Email Campaigns
Get Response
GetResponse is an advanced feature-packed autoresponder, with a well tracked affiliate program.
Two-tier program pays 30% and 10% residual commissions on all fees your referrals pay.
Tracks by cookie, by dynamically generating pages with your ID embedded in the URL, and by storing your ID in all referrals profiles, even if they sign up for a free account.
Another good feature, is when an auto-responder message is send out from a free account, it includes a small link at the bottom with your affiliate ID embedded as well.
Aweber
AWeber Systems supplies powerful sequential autoresponders that automate and personalize customer follow-up.
It has a great and inexpensive service, with very good stats e-mailed monthly, as well as detailed stats provided online.
The two-tier program pays 20% and 10% residual commissions on all monthly service fees for as long as your referral is a customer. Tracks by affiliate links and uses a lifetime cookie. Your affiliate ID goes into the referral’s profile in their customer database. Good clean site with easy navigation.
1ShoppingCart.com
1automationwiz –
1AutomationWiz is the time saving, profit producing sales and marketing automated e-commerce solution for thousands of businesses marketing online. Includes a full featured multi follow up autoresponder system with unlimited autoresponders and follow ups, no limits on email broadcasting, and free live tech support.
Affiliates earn residual commission of 25% for the lifetime of the customer.
Referrals are tracked by a 10 year cookie and affiliate ID is stored in customer’s payment details in database.
Website Development/Design
Sitesell
Hosting
Hostgator
Webwizards – http://www.webwizards.net/
Advertising
Groupon
Affiliates
Amazon Associates www.amazon.com – make money selling just about anything under the sun including books and music.
TradePub http://www.tradepub.com/ – Giveaway free one year subscriptions to industry specific print trade magazines and earn money.
Internet Services
Elance
oDesk
Hyper Tracker
HyperTracker is a sophisticated tracking management system that can be easily integrated with your own web site. With HyperTracker you can analyze your marketing strategies and effectively shift about your ads to maximise your profits.
The two-tier affiliate program pays residual commission of 30% on the first tier and 10% second tier for the lifetime of the referral.
When referrals sign up for a free trial your affiliate ID is inserted into their details so that when they upgrade to a paid membership you will receive recurring commissions.
Rent a List
Rent-A-List offers targeted advertising options at competitive rates. They provide diversified and innovative advertising methods, including different advertising methods that are proven to work – email marketing, sponsorship advertising, targeted text based pay per click, and banner advertising.
Search Engine Promotion Tools
Affiliates earn 15% recurring commission on ad revenues for the lifetime of the referral.
Search Engine Promotion Tools is the most efficient, powerful, and automated way to optimize and promote your web site(s) to over 700,000 search engines, directories, link pages, online malls, classified sites. These are new, easy to use high end, professional grade, search engine submission, promotion and optimization tools that free up hours of your time each and every month.
The two-tier affiliate program pays monthly recurring commission of 40% on the first tier and 10% on the second tier for the lifetime of the referral.
Affiliate referral code and information is logged and associated with customer’s details.
Blogging Software
WordPress www.wordpress.com – software you install on your server
Movable Type http://www.movabletype.org/ – software you install on your server
Type Pad www.typepad.com – hosted and very easy to use � Seth Godin uses. You can set-up numerous blogs in a matter of minutes
Expression Engine www.expressionengine.com – I use this PHP hosted software. This one falls more to what is called content management.
Blogger www.blogger.com – Google owns and it�s free, but has drawbacks for more sophisticated blogger
Drupal – www.drupal.com
SqaureSpace – www.sqarespace.com
Driving Traffic and Readers to Your Blog
Blog Search Engine www.BlogSearchEngine.com – This is one of the originals and the biggest blog search engine
Robin Good�s list www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ – just bookmark it!
BlogRolling http://blogrolling.com/ – BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease
Bloglines www.bloglines.com – Bloglines will also build and power your list of blogs that you like to link back to
Super Cool Secret #1 – How To Get Yahoo To Notice Your Blog
1. Get your own MyYahoo page.
Just go to http://my.yahoo.com and sign up if you don’t have your Yahoo! ID yet, or just sign in if you have one.
2. Add the ‘Add To MyYahoo’ button to your site.
Get the HTML code to do it at http://my.yahoo.com/s/button.html
3. Then, click on the button you just created and add your own feed to your MyYahoo
That’s it. You just announced your feed to Yahoo!
Show me the money – Ways to make money or as bloggers say “monetize” your Blog
Google AdSense www.Google.com/adsense – Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money.
BlogAds www.blogads.com – Blogads.com is a network of influential bloggers who collaborate to promote and sell blog advertising.
Amazon Associates www.amazon.com – make money selling just about anything under the sun including books and music.
TradePub http://www.tradepub.com/ – Giveaway free one year subscriptions to industry specific print trade magazines and earn money.
Aggregators and News Readers
Pluck www.pluck.com – free and easy to use
NewsGator www.newsgator.com – integrates with Outlook and delivers new headlines to your inbox like email
FeedReader www.feedreader.com – free and web based
BlogLines www.bloglines.com – web based and my favorite as it allows you read RSS Feeds and find ones that are related to your interests – this can be a great way to find other feeds to add to your web site
Radio User Land http://radio.userland.com/ – Probably the most fully featured and complicated of the bunch
Other Blog resources to explore
Ping O Matic www.pingomatic.com – Pinging lets dozens of services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. PingoMatic allows you to send a ping to many blog update sights with one click
WebLogs www.weblogs.com – Tracks the blog universe for updates
Technorati www.technorati.com – Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere � the world of weblogs. Tracks who is talking about what – Sign up and find out when someone mentions one of your posts
Bonus Resources
Some fun advanced reading � don�t go here until you�re ready!
Furl www.furl.com – Furl will archive any page, allowing you to recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. Browse your personal archive of Web pages, and subscribe to other archives via RSS
delicious www.del.icio.us – del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Feedburner www.Feedburner.com – FeedBurner is an RSS/Atom post-processing service that allows publishers to enhance their feeds in a variety of interesting and powerful ways. By republishing their feeds through FeedBurner, publishers gain detailed feed statistics, maximum feed format compatibility, “shockproofing” to absorb bandwidth spikes, and more.
Blogging Software
WordPress www.wordpress.com – software you install on your server
Movable Type http://www.movabletype.org/ – software you install on your server
Type Pad www.typepad.com – hosted and very easy to use � Seth Godin uses. You can set-up numerous blogs in a matter of minutes
Expression Engine www.expressionengine.com – I use this PHP hosted software. This one falls more to what is called content management.
Blogger www.blogger.com – Google owns and it�s free, but has drawbacks for more sophisticated blogger
Drupal – www.drupal.com
SqaureSpace – www.sqarespace.com
Driving Traffic and Readers to Your Blog
Blog Search Engine www.BlogSearchEngine.com – This is one of the originals and the biggest blog search engine
Robin Good�s list www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ – just bookmark it!
BlogRolling http://blogrolling.com/ – BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease
Bloglines www.bloglines.com – Bloglines will also build and power your list of blogs that you like to link back to
Super Cool Secret #1 – How To Get Yahoo To Notice Your Blog
1. Get your own MyYahoo page.
Just go to http://my.yahoo.com and sign up if you don’t have your Yahoo! ID yet, or just sign in if you have one.
2. Add the ‘Add To MyYahoo’ button to your site.
Get the HTML code to do it at http://my.yahoo.com/s/button.html
3. Then, click on the button you just created and add your own feed to your MyYahoo
That’s it. You just announced your feed to Yahoo!
Show me the money – Ways to make money or as bloggers say “monetize” your Blog
Google AdSense www.Google.com/adsense – Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money.
BlogAds www.blogads.com – Blogads.com is a network of influential bloggers who collaborate to promote and sell blog advertising.
Amazon Associates www.amazon.com – make money selling just about anything under the sun including books and music.
TradePub http://www.tradepub.com/ – Giveaway free one year subscriptions to industry specific print trade magazines and earn money.
Aggregators and News Readers
Pluck www.pluck.com – free and easy to use
NewsGator www.newsgator.com – integrates with Outlook and delivers new headlines to your inbox like email
FeedReader www.feedreader.com – free and web based
BlogLines www.bloglines.com – web based and my favorite as it allows you read RSS Feeds and find ones that are related to your interests – this can be a great way to find other feeds to add to your web site
Radio User Land http://radio.userland.com/ – Probably the most fully featured and complicated of the bunch
Other Blog resources to explore
Ping O Matic www.pingomatic.com – Pinging lets dozens of services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. PingoMatic allows you to send a ping to many blog update sights with one click
WebLogs www.weblogs.com – Tracks the blog universe for updates
Technorati www.technorati.com – Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere � the world of weblogs. Tracks who is talking about what – Sign up and find out when someone mentions one of your posts
Bonus Resources
Some fun advanced reading � don�t go here until you�re ready!
Furl www.furl.com – Furl will archive any page, allowing you to recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. Browse your personal archive of Web pages, and subscribe to other archives via RSS
delicious www.del.icio.us – del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Feedburner www.Feedburner.com – FeedBurner is an RSS/Atom post-processing service that allows publishers to enhance their feeds in a variety of interesting and powerful ways. By republishing their feeds through FeedBurner, publishers gain detailed feed statistics, maximum feed format compatibility, “shockproofing” to absorb bandwidth spikes, and more.