Important Dates During the Holiday Season
Linkshare sent out a good reminder in their affiliate newsletter today about important dates around the holiday season.
Here are snippets from that email:
November 24 “Black Friday” – The day after Thanksgiving was traditionally the day that retailers went from being “in the red” (in debt) to being “in the black” (making a profit). Today, Black Friday is known as the official start of the holiday shopping season. (Ros’ note: we’re always in the black aren’t we?
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November 27 “Cyber Monday” – The Monday after Thanksgiving is when online traffic and sales increase. Many shoppers are too busy shopping in brick and mortar stores over the Thanksgiving weekend to shop online, or they did not find what they were looking for, so they go to the web from home and work on Monday to find that perfect holiday gift.
December 20 “When It Absolutely, Positively, Needs to Be There” Last Ship Date – For most retailers, this is the absolute last day that they will ship an item to guarantee delivery for Christmas. Keep in mind, most retailers will charge an extra fee for the rush delivery. It is a good idea to check with your merchants to confirm their last ship date.
December 20-25 Target Last Minute Shoppers - Many retailers offer electronic gift cards for last minute shoppers. E-gift cards can be sent directly to the recipient via email and just in time for Christmas.
So, is YOUR site ready for the Shopping Season?
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October 2006 Affiliate Classroom Magazine
The October issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is still available for FREE download. This issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine takes a fresh look at niche marketing from three different marketing perspectives:
- CPA: How to find the perfect CPA match for your niche site.
- Niche Research: Audience, product, and keyword -based approaches.
- Niche Mining: How to use Web 2.0 social spaces to find hot niches.
Get it now!
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Are You Partnered with Trade Pub?
Are you partnered with Trade Pub yet? If not, you may want to consider doing so. All of the trade publications on the TradePub.com websites are absolutely free of charge to your visitors. There are no hidden fees, and there is no obligation and you’ll make a buck for every lead.
Trade Pub’s partner program is extremely simple… Read more
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eBay Seller: Impressive to Say the Least
Rob Frechette has been the #1 volume seller on eBay the last 4 months!
He got in touch with me and mentioned, “My dad and I sold over 200,000 products during this period”
Holy cow!
Rob has just written a book about his experience as a top eBay producer, called Grand Stage Selling: How I grew a $2.2 million eBay business that sells 50,000 items per month on eBay with one full-time employee! and he’s priced it at a very reasonable $29.95.
If want to start selling on eBay, I recommend that you pick up Rob’s Grand Stage Selling ASAP!
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87 Months in Prison for Software Piracy
It always does my heart good to hear about instances in which the justice system works. Here’s just such a case.
According to a September 8th Department of Justice press release, Nathan L. Peterson, 27, of Antelope Acres, Calif. , owner of a massive for-profit software piracy Web site was sentenced in federal court to 87 months in prison and ordered to forfeit the proceeds of his illegal conduct and pay restitution of more than $5.4 million.
U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg of the Eastern District of Virginia said, “Stealing the intellectual property of others is always a bad idea in any context. It’s theft. And, so, a sentence of seven plus years in prison and restitution of $5.4 million is richly deserved,” said Rosenberg.
I couldn’t agree more and can only hope that perhaps that news convinces the copyright infringing thieves to stop selling pirated copies of ebooks on eBay.
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Halloween Treat… Do You Dare?
BOO! If YOU’ve been thinking of getting SBI!, now is the time to get a move on, while Ken is doing one of his rare ’specials’… buy one, get the next for just $100. Think you don’t need or want 2 sites? Well, here’s a stat for you. Half of SBI! owners own more than one SBI! site. Then again, if you’re feeling generous, you could also give it to a friend or a loved one.
Stay-At-Home-Moms and Webmasters should also take note…
BTW, this offer lasts only until the stroke of midnight on Halloween.
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MYSS and MYCPS now FREE!
Has Ken Evoy gone mad?
The book that was coined “The BIBLE Of Selling On The Net”, Make Your Site Sell, Is Now FREE!
Not only that, he’s also giving away free copies of Make Your Content Pre-Sell, the perfect volume on learning how to communicate with - rather than just sell to - your visitors.
Get them both today!
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Free Passes to eComXpo
eComXpo starts tomorrow at 9AM Eastern time and Anik, Colin, Jeremy and I will be on the line at 5:45 PM.
Signup today for free access to the whole 100% virtual tradeshow with 450 Exhibitors, 140 Prizes and 7,000 other attendees that you can network with in real-time.
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Blog Posts about Zango Attract Attention
I took calls from presidents, V.P.’s and P.R. representatives of Adult Friendfinder and Zango last week after a number of my blog posts related to their activities attracted attention.
(Talk about the effectiveness of blogging for traffic! Have you joined BlogClassroom.com yet?)
Although the situation isn’t likely to be resolved any time soon some very interesting discussions ensued.
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Affiliate Rip-Off
Here’s a question I received this week from D.R. about the potential for affiliates to get ripped off by merchants under certain circumstances.
Is it true that ebook writers using an email capture box on their sales pages are ripping affiliates off when customers being sent to them sign up for the emails, then they sell them a book weeks or months later and we never see a dime for it.
Also if a ebook writer has 2 forms of checkout on his order page if the customer uses the optional one (not clickbank) then again we get no commission.
You have the clout, can you find this out and answer in your newsletter. I received an email from a guru about this very practice. If true then they will lose ALL affiliate selling their product by the thousands.
Thanks.
Well D.R., I’m not sure that I have any clout, but I do understand your concern and do know something about these issues. Read more
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