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Shopify Program, Make Money without Building Your Online Store

Ian — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:10:54 +0000

Shopify affiliate program is one of the most attractive affiliate programs on the Internet. Why? Because it gives you up to $358 commission per sale plus you can choose on what payment model you prefer. Yes, there seems to be endless supply of affiliate programs on the web but only few of them gives you high commissions and Shopify is one them. Ignoring their offer is like looking the other way when someone tries to hand you cash.

How to join?

All you have to do is sign up for Shopify Partner Account. Once you’re a partner, they’ll give you special link that you’ll use on promoting Shopify. You could either place your unique link to text, banners or even status it on Facebook – whatever you choose!

Choose Your Payment Option

Shopify supports two payment options. First, get 20% revenue share for each client you refer. This is a monthly residual income from all your customers who stay with Shopify. Second option, you’ll get a 200% of customer’s first bill (one-time payment). For me, this is hard to decide because I don’t know which one will give me higher income.

Reasons why you should join Shopify Partners:

Unsaturated affiliate program and niche
All traffic sources are accepted
They are well known and used by famous stores
You can target them as business to business or customer to business
You have commission options
Commissions can increase depending on volumes
You will be paid via Paypal in USD twice a month
They’ll give you promotional resources to make your affiliate marketing easy
Low threshold for only $25

Shopify Overview

Shopify is one of the most popular web-based ecommerce solution, it’s a complete solution that will turn your online store into amazing, easy to use and customer focus store at very affordable start up. Setting up your online store won’t be a pain anymore for Shopify will take care of it from readily available 120+ themes for the design, domain registration service and much more.

Some Sample Shopify Stores, click to view:

Shopify was founded in 2005 as a snowboard company and today it has 50,000+ active online shops with 2,000+ new customers a month. Fast growth, isn’t it? They are serving customers in 108 countries. Last year (2012) Shopify shops processed 9.9M orders (over $750M in GMV).

The best thing I like about Shofipy is its apps store where you can find wide variety of ecommerce plugins that you can utilize. Some apps are free while others come in a price. On the other side, it also has a not-so-good thing such as it charges 1-2% fee on all transactions. Subsequently if you have high volume of transactions, this fee could up overtime. So my advice, if you’re business has high volume of transactions and you’re technology knowledgeable, better consider licensed shopping carts. But, in over all, it’s still awesome. You can have your online store up and running fast with all the necessary features such as payment gateways, customer account set up, SEO and etc. I highly recommend it for small-medium business owners.

#TBT, My First Clickbank Checks. We All Start Somewhere.

Ian — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:13:48 +0000

#TBT (ThrowBack Thursday) is a popular trend it seems on Instagram, so I decided to make a post with the hashtag in it. Not sure why pound topic is a social trend but ehh I’ll use it to its advantages. Anyways, Throwback Thursday means you show a picture of yourself from waaay back in the day. Some people show their childhood photos, promo photos, vacation photos, their marriages, etc.

So I decided to share a picture of me with my Clickbank checks from when I first started on the internet. At this time in my life I was doing well with my life because this is a newer apartment that I lived in. Prior to this I was working 3 jobs to just live and basically survive. Now doesn’t that sound scary. I made enough spare income, that I rid of my 2 jobs to keep one good one and still be profitable online.

Now these images are not HUGE checks but it was an extra source of income. With my day job I was able to still get Clickbank checks mailed to me, I want to say every 2 weeks. While some checks were just under 1k, other checks were low 1k, now that is a pretty decent extra source of income a month. At this time of my online career, I was driven and gathered a lot of information from other online marketers such as (JohnChow.com, ShoeMoney.com, at that time Ruck’s CashTactics.net, JoelComm.com and even ProBlogger.net) There were other blogs that played a role in my success as well and it would be too long to list them all.

I wanted to share this because, I want to show you it is possible to make money online and as an affiliate. With this extra income, I reinvested it towards conferences such as Affiliate Summit (my first) and Ad-Tech (my first). I figured I would use it towards myself and fly to other parts of the US such as Vegas and San Francisco where these conferences are.

With these trade shows, I basically grew my business online and not just being a Clickbank affiliate but into an affiliate for Azoogle at the time. I grew into a more sophisticated marketing person and started to view things in a different manner. If you are an avid reader of my blog you probably know how much I have grown over the years. It is amazing what I have accomplished.

I went from 3 jobs to 1 to none, now I make jobs. Crazy. At that point of time all I wanted to do was to just rid of 2 out of 3 jobs so I can live a ‘normal’ life. Later in the months I realize I can grow more and create my own form of a ‘normal’ life. I do not have to create a life of what others deemed to be what it should be. That is when I realize, I can do this and be great at it. I don’t need to have a job, I can create my own job (something I enjoy a lot).

So it is possible to make money online, just take a look at me and this blog for example. I was able to make a little extra income to get rid of 2 out of 3 jobs. I was also able to reinvest that extra income towards conferences to better improve and expand my knowledge. You too can also have extra income and can use it towards yourself or have it reinvested into your future. It is possible to make money online, you just have to be hungry to do it and not be afraid to risk your own income to be successful.

These images are def old and I am glad I was able to take a snapshot of myself holding these checks because it shows how much I have grown as a person, a marketer, and as an overall person. Use this post as a motivation and to help drive you to do more. Again these are not HUGE $50,000 checks, these are simple 1k checks from when I started and you too can start and rise to the top!

Teach a Man to Use POFPro and He becomes a Super Affiliate

Ian — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:37:50 +0000

Plenty of Fish is a dating website and a lot of people are on there. For us marketers we see this as an opportunity to get traffic from. Pof has their own ad serving platform called PofAds. It is a very simple to use advertising platform but one of the more versatile ones out, better than Facebook.

For me when I advertise on POF it is very competitive and need true day to day maintenance. Luckily I was introduce to a system called PofPro a while back when I was visiting Chicago. While I was tweeting my activities, Tom Fang send me a message wanting to meet and I said yes. I am always down to meet a reader, affiliate, and entrepreneurs wherever I go.

He explained a system with POF that he has been using to optimize his campaign and pay for this new project I am about to introduce you to. We talked about advertising on POFAds and how cumbersome it is and how competitive it is, especially for the dating niche. He gave me a solution and his solution is finally now out for public beta.

I am proud to write about this because every time I would see Tom at a trade show, I would secretly ask about this stealth project and when I can get access to it. It is finally out and I am going to start using it to see if it will help with my POFAd’vertising. Here is a video overview of this long awaited project.

Now one thing I truly enjoy about this is the interface. The interface is clean and easy to understand. When it comes to a SaaS it pays to have a great UI. I have learned this in the past with my own software as a service. The product can be great but if the usability sucks, it sucks. The most important numbers are held at the top and provided to show you how your ads are performing.

This is great because it gives you a birds eye view of how your campaigns are doing.

Having your campaigns easily broken down means you can see what is profitable and what isn’t. This is the key to making sure your ROI is always positive, getting rid of the weak and keeping the strong. Now one aspect is probably similar to tracking202 interface but it is a basic view of a campaign. You get to see your bid amount, clicks, impressions, the spend, your ctr, etc. From here you see all the right numbers of your campaign.

Tom has worked real close with Ben from POF and it seems this platform will be easily integrate and part of POFAds. Now why can’t Facebook be that friendly. The best part is this system sits on your server, meaning this system will not hold your data. All data is held on your personal server which is great because as affiliates we are very protective of our data.

The installation is very simple, Tom has setup a very simple step by step guide to get your POFPro setup on your server fairly quickly. The only time consuming part was setting up the cron. The cron is what updates your dashboard and your dashboard will be delayed by only 5 mins.

The problem I see is if a big majority of affiliates use this system, will POF restrict access and callbacks? That is the only problem I see, unless POFPro has a unlimited callback with POF.

The other aspect which is a crucial time saver is the campaign setup or I think the bulk upload. This will basically rotate images and copy base on your creative campaign setup. This is perfect because you can split test the ad creative per demographic you are targeting, such a time saver! With Plenty of Fish deep demographic coverage, POFPro new bulk upload is a time saver and was extremely needed.

There are a bunch of other options within Tom’s POFPro. This platform is in public beta currently and accepting new users. If you are an advertiser you definitely need something like this as part of your arsenal.

How to Stop Wasting Time on oDesk after a Hire

Ian — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:40:56 +0000

I have been using oDesk for a while now and I have hired and fired multiple contract users over the years. I remember when I first started that I was constantly on oDesk checking my new hire’s activities. It was so cool that oDesk was able to take a snapshot of what my new hire was doing and making sure they were doing work instead of robbing me of time and money.

The issue I later realize that I was wasting time and essentially money on just monitoring my new employees.

The basic thing I learned is trust. You have to trust your employees that you hire. Yes you are giving them some access to your business but that comes with growing pains. You have to learn to let your projects release from yourself and give responsibilities to someone who can do a a better and faster job than you. Having a team helps your business because it gives you more time to do what you do best, marketing, networking, coding, etc.

Here are somethings to which you can do to stop wasting time on oDesk.

Set Goals for your Employees – This is the biggest thing you can do for your team and individual employee. Set a goal but make it a reasonable goal. For me I hire a lot of designers and developers. I have no clue about either title or the skills it involves. So I ask my developer or designer how long. I then add a couple more hours or maybe a day or two and set that as a goal. I do not expect anything yesterday because sometimes they will be interrupted by other work I give them which essentially will break their due date. I want to leave an open communication and create a trust window all the time with my team. I ask them and I hold them responsible for the date they have told me.
Don’t Micro Manage – Micro managing a team can be cumbersome especially in a corporate environment. So try not to do it with a team, especially if they are overseas. Looking at their screenshots on a consistent basis is micro managing. Constantly asking them what they are doing is micro managing. I give them a project, they give me a date, and I expect it to be done at within that time frame I gave them or they stated. Again it is setting goals and letting them do what they are good at and what you hired them for. Allow them to be free as long as you set expectations and hold them accountable.
Create Task Management System – Be organized. I use a task management system by AppThemes called Quality Control. The theme is meant for internal ticketing but essentially it can be used as a task management platform. By providing goals for your team, they are now held accountable for their actions. A task management may seem micro manage but it simple is a place for communications and staying organized.
Create Skype Group – Along with a task management, I also create a Skype group. I do not hire anyone that doesn’t have Skype. It is an essential part because of free calls and ability to view each others desktop. Also this provides an environment to your team. They can ask each other for help if need be. Since I rarely see my team online, they have to be dependent and have the ability to think without my guidance. Creating an environment where they can help and grow with each other is important.
Create a Great Work Environment – Everything above sums up to this. Create a great work environment. Just because you are not physically at their location or yours, does not mean there is no work environment. My team in the Philippines tells each other jokes and have conversations. Just because everyone is remote does not mean there shouldn’t be a sense of work or excitement among the team. All I ask from my team is they accomplish their goals and hold to them.

When you first hire your first person overseas, look at their screenshot. Usually after just simple conversations with them you will be able to tell what kind of person they are. Do not spend too much time watching their screens on oDesk. You are just wasting time and time is money!

Affiliate Marketing Forum Battle: CPAFix: the Dojo

Ian — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:56:29 +0000

Affiliate Marketing forums are all over the internet but what ones are the best. Past reviews included AFF Playbook Review and Stack that Money Forum Review. Now I want to bring in the battle Oliver Kenyon’s forum called CpaFix: the Dojo. He started CPAFix to start helping users in the internet marketing space from the beginners level point of view.

Now earlier this year he came out with the Dojo, a paid forum which breaks down a lot of the basics and shows users how to create a simple campaign from start to finish. The forum is geared towards more beginners and Oliver is looking to fill the void in this industry by providing that culture in his forum.

Quick video review, Camstasia wasn’t working for me. Recorded on an iPhone. Sorry.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Community: the Dojo community is very active. Oliver himself stay active and answers almost every thread in there where there is a question. He also does a great job of creating community activity among users. The knowledge of users are definitely more geared newbs and very few intermediate users. There are also networks in there providing a helping hand with user posts. When you are in there there is a lot of starter material and starter contribution. You sometimes wonder how simple one of the threads are then the comments are even more simpler Maybe because I am looking at from my own perspective knowledge. The user base are all users who have transitioned from CPAFix forum and have upgraded to the Dojo.
Content: The content is starter material and is definitely geared towards beginners. I have posted several tip and strategies and even a case study in there. When posted I needed to break it down even further and explain it to users on how I did it. If you are a first timer and do not know specific lingo in the internet game then this is the perfect forum for you. No need to really feel “slow” because the content is geared towards a brand new user. Every aspect of internet marketing form installing WordPress to setting up Aweber is explained thoughtfully in he forum.
Tools: I do not have much on the tools, as Oliver recently partnered up with Affkit to supply affiliate tools to his forum users. I do know Affkit is currently free to the public and has some basic tools like Geo redirection and image adjustments.
Pricing: The membership is has a one time payment of $97 and you have access to everything. I consulted with Oliver and asked why he didn’t want to maintain a membership fee for his content. He just wants to simplify a user experience and help beginners as much as possible. Putting a monthly price may hold users from making their first dollar. In this case, he has decided to create a one time payment for his members allowing them to invest, retain the value from his paid forum, and continue to make their first online income.

This forum is for beginners. Literally for users who want to know what the internet is capable of but do not know any of the internet marketing lingo such as “aweber” or “epc”. Oliver wants to tackle a void in where beginners need help. Oliver breaks down a lot of the setup in his forums, making it easier for users to understand why it is setup this way. Even though users can get the help from the third party services, Oliver provides a culture with him and his community. He is always in the forum and communicates with them on a daily basis.

When it comes to providing information to beginners this is the place to be at. There is no monthly cost just a one time payment and it gives you access to all the content and even the tools, for right now as he just recently JV’d with Affkit. Oliver is dedicated to helping his users, he is continuously active in the forum and strive to help users make their first dollar online.

5 Keyword Search Strategies to Grow Your Business

Guest Post — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:52:31 +0000

With so many products and courses out talking about how you can drive massive traffic to your website with just a click of a button. We sometimes forget that search is still one of the most powerful methods of growing your business online. While social media may capture headlines, search is still the workhouse

Here’s exactly how you can tap into keyword data:

1. Find out what interests your current audience.

If you or your company is lucky enough to rank well in the search engines, you’ll likely drive relevant, qualified traffic to your website. Understanding which keywords to focus on is going to better help you understand what potential customers to look for. And, if those products or services match your business objective then focus on creating content that revolves around that throughout your website.

If you’re not generating traffic from obvious search queries, you probably have a problem with your search visibility that you might want to address. Think about your most important, profitable, or unique products or services. Do they appear in top search results? Make a list of those that are missing; they become targets for paid search or search engine optimization efforts. You may also want to use Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool which allows you to gauge the popularity of a keyword phrase based upon its search volume and which helps reveal related keyword phrases you may not have otherwise thought of.

2. Uncover what your competitors are missing.

Thorough keyword research can also reveal opportunities your competitors are overlooking and therefore could be excellent, wide open markets for you to stake your claim. Remember that your online competitors may be completely different than your “real world” ones, but that doesn’t make them any weaker contenders. Those companies that come up in search results when you’re totally MIA are your competitors…and who you’ll have to do battle with for capturing sales and leads.

Use your list of important, profitable, or unique products and services to see which generate results with fewer competitors. You may want to focus your overall marketing and new product development efforts in these areas instead of trying to compete in a saturated marketplace. The Google Keyword Tool also indicates a degree of competition.

3. Stay ahead of trends.

Nothing’s better than staying ahead of the pack by identifying upward relevant keyword trends before your competitors do.

Go to Google Trends and run comparative queries on keywords you know are important to your business now against those your gut tells you might be up-and-coming. Look to see if any are trending up or down to help predict where your new attention should legitimately be focused.

4. Measure the financial return.

Search marketing tactics–even paid search campaigns–are fairly cost-effective. You can use keyword research tools to help you not only estimate the cost of an average visitor, but also if that cost will help you generate effective ROI.

For the richest financial information, create a free Google AdWords account. Once you do, go to the Traffic Estimator to see estimates on both traffic and costs per click to determine how much search inventory you can afford to bid on and what it will cost you to acquire a visitor. Remember, a visitor does not equal a sale or lead.

I also love to use search advertising as a “laboratory” to quickly gauge the reaction of a market to a new product or offer and to conduct speedy ad message testing.

5. Write Epic Content Consistently

Content is kind in search and when you can understand that and how to consistently write epic content all of the time you will conquer search. One of the goals that you should have for your website is to setup a schedule of when you’re going to write epic content. Content that your audience is going to be willing to share each time you publish something new. The more consistently you have something on your website the better it’s going to be for you when it comes to search.

If you focus on creating that epic content over one year you’re going to see a huge shift in the search traffic that you see for your website.

Growing your business with search isn’t played out just yet and I don’t think it ever will. You just need to focus your attention on the simple things that can grow your business over time with search. If you can do that and have the people around you that help you with your website understand that you’re going to have a great source of leads come into your website consistently.

Justice Wordlaw IV is a Online Marketer and self published author of three eBooks on Amazon Amazon Author Page. He helps people by showing them a way of creating residual income through a done for you business. Follow him on his blog.

The REAL Reason your Campaign Conversions have Tanked

Guest Post — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:15:31 +0000

We’ve all been there – You’ve been working on a campaign for several weeks, iteratively improving each of your creatives, step by step, on your way to the “optimal” conversion path. Then one day your predictably improving conversion rates, and EPCs, take a dive straight towards Mother Earth. But, it might not be caused by what you think…

In the world of CPA offers, the inexperienced affiliate is very quick to jump on the bandwagon and accuse an advertiser of shaving (or unjust scrubbing) when conversion rates take a turn for the worse. In reality, there are legitimate market factors which can cause this sudden reversal of fortune.

Lately Adult (or Casual) Dating offers have been all the rage in the CPA affiliate space. It seems every affiliate, and their mothers, pushing these types of offers on every conceivable adult traffic source available. Unlike traditional online dating offers, the obvious ad inventory available to purchase is not infinite, and neither is the depth of your target market.

You might be thinking to yourself: “But Jason, there are millions of adult sites out there; why isn’t there virtually unlimited ad inventory?” Well you would be right… partly. There are an almost endless number of ‘porn sites’, but far less that get any real traffic volume.

“OK, so what?”… To illustrate my point let us visit the land of “make believe”…

What do you think happens when you are advertising the exact same dating offer as a good number of your affiliate peers? Your surfer has already signed up for an account at that SAME site, or at a site in the same network of dating websites. Even if he does click on your ad and fill out the form (again), do you think the advertiser is going to give you credit for a registration from a surfer they already have in their member database? (HINT: the answer is NO!) Each of these “duplicate” signups will not be credited and work to ratchet down your conversion rate.

What do you think happens when a surfer signs up for a particular adult dating offer, and then continues to be bombarded by ads for vastly similar adult dating sites with eerily similar ads? If the value proposition is not significantly different than what he was suckered in with originally, he probably briefly entertains the pitch and then ignores these messages forever more; he has already viewed behind the Wizard’s curtain and realized there aren’t really hundreds of ‘girls’ looking to get laid by him tonight. No need for him to make the same mistake twice, but he still clicked on your ad just to make sure this wasn’t something different…

OK, back to real life…

Another situation that might manifest itself, especially in a situation where a lot of affiliates have jumped on a particular offer lately, is email server reputation problems. Frequently, dating CPA offers are double-opt-in (sometimes even if they are labeled as single-opt-in; be sure to test!), meaning the affiliate gets paid when a visitor registers for a free account and then clicks on a link in an email to confirm their email address. So it’s fair to say that if the email reputation of the advertiser’s email server takes a hit, which is common, then the surfer which just signed up will probably not see the confirmation email (or it will land in their ‘spam folder’). If the surfer doesn’t confirm their email, then the affiliate doesn’t get paid. This can still affect you with single-opt-in offers, as a low confirmation rate will lead to lower (read: poor) quality and you will be faced with a reduced payout or kicked from the offer completely.

In order to stay on top of email server reputation issues I would suggest every affiliate obtain a free account at SenderScore.org and test the email “inboxing” ability of the CPA offer you are promoting. Before turning on the flow of traffic, register on the offer yourself with a test email address; once you receive the confirmation email, look at the email headers to find the server IP which is sending the email; Plug this into SenderScore.org to get a historical view of the health of this email server and its current ability to get in your surfer’s inbox. A poor score means even if you are getting the surfer to fill out the offer, you may not be always getting credit for it.

Finally the most obvious reason why your conversion rate can implode overnight is the advertiser has made a material change to the offer (or landing page). This can be the most frustrating reason for a conversion rate ‘meltdown’ because it is the most preventable by the advertiser. Most times, in my experience, the advertiser doesn’t even communicate this change to their affiliate base, or when they do the CPA network doesn’t bother to pass it along. As even the most nubile of affiliate can tell you, a change to the offer page can have a catastrophic effect on conversion rates, and can cause madness when this happens at the same time as your affiliate split-testing.

To combat this type of situation from throwing you off guard, you should use a tool such as OfferSnitch (http://www.offersnitch.com) to get notified whenever an offer page changes. Ideally you would monitor each stage of the conversion funnel for changes, if possible, up until the point where you are credited for the conversion.

About the Author:
Jason “J-SiN” Hart is the CTO and Co-Founder of Lead Wrench (http://www.leadwrench.com), a lead generation empowerment platform which allows affiliates to become “offer owners” and CPA networks to create their own in-house Branded lead generation offers. He has been active in the affiliate marketing space for 10 years, was a speaker at iDate 2013 Las Vegas, and is also a moderator on the AffPlaybook Forums.

3 Ways to Utilize POF’s New Targeting Feature

Guest Post — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:30:46 +0000

Thanks for the opportunity to write here Ian!

This post is mostly geared towards the best way to use POF’s newest targeting option.

** We’ve since added the ability to target the viewer’s age as some offers will only take leads from certain age groups.

There are 3 main ways for dating that I think would lead to the most success:

1. Offer the same, but better. Target a niche and write you ad in a way to offer a better person of that same niche. For example, target athletic male profiles and write an ad that says, “Find guys that are ACTUALLY athletic today and not 5 years ago”. An applicable example would be targeting 40+, educated, high income males with ads from a mail order site like Anastasia or Dream Marriage.

2. Offer attractive alternatives. If you know a guy is constantly looking at brunettes, you can customize your IAB to tempt them with another option (ie. “It’s proven that Blondes are more fun that Brunettes, try one today”).

3. Target “unattractive profiles” and offer a solution. Meaning, telling the profile viewers that they can do better LOL. An applicable example here would be to target profiles of males making lower income and put in an ad for richmen or wealthymen (or white label your own lander). So females get reminded about what they SHOULD be looking for.

About the Author:

Benjamin Louie joined the POF team in 2009 and is now their Senior Account Manager. He is dedicated to providing unparalleled support for POF advertisers and as a result, have personally helped turn advertisers from hopeful beginners to affluent veterans. He writes in the POF advertising blog, which is a wealth of free information.

Harlem Shake’n, in Our Affiliate Industry…?

Ian — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:58:04 +0000

This Harlem Shake has been taking over the internet and it seems everyone is trying to take advantage of the views on youtube. This is a 30 second clip of a person just dancing stil for the first 15 seconds until the beat drops and then hysteria just breaks loose. Literally everyone has been doing this because it is just 30 seconds of music and it is a quick watch.

When I say everyone, I mean every from news channels to kids, to our own industry. Plenty of Fish and Clickbooth got in the craze and made their own video to this viral craze. I think they want to get the views because it has seemed that almost every Harlem Shake video has received at least half a million to a million views. The more creative ones beat 4 million views.

So here is the videos of the Harlem shake that networks in our industry have been doing:

Clickbooth at their office…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Plenty of Fish and their employees.

Click here to view the embedded video.

When I was growing up, I am pretty sure this is the real Harlem Shake – watch them kids and shoulders. This is what I remember the harlem shake to be, not craziness in weird costumes and running about.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Then again news channels and even our networks are doing it for views and to see if they can spread their brand out and have fun while doing it. Definitely a great way to get exposure pretty easily and fast. Just interesting to see affiliate networks and ad networks get involved in this craze. It would be interesting to see if they do reach a million views since the damn beat is getting annoying lately but also interesting to see what other videos are more creative over others.

… damn it I need to get off Youtube!

My Top 3 News Aggregators in Internet Marketing

Ian — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:25:26 +0000

Affiliate marketing and internet marketing in general changes on a day to day basis. So how do I keep up with all the news and trends that are happening? Simply I use the internet. Obviously there is more to that but I simply just go to news aggregators to find what I am looking for and I want to share with you the top places I tend to find what is happening on the net in regards to internet marketing.

Now I have been an avid reader of Affbuzz and I a still am. With the years that have passed new ones have arise and provides me with more up to date information. Below I will break down the 3 affiliate or internet marketing blog aggregators I go to on a daily basis.

Affposts.com

Affposts is a new platform by Luke from Peerfly and I think is a great concept. I started using it literally last week and found my self reading it more often. The reason is because it seems to be up to date with new posts. Meaning that new posts appears at the top rather than sponsored positions. The latests posts is at the top and makes it easy for me to see what is good to read.

The site is also pretty interactive. The site fades away when hovering over a blog Rss. The site avatars or icons appear on the boxes of each blog. It also has an email feed where you can enter your email and you get daily notifications of new posts, (not going to give my email to Luke =P) but it is a great feature.

AllTop: Internet Marketing

I like reading this site because it has non popular blogs (in our performance space anyways) that can help lead me to new ideas and strategies. I know all the popular blogs out there and they provide great information. There are some that I stop reading but read in the past when I was starting, so this site helps me look at those sites and see what other internet marketing topics are out there.

This format is similar to Affbuzz and still provides great information from across all topics of internet marketing.

MobGrind: Mobile News Aggregator

MobGrind is a project created by Ruck and it has all mobile blogs from the top sites such as Google, Jumptap, etc. There are a lot of companies that are talking about mobile and it is hard to find out who to read but they have a great collection of blogs on there that talks about a lot of great topics. Since mobile is still young I definitely want to absorb as much information as I can.

Ruck did a great job at finding the best blogs to read and aggregated them all in this great site.

There are a lot of blog aggregators out there, I found these 3 to be the best. Affbuzz is a great source and still is, but these new aggregators def improved on the great model Affbuzz provided. With so many blogs out there, you can get lost in information and I found these 3 to be the best when it comes to consolidating the information I need to know on a daily basis. I really find no need for RSS with these sites.

What other blogs and aggregators do you read from?