Internet Marketing with a Helmet.

I love Prosper 202, but the GUI needs help. I mean copying and pasting [[subid]]? Really?!? We may as well all just bust out Mosaic and get it over with. Embrace the 21st Century Mod Features Larger Campaign Name field. (More room to edit!) Larger Affiliate URL field. (The better to see those big-ass tracking links.) Some Sweet Subid Injection Buttons. No more copy/paste means less room for error and ...

The Issue: A new campaign I am about to run requires me to pass a zip code as a get variable in the url. For example: http://offerpage.com?id=666&zip=12345 This is also known as a pre-pop, as in "pre-populating" an offer. The Problem: So my landing page is all set up.  I have a form on there that let's the user enter his zip code and I have my Prosper202 javascript tracking code in place.   Everything's great until I have to ...

This is has been tweeted and retweeted about.  But if you're like me, and ignore/forget about Twitter for days at a time, you may have missed it.   I bookmarked it about a week and a half ago and didn't listen until today. This interview kicks some serious ass. So far I have listened to it twice and learned something each time. Check it out here: Ruck Interviewed By Scott Rewick ...

<<< Read Data Feed Sites - Part 1 Page Building Strategies Once you've selected your feed, you need to present it in a way that is going to help you convert.  Here are some tips for how you should lay out your data feed site: 1. Use Wordpress as the framework for your data feed site. Wordpress ranks quickly and there are quite a few tools available that will let you load up your Wordpress blog with products from data feeds. 2. ...

What A data feed is basically a database of products that is put together by a merchant. For example, a merchant that sells bridal/wedding related items will create a database with all of the products they sell. This database will include item numbers, item names, descriptions, etc. It will also include a tracking link for each item. This tracking link is routed through the affiliate network which records you as the referrer. If the visitor ...

This is part 2.  Part 1 is here: A4D Meetup 2010 Trip Recap Notes - Part 1 Mike Powell In my opinion, Mike gave the best presentation of all.  It was interesting, well organized, and evident the guy really knows his stuff.   His style is also fast and to the point which is great and kept my mind from wandering.  The topic of his presentation was PPV and most of the time he focused on TrafficVance and regarded them as having the best ...

The 2010 A4D Meetup was great.   The venue was nice, the attendance was good, and the speakers were great.  We also had some really nice weather in San Diego that day which seemed to put everyone in a great mood.  The recurring theme for this meetup was Lead Generation.  I took a bunch of notes and just now got to typing them up.   Here ya go…. DK from PurposeInc.com DK spoke about Facebook advertising.   The main tip he gave was ...

When I was a little kid, after we took a field trip with our class, the teacher made us write a report about what we learned. It's actually a good exercise if only to help you remember stuff. Overview This passed Saturday I went to Meetup202: Los Angeles. Organized by the people at Tracking202/Bloosky, these meet-ups are simply to allow affiliate marketers to network and learn from each other face to face. I got there about an hour and ...

There are two affiliate marketing meetups coming up. I live in San Diego and will be going to both. Meetup202 Los Angeles - March 20, 2010 This is part of the Tracking202 sponsored Meetup202 group. This should be pretty interesting. The organizer is JasperP. He runs nerdyaffiliate.com and is responsible for that cool Tracking202 keyword CTR mod that a lot of people are running. I"ve never been to one of these except the giant ...

Sometimes, little things bug me. I've been running a bunch of PPV traffic lately and for awhile now, I've noticed that Prosper202 doesn't have icons for DirectCPV or LeadImpact. This is most noticeable in the Overview and the Spy view where traffic from both of these networks gets stamped with the question mark icon. When you just see a question mark, you need to hover over it with your mouse to figure out what traffic source it is. And ...