Social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have been fantastic sources of income for influencers who use affiliate marketing to monetize their online businesses. I think particularly of folks in the fashion and beauty industries who upload videos to YouTube, loaded with affiliate links in the video descriptions, and then share links to those […]
Google+ Closing on April 2nd, 2019
Back in December, Google announced its intention to shut down Google+ (Google Plus). On February 1st, they sent an email out to consumer (personal) account users notifying them that the service would officially close on April 2nd due to low usage. Low usage indeed! While Facebook reports 2.2 billion monthly and 1.4 billion daily active users, […]
8 Social Media Tools Every Website Owner Should Use
Social media is a crucial source of traffic, reputation, and conversions for most websites. These platforms give you a chance to present your business in the best light and attract more potential customers to the main page. You get the picture: a strong social media marketing strategy is an inevitable aspect of your promotional campaign. […]
10 Tips for Brands to Up Their Engagement Quotient on Twitter
There was a time in the late 90s, when people thought buying products and services online was a crazy idea. And then boom – ecommerce exploded! Online behemoths were born and the age of entrepreneurs with new ideas dawned with the turn of the millennium. Small and big businesses deemed it not only fit but […]
360 Social Bookmarking Sites (Most Pretty Useless)
I just spent the better part of this Saturday morning compiling a list of 390 social bookmarking sites. You’d have to spend the better part of a whole day if you wanted to bookmark your blog posts on all of these sites. So, to spare you that agony, I’ve included a list of the most […]
How to Kill an Affiliate Partnership with Just One Facebook Link
So, I was booking a trip to my hometown of Toronto to surprise my 100-year-old mother with a visit on Mother’s Day. (If you’ve followed me on Facebook for any amount of time, you’ll know that this effort goes beyond the beyond.) I’d chosen a hotel that I’ve stayed at often over the years. As […]
Pinterest Bans Affiliate Links
Thousands of bloggers, perhaps tens of thousands, are raving mad because a major source of affiliate revenue has just been removed from them. In an email to its ‘Power Pinners’ late last week, Pinterest stated all affiliate links, as well as all redirects and trackers, would be removed from the site. Particularly hard hit are […]
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