it ridiculously clear what they are suppose to do, and what will happen when they do so.

Statistics show that incorporating “Click Here” into your Call to Action is the most effective way of getting readers to take the step you are suggesting. It’s even better if “click here” is at the end of the sentence, like this: “To sign up to my affiliate newsletter, click here.” But here’s the trick. Whatever link you use in your “Click Here” link in your Call to Action, HAS to also be used in the body of your blog, and must also be relevant to the page you are linking to. And a final word of caution here, I don’t recommend using this approach each and every time, as it can get a bit dry and predictable. So make sure to switch it up!

These are some of the best blogging practices that we try hard to incorporate into our Share Results blog. We’d love to know what practices have worked best for your blog. Tell us about them here! (That’s your cue to take action now!).

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Based on the book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum

Share everything
One of the great things about the affiliate marketing community is that it really is a community. If you discover a new technique for online marketing that you’re finding successful, don’t be afraid to share it with your friends. In turn, they’ll share their tips to success with you, which makes everyone richer; figuratively AND literally.

Play fair
This can be a tough business, and the temptation exists to employ questionable techniques, like Black Hat SEO, for example. When employing these techniques, rest assured that they are very likely to come back at you with unfavorable results, eventually. Play fair, work hard, and reap the rewards.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours
As above, affiliate marketers who attempt to get their traffic by duping people into coming to their site most often end up bouncing a far greater amount of traffic than they convert. The rewards just aren’t there, especially when one considers the harm that this does to legitimate affiliate marketers. Trust is what motivates a sale, above all other conditions.

Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some
Incorporate that balance into the work aspect of your day as well. Endeavour, on a daily basis, to learn something new about affiliate marketing. Find out about new SEO practices. Discover how other affiliates are converting traffic. Read about website analytics; read someone’s affiliate marketing blog. Get to know your affiliate manager. Constantly test your methods of marketing and employ new ones to see what works best. Find the techniques that work best for you by constantly trying different things. It’s all about trying to achieve that balance.

Take a nap every afternoon
Seriously. Life as an affiliate marketer can be trying, so take a rest when you have a chance. When I was working as a full-time affiliate marketer I took a 45-minute nap every single day on my couch and it helped me get re-energized for the rest of my workday, no matter how much longer it was. We last a lot longer when we take the time to recharge our batteries.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together
Many of the people I know who are successful affiliate marketers have made a point of becoming active members in affiliate marketing communities. There are a lot of benefits to getting to know people that are also involved in this business, and I guarantee that you’ll be surprised at the amount of people who are willing to help you out. Of course, there are some who do not play well with others, but there always have been, and there always will be. Just seek out positive people who are headed towards success and you’ll be following in their footsteps in no time.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned – the biggest word of all – LOOK
I can never stress enough the importance of testing and then analyzing your campaigns. Use affiliate marketing software that lets you see track impressions, clicks and conversions. Having affiliate marketing software that provides you with in-depth analytics can make the difference between a lukewarm program and a red-hot one. Keep testing and analyzing, and never, ever take your eye off the prize. It’s there for you; all you have to do is reach out and grab it.

If anyone can think of a way to incorporate the “warm cookies and cold milk” part of this into an affiliate marketing strategy, let me know in the comments section below!

All I Need to Know about Affiliate Marketing I Learned in Kindergarten

According to their own statistics, Facebook currently has more than 400 million active users. Of those users, more than 20 million become fans of Facebook pages every single day. It’s already been happening with Twitter, and now, Google is indexing Facebook Fan pages and displaying them in their search results.

We experimented with this a little bit today to find out whether or not this is already impacting Google search results. In order to come up with a result that all of us here recognized as a Facebook page and we know to be a very popular one, we did a Google search for “can this pickle get more fans than nickelback”. At the time we did our search, the actual Facebook fan page did not show up until the third page of results. Still, it’s better than not being there at all, as before, but I had expected for it to come up a little sooner, which sparked a discussion here on how Google is assigning authority to Facebook Fan pages.

Will you get more authority in Google if you have more fans, or is it just going to be based strictly on the requirements that Google has been using all along?

Either way, at some point I realized that on the Facebook Fan page they had actually changed the spelling of Nickelback to Nickleback to avoid any legal issues, so another search of “can this pickle get more fans than nickleback” moved the Facebook Fan page result up to page two of the results, given that it’s two letters more relevant. Pretty good, or at least, better.

Update: As of Friday morning, each of these search results put the Facebook fan page at number two on the list of results.

But it still didn’t satisfy my own curiosity of how Google would be assigning authority, or giving PageRank to a Facebook page. There has to be a little something else in the Google algorithm that is going to decide whether or not it’s going to be featured as a top result. So, I did a Google search for “how will google assign authority facebook pages”. Incredibly, the first result was actually a Facebook Note that was written by a person with a Facebook Fan page for their business. Well, that worked out well for them, didn’t it? However, I still don’t have an answer to my question.

So, what does it mean for those of us working in affiliate marketing world? It means one more opportunity for brand recognition, another opportunity to build links back to your own site and yet one more opportunity for people to find your page when they’re searching for content relevant to the goods or services that you provide.

Now, what I want to know is, when will I be able to check how many visitors I am getting to my Facebook page? Is Facebook ever going to provide us with some kind of analytics program?

What do you think of this latest addition to the Google algorithm, and how is Google indexing Facebook Fan pages affecting your business? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Paypal has begun expanding its money-swapping services to social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook.

Paypal – a unit of Ebay Inc – is poised to jump on the wave of social media interest and offer its services for payment of various products. Facebook has already partnered with Paypal to offer payment services for advertisements and gifts amongst other things. The international appeal and recognition of Paypal has been a major influence on Facebook’s recent partnership. It is expected to increase advertisement income – a major source of revenue for Facebook.

Paypal has also launched a variety of promotions and contests on Twitter to promote the use of Paypal. Contests include having users Tweet something related to a Paypal contest to be entered in a draw for cash prizes, which are then paid out through a Paypal account.

With the apparent decline of Ebay’s auction-based services, Ebay Inc. will undoubtedly look to its other units for growth and sustained profitability.

Can Paypal successfully utilize its international appeal and become a major player in a quickly growing social media landscape?

Will the shift to mobile platforms be a positive or negative influence on Paypal’s success?

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Last year eLearners.com’s Project Working Mom campaign, partnered with the Tyra Banks Show and made dreams comes true by awarding five lucky finalists full-ride online scholarships to accredited online institutions. And guess what…they’re back to do it again this year!

Project Working Mom is a scholarship campaign, which offers working moms (and dads too!) the opportunity to receive an online education tuition-free! The aim of the program is to provide aid to working parents and help them to overcome the obstacle they are faced with when returning to school.

Earlier this month on the Tyra Banks Show,  Lisa Johnson, one of last year’s finalist, told viewers how winning a Project Working Mom scholarship changed her life! Lisa is currently pursuing an MBA with a focus on Marketing and working toward her goal of becoming a newspaper publisher.

The Project Working Mom campaign is powered by eLearners and is currently exclusive to select affiliates in the program. While last year’s campaign offered affiliates a $25 CPL, this time around, the campaign offers publishers a $40 commission per verified US lead.  So, if you are interested in promoting online education and financial aid to your visitors, sign up to the eLearners.com affiliate program to help your web visitors’ dreams come true! Want to learn more? Check out this PWM article or email us today!

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Affiliates of the UndergroundHipHop.com affiliate program have the opportunity to earn extra cash throughout the month of March by taking advantage of the cash bonuses being offered in their latest affiliate promotion:

• Get $20 for your first 10 sales of the month
• Get $50 for your first 20 sales of the month
• Get $75 for your first 30 sales of the month

Roll-out all the latest online offers available to you and log in to your affiliate account to pick up the coupon codes for the promotions listed below:

• FREE Standard Shipping on orders over $50 (US Only)
• Get $20 Off orders $100 or More
• Spend $50 + Pick 3 items from FREE Stuff Section

The Underground Hip Hop affiliate program has also added another 20+ banners that perfectly suit the latest hot offers and capitalize on their perfectly branded web logos -  as seen in this post! Another way to keep up on the latest offers, news, featured artists and the latest apparel is to subscribe to their blog and/or follow them on twitter.

If you’re interested in picking up a new banner or if you’d like to learn a little more on how you can direct your traffic specifically to items on the  Underground Hip Hop dot com website,  send us an email at info@shareresults.com and to join the affiliate program, please click here.

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Having worked in affiliate marketing for a few years now, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some people in the industry who consistently go above and beyond. Effective affiliate managers are integral to an affiliate programs success, so what should they be doing for affiliates to ensure affiliate programs remain profitable?

Taking an Interest in You, Personally
The most effective affiliate managers take a personal interest in their affiliates. That doesn’t mean they’re going to invite you over and cook you dinner (although, how great would that be?), but the ones who are successful, know their affiliates’ strengths and weaknesses and continually contribute to their success.

Knowing who an affiliate is and what products and services are most suited to their business model is an important key to being a good affiliate manager. This knowledge helps them establish the programs that an affiliate is going to fit best with.

Being Available
What good is an affiliate manager if you can’t get in touch with them? The most effective affiliate managers are available when you need them to be. Of course, nobody can expect for their manager to be there for them 24/7, but if you’re not getting a response from them within at least 24 hours, then this is cause for concern.

Working on Your Behalf
A big part of an affiliate manager’s job is to make sure that you’re getting what you need. This includes making sure that you’re getting effective creatives from merchants as well asthe necessary tools to ensure the success of your marketing campaigns. What makes a good affiliate manager stand out from the bad is taking action on your behalf when you need something done.

Listening to You
When issues surface that need attention, affiliates need to know that their affiliate manager is going to listen to their concerns. Because affiliates are on the front lines of marketing, they know what they need to succeed.  As an affiliate, then, you must be sure that your affiliate manager is going to hear what you have to say and do their best to communicate your requests to the merchants.

Negotiating Deals for You
If an affiliate manager has built strong relationships with the merchants they work with, then they can very often negotiate special deals for certain affiliates. Top-performing affiliates can sometimes get better deals based on the volume of conversions that they are obtaining for the merchant, or based on other criteria. Make sure your affiliate manager has solid relationships with merchants so that they can negotiate these deals on your behalf.

There are many ways in which effective affiliate managers help the affiliates that they work with. What has your experience been? Leave a comment below and let us know.

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