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Forbes: How to Become an Affiliate

On the surface, affiliate marketing (also known as performance marketing) seems simple. Brands offer affiliate partners a percentage of every sale or lead the partners generate via their online promotional activity. Anyone can join these affiliate programs and easily monetize their online content and influence and get paid for promoting any brand they want.

If only it were that easy.

You can read the full article here

Yazing Reaches 50k Members!

Yazing, the influencer monetization and cashback shopping platform, launched by Adam Viener in 2015, recently announced that they have reached 50k members after a record breaking year in 2020.  Yazing now has over 3,600 brands on that platform that any member can instantly start promoting and earning cash rewards for generating sales.  Members have generated nearly $4 million dollars in commissions on the platform.

“Companies have long offered affiliate programs, but these deals can be difficult to navigate and out of reach for the average individual, influencer or blogger.” said Adam Viener, Founder of Yazing. “I believe that EVERYONE has influence and deserves to be compensated for the sales they help generate. I launched Yazing in 2015 with the goal of making these often elusive opportunities accessible to anyone looking to earn some extra money from home promoting and supporting the brands they love.”

Anyone with an email address and the ability to receive payments via PayPal is welcome to join Yazing for free and start earning money.

Yazing Opens Limited Beta

Yazing is a new platform that is turning every mommy blogger into an affiliate and allowing them to easily earn commissions recommending brands they love. 

With a quick easy signup, Yazing members get access to promote the latest deals and coupons offered by the site's growing list of brands.  Anytime someone referred by our members makes a purchase from one of those brands, the Yazing member earns the affiliate commissions for the transaction.

"Mommy Bloggers work hard to build their audiences and provide valuable recommendations.  We created Yazing to help them, and others, be fairly rewarded this value and the transactions they are creating." said, Adam Viener, Yazing's Founder.

Yazing is an ongoing work in progress, and they have recently opened up their platform to a limited number of beta testers.  If you want to test out the platform and start earning money on your recommendations, visit Yazing.com and click on Join at the top of the page.

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Imwave Animation Explains Performance SEM and Affiliate PPC

We love talking with new potential partners at Imwave, and have found that many of these partners have the same questions.  What does Imwave do?  How can we work with you when our company does their own search campaigns, etc... 

We recently posted the following video animation that explains a lot of these questions about performance search engine marketing (affiliate ppc / affiliate search) and hope to produce another video in the near future that gets into some of the more technical details that eventually come up.

We hope you enjoy the video, please let us know what you think!

PMA Illinois Lawsuit Victory Upheld

The PMA has announced today that the Illinois Supreme Court has uphelp a lower court ruling making the Illinois Affiliate Nexus Tax unconstitutional.  Not sure what this mean for affiliates yet.  Stay tuneds.  Nice work PMA.

 

http://thepma.org/pma-illinois-lawsuit-victory-upheld/

 

Here is a link to the opionion:

http://www.state.il.us/court/Opinions/SupremeCourt/2013/Summaries/114496s.htm

 

 

Are you in a conference rut, like me?

Since I've been in the performance marketing space I've been going to the same conferences year after year. Not that these are bad, most are very good.

The question I've been asking myself lately is this, "are there better ones I should be going to."

Let's face it, unless you just like traveling the reason for conferences is education and networking....driving more business. So where is the best return on my effort?

This year I'm going to be looking outside the box, at some new conferences to review. Today and tomorrow in New York, the founders of A4U are putting Performance Marketing Insights http://www.performancemarketinginsights.com

I took a look at the agenda and it appears to be filled with relevant topics, good speakers and sponsors.

This will be my first new event in years. i guess we will see how it works out.

Scott Jangro Scroogled?

It's always fun when a friend in the industry puts up a funny picture, and you can grab it and have some fun with it.  This one's for you Scott!

One Of Our Favorite Tools Gets An Upgrade: SpeedPPC V5 Review

At Imwave, Inc., we’ve been using SpeedPPC to help create more relevant, tightly structured PPC campaigns in less time than it takes to brew a strong cup of Italian espresso. In the two years we’ve been using SpeedPPC, we’ve seen our quality scores and conversions increase, our bids decrease, and the shortcuts in the Campaign Builder platform have taken the tedium out of building strong adgroups out of heaps of keywords and ads.  Dare we say, this software actually makes building campaigns FUN.  So when the folks at SpeedPPC asked us to test drive their new V5 Cloud version that’s being released on July 2nd, we were happy to take it for a spin and kick the tires.

If you currently don’t use SpeedPPC, then you are lucky: you get to start using this terrific time-saving tool in the updated V5 cloud version to completely revamp how you build your PPC campaigns in a fraction of the time it probably takes you now. V5 has a streamlined layout and a more user-friendly dashboard to help newbies jump in and start building campaigns without the orientation it took learn how to use the old version. But before you just go and download the software and begin poking around, realize that this will probably be a completely new way for you to think about PPC campaign building.  Watch the tutorial videos and read the orientation materials; it will help you utilize SpeedPPC to its maximum potential right from the get-go. Trust us; it’s time well-spent.

For current users of SpeedPPC, here’s a rundown of the improvements with V5:

• Hey MAC users: no more intermediate software plugs to run SpeedPPC! V5 is completely compatible with MAC systems.
• Three words: Cloud Campaign Storage. That’s right; V5 is online, which means all your files are accessible. I don’t know about you, but having V5 in the cloud is a big deal around here. Not only can we access our campaigns from any computer anywhere we are (nice), we can also access the campaigns created by other members of our team so we can pick up the ball without emailing files or putting it on a share drive (nicer).
• The new dashboard & look. We didn’t realize how outdated and ‘old’ V4.5.4 looked until we saw the ‘Extreme Makeover’ level facelift on V5. 

Now, instead of opening the software right to the campaign builder tool, you enter a summary dashboard that shows you your recent activity and an updated news ticker from SpeedPPC.  From the V5 dash, you can click into your recent campaigns, start a campaign, or jump into other tools available (more on those in a moment). 

And, fellow existing SpeedPPC users, you’ll notice the look is drastically different than our tried and true V4.5.4-in a good way. The lighter colors, expanded toolbar (which you can now minimize if you don’t want to use all the bells/whistles offered), and streamlined layout are more pleasant to work with than the previous version.

• Ad Setup: Okay, little things make us happy. Like having a preview window on the standard Ad Setup tab of the campaign builder so you know what the ad is going to look like before you output the whole campaign and find out you don’t like the structure.

• Research reports: There’s a new tab on V5 cloud edition’s toolbar that you’re going to want to check out, and that’s the Research tab.  Under here, you’ll find a selection of keyword research reports that you can help to flesh out your existing keywords, find under-utilized keywords for a specific URL, and also see what your competitors are bidding on related to your keyword/URL. Like most of you, we currently use a few different sources to data mine this info and incorporate in our PPC campaigns, so to have the ability to pull these reports and incorporate them right into the campaign builder with a push of a button is a big time-saver.  

We’ve played around with all the reports and have found them helpful, but beware; some of them cost credits for every keyword returned. You’ll notice in V5 that a message listing your Research Credits level is displayed in the upper right corner of the dashboard; credits will be deducted for each report that requires credits. Out of the 7 available reports, only 4 require credits.  Since all customers start with 500 credits and it can cost you 40-50 credits per keyword, you can burn through that pulling one report. Recharging credits is easy and relatively inexpensive ($15 for 200,000 credits) so don’t let the credit thing throw you. Definitely take that first 500 free credits and play around with the research reports to see if they can add value to your PPC campaign building.

• Another improvement in SpeedPPC V5 is what hasn’t changed from the old version. Unlike other software updates that throw the good out with the bad, SpeedPPC didn’t take away what worked from V4.5.4. All the tried and true tools that old-school SpeedPPC users have come to know and love like the dynamic keyword insertion tokens and the ability to incorporate Broad Match Modifier keywords into your campaigns are still in V5 and still work just as well.

Thanks to Jay Stockwell and the folks at SpeedPPC for letting us beta-test SpeedPPC V5 cloud edition. If our Campaign Managers have anything to say about it, you’re not getting it back. You’ll have to pry it from our cold, dead fingers. If you want your own, check out www.speedppc.com and download the new version on July 2nd.  Once you get it up and running, let us know what you think about it.

Written by Kelley Gibson, Marketing Manager @ Imwave.com

New Conference for Affiliate Managers - Imwave CEO speaking

There is a new conference coming in March 2012 that is geared specifically toward affiliate managers who are responsible for their company’s affiliate marketing strategy, management and operations.

The conference is called Affiliate Management Days, hosted in San Francisco March 8-9, 2012.

This is an interesting premise as its focus is on the affiliate managers and how to run an successful and effective program.

Normally I leary of first year events, but there are some really great speakers lined up and the agenda seems pretty solid.   Also, I will be presenting a session titled:  Is your Affiliate Program an Afterthought? focused on how managers can fight for respect among the other sales channels within their organization and will also be also participating on a panel titled:  Inside the Mind of a Super Affiliate.  Not sure I know what a Super Affiliate really is, but we’re going go inside their mind ;-)

If you haven’t checked out the conference yet, take a look

http://www.affiliatemanagementdays.com/

…it may pique your interest. Early bird registration ends tomorrow!

If you are going, we’d love to see you there. If you are planning to go, let me know!

Google Taking Privacy Policies Seriously Now?

 

I've been working with a particular client for several years now doing their SEM on a performance basis.  Early this week, out of the blue, I received an email from Google with the following Subject:

    Your AdWords account: Site violation

Here is a short excerpt of the message:

We've reviewed your account and found that one of your sites is in violation of our Landing Page and Site Policies.

      Customer ID: XXX-XXX-XXXX

      Display URL: <client-url>.com

Please note that ad traffic to the above URL will be suspended and all new ads pointing to this URL will be disapproved.

This is the client's own website that has been running for years.  After reading the Google guidelines....AGAIN... I could find no reason for a site violation.

I contacted Google and was told that the "violation" was due to the lack of a "Privacy Policy."

I know that Google has always said they are in favor of Privacy Policies but I had never heard of an AdWords campaign being shut down for the lack of such a policy.

On top of that, the site in question DID have a Privacy Policy.  However, the link was not labeled "Privacy" or "Privacy Policy" it was simply labeled "Our Policy."

I was able to clear this up pretty quickly, but I thought it was interesting how seriously Google it taking Privacy Policies these days.  Perhaps this was part of some new algorithm?

Anyone heard of anything like this?