Rosalind Gardner's IM Tips

Celebrating Independence

Rosalind Gardner — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:28:33 +0000

With Canada Day on July 1st and Independence Day on the 4th, I can only hope that means most folks in both countries are recognizing and celebrating their good fortune to live in independent, democratic nations this week, because we are truly very fortunate. Hardly a week goes by that I don’t think of how very [...]

Overstock to Reinstate California Affiliates

Rosalind Gardner — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:04:24 +0000

Hot on the heels of announcing that they would join the lineup of Internet merchants dumping their affiliates in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island - states that plan to tax Internet referals - Overstock reversed its decision to drop its California-based affiliate advertisers following an assurance from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Office that his [...]

Affiliate Marketing in Canada: Save Money with US Dollar Services

Rosalind Gardner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:52:40 +0000

On May 26th, while buying $77 US product through Clickbank, the total amount of the purchase showed up as $90.07 in Canadian dollars (as shown in the screenshot below). I then checked Oanda for the correct exchange rates from US to Canadian dollars and discovered that the factor was 1.12404, or $77 US equalled $86.59882 Canadian [...]

KeywordSpy: Mini Review

Rosalind Gardner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:52:35 +0000

How would you like to spy on your affiliate competitors? KeywordSpy really does spy on top affiliate marketers and then gives you a list of all the keywords that make money for them. So you can let all those smart Super Affiliates do the hard work of researching and testing to find the most [...]

Affiliates: Do 2 Days Work - Take 2 Months Off

Rosalind Gardner — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:19:36 +0000

How would you like to take the whole summer away from posting to your affiliate blogs to play with your family and friends? Or how about taking an equally LONG winter vacation? You can and you’ll find out how I set things up on different sites to free up most of my time this summer. (That [...]

Choose Your Affiliate Marketing Model Wisely

Rosalind Gardner — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:03:22 +0000

Why work for 8 - 12 hours a day when 2 will do? For many aspiring affiliates, that phrase conjures up visions of big beautiful homes and shiny new sports cars. Graphic images on affiliate training sites encourage visitors to imagine themselves at their desk, dressed in PJ’s and smiling the big happy smile as hundred dollar [...]

Public Domain Goldmine Blowout

Rosalind Gardner — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:04:12 +0000

Yanik Silver and Michael Holland are holding a sale on the ‘unintentional’ overstock of their Public Domain Goldmine™ Niche volumes. Clearance pricing is definitely in effect. Volumes available are in the following topics: Health Self-Help Sports & Recreation Multi-Niche And each package of 10 public domain works includes: 150 Keywords for use with ppc or seo. (Also includes Google Adwords [...]

How to Add Affiliate Links to YouTube Videos using BubblePly

Rosalind Gardner — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:46:41 +0000

Do you make your own videos to promote products online as an affiliate? Does your merchant allow you to use their videos that are posted to YouTube, Blip.TV, Google Video, Metacafe and other video portals WITHOUT providing you with a way to embed your affiliate links? Well, an easy and free way to embed your [...]

Share Your YouTube Videos on Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader

Rosalind Gardner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:01:34 +0000

I love services that simplify my online business, i.e. TwitterFeed’s automatic posting of blog entries to my Twitter account — meaning that I rarely have to login to Twitter, unless of course I feel like telling everyone what I’m having for lunch that day — not. Well, in a similar fashion, YouTube has just [...]

Keyword Tools: Google vs. Wordtracker

Rosalind Gardner — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:43:21 +0000

In response to Q and A: Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing, Joe asked “Doesn’t Google Adwords keyword tool give you the same info regarding number of searches as wordtracker? What’s wordtracker’s advantage that you don’t get with Google?” Those are good questions to ask, especially when you might be thinking about buying a subscription to [...]