Affiliate Marketing Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the the longest running podcast dedicated to the affiliate marketing industry. Hosts James and Arlene Martell help affiliate marketers learn the ins and outs of making money with affiliate programs.
A few weeks ago, we here at WebmasterRadio.FM lost one of our show hosts, James Martell, who died tragically due to a brain aneurysm. He had hosted the Affiliate Buzz program since 2010, accompanied by his wife and co-host Arlene. James had been widely recognized as a pillar in the affiliate marketing industry for well over a decade.
His wife Arlene and Kimberly Juchnowski pay tribute to his life and career in what will be the final broadcast of the Affiliate Buzz. We listen to messages of tribute from his friends and peers and some choice clips from previous episodes.
WebmasterRadio.FM and all of those associated with the Affiliate Buzz would like to thank you for your support and listenership of this program throughout the years. Thank you for being a part.
He shares examples of conversations he has had with listeners to his network of podcasts including the Podcasting Mastery series and the recently launched Smarter Local Marketing Podcast.
James Martell speaks with Dustin Howes, the Founder Chief Coach of PerformanceMarketingManager.com about the Secrets on How To Get The Most Out Of Your Affiliate Manager. Plus, learn some tips on how you can become your own affiliate manager.
With the rapid adoption of voice-powered digital assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, it is time to prepare for voice search for 2018 and beyond.
Search professionals need to re-think and expand strategies in order to stay on top of the game. We have to take a deeper look at conversational search and how it can impact our organic and paid search efforts.
Duane Forrester, VP for Industry Insights at Yext, provides actionable takeaways and thought-provoking content that can help you start improving your SEO strategies for voice search today.
Blank Page to Bestselling Book In 90-Days Or Less as James Martell speaks with Trevor Crane, Founder of Epic Author Publishing. Trevor Crane has been a trusted business advisor, coach and mentor for over a decade. ... Trevor helps companies outperform, outsell, and outlast the competition through systemic and strategic consulting, coaching, training, marketing and support.
James and Arlene talk about How to Hire a Virtual Team to Help Take Care of Things So You Can Take Time Off.
They talk about the benefits of project management applications. Their app of choice is Basecamp, which helps groups of people to finish projects together.
For example, Arlene uploads project descriptions and assigns tasks to her team members. As each person finishes their part of the job, they tick it off as complete in Basecamp.
James Martell shares 6 Steps YOU Must Follow to Select a Profitable Affiliate Marketing Niche. Check out these steps and make sure to take notes sure to help to grow to provide opportunities for affiliate marketers.
James Martell unlocks 5 Steps for Creating an Irresistible List Building Email Opt-In Offer, so that you can develop an email marketing strategy which will include a compelling Opt- In offer.
The State of Google in 2018 - What It Takes to Rank Long-Tail Keywords and How Long It Takes as James Martell welcomes Brent Truitt, a full-time Internet marketer and part-time blogger who lives in Canada and the United States.
Creating a “Live Anywhere, Work from Anywhere” Lifestyle Business as James Martell speaks with Daniel Carbonel, Founder of WakeUptoFreedom.org and the founder of Smart Local Connect. Daniel also host s the Wake Up To Freedom podcast.
SmartLocalDigital was founded by Jose Quiroz and Kelli Perrot who have 7 years of combined experience growing an online business. Not theory. Reality. The use of online tools, strategies, applications, and technologies will continue to grow as the main channel to conduct business. Our entire line of products and professional services is aligned to deliver one result – connecting local business to local customers.
Today on Affiliate Buzz were joined by Cody Hanson and Rick Hosmer from klundthosmer.com. Klündt Hosmer creates custom web design, graphic design, branding logo design, marketing, advertising, broadcast, direct mail, trade show graphics, SEO, etc. They collaborate with clients to discover and express who they really are through authentic, brand-focused communication.
James and Arlene Martell discuss using keyword research and searcher intent in order to attract qualified buyers. They also discuss their ongoing migration of all of their podcast content to YouTube. Someone looking for information on a given topic or searching for a specific website is unlikely to commit to a purchase as a result of these types of searches, meaning their commercial intent is considerably lower.
James Martell helps us get the Inside Scoop on Driving Affiliate Sales with Email Marketing with Erik Harbison, CMO at AWeber.com. AWeber provides email marketing software that includes newsletters emailing, autoresponding, and RSS-to-email converting features.
James and Arlene Martell celebrate 500 episodes of the Affiliate Buzz.
They discuss the progress of the longest running podcast in affiliate marketing, the connections that they made from all their networking with over the years. Plus, a number of industry leaders chime in and share their number 1 tips on How to Win Big in Affiliate Marketing.
How to Rekindle Your Passion to Achieve Your Dreams as James Martell welcomes Tequila Dodard from Stand Out Be YOU! Tequila Dodard is a former Corporate Executive and was used to working and putting in the time. However, as she said “this go round I wanted to earn my income a little differently”. She goes on to say “I simply wanted to earn from home, impress my kids and help my guy (hubby) out with money for: Yeah! My constant need for travel.” She wanted to create that ‘portable income’ that which can move around with her as she travelled. She found that was only possible using the Internet.
How to Maximize Money in Minimum Time Online as James Martell welcomes Ken McCarthy, Founder of The System Seminar. Ken teaches people what it really takes to build a solid, seven figure a year income as an info marketer by someone who has done it.
How MicroFame Media Turns Consultants (and Other Idea-based Businesses) Into Thought Leaders as James Martell speaks with Michael Schein. Michael Schein is the CEO of MicroFame Media, a marketing agency that turns consultants into thought leaders when they don't have the time to make it happen on their own.
James Martell asks The Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Cryptocurrency—Answered By Joel Comm, Host of the Bad Crypto Podcast. The internet pioneer ,Cryptocurrency Podcast Host, NY Times Best-Selling Author, andKeynote Speaker is co-host of the popular The Bad Crypto Podcast show with Travis Wright.
How to Design Your Dream Lifestyle as James Martell talks with Josh Stanton from Screw the Nine to Five. Screw The Nine To Five is a movement. started by us, Jill Josh Stanton. We designed. this place to help new and existing entrepreneurs. solve problems related to life and business through. actionable insights and simple “how-to's”
How to Nail Your Dream Job in the Affiliate Marketing Industry as James Martell speaks with Mike Carney of PerformanceMarketingJOBS.com. They discuss best practices for entering in the cost per acquisition, affiliate, or performance marketing industry.
James and Arlene Martell discuss how to use trending topics to create content, by way of using social media content to drive web traffic and encouraging visitors to help create content. They also offer tips on how to spot and jump on opportunities to develop awesome content.
James Martell discusses How to Build, Grow and Monetize a Facebook Group with Joint Venture/Affiliate Partnerships with Marc Mawhinney. Marc Mawhinney is a lifelong entrepreneur who began his coaching business after starting several other companies, including one that grew to 100 employees. His passion and specialty is helping other coaches build successful businesses by defining their target markets, implementing systems to better manage their time and make more sales.He launched the “Natural Born Coaches" podcast - a daily podcast where he interviews successful coaches - to help support the worldwide coaching community. The show became an immediate hit – making it into iTunes “New Noteworthy" category in its first week of release and greatly exceeding the average downloads for new podcasts. Marc is on a mission to help coaches spread their message and their value to as many people as possible!
From PartnerCentric's first employee to Owner CEO as James Martell speaks with Stephanie Harris, Affiliate Summit West 2018 Pinnacle Award Winner for OPM/Agency of the Year.
Stephanie Harris is the owner CEO of PartnerCentric, the largest woman-owned performance marketing agency in the US. A veteran of the space, Stephanie got her start as an award-winning affiliate program manager, personally managing at one time some of the largest programs in the PartnerCentric portfolio today.
Breakations, Working from Anywhere, and Why It's Time for Us to Mix Things Up! James and Arlene discuss why breakations are an integral part of any marketer's lifestyle now and how it allows you me to recharge the batteries a little and also to enjoy the fruits of all that hard work.
In 2007, a year after having sold his first online business, a friend asked Mark if he would be willing to help him sell his web hosting company. During the previous year, Mark was evaluating whether or not to start a consultancy firm to assist owners of profitable websites who wanted to divest of their websites. With the call from this friend, Quiet Light was officially born. Mark retained his friend’s business, put the listing out to market, and within two months had found a buyer at a price that was higher than average web hosting companies were fetching in the marketplace.
Since that first business in 2007, Mark has personally helped dozens of small business owners and entrepreneurs and has also expanded Quiet Light to the team it has today. In building out a team of advisors to help other small business owners, Mark has always emphasized the importance of honesty, working in the client’s best interest (even if that means not working in his own best interest), and thorough preparation of all listings before they are brought to market.
Before Quiet Light Brokerage, Mark founded an online publication and grew it’s subscriber base to 220,000 members. Mark has been a presenter at top conferences and seminars as well as a guest author for numerous publications.
James Martell discusses the Secret to Monetizing a Blog with Affiliate Programs with Christen Evans, Social Media and Influencer Manager for ApogeeAgency.com
Christen Evans (@theonlychris10) is the Influencer Manger and Social Media goddess at Apogee, a renowned affiliate marketing agency. She is also the owner/editor/consultant/unicorn wrangler behind Bourbon Sparkle, which aims to educate bloggers about affiliate marketing — the good way. Presented with the Affiliate Marketing Advocate of the Year Pinnacle Award in January 2017, Christen is passionate about bridging the gap between bloggers and merchants and managers. In her spare time,
Affiliate Entrepreneur Males Over $860,000 in Just Four Months With Just One Website as James Martell speaks with Zac Johnson, a well-known entrepreneur and online marketer with nearly 20 years of experience. Zac’s social reach and site traffic is now over 100,000 strong and has referred over $5,000,000 in new business to his advertisers and network partners. You can also listen to Zac’s new podcast “Rise of the Entrepreneur” on iTunes and connect with Zac through his new online training community at Blogging.org.
James Martell speaks with WordPress Developer, Co-Founder WebDevStudios and Co-Founder AppPresser Brian Messenlehner, author of Building Web Apps with WordPress. WordPress as an Application Framework.Brian is a former software developer for the United States Marine Corps, is the Co-founder of WebDevStudios.com, a web development company that specializes in building all things WordPress. He is the Co-founder of AppPresser.com, a WordPress based framework for building iOS and Android Apps.
Advocacy Websites, and Getting Adam Back - A Mother's Triumph Over Epilepsy and Autism as Arlene Martell recounts some of the work she did with her site and podcast called Epilepsy Moms as well as her book, Getting Adam Back...: A mother's triumph over Epilepsy and Autism.
James Martell shares the 7 Keys to Achieving Success in 2018 By Building Your Own Lifestyle Business. If your end goal as an entrepreneur is flexibility, then you want a lifestyle business, not a startup.
A lifestyle business is a business set up and run by its founders primarily with the aim of sustaining a particular level of income and no more; or to provide a foundation from which to enjoy a particular lifestyle.
Why Building a Virtual Team of Freelancers Is Key to Succeeding in Affiliate Marketing? Listen to James Martell describe the benefits of mastering the art of outsourcing, as well as the traits that people who have done so have in common.
Yacht captain, local customer acquisition specialist and serial entrepreneur Tony Valentino talks to James Martell about making a simple plan making $10k by serving local business and $200-400 an hour without leaving your desk and how you can outsource to low-cost freelance professionals.
Why the Customer Journey Matters for Affiliate Marketers with Todd Crawford, the co-founder and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Impact Radius. Todd was one of the original founders of Commission Junction,
After leaving Commission Junction in 2006, he worked for a couple of different companies within the industry. But then at the begin of 2008 spent two years with the other co-founders at Impact Radius talking with industry workers to get an idea of what type of technology or different technologies could make life easier for them.The end result was Impact Radius, a program that offers a suite of tools that requires just one login. James was first introduced to Impact Radius was in 2010 at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, where Todd was demonstrating and showing off the new piece of technology. James recalls that he immediately recognized it as being different than what the industry was accustomed to using.
Wade Tonkin, the Affiliate Manager at Fanatics, talks to James Martell about his success, which includes winning the Avantlink 2017 Affiliate Manager of the Year Award. We learn how this past year was full of intensely creative and untested recruitment techniques, which brought many highly qualified but new-to-the-channel affiliates into the Fanatics program.
James Martell discusses the state of the affiliate marketing industry globally as he welcomes back Jeannine Crooks, the Client Services Manager with Awin US. Jeannine works closely with many of their largest programs such as 11 Internet, Lonely Planet, edX.org and Ctrip.com.
You're Fired, and So Are You! Life in the Trenches, and Lessons Learned! deals with the many runarounds James and Arlene have had at times with outsourcing projects. They discuss some past experiences and offer some solutions on how to find the right people to hire for your projects.
How to Capitalize on the Largest Online Shopping Season Ever as James Martell welcomes back Karen Garcia, Co-founder of Lab6Media. Black Friday 2017 To Be The Biggest Online Shopping Day Ever as most U.S. residents are fully aware of the customs surrounding Black Friday, even if they don’t participate. It tends to be a day of madness, so some of us prefer to stay in to avoid the crowds. However, if Salesforce is correct, even more shoppers will be staying in on Black Friday this year—and shopping online instead. Of course, it would come as little surprise if Cyber Monday will no longer be the biggest online shopping day.
Why It Still Pays to Think Outside of the Box as James welcomes back 15+ Year Affiliate Marketing Veteran Vinny O’ Hare. They talk more about why it pays to think outside of the box when marketing your business. You may remember catching Vinny's last appearance on episode 348.
Living in the Affiliate Marketing Business and Freedom Should Always Be The Goal. James and Arlene discuss how their experiences working their way into finding success in affiliate marketing. They lay out what they have learned and what they would be best for you to strive for if you' re looking to master the affiliate marketing business.
Matt Frary Disrupts the Affiliate Ecosystem By Bringing Large-Scale Affiliates Under One Roof to Increase Negotiating Power with Multinational Brands. SmarterChaos works together with Advertisers and Merchants to build profitable performance marketing campaigns that drive real sales and revenue. Our goal is to drive profitable results for your website using the latest digital marketing technologies, partnerships, and know-how. We accept projects only if we think that we can be effective and make a difference to that program.
James Martell talks Strategic Positioning for Performance Marketing with David Dalka, Founder and Managing Director of Fearless Revival. Fearless Revival reshapes activities and priorities which leads its users to make effective decisions. It applies business acumen and perceptual acuity for its users’ benefits.
James Martell explains how in a Matter of Weeks You Can Be Launching a Profitable Podcast (and Why You Should). James takes us through his Podcasting Mastery course, which offers Training, Resources and Support for Developing a Profitable Podcast.
James Martell takes us inside a deal that he set up with a client that deals with building two $3500 websites with a 12-month commitment. James shows how he gives this offer through his SmarterLocal program.. SmarterLocal utilizes strategies and tactics that can make local businesses chase you to do their marketing so you multiply your income faster than you ever thought possible.
How to Build a Lucrative Affiliate Sales Channel to Increase Sales and Revenues as James Martell speaks with Dush Ramachandran, President and CEO of The Net Momentum. Dush (alongside his wife and business partner Terra) have launched a great new training product on affiliate marketing offering beginner/intermediate training on building up an affiliate sales channel for their business.
Affiliate Buzz listeners can get Dush's secret playbook on how you can use affiliate marketing to explode your sales, build your list and reach more customers by going to Affiliatemarketingmasterclass.net/ for $150 off by using the promo code AFFBUZZ.
How to Fire Your Boss In 30 To 90 Days as James welcomes Darren Little, a millionaire mentor and online business success coach. Darren Little is a Millionaire Mentor who teaches The Science of Getting Rich. He helps people to recruit more reps, make more sales and rise to the top of the leaderboards in their respective companies.
How to Generate a Flood of Inbound Leads and Position Yourself as a Leading Authority By Fully Leveraging the Power of the 2nd largest Search Engine....YOUTUBE! James Martell welcomes Desmond Soon and Jason Mojue from Tube Your Own Horn Inc. to discuss.
James Martell discusses How to Lead a Location Independent Lifestyle withInternet Marketer and World Traveler with Internet Marketer and World Traveler Brian Walt.
Brian Walt has spent the better part of the past 8 years in entrepreneur / startup marketing roles becoming an established thought-leader on communications, marketing, and travel.
Passion for exploring the world has allowed him to lead a location independent lifestyle since 2013. He’s traveled to over 50 countries throughout the world with his family and draws from these experiences to become a better citizen and marketer.
James and Arlene share their secrets to fast tracking any project and making more money without having to stay up all night and burn the midnight oil. Tips and tricks to be able to utilize your time and use it in the best way possible to be as productive as possible.
Secrets for Generating Online Sales with Social Media as James Martell welcomes Adam Riemer of Adam Riemer Marketing, LLC.. Adam was a winner of the 2016 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award for Affiliate Manager of the Year
James discusses How to Create a Life Travelling the World, with Sponsored Travel (FREE Hotels Sightseeing, Transport, and Food), with Daddy Blogger, Ricky Shetty. We learn about the #DaddyBloggerWorldTour on Tuesday, Dec 6, 2016 and has been documenting each and every day of our travels on his DaddyBlogger.com website.
Podcasting Pioneer and Producer of 20,000+ Episodes Shares the Real Deal on Why Marketers and Publishers Must Have Their Own Show. James Martell speaks with Jorge Hermida, whom listeners may know as James' on air producer Brasco, or to others under the social handle KingOfPodcasts and the website KingOfPodcasts.com.
How to Unlock the Secrets to a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity as James Martell speaks with Bestselling Author, Vickie Helm. Vickie provides new insights for clients about work style that results in an increase in daily success, improving overall performance results and empowering teams while improving debriefing times and lowering stressful situations.
James Martell discusses The Potential for Strategic Positioning of Performance Marketing, with David Dalka, Founder of Fearless Revival. Fearless Revival reshapes priorities and activities which will lead you to making more effective decisions.
Learn how to be a more effective sales person as James Martell talks with the hardcore closer, Ryan Stewman. Ryan is a 4-time best selling author, and the CEO of Hardcore Closer, which teaches elite salespeople how to increase their closing ratios, deploy systems and recruit sales teams. He is also the Founder of Break Free Academy. The LEADER of modern marketplace sales training.
How to Transform Your Brand Into One Everybody Will Love as James speaks with Josh Martin of JoshMartin.tv and the BrandPop! Academy. If you struggle to be seen or heard online and you are trying to figure out how to cut through the noise, you'll need to listen in.
James Martell speaks with the VP for Sales for SendPulse Roy Weissman about how to Skyrocket Email Open Rates with SendPulse, The Next Generation Email Marketing Platform. SendPulse is an email marketing service that is designed to drive up your open rates. They do that with state-of-the-art customization tools that help you either start building an email list, or nurture an existing one.
James and Arlene Martell talk about How to Start a SmarterLocal Web Marketing Agency Offering High-Profit Services to Local Businesses. They shares some of their tools of the trade and what they have done to assist clients.
Building a Dream Lifestyle as a Podcaster, and What It REALLY Takes to Put Together a First Class Show with Brad Axelrad from The Face Your Dragon Podcast. According to a 2016 study weekly podcast listeners consume about 5 podcasts a week, so Brad and James will give you all the intel needed to raise the bar in your podcast and podcast business.
Luke Kling, the 2017 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award Winner for Affiliate Manager of the Year Shares the Tools and Straight Goods for Building Your Own Massive Following!
Luke Kling, the 2017 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award Winner for Affiliate Manager of the Year Shares the Tools and Straight Goods for Building Your Own Massive Following!
Graphic Design and ordering graphics from sites like upwork. Plus, finding the graphics needed to fit your wordpress themes. plus how to work around simplifying building wordpress themes with the right functionality without bulking your site with plugins.
James Martell discusses Building Massive Lists, Overcoming Adversity, Working Remotely (from Anywhere), and Making Real Money Online with Affiliate Entrepreneur Reed Floren.
Increasing Site Conversion Rates, Growing Online Revenues as James Martell welcomes Jennifer Myers Ward from ebove beyond. ebove beyond was the winner of the 2017 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award for Agency of the Year!
Affiliates, Advertisers Networks - BrandVerity, the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award for Tool of the Year for Protecting Your Paid Search Campaigns. James Martell welcomes back Preston Holland,, Director of Business Development at BrandVerity to discuss.
Attention all Agencies, Marketers Creatives! James and Arlene share how they earned $1,200 commission on just one sale with VistaPrint. VistaPrint produces products that can be customized including: printed marketing materials, signage, photo products, embroidered apparel and promotional products.
If You Have Multiple WordPress Sites (and I bet You Do), You Will LOVE These TWO Tools! James shares with us both of those tools. One is a management tool to organize multiple sites from one login. The other tool is a lead generation software that converts abandoning visitors into subscribers with our dynamic marketing tools.
If You Have Multiple WordPress Sites (and I bet Your Do), You Will LOVE These TWO Tools! James shares with us both of those tools. One is a management tool to organize multiple sites from one login. The other tool is lead generation software that converts abandoning visitors into subscribers with our dynamic marketing tools.
YES! There Is a Ton of Money to Be Earned By Affiliates In Your Local Market, Here's the How and the Why! James and Arlene Martell weigh in. A recent study concluded that local event marketing is the most used tactic type by affiliates (76% employ it); it also receives the highest satisfaction scores.
YES! There Is a Ton of Money to Be Earned By Affiliates In Your Local Market, Here's the How and the Why! James and Arlene Martell weigh in. A recent study concluded that local event marketing is the most used tactic type by affiliates (76% employ it); it also receives the highest satisfaction scores.
Profitable and Often Overlooked Business to Business Opportunities for Affiliate Marketers with Chris Sanderson, the director of the Bangkok, Thailand-based internet marketing firm AMWSO Co.
Growth, and Ramping Up for the Online Shopping Season to Maximize Sales as James and Arlene discuss the oncoming rush for affiliate marketers to plan and make the most of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season.
Affiliate Disclosure: How Advertisers and Affiliates Can Save Themselves From a World of Hurt. What you should disclose and what risks are involved. James discusses with FMTC CTO Eric Nagel and BrandVerity Director of Business Development Preston Holland.
James and Arlene share some Outsourcing Essentials for Affiliates; The Secrets to Hiring a Virtual Assistant on a Shoe String Budget. They also discuss Elance and outsourcing, and how there is no reason why anyone should do all of this work themselves.
James Martell speaks 1-on1 with Jamie Birch, the founder and CEO of JEBCommerce. His extensive Internet marketing experience includes all facets of online marketing: email, paid search campaigns, customer retention programs, and much more.
Learn how James Martell Will Work with You Directly Until You Do Your First $10,000 In Sales. James and Arlene update us on a current client they are working with, Dolphin World based in Florida and what are some of the things they are helping them with.
James and Arlene Martell discuss whats working and what not, and how to take your business to the next level in 2017. James shares with some of the coaching he has been offering one of his clients, John McNamara of Dolphin World.org.
How to start a profitable local web marketing business offering high demand services to local businesses who are in desperate need of your help. James and Arlene discuss how their pre-built site offerings works great for local businesses and they share some local client success stories of their own.
How to Attract FREE Media Attention to Expand Your Audience, Increase Fees and Boost Sales as James Martell speaks with Andrew O'Brien, The Publicity Guy!
Andrew is the founder of The Publicity Guy, a PR firm based on an sales-accelerated and proven business model. Focused on helping Entrepreneurs gain and leverage media exposure to create stronger brands and build larger, more interactive audiences, Andrew has appeared on over 70 media channels. International/national media outlets include MTV, USA Today, MSNBC, BBC, NHK World, Al Jazeera and many other large-scale networks.
Affiliates and Bloggers - Tap into 200,000+ Monetized, Cleaned and Categorized Deals with FTMC. James Martell speaks with company CEO Rachel Honoway and CTO Eric Nagel. FMTC specializes in aggregating affiliate content and making it available to affiliates and bloggers through a series of services and tools.
Affiliates and Bloggers - Tap into 200,000+ Monetized, Cleaned and Categorized Deals with FMTC. James Martell speaks with company CEO Rachel Honoway and CTO Eric Nagel. FMTC specializes in aggregating affiliate content and making it available to affiliates and bloggers through a series of services and tools.
What Everybody Ought to Know About Membership Sites, and Earning Recurring Income. James and wife Arlene offer valuable tips for turning your passion into recurring income with membership sites.
James and Arlene Martell shares their fascination for a remarkable tool called Upwork. They explain in their words how Upwork Makes the Dream Work. Originally known as Elance-oDesk, Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals connect and collaborate remotely.
Premium Pre-Built Sites for Affiliate Marketers as James and Arlene Martell look on the commonality of three different websites. Have you struggled to get your first affiliate sale to take off? Maybe you’re not happy with the results. Learn how the benefits of using a prebuilt site may be right for you.
Secrets for Maximizing Black Friday Sales, the Busiest Shopping Day of the Year! Karen Garcia is back on Affiliate Buzz to discuss. Karen is an Internet marketing consultant with broad range of experience including (but not limited to) affiliate program management, email marketing, search marketing, SEO, SEM, graphic design, and website design.
James and Arlene talks about Getting Geared Up for Q4 with Power Tools and Techniques. Q4 is a busy time for many thanks to back-to-back holidays like Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. For affiliate managers that means a lot of opportunity to work with retailers to prepare and strategize their year-to-year bottom line.
James and Arlene talks about Getting Geared Up for Q4 with Power Tools and Techniques. Q4 is a busy time for many thanks to back-to-back holidays like Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. For affiliate managers that means a lot of opportunity to work with retailers to prepare and strategize their year-to-year bottom line.
PAD 2.0: 8 Creative ways to re-purpose your most successful content not only to rank but to convert them into actual customers. James and Arlene elaborate on this powerful technique through offering up solid high quality articles to their affiliates with links already embedded in the content. These links began to attract search engine attention and it has served their business well since.
Facebook and Email Marketing Lessons Learned from a Summer with Killer Whales. From March to October each year, thousands of whales migrate through the waters near Vancouver, making it one of the world’s best locations for whale watching.
Avoiding CAN-SPAM Penalties, Managing Email Opt Outs and Preserving Brand Integrity with Clean Email Lists. James Martell speaks with the Sales Director at UnsubCentral - UnsubCentral Cris Angelini.Cris Angelini serves as UnsubCentral's Sales Director, where he consults with prospective clients to determine the best UnsubCentral services for their needs. He is an accomplished business professional with 20 years of experience in people, process, revenue growth and sales leadership. Prior to working at UnsubCentral, Cris was the Vice President of Revenue Development at Volusion, where he was responsible for working cross departmentally to help drive core product sales, revenue growth, customer service and partner recruitment. .
What Everybody Ought to Know About Outsourcing, and Hiring a Personal Virtual Assistant as James Martell speaks with Desmond Soon. Soon is a Vancouver BC-based Entrepreneur helping to empower other like minded entrepreneurs and marketers.
What Merchants, Affiliates and Bloggers Must Know About FTC Disclosure Guidelines for 2016 as James Martell speaks with Illinois-based tax attorney Andrew B. Gordon.
Andrew B. Gordon is a CPA and attorney, graduating from the University of Illinois with a BA and Masters Degree in Accounting, and a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Andrew previously worked in tax at a big-four public accounting firm and clerked at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel during law school. Andrew concentrates his legal work in the areas of tax controversies and compliance, corporate litigation, and FTC litigation and compliance.
What Merchants, Affiliates and Bloggers Must Know About FTC Disclosure Guidelines for 2016 as James Martell speaks with Illinois-based tax attorney Andrew B. Gordon.
Andrew B. Gordon is a CPA and attorney, graduating from the University of Illinois with a BA and Masters Degree in Accounting, and a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Andrew previously worked in tax at a big-four public accounting firm and clerked at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel during law school. Andrew concentrates his legal work in the areas of tax controversies and compliance, corporate litigation, and FTC litigation and compliance.
Tricia Meyer (@sunshinetricia) is the owner of Sunshine Rewards, Helping Moms Connect, and other niche sites. She frequently speaks and writes about affiliate marketing topics such as monetizing blogs, affiliate and affiliate manager relationships, and the basics of affiliate marketing. She serves as the Executive Director for the Performance Marketing Association. She is also a partner in WineClubGroup.com. Tricia has been a finalist for the Pinnacle Award for Industry Advocate and won Affiliate of the Year in 2014 and Best Blogger in 2012.
Affiliate Summit East 2016 is taking place July 31 – August 2, 2016 at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York, NY and James Martell talks to one of the events co-founders Shawn Collins about what to expect. They run down the agenda which includes sessions that will help better understand the evolving landscape of performance marketing.
What Everybody Ought to Know About Repurposing Content as James Martell explains when it comes to practical and profitable ways to put together content that works for you many people hit the net searching for recommendations. James discusses how to repurpose..
To begin everyone needs to recognize there is a difference between the common practice of article marketing and legitimately repurposing articles. With article marketing a term "spinning" is often associated where you take a single article and have software re-write it for you hundreds of times. James introduces repurposed content from an entirely different perspective.
A Fresh Website Design with the an Emphasis on Building and Influencing an Audience as James Martell explains ways to make sure your web presence is consistent and performing well according to today’s standards.
Raw Paws Pet Food Gives Affiliates the Opportunity to Capitalize on the 62.7 Billion Pet Industry, Company founder John Kosloskey talks to James Martell about his business which specializes in high quality, frozen raw diets for pets that are delivered,
How to Increase Sales and Conversions with Video Marketing as James Martell welcomes Hope Horner, Founder, CEO at Lemonlight Media.
A small town girl from Johnson City, TN who moved to Los Angeles, CA at 18 to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams. In 2010, Hope founded BetterYou, a platform connecting independent fitness and beauty professionals to consumers who want to look and feel better.
Dmitriy Kruglyak talks to James Martell about Full-Funnel Marketing on Facebook and How to Turn Your Data into Sales. Dmitriy Kruglyak is CEO of PerforMarketer (http://performarketer.com), a performance marketing company, that specializes in Internet traffic generation and monetization. We develop our own online properties and products, as well as generate leads and sales by driving traffic through a variety of paid, organic and email marketing techniques.
Prior to launching his own businesses, Dmitriy held a variety of product development and marketing positions in the Silicon Valley, including helping E.piphany Software deliver marketing CRM product which won #1 ranking by the Gartner Group, drove the company’s from $0 to $200M run rate and led to a successful IPO.
How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 10+ Questions to Ask Yourself as James Martell speaks with Entrepreneur Network partner, Michelle Held of MetroNY.. Michelle serves as a consultant to clients on topics such as digital marketing and project management. Her company, MetroNY, LLC, specializes in customized digital marketing strategy, social media marketing, and search engine optimization.
Listen as Jonathan Miller, CEO of Forge Business and OfferForge.com, Shares with James Martell the Biggest Mistakes and the Best Moves You Can Make In Affiliate Marketing Today!Miller has been working in the online marketing and the affiliate management industry since 1997 as an affiliate marketing mavin. He is a popular international conference speaker, blogger, and strategist. He is based in South Africa and he founded his business out of his garage in 2001 with no funding and no employees.
A WordPress Maintenance Guide with information on the best plugins for SEO, website speed, updating WordPress plugins and finding the best places to host your WordPress site as James Martell speaks with David Vogelpohl, the Vice President of Web Strategy at WP Engine.
David Vogelpohl is the Vice President of Web Strategy at WP Engine, a premium managed WordPress host designed for speed and reliability. David’s team at WP Engine focuses on affiliate marketing, web development, advanced analytics, and online advertising. Since 1996, David has been managing affiliate marketing campaigns, online marketing, and web development efforts in support of a wide range of websites and monetization models. Through his speaking at national events like Affiliate Summit and WordCamp, David is an avid contributor to the community and expert at using WordPress to drive affiliate revenue.
James Martell speaks with the Director of Optimization at Digital Marketer, Justin Roundeau. Justin is the Director of Optimization at DigitalMarketer and runs all of the optimization efforts and split tests at DM and is active among our other properties. Rondeau has spent his entire career working on optimization campaigns and has helped train some of the leading optimization teams at Fortune 500 companies. Rondeau has run hundreds of tests for both B2B and eCommerce brands and has has analyzed 3,000+ tests across virtually every industry.
As Much as Things Have Changed, Content Is Still King - Our Strategy for Easily Creating It! James Martell discusses this time-tested theory.
One of the biggest advantages affiliates have over established brands, and one of the greatest opportunities to add value, is the ability to be agile and act quickly with content marketing.
While brands spend months approving their content strategy and holding fruitless meetings, affiliates can be creating content of such a high standard, that competitors simply won’t have the resources to compete with, and Google would be foolish not to drive traffic to.
For additional information, you can learn more from AB #276, where James chats with Jonathan Goodman, founder and president of Halyard Consulting, about how you can quickly and easily come up with new and quality sources of content to achieve online success.
Discussing Cross Device Tracking as James Martell speaks with Jeannine Crooks as we learn about the fundamentals of cross-device tracking, how the technology works and the benefits offered to both merchants and affiliates.
As the Senior Account Manager with Affiliate Window US, Jeannine works closely with many of their largest programs such as 1&1 Internet, Lonely Planet, Agoda.com, and Ctrip.com. She is a frequent speaker at numerous events including Affiliate Management Days, Affiliate Summit and Bloggy Con, and is a regular contributor to iBlog Magazine. Jeannine is a prominent affiliate advocate in the fight against the affiliate nexus tax both in Colorado and other states.
Affiliate Summit East 2016 is taking place July 31 August 2 at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. James and Arlene run through some of the agenda highlights and some ideas on what to do while in New York City like maybe taking a tour or seeing some of the sites.
The three-day conference features two tradeshow floors packed with affiliates, merchants, vendors, networks; multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts. James will feature a session on how to profit from podcastingbased on his work hostingthe longest running affiliate related podcast and is a long-time successful Internet marketer.
Learn How Attribution Modeling and other cross channel insights can help more intelligently manage your affiliate program and thus help you discover which affiliates are driving the most traffic. James Martell speaks with Todd Crawford,co-founder and vice president of Strategic Initiatives at Impact Radius.
A recognizable veteran, Todd Crawford brings to Impact Radius a passion for performance advertising and a commitment to its growth. As a co-founder, he evangelizes the opportunities presented by a multi-channel approach to the performance model. Prior to Impact Radius, he served as vice president of sales and business development for Digital Rivers affiliate network, oneNetworkDirect. Todd also contributed to the founding team at Commission Junction in 1998 and led its business and sales development efforts as vice president for more than seven years. In 2007, Todd won the Affiliate Marketing Legend Award at the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards in Las Vegas. He holds a bachelor of arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities.
Linda Woods, managing director at MadrivoOPM, and James reminisce about old times in affiliate marketing and how much has changed over the years. They covered loss of sense of community and the explosion of large coupon/deal sites that affect other affiliates revenues.
James and Arlene Martell discuss how to Increase Conversions and Sales with Inexpensive Easy to Make Marketing Videos.
Affiliate video marketing is a type of commission-based marketing which is managed by affiliates. These affiliates create videos in order to endorse products and services for a specific business. They are then rewarded by the business for each visitor or customer who is gained due to the affiliates marketing efforts. Videos can be a great way toexperience a much higher increase of traffic to your website. This in turn, will lead to more customers and as a result, more revenue for your company.
How Bloggers, Podcasters and Content Marketers Earn 15-35% Lifetime Recurring Commissions as James and Arlene Martell explain how this can be possible.
Learn How to Make Money with 15 Affiliate Programs Offering Recurring Commissions, Develop a Passive Income Stream,Get Paid Repeatedly for your One-time Referral and Build Financial Security and Finally Get Paid What You're Worth.
Recurring commissions are affiliate commissions based on recurring billing products sales. Affiliate earn commissions for the initial sale, but earn also commissions for each new billing.
Lifetime commissions are, in affiliation program context, a principle by which the affiliate is paid by the merchant (affiliate program owner) for all future purchases made by his referrals.
PreBuilt Sites as James and Arlene explain how you can Earn an Extra $500 – $1000 a Month with Our 2016 PreBuilt Sites Package! Have you been struggling to get that first affiliate sale going? Or maybe you are not happy with what you got …If so, learn how a prebuilt site service might just be your solution!
Discussing Affiliate Secrets for Recruiting and Nuturing as James Martell speaks with Award Winning Affiliate Manager Angel Djambazov ,Co-Founder, Marketing, Mayhem, Business Development at Lab6 Media. Angel shares someBehind the Scenes Secrets for Recruiting and Nuturing Successful Affiliates.
Lab6 Media provides outsourced marketing support in search engine marketing, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, and mobile app marketing for businesses of all sizes. Founded by industry veterans Angel Djambazov, Karen Garcia, and Joel Garcia.
Born in Bulgaria, Angel Djambazov has spent his professional career in the fields of journalism and online marketing. In his journalistic career he worked as an editor on several newspapers and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wyoming Homes and Living Magazine. Later his career path led to online marketing where while working at OnlineShoes he earned the Affiliate Manager of the Year (2006) award at the Affiliate Summit, and In-house Manager of the Year (2006) award by ABestWeb. In 2007 Angel started Custom Tailored Marketing and became the OPM for Jones Soda for which he won his second Affiliate Manger of the Year (2009) award at Affiliate Summit. Angel also is the lead evangelist for PopShops.com which was awarded Best Affiliate Tool (2007 & 2008) award by ABestWeb. In 2010 he won his third Pinnacle Award from Affiliate Summit for Affiliate Marketing Advocate of the Year. He was also the Managing Editor for ReveNews.com.
Affiliate Marketing Conferences and The US Presidential Election are on topic as James Martell previews the upcoming Affiliate Summit East 2016,taking place July 31 August 2, 2016 at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City' s Time Square District.
He also talks about the upcoming 10th annual ShareASale Think Tank.ShareASale ThinkTank is an annual event designed to bring together top clients as well as new, up and coming Affiliates and Merchants. The event is at theInterContinental Chicago Magnificent MileSunday, May 15thruTuesday, May 17, 2016.
James also give his take on the 2016 US Presidential Race wherebyAmericans will elect the 45th President of the United States on November 8, 2016.
Why Data Feeds Are an Affiliate Marketers Secret Weapon as James Martell speaks with Asif Malik from GoldenCAN. Asif Malik came to the United States in 1996 to join his family. Asif started learning about the affiliate marketing industry by initially selling Amazon books on his developer community website “DevASP.com”. Asif has always possessed a strong desire to share his programming knowledge and experience with others. So, he came up with a way to help affiliates that have little or no programming experience by creating a “tool”. This tool called GoldenCAN Datafeed Integration was launched in May of 2005 and it quickly became the hottest tool in the affiliate marketing industry. This popular tool allows people to add millions of products to their websites using only one line of code. Asif earned his B.Sc degree in Double Math and Physics from Punjab University Pakistan. In addition to his well known name in the industry, he also sits on the Amazon Web Services Developer Advisory Council and the Google Affiliate Network Publisher Advisory Board.
LeadPages - The Secret to Creating High Converting Landing Pages as James Martell tells us about how to turn your next idea into a published landing page in less than five minutes with LeadPages® so you can create, edit and deploy your next high-converting page without touching a single line of code.
LeadPages specializes in creating elegant software that helps businesses grow by collecting more leads and driving more sales. Our platform offers more ways to engage potential customers than anyone in the industry, and it’s the only one that enables sign-ups via landing pages, websites, social media, email, and text messaging.
James and Arlene Martell discusses Upwork and Basecamp. Upwork which recently took over Elance as the world's largest online workplace where savvy businesses and professional freelancers go to work! James talks about the ongoing organizational challenges by using BaseCamp.
Plus, the question rises if Podcasting the New Blogging? The state of podcasting in 2015 according to a recent blog post says it feels a lot like the state of blogging circa 2004 andthey question whether podcasting’s future will play out as the last decade of blogging has.
Is Performance Marketing the New Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate Marketing has been touted as one of the rising stars, and as one of the go-to channels in digital marketing. Lately, there is a trend and reliance on affiliate marketing only, and advertisers are coming up disappointed. We learn the following about Performance Marketing.
- Performance Marketing is a broader concept than affiliate marketing – it ties different actions and consumer engagement than just sales or leads
- Performance Marketing is social, search, affiliate, re-engagement, abandonment, mobile, downloads, pay per click, view thru, programmatic media
- Why does it all have to work together?
- Even if you aren’t trying to build a brand, do you still need more than affiliate marketing? Can’t I just rely on affiliate to drive sales?
- How do I measure all the channels? What is attribution?
- What is incrementality? Is it a real thing?
- What are the take aways?
Also, they discuss why its not just content any more, and how its more about building lists, social media, acquiring followers, engaging using some of the same tools but considering yourself as a product.
Learn How Does Arlene Martell Gets So Much Done In a Week. James Martell asks Arlene how does she manage totally arranging her schedule to make time for everything. Learn from a good example how to make the most of your time management to make time for what's most important.
James and Arlene Martell introudce us to a new offer where Business Coaches, Trainers and Consultants Earn Between $200 and $600 for Each Sale Referred to Our "Do-it-Yourself" Podcasting Courses and "Turnkey" Podcasting Services
Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 - Ads, Deals and Sales - Are You Ready? James and Arlene Martell discuss what you should do to get your agenda in order to prepare to the very lucrative holiday season.
James Martell shares with listeners 24 Magic Little Words to Use When Outsourcing to Get Awesome Results!! Learn how to get the right help and work when outsourcing your most important projects, and how James explains its all in what you ask.
James and Arlene Martell discuss the spread of WiFi that is now built into the Cars, Smartphones, and other smart devices. What do You Need to Know About the Changing Face of Affiliate Marketing given these changes.
James Martell speaks with Lisa Riolo, the Executive Vice-President of Customer Experience at CJ Affiliate by Conversant. She talks about her history with Commission Junction and how she has returned back nearly a decade later.
James and Arlene Martell continue their Tips for Turning Your Passion Into Recurring Income with Your First Membership Site. They offer 5 reasonably no-brainer ways to monetizing your membership site.
James and Arlene Martell offer some valuableTips for Turning Your Passion Into Recurring Income with Your First Membership Site. They also look back at what they went through when they built their first membership site.
Online freelancer marketplace companyElance, announced recently of it change to anew name, Upwork, and revealed plans to advance a new online platform. James and Arlene Martell discussWhat You Need to Know to Transition Smoothly.
James and Arlene Martell discuss their 21 easy steps to making a successful podcast. These steps are a prime way to get on track quickly if you are new to the podcast world. Listen in for a wonderful lesson and receive strong tips to help you becomea podcasting pro.
Serial Entrepreneur andMillionaire Mentor Dan Lok shares some tips and takeaways on Dan Lok on How to Create a Successful Internet Business of Your Own He explains what holds people back and why you may be struggling in your own efforts, plus we learn about some of Dan's failures and success along the way.
James Martell shares with us an issue whereby Elancelet him down with some un-needed headaches, an unfortunatecomputer malfunction, and a timely breakation that Arlene and James look forward to.
James and Arlene Martell discuss the possiblities regarding the venue and location of the pending ShareASale Think Tank , plus they look into the ShareASale2015 Fall Catalog and James offfers a Killer Topic Idea for a Podcast
James Martell welcomes back Arlene from a long hiatus and we learn about what kept her off the show and in the hospital for an extended period of time. Plus, James shares sith us a New Podcast with Amazing Guests and a Killer Opt-In Offer.
Periscopes to Podcasts: Evolving Media Through New Platforms as James Martell brings on his radio producer to share the evolution of podcasting and integrating new media in the process. Plus a discussion the growing live streaming platform, Periscope.
James Martell shares with the story of how A Wedding, Hospital and the Magic of Technology made it possible for medical obstacles to be overcome from missing an important family moment. Plus, James fills us in on an Update on Arlene and her recovery from surgery.
Oops, I Did It Again ...Why I'm Worth ONLY $5 an Hour! James MArtell explains why he said the following to help listeners understand when you should seek out help for some of the most grunt-worthy tasks to a freelancer while realizing your real time value.
James Martell welcomes back returning guest Vinny O’Hare, a 15 Year Internet Pioneer Unplugged with a No Holds Barred conversation! Just wait till you hear what sound advice Vinny has for affiliate managers out there.
Understanding Attention Conversion as James Martell welcomes Entrepreneur and Online educator Declan Dunn. Declan Dunn explains the concept of Attention Conversion and how he discovered the first point of conversion wasn’t a sale, it was simply getting, and retaining, their attention.
Finally, A Collection of Inexpensive ‘Landing Pages’ that Will Skyrocket Your Conversion Rates. James Martell points us in the right direction to some websites that will help you out.
James and Arlene Martell share 7 Secrets to Creating a PowerPoint Presentation that Makes You Money on Autopilot (Yes, Really).
James and Arlene Martell discuss Creating a Presentation that Sells so you can organize and create great compelling original content.
Starting Over: After Life Got In The Way. James and Arlene follow up on the last episode , I Sure Screwed That Up, to offer some more uninhibited but sound advice.
James and Arlene Martell humble themselves to their listeners and share some real-life experiences that made them say I Sure Screwed That Up.
James and Arlene Martell offer some great examples and takeways so that you know How to Look Like a Million Dollar Business on a Shoe String Budget
Projects You Can (and Should) Outsource as James and Arlene Martell share their experiences with outsourcing content with virtual assistants and other freelance services. From communication to deliverables to expediting of projects, we learn best how to streamline the outsourcing process to work for you.
How to Earn 2,000-3,000 Dollars a Month With Audio Marketing as James and Arlene Martell give away some tips from their Podcasting Mastery course and their soon to be released Podcasting Mastery Podcast.
James and Arlene Martell shares some tips and takeaways on How to Create Quality Digital Products, Earn Passive Income and Work from Home
Learn about The 15-Minute Rule , as James and Arlene Martell discuss Outsourcing, Hiring a Virtual Assistant and Get Everything Done in Way Less Time!
James and Arlene Martell share news on The School of Internet Marketing Plus Webinar and an Exciting NEW Course!
James and Arlene Martell present listeners The Affiliate Buzz' Guide to Affiliate Summit - Insider Tips on Getting the Most Out of the Event.
James and Arlene share 10 Tools to Increase Productivity so that You Can Get Much More Done in Way Less Time! Also, tune in to hear a special discount promo code for Buzz listeners for an upcoming affiliate marketing conference.
James and Arlene Martell shares some insight on How to a Create Quick Video and a Simple Optin Offer to Increase Email Subscriptions. They also discuss the Social Media Mastery conference they attended in Vancouver last week.
Got Email? James and Arlene Martell discuss How to Construct a Profitable Email Autoresponder Follow-up Series. We also learn what had kept Arlene off the air as of late.
Discussion of The In and Outs of Managing and Starting an Affiliate Program as James Martell welcomes outsourced program manager Chuck Hamrick.
How to Monetize a Blog or Podcast - Exactly What I Would Do to Earn 100 Dollars a Day. James Martell explains how can you make money from audio marketing and how podcasting and audio marketing can make you money.
Trademark Registration - What Authors, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners Need to Know About Protecting Their Intellectual Property as James Martel welcomes Vancouver, BC-based Intellectual Property attorney Andrei Mincov.
James and Arlene Martell discuss How to Earn a hundred dollarsa Day in Recurring Income using the right strategies of affiliate programs. Plus they discussmonetizing your podcast as James answers the skepticism that some people might have with investing in audio marketing . Finally, James and Arlene discuss plans for their upcoming venture toAffiliate Summit West 2015
Last Month Media Buyer, Copywriter and Email Marketing Relationship Guy Daniel Deyette Hated Podcasts, but This Week He Hijacks the Affiliate Buzz. Daniel asks question from a listener perspective on how the Affiliate Buzz radio series came to be with host James Martell.
Advertisers: How to Run An Extremely Successful Affiliate Program as James speaks with Affiliate Marketing Specialist and Internet Marketing Strategist Sarah Bundy.
From Minimum Wage To Millionaire: How A Poor Immigrant Boy Built His Internet Empire And How You Can Too! James welcomes international entrepreneur, best-selling author, and self-made multi-millionaire Dan Lok. Learn what are the Differences Between the Marketer Who Makes 2,000 dollars a year, and the marketer Who Makes 200,000 dollars a year.
Basecamp, Lead pages, MmySEOTool, Podcasting comes of age and simpler optin offers are just some the tools sand techniques that James and Arlene list as they count down their Absolute Top 7 Ah-Ha Moments, Tools and Techniques for 2014.
Learn how to take your income to the next level in 2015 with a proven 8-step system, made for affiliate marketers, coaches, authors, speakers, and entrepreneurs, The system was created by Iman Aghay, the founder of Success Road Academy and the Marketing Mastery Summit. James and Iman take us through all 8 steps that will help you learn how to create proper offers, attract bigger clients and create larger mailing lists and much more.
Learn how to take your income to the next level in 2015 with a proven 8-step system, made for affiliate marketers, coaches, authors, speakers, and entrepreneurs, The system was created by Iman Aghay, the founder of Success Road Academy and the Marketing Mastery Summit. James and Iman take us through all 8 steps that will help you learn how to create proper offers, attract bigger clients and create larger mailing lists and much more.
Affiliate Marketing and CafePress Customization as James welcomes Kellie Hudson, Affiliate Marketing Associate for Cafepress to help us get a glance of the CafePress and their in-house affiliate marketing program.
Growth, and Ramping Up for the Online Shopping Season to Maximize Sales as James and Arlene discuss the oncoming rush for affiliate marketers to plan and make the most of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season.
Reboot: How to Get UNSTUCK and Back on Track to Building a Lifestyle Business as James welcomes the President at Making Shifts Happen, Stephanie Stanfield.
James and Arlene discuss their time at ShareASale Think Tank 2014 in Charlotte and a Visit to Memphis, Tennessee and the Elvis Presleys historic mansion Graceland.
James speaks with Linda Woods, the Managing Director of Integrated Marketing Services for Madrivo, on Her Re-Rentry Into Affiliate Marketing. Linda recounts her work in affiliate management, teaching and training retailers on how to implement affiliate marketing from Commission Junction to PartnerCentric to Madrivo.
A Quick Breakation to Collapse Time Frames and Get Things Done as James shares some plans when you plan to get away while managing and coordinating projects.
A Quick Breakation to Collapse Time Frames and Get Things Done as James shares some plans when you plan to get away while managing and coordinatingprojects.
James and Arlene are Planning for Affiliate Summit West 2015 in Las Vegas coming up in January. They reflect on the venue, the meet market, the agenda, special events, plus they discuss how you can win a pair of passes to the conference.
Discover Some Best Practices in Building Your Audience Using Facebook Ads as James welcomes Ashley Coombe, the Marketing Director of Prosperent and Content Marketing Evangelist at Shariest.
Sharing Plans for ShareASale Think Tank 2014 as James and Arlene prepare for their trek to the four-star Ballantyne Hotel and Lodge in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event will bring together 100 bloggers/affiliates and 30 retailers/merchants for 1-on-1 education, small workshops, and numerous networking events.
How to Create and Market Your Own Digital Products and Live a Dream Lifestyle as James speaks with a Top ClickBank Affiliate and Vendor, Author of the Marketing with Miles and host of the ClickScoop podcast, Miles Baker.
Passive Income Mastery -Learn how to go from Zero to 100 Dollars a Day with the help of a new educational series James fills us in about. Plus, we hear breaking news that Google has completely dropped all authorship functionality from the search results and webmaster tools.
How to Generate Leads, Prospects and more business using LinkedIn as James speaks with International #1 Bestselling Author of The LinkedIn Code and LinkedIn Expert Melonie Dodaro
How to Easily Manage a Remote Team to Quickly Grow Your Business. James and Arlene run through the logistics and tell you how they make the arrangement work. Plus, they look forward to Affiliate Summit West 2015.
Amazon Best Selling Author and Daddy Blogger Ricky Shetty Shares the Secrets to Receiving thirty thousand dollars in FREE Products and Building a Lifestyle Business Around Your Family.
Affiliate manager, Content specialist, SEO, Podcaster and Book Author Vinny O'Hare talks to James about Why It Pays to Think Outside of the Box.
Talking about the Evolution of The Affiliate Marketing Agency as James speaks with Matt Frary, the CEO and co-founder of SmarterChaos. Matt talks about the strategic alignment SmarterChaos made with one of the biggest local and national digital platforms in the United States, Digital First Media.
Learn How to Grow your Brand or Business with a Book as James speaks with the author of the Business Around A Lifestyle Book Series: Internet marketing veteran and best-selling author Jim Kukral.
Learn How to Grow your Brand or Business with a Book as James speaks with the author of the Business Around A Lifestyle Book Series: Internet marketing veteran and best-selling author Jim Kukral.
James and Arlene share some of their personal trials an tribulations juggling family and entreprenuership in order to Carve Out a Lifestyle Where You Can Raise Your Own Kids as a Stay at Home Affiliate Marketer.
Breakations, Meetups, Podcasting and a Refreshed Format for the Affiliate Buzz as James and Arlene discuss a breakation to where the Sylvester Stallone movie Rambo: First Blood was shot. Plus, James discusses a podcasting seminar he spoke on during a meeting of the Internet Marketing Masterminds.
Learn about Running an Online Business that Pays and Pays and Pays as James speaks with Serial Entrepreneur and New York Times Besselling Author Joel Comm.
Creating Your Own Product (An Inspiring Success Story) Matt McWilliams, President of Matt McWilliams Consulting (which provides marketing consulting to small and medium sized businesses ranging from retail clothing to music instruction) shares his story.
James and Arlene respond to a recent mail where they discussed How a Google Applied Manual SPAM Action Penalty was Successfully Removed.
Discussing Transparency, and a Multi-channel Approach to the Performance Model as James welcomes the Co-Founder and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Impact Radius, Todd Crawford.
Would You Like to Work at Home? James speaks with Jeannine Crooks, Account Manager with Affiliate Window as she Shares Her Story of How and Why.
Discover A Game Changing Tool to Scale Your Business, as James, Arlene and guest Kimberly Juchnowski share a tool that 90 Days Ago how the Incredible Tool called Basecamp transformed the way his team does Business.
From email marketing to newsletter to podcast subscriptions and more, James and Arlene share Three Strategies for Building a Large List and Why it is Important to Your Success.
How to Hire a Graphic Designer, Get Professional Look You Want, and Save a Bundle. James and Arlene takes us throught the vetting process and the advantages of having a good graphic designer available.
Todd Cochrane from RawVoice and GeekNewsCentral joins James to talk about the Lucrative Opportunities for Affiliate Marketers to Offer Tools and Services to Eager Podcasters to help them better understand what they need to produce a successful podcast.
Podcasting is on the rise, as weekly audio podcast consumption has grown year-over-year, Apples New CarPlay System Looks Turn Tens Of Millions Of Cars Into iPhone Accessories. These stories and more as James and Arlene take a look at Podcasting By The Numbers.
ShareASale ThinkTank 2014 has been announced to be presented at the four star Ballantyne Hotel and Lodge in Charlotte, North Carolina. ShareASale ThinkTank is an annual event designed to bring together top clients as well as new, up and coming Affiliates and Merchants
Google Plus Hangouts To Create High Quality Top End Content and Brand Optimizationas James speaks with Bonnie Sainsbury,?Founder and Online Marketing Consultant at Social Media Smarter.
James and Arlene preview their visit to the Canada Marketing Summit 2014 which will feature education on Marketing, Advertising, Online Lead Generation and Best Marketing Strategies.
James and Arlene preview their visit to the Canada Marketing Summit 2014 which will feature education onMarketing, Advertising, Online Lead Generation and Best Marketing Strategies.
Breakations to Mexico as James and Arlene discuss with Personal Injury Attorney Travis Black who runs the website Mexico Resorts for Less.
Breakations to Mexico as James and Arlene discuss withPersonal Injury AttorneyTravis Black who runs the website Mexico Resorts for Less.
How to Minimize Taxes By Maximizing Expenses with Robert Kottke from Oregon Tax Services, LTD. Kottke is an expert in tax preparation and helps companies and individuals create customized tax plans in order to maximize their profits and grow their businesses.
How to Minimize Taxes By Maximizing Expenses with Robert Kottke from Oregon Tax Services, LTD. Kottke is an expert in tax preparation and helps companies and individuals create customized tax plans in order to maximize their profits and grow their businesses.
Jame and Arlene discuss accounting and bookkeeping for your affiliate marketing business for tax needs and profit/loss.
Google Penguin and Panda - What’s Up? James and Arlene answer a question on post Google Panda and Penguin that was asked during their Daily Traffic Blueprint course at The School Of Internet Marketing.
How to Get (and Stay Organized) as James and Arlene share some tools of their trade including roboform, Skype and products for managing projects and workflow like Google Drive.
16 Incredible WordPress Plugins for Affiliates (and Webmasters of all Kinds) as James and Arlene offer up a list that provides the right tools to maintain an Affiliate Marketing Program or any website run by WordPress.
James and Arlene show us some ways on How to Create a Killer Optin Offer to Increase Subscribers
A Fresh Start - Really ‘Nailing It’ In 2014. James and Arlene discussion best practices to get more done with delegating work with the help of virtual assistants.
More Notable Online Stats for 2013 as James and Arlene look into the metrics of Twitter and the Rise of Mobile.
Growth of Internet and Social Media including how will social media sites YouTube, Facebook and Twitter performed as James and Arlene look back at the Notable Online Stats for 2013.
Discover 10 Must Have Tools Affiliates Can Use to Dramatically Increase Productivity and Profits! James and Arlene share a list of tools .
Autoresponders, plagiarism, keywords, slideshows, virtual assistants and WordPress themes are all up for discussion as James answers listener questions Arlene has received from the Affiliate Buzz mailbag.
How to Spot (and Jump On) Opportunities to Develop Awesome Content as James speaks with Multi-Channel eCommerce Retail Marketing Professional Liz Gazer from Growthspurt Media. Liz is a consultant at Growthspurt Media, specializing in Affiliate Management. With 10 years experience managing programs in fashion, health, home decor, travel and more, Liz is excited to be working with INC5000 women's shapewear merchant, HourglassAngel.com on ShareASale.
Find Keywords That Actually Rank - A Replacement for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool! James and Arlene tell us all about Longtail Professional, a keyword research tool that enhances your keyword research.
James takes us on a Behind the Scenes Visit to SmarterChaos, an Outsourced Affiliate Agency with Stuart Butler, the Rainmaker and CoFounder at SmarterChaos.
On location from ShareASale Think Tank 2013 in Denver, Colorado, James tells us about the event and shares with usc some exciting merchant launches in the ShareASale network as well as some of their Top Performing Programs.
Part 3 of our Case Study: Turning Your Passion Into Traffic and Profits as James Martell welcomes back Lloyd Burrell, publisher and editor of ElectricSense.com about turning your marketing passion into traffic and profits.
Promoting Software - 30 Percent Commission and More as James speaks with James Nardell, the Senior Affiliate Manager at AMWSO. They discuss the PC tune-up utility System Mechanic from Iolo Systems.
James Martell welcomes back Lloyd Burrell, publisher and editor of ElectricSense.com about turning your marketing passion into traffic and profits.
Google Authorship Markup – What It Is (and 10 Reasons Why Affiliates Should Claim It). James and Arlene help affiliates with reasons to attribute content to original authors.
James talks with Lloyd Burrell, publisher and editor of ElectricSense.com about turning your passion into traffic and profits.
Outsourcing Secrets Revealed …7 Tips to Rapidly Grow Your Business as James talks with Kimberly Juchnowski who works along-side Arlene and I as an editor and project coordinator handling almost all of our outsourcing projects within the Elance system.
Outsourcing Secrets Revealed …7 Tips to Rapidly Grow Your Business as James talks with Kimberly Juchnowski who works along-side Arlene and I as an editor and project coordinator handling almost all of our outsourcing projects within the Elance system.
Need Traffic? How about a New Traffic Building Course as James and Arlene discuss this new course will help to build web traffic by adding ongoing regular content that your visitors want and need.
Sales Projections for Merchants - Understanding the Variables with Iain Bundy from All Inclusive Marketing. We learn how company sales forecasts are the basis for many important decisions both Positive and negative factors that might impact sales.
Simple Changes Skyrocket Email Opt-Ins as James helps us discover how with Ryan Carmody from HealthySmoothieHQ. Ryan shows us how to optimize Email Opt-In Offer Incentives therefore Increasing Opt-In Rates.
Google Glass and Other Wearable Technologies: Why Affiliate Marketers Should Jump on Board as James welcomes All Inclusive Marketing CEO Sarah Bundy and Webby Award nominated citizen journalist and gadget geek Aftaab Gulam.
Talking Things that Are Working Beyond Your Website with the Chief of Chaos at SmarterChoas, Matt Frary. They run through podcasting, affiliate links and weaving your content through social media, Facebook, pointing at Youtube and more.
Talking Successful Affiliate Marketing with AMWSO affiliate program manager Harry Kumar about his work managing the Chaparral Motorsports affiliate program, which specializes in Motorcycle Parts and Accessories, Motorcycle Gear and Apparel, Motorcycle Tires, ATV Tires and Genuine Original Equipment Parts for Motorcycles and ATVs
Talking Successful Affiliate Marketing with AMWSO affiliate program manager Harry Kumar about his work managing the Chaparral Motorsports affiliate program, which specializes in Motorcycle Parts and Accessories, Motorcycle Gear and Apparel, Motorcycle Tires, ATV Tires and Genuine Original Equipment Parts for Motorcycles and ATVs
Talking Successful Affiliate Marketing with AMWSO affiliate program manager Harry Kumar about his work managing the Chaparral Motorsports affiliate program, which specializes in Motorcycle Parts and Accessories, Motorcycle Gear and Apparel, Motorcycle Tires, ATV Tires and Genuine Original Equipment Parts for Motorcycles and ATVs
SheIsMedia: A Network Exclusive to Women Bloggers. Tricia Wackerly Is the Media Ringleader and Chief Influence Officer of this network and she tells James and Arlene about this Unique Performance Marketing Community Embracing Women.
Optimizing Traffic to Increase Profits as James welcomes back the Chief of Chaos from SmarterChaos, Matt Frary. Matt mentions how Customer acquisitions versus sales seems to be the trend in affiliate marketing and how you get out of affiliate marketing what you put into it. Collaboration means success.
Optimizing Traffic to Increase Profits as James welcomes back the Chief of Chaos from SmarterChaos, Matt Frary. Matt mentions how Customer acquisitions versus sales seems to be the trend in affiliate marketing and how you get out of affiliate marketing what you put into it. Collaboration means success.
How Affiliate Marketers Should Prepare for Q4 as James welcomes Carolyn Kmet from All inclusive Marketing to discussion how you should prepare for the fall and winter months. Things to do include affiliate managers working with retailers to understand that they should prepare and strategize and evaluate how successful their promotions were from year to year and how their competitors fared.
Profitable and Often Overlooked Business to Business Opportunities for Affiliate Marketers with Chris Sanderson, the director of the Bangkok, Thailand-based internet marketing firm AMWSO Co.
Building a Total Online Presence while tackling ranking issues no longer mean having to focus on just the search engines like the days of old, but now why social networks have become much more important. Plus, James and Arlene break it down step by step by way of a website hub and a daily traffic blueprint.
A Quick and Easy Solution for Anyone with Undistributed PAD Articles. James and Arlene offer a refresher on how to make the most out of your Professional Article Distribution.
James profiles Impact Radius and their Game Changing Suite of Tools for Advertisers, Affiliates and Agencies with Todd Crawford, one of the original founders of Commission Junction and the co-founder of Impact Radius.
Empowering Your Video Marketing with Viewbix with Affiliate Marketer and Online Marketing Strategist Adam Reimer. Viewbix is a video tool that will enable your website visitors to turn their traditional website video into a fully interactive and social media friendly marketing machine.
Profitabilty - Venturing Off the Beaten Path as James speaks with Karen Garcia, the manager of several merchant programs including MakeBeer.net and BowlingShirt.com among others. She shares some insight on what her top affiliates are doing to reach higher conversion rates and earn top commissions.
Affiliate Marketing is Dead? No, the Google Affiliate Network is Dead! Google announced that it is shutting down the Google Affiliate Network. The news came in an email to users, as well as in a post on the Affiliate Network blog. James discusses the implications of this closure with Matt Frary of Smarter Chaos who wrote an article regarding the closure, and Carolyn Kmet from All Inclusive Marketing.
Concern About Commission Junction and their Live Superfoods Affiliate Program as James explains some issues he has faced recently with the popular affiliate network whom he has supported for years. James airs his grievance with Kimberly Juchnowski, Publisher at Tikikiki.com
Podcasting: Why It Is for YOU! James and Arlene explain how podcasting is a great option to implement into your Marketing Strategy. They discussion distribution and offer examples of developing their own podcasts and how other in their space are succeeding with them.
Discussing the Impact of Mobile in Affiliate Marketing, from HTML 5 Upgrades to responsive/reactive designs and themes, with the Founder/Chief of Chaos for SmarterChaos, Matt Frary.
Discussing the Impact of Mobile in Affiliate Marketing, from HTML 5 Upgrades to responsive/reactive designs and themes, with the Founder/Chief of Chaos for SmarterChaos, Matt Frary.
Carolyn Kmet from All Inclusive Marketing and long time industry veteran of the affiliate marketing industry, discusses the traits of a successful affiliate program.
Social Media Graphics - Cheat Sheets: Do your social media graphics need a little pick me up? James and Arlene speak at length offering tips on giving you a competitive edge by adding a touch of professionalism to your graphics. They also share the dimensions of cover art, or the big header that you see on top of Facebook and other Social Media pages. Here are some specifics for a few of the Social Medias that you might want to work with the Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet
The BIG Adventure - Traveling with Your Laptop and James and Arlene discuss how Having a laptop while traveling can be such a great asset.
Affiliate Management Days West 2013 Preview as James speaks with conference organizer Geno Prussakov on the upcoming two-day event in San Francisco which will feature 4 keynotes, an affiliate networks panel, breakout sessions, and more. Plus, learn how Affiliate Buzz listeners can get an early bird discount.
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter - Oh What to Do? James welcomes back Stephanie Lichtenstein, the President and Social Media Director at Micro Media Marketing who recommends some excellent Twitter tools for affiliates to use in their social media marketing arsenal. Pay By Tweet, Untweeps, Tweetadder, Wefollow and Hootsuite are showcased.
Talking YouTube Traffic Secrets as James welcomes back SUPER BootCamp Member and the author of Video Traffic Adrenaline – Create Your Sales with YouTube, Dan Maynard. Learn how you can utilize YouTube to drive massive traffic to your websites and grow your business.
Affiliate Marketers BootCamp Announced for 2013 and James and Arlene share with us all the details. We also learn how the Boot Camp has made its way as a course into the School of Internet Marketing.
Trademark Registration – What Authors, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners Need to Know About Protecting Their Intellectual Property as James Martel welcomes Vancouver, BC-based Intellectual Property attorney Andrei Mincov.
James talks to the Ecommerce Acquisition Manager at Under Armour, Amy Ely. Amy was honored as Exceptional Merchant at the 2013 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards. The Pinnacle Award recognizes exceptional performance in affiliate marketing.
Mobile Marketing Focus at Affiliate Summit West 2013 as James and Arlene recap the event in Las Vegas. They also discuss making time to catch up with their fellow instructors at the School of Internet Marketing.
Affiliate Summit West 2013 Preview plus James tells us about the Social Media Wing of the School of Internet Marketing with Stephanie Lichtenstein, the President and Social Media Director at Micro Media Marketing.
James and Arlene introduce us to their new School of Internet Marketing, whose cirriculum covers subjects in Social media, email, affiliate and mobile marketing. Plus, they run down their agenda for the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2013 taking place January 13-15, 2013 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.
Celebrating 10 Years - James and Arlene take a Look Back to the Beginning of Podcasting, and more importantly the inception of the Affiliate Buzz radio program. James tells us how the idea came to be in the very early days of podcasting, from the exhaustive process of hosting and delivering the content in a way listeners could access before high speed DSL.
Below are the initial two episodes that James and Arlene produced on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
Affiliate Buzz #1 - Be Inspired in the Affiliate Industry by Learning to Diversify Your Sites and Build Quality Link Partners
Affiliate Buzz #2 - Aloha from Maui - How to Understand Keywords to Free Your Time and Grow Your Income
Important Changes to Anchor Text Rules as James and Arlene discusses how to help you with the anchor text used in links, finding alternate ways besides inserting keywords in anchor text to help with ranking in the SERPs. Plus, learn about a great offer to get your hands on 5 FREE PAD Articles.
Where to Find All of the Quality Content You Will Ever Need as James welcomes back Jonathan Goodman of Halyard Consulting. They discuss how to make the most out of conference networking and presentations, podcasting appearances and opportunities with building your own podcast or something as simple as a Google search.
James and Arlene discuss steps on How to Avoid or Recover from Malware Attacks, how it their case led to lost productivity. James shares some tools to prevent, detect and recover from malware and hacker attacks that infect visitors.
What Affiliates Should Know About to Stay Ahead, James asks two affiliate marketing experts with 25 Years of Combined Experience, Sarah Bundy and Carolyn Kmet (formerly from Groupon) from All Inclusive Marketing and Affiliate Management Trainers.
YouTube, An Untapped Source of Tremendous Traffic as James speaks with returning guest, SUPER BootCamp Member and the author of Video Traffic Adrenaline - Create Your Sales with YouTube, Dan Maynard.
James discusses Google Predictions from SMX East 2012 as he welcomes back Jonathan Goodman, the President of Halyard Consulting who spoke about Schema at SMX East 2012.
Importance of Organizing a Publishing Schedule as James and Arlene discuss ways to easily organize, manage and publish your content. Find ouyt how a little patience and some outside help can work out.
Increasing Traffic By Paying Attention to Details as James and Arlene offer some and tips and tools so you can be sure on how you put up your content, from checking your title tags to managing your on-page SEO.
Discussing how Schema and Semantic Markup is important, and how paying attention to detail can make a significantly positive impact on your online visibility with Jonathan Goodman, the President of Halyard Consulting.
Google Authorship Markup is a way Google has recently created to connect authors with their content on the web. James and Arlene discuss this recent change which also enables websites to publicly link within their site from content to author pages.
Affiliate Management Days East 2012 Preview as James speaks with conference organizer Geno Prussakov on the upcoming two-day event which will feature 3 keynotes, an affiliate networks panel, 22 breakout sessions, and more.
Affiliate Management Days East 2012 Preview as James speaks with conference organizer Geno Prussakov on the upcoming two-day event which will feature 3 keynotes, an affiliate networks panel, 22 breakout sessions, and more.
James and Arlene give us their take on the Google AdSense In Your City event that stopped in Vancouver B.C. Guest Sarah Bundy from All Inclusive Marketing and AffiliateManagementTrainers fills us in on accompanying James and Arlene about the event plus how she hosted a Vancouver Affiliate Marketers Give Back event.
Crowdfunding - Is this the Solution to Fund Your BIG Idea? James answers that with Halyard Consulting President Jonathan Goodman, who has turned to Indiegogo.com to help crowdfund his first book entitled What Competitors Dont Want You to Know About Website Traffic.The funding goal is 7,500 dollars and if successful will be the first in a series of Internet technology books for non-technical website owners.
James recaps the Affiliate Summit East 2012 in New York City with the Publisher at Tikikiki.com Kimberly Juchnowski. Kimberly also discusses how she manages a slew of content creation projects on the road.
How to Avoid the Anchor Text Over-Optimization Penalties as James and Arlene offer Tips for Avoiding Over-Optimization.
James discusses Working Hard, Playing Hard - Sandwiching a Conference with a Breakation with Internet and Mobile Marketing and Development Consultant Aric Boyles from Central Park.com.
Taking a look at Elance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as James discusses with the Publisher at Tikikiki.com Kimberly Juchnowski.
How to Grow Your Traffic to 1,000 Visitors Per Day! James and Arlene talks about how to create the right kind of content to draw new visitors in.
James and Arlene answer listener questions on Professional Article Distribution Best Practices, Content Creation and Outsourcing.
Why Fresh Content Is a Must -- And Ways to Get It for Free as James and Arlene speak with Don Campbell, President of Expand2Web.
Expanding Your Business with Social Media as James speaks with Stephanie Lichtenstein, the President and Founder of Micro Media Marketing.
Google Panda and Penguin Talk, plus James tells us about his new backlinks workshop,where he shares his method for consistently getting Top 10 listings on Google for any keyword.
James and discuss Affiliate Marketing from an Emptying Nest as they share their own at home situation now that all of the children have grown up and moved out.
How To Build An iPhone App with Brad Waller, the Vice President of Business Development at uBuildApp.com, which lets you create an iPhone app and view it on your phone.
Delving into A Day In The Life Of An Award Winning Affiliate Manager as James speaks with Marketing and Business Development Veteran Matt McWilliams.
Can Attending an Event Be the Missing Link in Your Road to Online Success? James and Arlene share their experience on location from Affiliate Summit in Austin, Texas.
James and Arlene offer up 3 Tips for Gathering Friendly Backlinks to counter the Google Panda and Penguin Algorithm Updates.
James and Arlene discuss how affiliate marketers and internet marketers in general are managing with the new Google Penguin Update, in conjunction with the ongoing Google Panda Algorithm Updates
Developing a SmartPhone App: A True Life Story as James speaks with Eldon Beix, who has developed an app called DigitalCarPainter, that lets you design a paint scheme for your vehicle and color it using real hot rod colors.
How to Hire a Virtual Assistant as James and Arlene offer tips and expertise on how to hire the right virtual assistant for your business without wasting time or getting burned in the process.
James and guest host Jeannine Crooks from Buy.at discuss Conference Secrets Revealed - How to Select the Right Sessions to Attend.
Website Building Q and A, including ways to build different types of themes, regular postings, gaining expert status and questions regarding the Amazon Affiliate program.
James and Arlene discus the release of PAD (as in Professional Article Distribution) 2.0 - A New Era in Backlink Building. We learn how this technique can help enhance your listings in the search engine results.
James and Arlene talk about attending two back to back conferences in Austin Texas mid May. Affiliate Summit Central starts at the downtown Hilton then Shareasale ThinkTank conference follows right after at the beautiful Lakeway resort and spa. It is an amazing opportunity for affiliates to attend two great conferences for an amazing low price. Meet with industry experts and merchants in a more intimate setting and enjoy the beautiful city of Austin Texas.
The Technology You Need to Succeed as James welcomes his son Justin on the show to help with ways to integrate and streamline the technology you use for your business.
James and Arlene delve Inside the Affiliate Marketing Answer Book, which offers practical answers to the most common questions people have as they are evaluating the business, just getting started or looking to go from part to full-time.
James and Arlene go through the latest Google Panda Update while they offer tips on How to Teflon Coat Your Content.
James and Arlene help us on How to Develop Ebooks for Opt-In Offers and for Profit with the Creative Co-ordinator/VA at Elance.com, Michedolene Hogan.
James and Arlene offer Tips for Protecting your Website from Malware so that your website will not be vulnerable to hackers, malware, and other security threats.
Affiliate Management Training – How Do I Find Great Affiliates? James brings on a couple of affiliate marketing veterans to answer: AM Navigator CEO and President Geno Prussakov and Affiliate Marketing Specialist/ Internet Marketing Strategist Sarah Bundy.
Affiliate Marketers BootCamp - Should You Attend? Find out how you can participate in this Live Interactive Training Series for Affiliate Marketers Of All Levels.
Advertisers: How to Run An Extremely Successful Affiliate Program as James speaks with Affiliate Marketing Specialist and Internet Marketing Strategist Sarah Bundy.
Affiliate Marketers Q and A as James and Arlene Martell share some questions received from the Affiliate Bootcamp mailbag.
From the networking to the sessions to the Ceasars Palace venue, not to mention the Under The Star party from ShareASale, James and Arlene recap Affiliate Summit West 2012.
How to Get (and Stay) Organized with the right organizational tools from Google Docs to Skype to PageLeap, plus James and Arlene offer up a preview to Affiliate Summit West 2012 in Las Vegas.
Why Hire a Virtual Assistant? James and Arlene explain how they have utilized VAs for their projects, plus they look forward to Affiliate Summit West 2012.
Taking a Break-ation from Business on location the Hawaiian island of Maui, James and Arlene offer examples of couples like themselves that take steps to grab some rest and relaxation away from the everyday stress of business.
New Advancements and Features for Tracking Your Campaigns with Jeannine Crooks, account manager the from Buy.At affiliate network. they discuss tools such as data feeds, deep link generators, cookie based tracking and more.
Google Panda Update How to Regain Your Ground with freelance copywriter Lindsey Hadwin and Irelands No 1 Elance Writer Nicholas Jackman.
Affiliate Marketers Boot Camp 2012 as James and Arlene preview their upcoming event which will be held on January 17th, 2012. The boot camp curriculum is based on the 10th version of the Super Affiliate Handbook. We also learn that James has been named as one of The Impact Radius Top 25 Most Influential People in Performance Marketing.
Creating Something Out of Nothing as James and Arlene speak with Aric Boyles, President and Founder of CentralPark.com.and Eileen Callen, Marketing Director of CentralPark.com, as in the famous park in New York City. We get an inside look at the domain acquisition, their work with affiliate programs, email marketing strategies and more.
Part 2 of Yet Another Google Update, the Panda 2.5. James and Arlene explain why you should not rush off and start checking your site rankings to see if you have been affected. They explain how there are many factors that could result in a drop to your search rankings that may be relatively simple to correct.
Yet Another Google Panda Update as James and Arlene discuss the Google Panda 2.5 Update, and how it is affecting some websites to notice their traffic dropping dramatically. They answer some questions that have filed into their Help Desk.
James and Arlene take us Inside the New Tenth Edition of the Affiliate Marketers Handbook, a popular e-book which provides tips and information on how to succeed with affiliate programs.
Discover 4 Ways to Boost Your Visual Impact Without Breaking the Bank as James and Arlene run down some useful links to check out when looking for cost-efficient ways to build your website.
The Secret to Selecting Profitable Topics, from the technical aspects of starting an affiliate website to getting traffic to the site. James and Arlene fill us in.
Collapsing Time Frames as James and Arlene tell us How to Fast Track Your Business. We learn how they make time for work for rest and what tools they used to stay connected including BaseCamp and Google Calendar.
Critiquing a On-Page Disaster - What Not to Do! James and Arlene do a thorough site review of a listener submitted website called Amazing Prices Online.
How To Get Organized for the Upcoming Online Christmas Shopping Season
including hot to get a PAD or Professional Article Distribution campaign going, talking with affiliate managers plus James and Arlene share with us a WordPress tool developed to check for dead links.
Dr. Andy Williams discussing his Famous Bloggers article entitled Niche Vocabulary Why Poor Content Cant Hide in Google.
Andy explains that Google can spot bad content a mile off and consign it to the supplemental index, but there is a simple solution to making sure big G sit up and take note use your niche vocabulary.
James and Arlene recap Affiliate Summit East 2011 in New York and the upcoming West show in Las Vegas with Jeannine Crooks from Buy.at. They also discuss how to make the most out of making a visit of Affiliate Summit be more than just a business trip.
James and Arlene talk about Making a Difference and Sharing Your Passion. The topic is based on the work that Arlene has done with her website EpilepsyMoms.com.
James has both Matt Frary from Smarter Chaos, a boutique agency and consulting firm, and Chris Peterson from Preferred Guest Resorts. They're here to talk about those little 'niche products' affiliates may be interested in getting involved with.
On-Page vs. Off-Page Optimization - Where Should I Focus My Attention? James and Arlene give us some tips that will offer a positive effect on your website and site listing.
James and Arlene take us through the On-Page Optimization Checklist and how it will pay you to get it right, plus they also take a look at the upcoming affiliate marketing conferences coming up.
Anchor Text - How To Get It Right! James and Arlene explain how the better job we do with our anchor text, the better your web pages will rank higher in the search results.
James teaches us How to Repurpose Existing Articles for Increasing Income and Traffic and to further build out your subscriber base.
Want A Simple Way To Take Your Business to the Next Level. James and Arlene offer their advice and insight.
James and Arlene have Carrie and Jonathan Kraft back again to discuss the big secret to making that adventure travel possible. Listen and find out just what the secret key is.
Do You Need A Simple Plan to Earn $100 A Day? James explains how to do that with Karen Garcia, co-founder and partner at GTO Management, an outsourced affiliate program management company.
James and Arlene talk to an affiliate marketing couple that shows how it possible to Adventure Travel with Your Laptop with Carrie and Jonathan Kraft.
James discusses how to Select a High Converting Affiliate Program with the Vice President of Marketing for Viator Kelly Gillease, and Deborah Carney from Merchant ABCs and Team Loxly.
James and Arlene answer a listener question from their Super Affiliate help desk on How Many Backlinks Do You Need To Earn a 5-Figure Income?
James and Arlene answer a listener question from their Super Affiliate help desk on How Many Backlinks Do You Need To Earn a 5-Figure Income?
James discusses Affiliate Meetups and Why You Should Attend One In Your Hometown with Sarah Bundy from All Inclusive Marketing and Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins.
How Many Sites Do You Need To Earn A Full-time Income? James runs down the list, including monthly press releases, outbound links, newsletters, podcasts, video, and working closer with merchants.
James and Arlene speak with Joan Mylchreest of AllWallDecor on the importance of proper keyword usage to draw the right affiliate programs, and that thinking of making each individual webpage is more important than just thinking of your business as a website.
Why You Should Use Automation to Optimize Your PPC? James introduces us to an option that can boost PPC conversion rates by 69 percent while decreasing costs of the campaign by as much as 58 percent.
James continues his conversation that originated on his Coffee Talk radio series with David Antley and the team at Rising Revenue.
James and Arlene shares 3 Affiliate Success Stories based on feedback that they have received from the Affiliate Help Desk. Let these stories help you relate and apply to your current situation.
Improving Conversion Rates based on the teachings of Landing Page Optimization guru Tim Ash as James talks with returning guest Jeannine Crooks, Account Manager at buy.at.
Improving Conversion Rates based on the teachings of Landing Page Optimization guru Tim Ash as James talks with Jeannine Crooks, Account Manager at buy.at.
James and Arlene discuss How To Double Your Income With Your Existing Traffic with a little Website Spring Cleaning. They also preview the upcoming Share-A-Sale Think Tank coming up in May in Chicago.
Outsourcing Backlinks: What You Need To Know! James talks about the struggles that people have with building websites and offers some tips on how to outsource and gather backlinks from other websites.
James and Arlene speak with Todd Tresidder, founder of FinancialMentor.com about how to properly invest and manage your affiliate networking business.
The Google Algorithmic Update in their ranking system, designed such that they will reduce rankings for low quality sites which dont add value to a subject or scrap content from other sites. James and Arlene tell What you need To know about the update so that you are not affected.
Internet Publisher and Writer at Context Technical Communication Leanne Tremblay reflects on her work in the early days of affiliate marketing.
James and Arlene uncover The Secret to Getting YouTube Traffic based on some experiments they have worked on for generating the most traffic to your video.
Bennet discusses Fear of Twittering in Egypt with Jillian York, project coordinator of the OpenNet Initiative for the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, about the latest developments in Egypt and Tunisia and the role of the Internet in the groundswell in both movements.
James and Arlene take us through Learn 10 Tips To Running A Highly Successful Backlinking Campaign, and they explain how they have perform this task for clients.
A Look Back To The Early Days Of Affiliate Marketing and a look ahead as James and Arlene tell us about their struggles starting in affiliate marketing and how they found their success.
Returning guest Don Campbell from Expand2Web tells James and Arlene about How Local Search is Paying off for Affiliates and how it is working for his profitable hybrid affiliate site.
James, Arlene and guest Phil Watkins give us a complete Affiliate Summit West 2011 Recap. They discuss their trip to Las Vegas, and what they took from the networking, breakout sessions and the new experiences they took in on this annual excursion.
James and Arlene give 5 Strategies To Keep Visitors Coming Back to your website. They list RSS, email, podcasting, comments on your blog, chatrooms and more.
Returning guest Dan Maynard explains how he grew his monthly affiliate marketing commissions from 500 to 4000 dollars per month in less than 7 days.
James and Arlene give us a comprehensive Startup Guide for affiliate marketers looking to attend conferences like the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2010 conference.
Returning guest Dan Maynard explains how he grew his monthly affiliate marketing commissions from 500 to 4000 dollars per month in less than 7 days.
James and Arlene give us a comprehensive Startup Guide for affiliate marketers looking to attend conferences like the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2010 conference.
Aussie Affiliate Marketers Paula Carnogoy and Wanda Sowden were able to sell 11,926 products earning over 80 thousand dollars in commission.
Building High Quality Responsive Twitter Followers and Traffic is the focus of part 2 of our conversation with Deborah Carney from Team Loxly.
21 Ways To Build Social Media Traffic For FREE is the focus of the program as James and guest Phil Watkins follow up on some social media ideas inspired by their visit from Pubcon Las Vegas 2010.
Pubcon 2010 Las Vegas Recap as James speaks with Jeannine Crooks, the Director of Affiliate Marketing for OneBigPlanet.com and Phil Watkins, Philip Watkins with Webcom Publishing Inc.
Learn 10 Twitter Tips (And Tools) To Increase Website Traffic with Deborah Carney of Team Loxly. Learn some simple steps so that you can make the most out of using Twitter.
ShareASale Think Tank 2010 Recap Roundtable with Tidbits, Nuggets and Take Aways from the annual event in San Francisco. James welcomes a roundtable of first time attendees.
Raise a Family and Create A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business from Home! Chris Molnar, who created the websites HalloweenAlliance and ThemeAParty shows us How a Husband a Father of Two Daughters >like himself grew a successful affiliate marketing business from Home.
James and Arlene speak with SUPER BootCamp Member Dan Maynard , who helps us with 7 Tips for Turning Your Passion into Profits with Your Affiliate Programs.
James welcomes back Don Campbell from Expand2Web, to continue with part 2 of a case study on how he grew a hybrid affiliate site to earn five thousand dollars a month in one year.
James and Arlene welcome Don Campbell from Expand2Web, which builds WordPress powered websites and optimizes them for top local search results in Google. Don tells us about a case study of how he grew a hybrid affiliate site to earn five thousand dollars a month in one year.
Not caught up on all of the terminology used in Affiliate Marketing, then check out this tutorial on the languages and lingo used in the industry.
With the holiday shopping season closing in, with it comes the exponential increase in web traffic every year. James Shares with us 7 FREE Organizational Tools for Online Success.
James and Arlene have returned from New York City, and they give their take on Affiliate Summit East 2010. They break down the keynote addresses with Frank Luntz and Jim Kukral, as well as the breakout sessions and the nighttime networking.
James and Arlene discusses creating User Generated Content by determining what kind of fresh new content, via text, audio, images or video, you can create to bring more visitors to your site. They also discuss creating ways to have visitors interact with you and other users on your site, plus what kind of functionality and plugins you can use.
While James and Arlene prep for the upcoming Affiliate Summit East 2010, they follow up on their discussion from last time giving a tutorial on podcasting including tips on syndication, post production and presentation.
James and Arlene discuss podcasting to building your brand, gaining backlinks to your site, driving targeted traffic, and of course selling more of your products and services.
James discusses some Social Media Distribution platforms for your marketing plan like Tweetdeck and HootSuite, plus he discusses ways on writing quality content for tweets and more.
James and Arlene discuss the recent Google update to the natural search results. They also discuss how the change may have affected your backlinks, and they offer some tips to analyze and develop some quality backlinks.
James and Arlene continue their discussion from the last episode on outsourcing by giving us 10 Tips to help you find the right service provider for your project, getting your work done on time and at the level of quality you are looking for at the best possible price.
They also offer tips to turn a tradeshow experience into break-cation.
James recaps his visit to AffCon 2010 in Denver, plus he and Arlene discuss outsourcing and how you can utilize this often overlooked or misapplied strategy to truly fast track your business into profitability, increase the output of your work and get a lot more done in a lot less time.
James and Arlene talk about how to create 100 percent unique and interesting content inexpensively. They discuss how they applied their tips to their own respective websites, KitCarConnection.com and EpilepsyMoms.com.
James and Arlene give a last minute preview of the Affcon 2010 Conference coming to Denver. They also discuss a number of ways on what you can do to increase your overall productivity while doing work at home.