Affiliate Marketing
If you’ve shopped online at all in the past 4 years, you’re probably familiar with RetailMeNot.com. The online coupon aggregator generates millions of page views each month and enjoys top Google ranking for almost every “_______ coupon” query. This is a company that literally prints money — an estimated $30 million in 2010. Most of [...]
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I got a free copy of Marc Ostrofsky’s book Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet at Affiliate Summit in New York. It was pretty much worth the price. Ostrofsky is probably best known for selling the domain Business.com for $7.5 million (which landed him in the Guinness Book of [...]
A recent law passed in California that makes it impossible to run an affiliate-model comparison shopping site from a California location. Despite the silliness of being forced to move a non-polluting, borderless, virtual, tax-generating business across state lines for political reasons, Mochi and I took a road trip last week to scout out some new [...]
This is the 600th post at nickloper.com, which I started in January 2009. That averages out to .68 posts per day. Those posts contain 154,000 words, which would apparently take nearly 13 hours for an average reader to read “cover to cover.” For the sake of comparison, the final installment of Harry Potter contains 205,000 [...]
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When shopping on Amazon.com, it sucks to pay for shipping. And when your order total is close to $25, it sucks even more. This is where FillerItem.com comes in. The next time you see a message like this in your cart, head on over to FillerItem and appreciate the simple genius of their business. On [...]
VigLink and Skimlinks are two companies that aim to help bloggers and other website owners monetize their content and traffic. They do this by transforming regular outbound links into affiliate links wherever possible. If any sales result from those links, the website owner earns a commission. (Technically, VigLink or Skimlinks earns the commission, which they [...]
