http://www.affilorama.com/http://www.affilorama.com/blog/affiliate-summit-lessons-learnedhttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/affiliate-summit-lessons-learnedHi Everyone,A few weeks ago I flew out to Las Vegas to attend Affiliate Summit.I personally got a lot out of the event because I managed to meet more than 20 people who are making 7 to 8 figures a year online.What I wanted to do in this particular blog post was simply to mention the top 3 takeaways that I got out of the event...1. All the super affiliates that I met (7 and 8 figure affiliates) made over 80% of their income from just 1 or 2 niches. These niches varied across affiliates but the theme was the same, super affiliates got to know a niche extremely well and then promoted aggressively using several forms of paid advertising (google ppc, google content, yahoo ppc, yahoo content, msn, natural seo, media buys, pay per view and so forth). Not many did a lot of natural search engine optimization.Examples of the niches they focussed on include: weight loss, muscle gain, make money onlMarkLingTue, 09 Feb 2010 09:57:29 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/is-your-blog-personality-workinghttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/is-your-blog-personality-workingThere can be a myriad of reasons why you might want to start a blog. Maybe you want a 'make money blog', or you want a blog that reviews affiliate products, or perhaps you want to setup a corporate blog to promote your business. Or maybe you just want the adoring attention of a blog community that hangs on your every post, a devoted group of blog readers who will defend you to the death. Irrespective of your reasons for starting a blog, there is one thing you must have if you are to avoid spiraling into the pits of blog oblivion. That one thing is personality. Your blog must have a personality. I would type that in caps if it wasn't viewed as rude in the online world. A blog without a personality is about as inspiring as reading a manual about PABX phone systems and will likely end up in the same place – on the shelf collecting dust. So what does it mean for a blog to have personaliaffiloramaTue, 09 Feb 2010 09:57:27 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/five-ways-ppc-and-seo-can-be-friendshttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/five-ways-ppc-and-seo-can-be-friends Can PPC and SEO work together? You might be surprised at the answer to that question, particularly when you've most likely read so much about the differences between the two approaches. Actually PPC and SEO can be integrated effectively to help you build a better site. PPC and SEO are different! Before we start talking about how you can get PPC and SEO to make music together let's just confirm that the two are separate methods of attracting visitors. SEO focuses on building a lot of traffic naturally by improving your site's optimization for specific keyword phrases and attracting backlinks. PPC is used to get immediate traffic and, because you're paying for it, it's heavily targeted towards buyers and doesn't waste any time getting straight to the point. Conversely SEO is happy to attract anyone including info-seekers and tire-kickers. So the two employ quite different methods oaffiloramaMon, 08 Feb 2010 02:15:29 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/facebook-contest-winners-announcedhttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/facebook-contest-winners-announced Hi Guys, Just a quick update. We have our winners! Congratulations to Lisa Dunkle and Naeem Wright! Both of you have walked away with a year's subscription to Affilorama Premium. Thanks to all who entered and for all the great comments you made on our Facebook page - much appreciated! There will definitely be more contests this year, so make sure you keep an ear out for those!  affiloramaTue, 09 Feb 2010 09:57:28 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/cultural-conflictdo-we-need-to-start-thinking-globally-in-our-marketinghttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/cultural-conflictdo-we-need-to-start-thinking-globally-in-our-marketingLike it or not, we live in the global age. Telecommunications, satellites, the internet... we are increasingly connected to people in the far reaches of the world and they are connected to us. This interconnectivity has brought about many positive effects - one could argue that the more we're connected to people around the world, the more we might care about people in different countries and from different backgrounds. But there are potential negative consequences too. What if, for example, an advertisement uses cultural references that make perfect sense in one country - only to be completely misinterpreted in another? A few years ago the ad would have never seen the light of day outside its country of origin. But in the age of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, borders don't really exist, at least as far as information is concerned. The scenario I've just described is exactly whachrisgoddardMon, 08 Feb 2010 22:09:38 +0000