I “met” Miles Baker online about a year ago through a mutual friend, Amit Mehta, and we’ve been exchanging business tips and online marketing strategies since.
Miles has done it all – as an affiliate, affiliate manager, merchant, he’s even owned and operated a forum and been active on eBay.
I got Miles on the line and we talked about success strategies for online business owners, including resources you can use to bring your business to the next level.
This was one of the most enjoyable interviews I’ve conducted in the Friday Podcast series.
Nicky Senyard, originally from Australia, is an affiliate marketing veteran, having founded two affiliate networks – the ShareResults affiliate network and Income Access focused on online gaming.
I’ve known Income Access affiliate manager Jamie Fortunaso from the forums for close to 2 years and his professionalism has always been apparent. It’s no wonder that Nicky has created one of the most personable and enjoyable networks to work with.
(Left-to-right: ShareResults/Income Access founder and CEO Nicky Senyard, Income Access affiliate manager Jamie Fortunaso, ShareResults affiliate manager Le Michelle Ngyuen)
During our discussion we covered a gamut of topics including:
Business considerations when merchants add affiliate marketing to their sales/distribution channels
How the affiliate-to-network and merchant-to-network relationships can be enhanced
Geographic growth of affiliate marketing opportunities across North America/Canada, Europe and Asia
Merchants and affiliates will get some great content out of this session.
One of my resources that I’ve mainly been keeping to myself over the past 2 years is a talent web designer who lives in a small (population 10,000) Australian town of Maryborough.
Ryan Jackson AKA DesignGuruRyan, developed the template for this blog and designed and created almost all my product and affiliate sites too. (I take credit for the ugly ones…)
Besides my sites, Ryan’s also been involved with the site design for Mike Filsaime’s 7FigureSecrets and Chris McNeeney’s DayJobKiller product websites.
During our discussion, we talked about:
Offline design vs online web design
Incorporating direct response marketing elements into your web design
The rise of “Web 2.0” design elements in websites (and how to incoporate them)
Bootstrapping design resources for marketers on a budget
I had email marketing and Miva cart SEO optimization specialist Jason Henderson AKA Big Jason from BigMarketingOnline on the line this week.
Despite the intrusion of a couple of phone calls, we discussed issues like:
Text-based vs HTML emails
How to increase list responsiveness
Resources for building up your foundation in direct marketing
As well as Jason’s previous career as a pro basketball player (he’s only 6’11″…) and position as one of the Ask.com guides.
Jason is in the running for Thor Schrock’s Top Affiliate Challenge and you can check out his vote page.
He’s also giving out bonuses at his vote page.
If you’re keen to increase your sales and profits by adding or enhancing your email marketing efforts, be sure to check out Jason’s Better Email Deliverability product.
I “met” Miles Baker online about a year ago through a mutual friend, Amit Mehta, and we’ve been exchanging business tips and online marketing strategies since.
This week I invited online retailer Buy.com’s Director of Marketing and co-host of their BuyTV program to come on the Friday Podcast.
One of my resources that I’ve mainly been keeping to myself over the past 2 years is a talent web designer who lives in a small (population 10,000) Australian town of Maryborough.