Affiliate Love Project: Marketers Helping Those in Need
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I came across a rather interesting site called the Affiliate Love Project, which is a site that is designed to donate a portion of affiliate earnings to people around the world who are in need.
Essentially how the ALP works is that when you join an affiliate program through their site, you will still get paid your commissions, however the site admin will donate their referral earnings to charity. That sounds like a pretty good idea, really.
In order to help get things kicked off, the Affiliate Love Project has set up a contest. The prize? A$250 Amazon gift card! Entrants can get up to 3 entries by following/retweeting a contest tweet, blogging about the site and the contest (much like this), and also joining one of their affiliate programs and earning $10. Not too hard, really.
The deadline to enter is June 18th, with the winner being randomly selected on the next day. Hurry!
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Take Your Networking Offline
Before you start screaming about how technically bad that idea sounds, just take a deep breath and let me do some 'splaining.
I'm not suggesting that you should actually get off the internet. That woud be treason in my book. Yes, you can keep all of your Cat5 connected. I promise this isn't scary. I'm talking about networking with other people. You know, like getting new potential clients lined up? Yeah, I thought you'd like that.
For a year now, I've been trying to make money online, and so far it's been a good thing. But I seem to have a bit of trouble when it comes to building a mailing list, or generating leads, or even getting people to check out what I'm discussing on this site.
Most of the time, I'll be talking to some stranger, and we wander on to the subject of the internet, and I'll tell them about my websites. The trick is to get them to remember the friggin' URL. So far, I have wished hundreds of times that I had some business cards with my site address and the services I provide on there, so they will have something tangible to help them remember what I was telling them about.
One of these days, I'll actually get some business cards. In fact, I'd love to do that now, but I'm broke. And lazy.
Using business cards to promote your website is great. For me, I think I'd focus more on having them on hand to give people you are talking with when they ask what you do online, rather than just leave them around town. That technique works better if you pour concrete or sell firewood rather than for freelance writers or eBay listers...although in some smaller towns eBay listers can do quite well by leaving business cards at a local convenience store.
So the first thing you need to do is get a stack of business cards. They aren't very expensive (unless you are broke, like I am). Or heck, save money and win them in a contest!
Oh look, how utterly convenient. I have a contest link right here...
BlogOhBlog (who has some awesome content, by the way) is having a contest where you (along with three other lucky devils) can win 1,000 business cards. Just click here for details.
Yeah, I'm getting in this one. Hey, like I said, I'm broke, and I could really use some offline marketing tools...join the club!
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Milking Entrecard – A Hidden Advantage
Before all the changes came down to Entrecard, totally destroying the free-for-all (both literal and figurative) advertising avenue for bloggers, it was a pretty nice way to generate traffic for blogs. Although it now sucks a bit more than it used to, it's got one major feature that is, in my opinion, worth keeping it around for.
Yeah right...Entrecard sucks now.
You may be right about that. But the truth is that I have been checking the site every now and then, and it's paying off. What feature is it that I'm hooked on?
Duh. The forums. Specifically the 'promotions and events' section.
In addition to the maniacal points-for-comments offers, people like to also post their blog contests. The major advantage to this is that there doesn't really seem to be a huge amount of people paying attention. How is this beneficial? Easy, the fewer entrants in a contest, the higher the odds of winning become. Especially if you are like me and have multiple blogs (since many contests require entry 'posts' which give you a designated number of points for the contest drawing). Shifting the odds in your favor is a great way to score free stuff from contests.
I'd recommend watching the Entrecard forums. You never know when something good will pop up.
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AGreedyGenius: eBay Elite Book Launch Contest
What better way to celebrate the publication of a new book that to have a contest? You bet I'm all over this one...
Joshua Anderson, the guy behind AGreedyGenius.com has just released his new book, eBay Elite: Acheive Perfect Success on PayPal and eBay, and he's holding one heck of a contest to promote this. What's the prize? Well, you probably know by now that unless it's something pretty sweet, I won't really waste my time fooling around with entering. So how does $800 in cash and prizes sound to you?
Yeah, me too.
Actually, this contest is really like three contests in one, and of course, I plan to get in all of them. Heck, I may even win one. Or two. Or maybe even all three...yes, I have a method. How do you think I win these things, dumb luck? Hardly.
If you haven't heard about this contest, you aren't alone. It's pretty low-profile (which means the odds of winning are much higher). Go check it out. You'll be glad you did.
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Contest: CouponCodesMall Dot Com
Looks like there's another blog contest to pass on to everyone. Of course, I'll have to admit I'm a little skeptical about this one. It seems that the prizes are just way too awesome. Hey, it's worth an entry anyway, right?
CouponCodesMall.com is giving away lots of prizes (according to the contest page, over $10,000 worth - which is why I'm skeptical). Of all the prizes, I think I'd like to win the $500 cash (if it in fact exists) so I can finally buy a laptop that is a bit more modern.
Anyway, go check it out. It's worth a shot.
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