StumbleUpon has been a flash in the pan of the Internet. It exploded onto the scene and was the star in everyone’s eye for only a few short months, before fading away as the fad passed. It still exists, of course, and it has a not-insignificant pool of users pressing the little button every day. …
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With affiliate marketing, your goal is to get people to buy something you post a link to. There’s a lot of nuance to it, of course, but I’m not here to tell you about the basics of affiliate marketing. Today, we’re discussing specific strategies you can use with social media, specifically Facebook, that can earn…
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Running a PPC campaign is always tricky business. You’re walking a razor’s edge, where to fall on one side means profitable advertising, and the other means a huge money sink. It’s tricky to set up, tricky to test, and tricky to monitor in a way that you can use to optimize your results. When it…
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If you don’t pay a ton of attention to Google Ads, you may not have noticed the news from about a year ago. You might, however, noticed some odd behavior with regards to budget and spending. When you set a daily budget, it’s entirely possible for Google to charge you more than that cap. In…
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When it’s time to launch a new product, a lot starts to happen all at once. Your development is nearing completion but your marketing hasn’t quite kicked into high gear. You have a lot on your plate, a lot to manage, and it’s all too easy to let something slip through the cracks. To make…
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Automation in some areas can be excellent, while in others it’s not recommended. If you have some simple data entry to do every few days, you can automate it pretty easily and save yourself time. If you have a lot of customers asking questions of your service reps, you can automate some of it, but…
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Where you put your ads on your page is almost as important as the content of those ads. Some positions will annoy users, particularly if they’re interrupting site use or hindering some function of your site. Other positions will fall by the wayside as the user never sees them. How valuable would a banner at…
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Before I begin, I’m just going to say something you probably already know; this isn’t a complete list. I call it a complete list because it’s a pretty long list, but it’s by no means exhaustive. Part of the reason for that is because growth hacking is an ongoing game. It’s all about creativity and…
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Talking about niches in CPA and affiliate marketing is tricky, because there are a lot of people out there who will follow any advice given. If I gave you step by step instructions on how to succeed in a given niche, they wouldn’t be very good instructions a year from now, because a ton of…
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It seems like only yesterday that Etsy was a small, niche marketplace for selling handicrafts and heirlooms. Today, it’s a huge site with businesses making corporate-level profits without needing their own websites or shopping systems. Without needing to manage a website, they can focus on advertising and making their products unique. Which shops are the…
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