Maxbounty Christmas Gift Arrives - Its a T-shirt and other goodies

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Posted on December 13, 2006 in Affiliate Networks, CPA Affiliate Announcements  

Well i got home yesterday and had two packages waiting for me. I tear into them as i wasn’t expecting a package and low and behold it was a gift from Maxbounty. It was a T-shirt for me and my wife, plus a basket of goodies (All kinds of cheeses, salmon, crakers, chocolate and some excellent chocolate truffles). With this I have received from two of my 3 main networks I use. I have gotten something from Google and Maxbounty still waiting for something from my other top one which is Azoogle (Hint, Hint).  Below are some pictures of my gifts from Maxbounty.  Thanks Maxbounty!!!!

 

maxbounty gift

Maxbounty T-shirt

Maxbounty Gives back and you can help.

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Posted on December 8, 2006 in Affiliate Networks  

I just got the email below from Maxbounty stating they are going to be donating all revenue on Monday December 11th to various charities. So push hard on monday for those in need!  

Greetings everyone. The holidays are coming, it’s the time of year to be thankful for family and friends, and the success we all see in this fantastic field of Affiliate Marketing. This time of year, we’d like to try and help those who aren’t so fortunate and in need of aid. You can help too.

MaxBounty.com is supporting three needy associations this year, with a flat donation as well as all company revenue generated on Monday December 11th. Our support will mostly help the Children’s Aid Society (committed to protecting children and youth from abuse and neglect), but some funding will also go to the Cumberland Resource Center (a food bank in dire need of donations this time of year) as well as a local troop of Scouts (supplying them with tents). Thanks to you all, our growth in 2006 has been tremendous, and our support this year will be the highest ever.

Would you like to help? All MaxBounty.com network revenue on Dec 11th is going to help someone in need. Just do some extra advertising today, run some banners, drop a mailing, but mostly spread the word and have your affiliate friends do the same.

Thanks
JP Sauve
Maxbounty.com 

Search Engine Marketing or Pay Per Click

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Posted on December 6, 2006 in Affiliate Tips  

The question isn’t to be or not to be in the world of internet marketing it is Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or Pay Per Click (PPC)? This is a very important question that needs to be answered. The tough part is there is no easy answer.

I was inspired to write about SEM and PPC after reading a free E-book titled, Search Engine Marketing: Get in the Game (Click here to get your free copy instantly). First let me warn that I do not back or endorse the E-book, I just found it as an interesting read. It discusses why SEM is so important over PPC. The free E-book had some good points and is a great read for someone just getting into the internet marketing game but the information I found interesting was the PPC vs SEM click statistics.

Let me preface that the information was gathered in 2004 and as any of us in the business know the internet statistics change daily! But the information that was provided stated that on Google and Yahoo people were more likely to click the organic search than the PPC search, but on MSN they were more likely to click on the PPC ad over the organic search. Lastly for AOL it was 50/50 split.

Why is this information important? Honestly it’s not the information that is important but the concept behind it, as the data is really too old to base it on the statistics of today. But it shows that PPC and SEM both have their own benefits. From my point of view both take time and money, but there are two slight differences.

PPC marketing has almost instant results on search engines. This can lead to instant visitors, customers and revenue for your site, but it does come at a cost. As a PPC marketer you must make sure you are not over paying for a visitor as you can go into debt big time if you bid to high for a highly searched term and you don’t get enough return for your investment. Trial and Error and starting off slow with your PPC campaign help alleviate this.

SEM marketing in most cases does not yield instant results. But once your hard work is done to get your listing near the top, there isn’t as much expense as running a consistent PPC campaign. The bad news is that Google, Yahoo, AOL, or Msn could change there algorithm overnight you could go from number 1 to 50 or even worse not be listed. While it is not likely to lose that much placement it can and does happen.

Having said all that, the best plan of attack is both! Why not have a quick solution and a more long term less costly solution for your website. Many people only attack PPC or SEM while I feel most webmasters should be trying to capitalize traffic from both!
If you have any suggestions or feedback feel free to leave us a comment.

Google Christmas Gift Arrives - It’s a Digital Photo Frame

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Posted on December 4, 2006 in Affiliate Information  

I was getting ready to head out of my house for some christmas shopping on saturday December 2 and the UPS man drops off a package. To my surprise it was from Google. Of course I can’t wait to open it so I rush inside to open the package to see what goodie they sent me. It is a digital picture frame from Google! Below is some information about the digital picture frame and some pictures.

3.6 inch TFT digital photo frame
960 x 240 TFT screen, 16 mega-color
Picture: JPG format
Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV and records WAV itself
Video: ASF only
Media: Internal memory and SD card, comes with sample slideshow in memory
Power: 4 AA batteries, AC/DC power adapter even has foreign plug adapter.

Google photo frame box

Google picture frame

Google Photo frame

I did have some issues transfering files to the internal memory but once I put in a SD card and trasnfered files to the card, the picture frame worked like a charm.

Thanks Google.

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