Sometime ago, I turned off blog comments on the NPT Blog for awhile, because I was sick and tired of scanning through all the comment spam. Here is an example of a typical comment that was being posted to the NPT Blog. Watts Murphy, Roisin … [Continue reading]
Are You Alienating Your Subscribers?
How irritating is this? You get an email offer or see an offer (for something you actually want) on a website, click the link and end up on a page that says something like, "Offer not available in your area". Otherwise, you send out an offer like … [Continue reading]
Don’t Get Held Hostage by a Webmaster!
Many folks are surprised when they find out that I do most of the design work on my web sites and have been doing so since I started my business in 1998. You may think that doing your own design is a waste of time and that it is better to … [Continue reading]
Food for Thought
Now here's some great incentive to keep working hard on your affiliate business and retire as soon as possible! Age of Retirement Average Age At Death 49.9 86 51.2 85.3 52.5 84.6 53.8 83.9 55.1 83.2 … [Continue reading]
Four Questions to Ask Your Merchant
Here's a commission-increasing tip that Willie Crawford picked up from the Super Affiliate Handbook and then wrote about in his blog. (I'd point you to the entry, but Willie isn't moderating comments on his personal blog and some of that stuff is … [Continue reading]
How I Broke My Blog
Here's a caution for all those who make global changes to their site's design in Dreamweaver or Homesite and then upload the whole mess to the server. I'd been doing just that when I saw one of my blog posts arrive in a Google Alert and just had … [Continue reading]
Leavin’ on a Jet Plane
Hurray! Ed and I are just about to leave the house for a long-awaited trip to Malaysia and Vietnam. Adventure right along with us over at Roamsters.com... and never fear - there will still be lots of affiliate marketing news and tips on NPT, even … [Continue reading]