Cryin’ in His Beer
Written by Rosalind Gardner on March 21, 2006 · Comments (4)
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Awhile back, Dan Reinhold posted to an NPT Forum topic entitled “What Tools do Affiliates Like?”, and told a story about the mistakes he’d made in trying to get his new ebook promoted by affiliates.
I thought his post was humorous and a good indicator to others about the quality of his book. So, thinking I might be able to help generate some publicity for his book, I took another look at his web site.
Aaargh… today’s NPT feature article “Humor Writer Cries in Beer as Pitch to Affiliates ‘Strikes Out’ ” details what I found.
Read it, and you’ll never weep.
Cheers,
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4 Responses to “Cryin’ in His Beer”
Jim on March 21st, 2006 8:11 am
Hi Rosalind,
Everyone should be so fortunate as to have you critique their site as you did Dan’s.
I just looked at his site and don’t think much has changed.
I guess he has one thing going for him. (He’s obviously a beer drinker).
Jim
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Paulus on March 22nd, 2006 8:09 am
Hi Rosalind,
I was really interested by this entry, in particular the part about preventing affiliate ids appearing in the URL.
I’m fairly new to this, so I just wonder if you can confirm my understanding of it.
If someone clicks on an aff link and gets taken to the sales page, clickbank creates a cookie.
If that person then removes the ?id=webvista2 from the URL, and then hits return, this will not in itself rob you of the commission,
as the cookie still exists.
Is this understanding correct?
Paul S
Hi Paul,
You are absolutely correct… and in the coming week (after I get back from the Underground) I’ll post a full explanation for CB merchants on how to hide their affiliates’ ID’s.
Cheers,
Rosalind
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its_me_shaners on March 22nd, 2006 12:08 pm
First off, crying in your beer is just plain ole’ alcohol abuse, and he should be spanked HARD!!!. Good to know when the time comes that I can rely on good objective critiquing !! though I guess its best to learn by mistakes except when they cost you HUGE !!!
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kelliw on April 1st, 2006 14:53 pm
Thank you for this article. It was a real eye-opener. Not putting distractions on your sales page is probably a mistake a lot of people make. I am looking forward to your more detailed explanation of setting up that redirect page for your affiliate program.
Thank you.
Kelli
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