30/06/2007
Friday Podcast Episode 11: D-Day For The Apple iPhone
It’s Make or Break Time for the Apple iPhone.
Going by news reports, it looks more certain to be “Make” time.
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It’s Make or Break Time for the Apple iPhone.
Going by news reports, it looks more certain to be “Make” time.
Here are a couple of related offers:
The results are in and analyst projections of U.S. user- generated content sites earning $1 billion in 2007 and hitting $4.3 billion in ad revenues in 2011, pose a bright prospects for the future. Leading the charge? Likely video-based content sites.
The projections coming from eMarketer Senior Analyst and the author of “User-Generated Content: Will Web 2.0 Pay Its Way?” Paul Verna.
Paul projects that YouTube, MySpace and Facebook will led the content change.
Another projection: “On a global basis, user- generated content ad revenues will increase from $1.6 billion in 2007 to $8.2 billion in 2011.”
Which has pundits reinforcing the “It’s about the content, stupid” mantra.
Arrayed against this are Asia-based telcos railing against Web 2.0 applications choking up the submarine cable bandwidth. [Has Web2.0 Broken The Internet?]
If the bandwidth bottleneck doesn’t get resolved soon, it’ll turn out to be (more…)
eBay’s electronic payment division PayPal is responsible for the bulk of eBay auction payments, and a new beta version is in the process of being launched. Against this backdrop is a groundswell of disgruntled Internet Marketers. Is it too little, too late?
PayPal (part of eBay’s Payments division) is one of the key pieces of the auction giants empire, powering it’s payment capability. It’s in the process of launching a revamp:
Although these are somewhat pleasant features to have, they’ll have to contend with a group of disgruntled Internet Marketers, particularly users of Jonathan Leger’s $7 script, which administers a mini affiliate marketing scheme through PayPal’s APIs.
Read through this thread at Jon Leger’s 7Dollar Forum and you’ll get the distinct impression that PayPal’s frontline customer service seems ill equipped to deal with the issues that (more…)
Here’s some breaking news direct from Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins: “Affiliate Summit West (ASW) will be held in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel on Feb 24-26, 2008.” I’ve been rousing my super affiliate posse to get them to block time on their schedules to make it to the event. Will you be there?
Having been to ASW in January, I’d have to say that the trade show experience is very different from educational seminars that most information marketers are used to going to. [Read: Affiliate Summit West 2006 Round Up]
Affiliate Summit brings together a huge network of affiliate networks and service providers. Contrary to what some might believe, the world of affiliate marketing and CPA marketing extends beyond just Clickbank and Commission Junction or CJ for short.
Hearing first hand from the affiliate networks and talking to other affiliates, it’s more an information-sharing type of event, rather than one where you have a speaker “teaching” you.
The afterhours parties are pretty awesome too.
The upcoming Affiliate Summit East (ASE) will be held in Miami, July 8-10.
There was some drama regarding WickedFire founder Jon Fisher’s announcement of a ASE exhibitor hall pass giveaway to members of the WickedFire affiliate marketing forum.
Apparently non-members tried to register and cause some consternation.
Well, every event always has some element of drama and I think it spices things up a little.
In case you’re wondering, as much as I’d like to, I’m giving ASE a miss this time as my schedule is full till the year end.
I’ll be making a beeline for (more…)
Software developer ParetoLogic’s business development director Geordie Carswell maintains the PPC Super Affiliate Blog and shares a number of PPC strategies to help PPC affliates up their PPC-affiliate marketing/CPA marketing game.
Signing up for the RevenueWire Affiliate Portal means you have free access to a conversion tracker, split tester and probably the most important for new affliate marketers, a comprehensive PPC tutorial, including keyword/keyphrase strategies, biddding strategies and measures to deal with Google’s Quality Score.
It’s quite a useful resource.
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In this edition of the Friday Podcast, we look at 2 different blog traffic models: Austalia-based Yaro Starak and mine.
Yaro has recently released a free book which contains several nuggets of information for aspiring blogger: Blog Profits Blueprint.
For those who’re more serious about income-generating blogging, check out: Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind.
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