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Sponsored Tweets? The Pros and Cons

August 26, 2009

Lately the issue of sponsored tweeting has been getting a lot of attention. Last year it was all about the sponsored posts. People weighed in very enthusiastically/critically on either side. Add to that some recent grumblings from the FTC about sponsorship of blogs and you have a very interesting situation.
I didn’t think much about Sponsored [...]

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Affiliate Marketing Session at Blog Indiana

July 23, 2009

Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of speaking with my fellow presenters for the upcoming Blog Indiana, Kristen Kinsey and Carolyn Tang. We are working on a presentation about affiliate marketing and blogging.
As I begin work on my part of the presentation, I’m having to take a fresh look at my blog sites and how [...]

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Are You a Social Media Butterfly?

July 7, 2009

Let me start out by saying that I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as a Social Media Butterfly until this morning. I was thinking about what I wanted to blog about and it kept coming back to me that I seem to be spending half of my time these days social [...]

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The Return from Vacation

April 13, 2009

I think no matter what your job is, returning from vacation is difficult. But when you are in affiliate marketing, it can be brutal. Even having two employees continuing to work last week, I came back to such a mess! Merchants are lowering commission rates and cookie times (no more promoting a certain sporting goods [...]

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How Many Blogs Should You Have?

February 5, 2009

I was reading a mom’s site the other day and she was talking about how people should only have one blog because you can’t focus on too many. I got to thinking about how many different blog sites that I have–lots! Am I sabotaging myself by having too many blogs? I don’t think so. Here’s [...]

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