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Performancing Goes PayPerPost

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PayPerPost announces the purchase of Performancing, and Performancing announces their partial acquisition by PayPerPost. All these bits and parts add up to a lot of pieces that when put together will make PayPerPost a much stronger company.The paid to post blogging model of advertising is proving to be an amazing way of spreading the word about … well, about anything and everything. It’s no wonder that PayPerPost is stretching it’s reach to include much of Performancing.

So, what parts didn’t PayPerPost buy?

According to Nick Wilson of Performancing, the purchase does not include their Partners Ad Network, nor their PFF.

What it does include is the Performancing Metric technology, the domain name Performancing.com, and the Performancing Exchange technologies.

The chat amongst the blogging community is mixed as always. It’s controversy and we bloggers live for these moments. Some are delighted that PPP will now have the type of metrics that will afford them huge amounts of blog statistics, and that’s what Marketing professionals live for. Others see any chumming by Performancing with PPP to be beyond their grasp to comprehend. But when the dust settles, what we now know as Performancing will be moving over to PPP. PayPerPost’s bloggers will now be able to track visitor stats and monitor AdSense auditing for their blogs.

The parts of Performancing not sold will find a new domain and brand identity … also something Marketing professionals live for.

Let’s face it guys, the landscape of blog advertising has changed forever. The world of professional blogging has just expanded by another 28,000 bloggers.

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800 Numbers Free To Bloggers

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I received a challenge, a paid challenge no less, from TollFreeNumbers.com to try out their services and review their website on our blog. I don’t normally take up such challenges, but they gave us a free toll free number too and well, when they said they’d backlink back to the Affiliate Guild … that’s too good to pass up.TollFreeNumbers.com finds businesses Toll Free 800 Numbers and even tries to find them numbers that spell out words.My challenge was to find myself an 800 number using their online lookup tools system and then, activate it.Toll Free numbers valid in the U.S. and Canada onlyIn using the TollFreeNumbers lookup tool, I found it to be easy to use and quick to respond (I’m on DSL). After the first four attempts to find a phone number, it prompted me to email me some other possibilities for the names I’d chosen.

Where I got a little confused was how do I get one of those long numbers that says it all like the ones in thier testimonials? So, I clicked the “tips” button on the lookup tool.

What I found was a nice creative suggestions page, and what I didn’t know is that you’re not limited to seven digits. Well, you are, but the advice is to think longer if need be. The person calling your 800 number will push in all the needed numbers and few more … the result will be the same … your 800 line will ring!

I spent about an hour of my time playing with different word combinations to match the overall theme of my businesses and the one I decided upon was 888-SEO-WRITER … that pretty much sums up what I do for a living really. I writer highly targeted content for affiliate niche websites, blogs and more. Need a writer? Now, you can contact me!

You can get a free eBook from them too called Phone Numbers That Make Money.
http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/ebook.htm

For a limited time, 800 numbers are free to bloggers.

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Happy Holidays Affiliates

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

from the Affiliate Blogger and the Affiliate Guild

Click Here To Get Your Christmas Groove On!

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Wealthy Affiliates Choose Yahoo

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The Wealthy Affiliates, Kyle and Carson, have created a guide on how to “Crush Yahoo.”

This guide, along with a $50 limited time voucher towards Yahoo Search Marketing, is yours from them. http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/yahoo_guide.php

 

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Branding Affiliate Classroom

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Anik Singal, of Affiliate Classroom, announced an improvement for their affiliates.

We have been trying to do this for over a year, and thanks to the hard work of our editor, Helen Montgomery, this is the first month that you can directly profit from the Affiliate Classroom magazine.

In just 2 minutes you can brand almost any link in our Affiliate Classroom magazine!

This means:

1) All links going to Affiliate Classroom
2) All links to product reviews we do

You can even place your name and website prominently in the Table of Contents (it will show as being disributed by you).

Can you imagine the viral implications of this? Every month we are giving you a new viral tool to use to draw traffic to your site, to get your name branded and to earn money from the product reviews we do!

 

Branding is very easy:

Step 1:
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Download the magazine:
http://www.affiliateclassroom.com/magazine.php

Step 2:
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Follow the instructions in our branding kit:
http://www.affiliateclassroom.com/affiliate/brandingmagkit_Dec06.zip

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Phone Numbers For Biz

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I was looking for something to read over the holidays and found something I wasn’t sure I had an interst in until I started to read it … so, naturally, I’m sharing the info with you.

You can get a free eBook called Phone Numbers That Make Money.

The books is supposed to help you chose profitable phone numbers that will help your business to be more memorable in the minds of your customers. I’d recommend you have a read through the eBook if you’re looking for a business 800 number. Always wise to know a little something about what you’re about to do before you do it.

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Ted’s Got Goods

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Ted wanted me to tell that he’s giving away a few new 6 mega pixel digital cameras and photo printers that Hewlett Packard just happened to give to him … well, actually, I made Ted slip me a few bucks to share his news with you, meaning HP sponsored this post. Hey, even Affiliate Bloggers gotta pay the rent!Anyhow, Ted’s going to be giving these digital cameras and photo printers away as part of a whacky promotional Hp is doing to increase consumer awareness for the HP products and their HP Digital Camera buying guide informational pages.

Ted’s asked for bloggers specifically to tell him, in their most whacked out versions, why they deserve to own one of these digital products. So, you’re going to be seeing a lot of bloggers posting about Ted, his contest  and the HP digital give-aways.

Apparently Ted’s already given away one digital camera to a sobbing woman named Tamale. I think if my name was Tamale I’d be pretty tearful too! He left it for her on her desk, which makes me wonder if maybe Ted didn’t do that because he’s the reason she’s sobbing in the first place. We’re on to you Ted!

I popped on over to the HP Digital Camera buying guide pages to have look at their information on digital cameras. I’ve actually been shopping for digital cameras this year, so I can say that the information there was very helpful.

They’ve got some tips on better photo taking and how to print better photos. That’s all good stuff for a novice like me.

You guys know that HP has an affiliate program too right? Through Commission Junction’s affiliate network.

Apparently HP won “Best Computer Retailer Web Site” in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. In addition, they also took Internet Retailer Magazine’s award for “Top 50 Retail Site” in 2003 and 2006. That’s good marketing information if you want to be an affiliate for these folks. I’m sure Ted would approve!

Okay, Ted … there’s your 5 minutes of fame on the Affiliate Blogger … Merry Christmas dude!

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Digital Radio Site

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Digital and satellite radios are a very stable business these days.

I came across this well organized affiliate’s website advertising digital radios. I’ll tell you, if I were in the market for a radio, this website would entice me to click and buy. And, that’s what you want in an affiliate website.

Some marketers don’t like the use of arrows, but I’ll tell you honestly that the consumers respond to it time and time again. On this site, I know exactly what I’m supposed to click next if I’m a visual shopper.

The text links are short and on topic too. Click “Choosing a Radio” and you are taken to a page that gives a good brief description on how to choose wisely. That’s perfect … in 50-100 words your reader should get the information they need and be on to making their purchase.

Choosing a new digital radio is an easy decision with the way that this affiliate has built this website.

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Reminders Calendar Helps Affiliates

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American Greetings has come out with a new product for their affiliates to market. It’s an online calendar system that helps the user to remember important dates … dates that they might want to send an email greeting for.

The online calendar is a free service provided to their customers as an added value. Promotional services like that are always helpful to affiliates looking for new marketing angles.

And, one feature that I thought was very cool was that the calendar can send you reminders by text messaging your cell phone. No more forgetting birthdays, anniversaries, and special days. I don’t about you, but that free service would help keep me out of trouble!

The AmericanGreetings.com affiliate program pays a nice 40%-60% commission rate payout for every new subscription. The parent company also owns BlueMountain.com, which is where I have my account, and they offer a combined affiliate program. So, you can promote both services and get paid as one combined affiliate program. That means payouts more often for the affiliates!

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Color and Ad Packs A Punch

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Here’s a colorful affiliate program. I like color on landing sites because they excite the viewer to become a buyer. This site’s product is called Ad Pack.

Ad Pack is a unique new marketing product that’s designed to help you brainstorm out some new Marketing Ideas to promote your business.

They believe so much in their product, that they put up a full 100% money back guarantee. that’s impressive. Sites with guarantees do markedly better than those without it.

Ad Pack looks like a board game, and that makes it fun for people to use. For affiliates, that means sales.

I also like the way the site invites the sale as you look down the page. That’s good news for affiliates too.

Affiliate earn a 20% commission. The site looks pretty tight where affiliate leaks are concerned. the affiliate program is free to join.

I also like that the site dedicates a whole page and navigation to Who Should Buy because that’s helpful to closing sales too.

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Education Niche Program

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Hey affiliates, here’s another interesting affiliate program for a newly launching product line of computer based training videos that would sit within the Education niche.

Their feature training series is the Microsoft Virtualization Training videos that focus on training you to do Virtual Server and Virtual PC on the Microsoft platform.

Looks like a really solid step-by-step training program.

The affiliate program is well documented, offering 25% commission. They also welcome International affiliates. The only issue I think you’d need to ask about are the phone numbers on the site and whether they can track affiliate sales for phone sales.

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Free Membership

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Affiliate Guild Free Memebership
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE AFFILIATE GUILD TODAY!

Affiliate Guild is a self-help learning resource for people who want to learn to be affiliate, are already affiliates, and want to learn to be super affiliates. The website offers a wide variety of help-tools and is a great resource to keep open on your desktop as you work on your affiliate programs.

Are you interested in becoming an Affiliate Guild Member?

  • Affiliate Guild members can enjoy courses taught in the Affiliate Guild online school classes.
  • Affiliate Guild members are the only ones legally allowed to use the Affiliate Guild logo with a link back to the Affiliate Guild indicating they are working within professional guidelines as an affiliate.
  • Membership is FREE for all affiliates!
  • Affiliate Guild members also enjoy our exclsuive Affiliate Guild Newsletter.
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Nice Coupon Site

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Affiliates thinking about working with the coupon type of affiliate marketing should take a look at this nice affiliate coupon site called www.couponchief.com.

I’m big on Apple products lately, so I was enticed by the link to their Apple listings and coupons … especially the engraving part.

I like how they broke apart the featured coupons from the hot deals. It real has appeal for different types of buyers.

The site clearly displace their terms of service and privacy statement, which is a must and something a lot of affiliates over look. Me included sometimes!

The other thing that’s nice about this site is that I can search by merchant or by category … meaning they have a quick-glance navigation on the sidebar. It really is a very simple design and easy to navigate site that most any affiliate could model their coupon site after.

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Perfect Affiliate

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Debra Rabin has written a new article for AffiliateClassroom that outlines the features of the Perfect Affiliate.

Some of the qualities discussed in the article include profitability, an eye for success, research, relationships and communications … amoung other attributes.

It’s a good read and represents the point-of-view of the Merchant. Affiliates might get a better understanding of what the Merchants wants in their relationship with you. I think any time, the two sides can get a better understanding of each other, the better this business is. Feel free to add your thoughts on it too!

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Looks Like Me

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Check it out here

I managed to create an image using U-Doo that looks somewhat like me in a matter of a few minutes. Now, if I wanted to startup this service to have an avatar character that looks kind of like me pop up on my friend’s cellphones, I’d just active the image I’ve created and then email everyone a copy of it for their cell phones. I can even custonize my own ringtone for them as well.

This looks like it’s from the same folks who do SitePals. There’s no affiliate program on here yet, but you guys should nudge them in that direction. This is a hot new toy for ringtone affiliates to take a look at.

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Tagged From 5 Stars

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I’m SO tagged!

I didn’t even see it coming … suddenly there she was! Linda Buquet with that smile of hers, politely pinging me to let me know that I should consider myself tagged. Wicked wench! LOL

So, here’s the deal. There’s a tag game going around where bloggers have to share five things about themselves that most readers wouldn’t know, and then tag five other bloggers mercilessly. 

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Bobbie Grennier

1) Like Linda Buquet, my dad wanted to name me Linda Loo after his favorite gravel truck too! Thankfully the buoy industry was doing better than gravel that year, and so “Bob”-bie was the agreed upon name.

2) I’m very allergic to all alcohol. I love the taste of beer, so besides being a big bummer, it also makes attending affiliate events not so much fun as the others guys seem to be having.

3) I used to be a school teacher and I love helping people learn new things, but you probably know that last bit since I created the Affiliate Guild to help affiliates learn the ropes.

4) If you phone me you’re very likely to hear birdies chriping and doggies barking from time to time. I’ve got a full on zoo in my office and feeding the animals is required … Starbucks for their trainer.

5) I live near the coastal redwoods of California, so my favorite past time is hiking in the woods. I never weary of just how special and beautiful these giant trees are.

Here are my blog tag predecessors. I was tagged by Linda Buquet who was tagged by Anik Singal who was tagged by Rosalind Gardner, who was tagged by Jeremy Palmer, who was tagged by Scott Jangro.

Now I’m passing the torch to Ros Phillips of LinkConnector, Arlene & James Martell of Affiliate Bootcamp, Tom Avery of RevenueSource Affiliate Forums, Stephen Ralph of Top-Affiliate.com and Marifer Vergara from the queenofcheap.com.

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Full Disclosure - The Full Montey

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I was reading a very interesting article on TechCrunch tonight and thought it was news worthy, and when I saw that PayPerPost was offering me a few bucks to chat about this article that didn’t hurt either. Always nice to get paid for chatting about things I enjoy chatting about.The article is titled “PayPerPost Does Something Right” and it’s referring to the PayPerPost blog.The article is leaking the news that this coming Monday, PayPerPost will be making a significant policy change … and according to Michael Arrington it’s a positive change.

Even more so, I whole heartedly agree with the soon to be announced change.

As of Monday, bloggers who write for PayPerPost will be required to disclose that they are being paid for their posts.

I’ve started to blog about this topic a little when I wrote A Few Posts Here and There, and not because I knew change was coming. I didn’t. I think it’s the ethical thing to do. I think that when a blogger is earning some income through using their posts to feature advertisers, then they should disclose it. We’re kind of the Paul Harvey’s of the blogging world if we don’t make that distinction.

This move by PayPerPost is most likely related to the FTC’s moves to force disclosure of word-of-mouth advertisements.

I actually think a Disclosure Policy is and should be in the making for every blog that runs advertisements on them … and I mean every blog.

 

 

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