The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2017

Building an Affiliate Website. Affiliate marketing is one of the more popular methods used to make money online. With affiliate marketing, you are promoting others products and on every sale, you make a commission. Affiliate marketing can make you some serious cash once the website is getting a steady flow of traffic.

Affiliate 60

Affiliate Revenue Advertising .Net 60

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Thanks to Matt Jones, The Net Lender ! #10- We see the affiliate margin is shrinking due to the downward trending of the big economic environment. Haven’t joined the first tier among hundreds of competitors, we still get influenced by algorithm adjustment from search engines many times. 10- Tenacity.

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Entrepreneur Austria Social Media 96

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

Not net profit, just value. Consuming the content at VS All Access improves my perception of the Victoria's Secret brand and perhaps even makes me a Net Promoter (something so precious to the company). To answer that question I signed up for an affiliate account with Amazon and added my affiliate id to the outbound link.

Analytics 122

Analytics Conversion Affiliate Web 122

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Suppose the goal of this particular company is to achieve $1m in annual revenue for a two-person bootstrapped startup, with a goal to be so efficient as to never have to hire employees, and therefore produce a terrific little business that nets each of them a few million dollars over the next ten years. That’s a lot of impressions!

Business Model 120

Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

Within a matter of months we had created a course with over 1,000 paying members and an income stream in excess of $20,000 a month after affiliate commissions and expenses came out. Instead we focused on smaller promotions with individual affiliates and relied on existing traffic streams, such as this blog, to attract new members.

Sales 70

Sales Technical Review Affiliate Video 70

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We have to do Search Engine Optimization. We have to do Paid Search. We have to have a robust Affiliate network. Maybe it is Search, Email and Facebook. Maybe it is Affiliate and Paid Search. A team of five are your paid search samurais. The net impact went down from $2.59 What's that?

.Net 119

.Net Campaign Analytics Channel 119

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did a search on some of their products and they did not have page one search listings (on Google or Bing) for what should be their head terms. There should be one link: Search for Hotel or Make Reservation! What are the things they search for? Google's Search-based Keyword Tool. That's sucking.)

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Occam's Razor

MARCH 26, 2008

Net Promoters ("Likelihood to Recommend"): The % of people (or a indexed representation) who will recommend the company products after a experience on the tech support site. Since the link as a affiliate code in the link I can track conversions at Amazon's website using their affiliate reports.

Analytics 121

Analytics Conversion RSS Metrics 121

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Create a segment for Organic Search traffic. More traffic, not that hard.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Soul searching, questions to torture vendors with, comparing vendors, running a pilot and negotiating a contract, it's all in there. The best WA report, segmentation, site search, SEO & PPC analysis, email, rich media, cookies, data sampling. Especially people outside our analytics / search circle. I am out of breath!

Analytics 71

Analytics Web Technical Review Metrics 71

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 24, 2013

I suspect if you’re a net addict as I am, you spent more online last year than ever before too. Offer prizes, discounts, an affiliate or referral program, or simply ask for reviews post-purchase. Tweet Last year I did a lot of online shopping, more shopping than I have ever done before. According to Comscore, over $43.2

Software Review 99

Software Review Product Australia Global 99

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, if a high number of visitors comes from organic search and very little come from paid search, you can look at shifting ad budget over to SEO. Traffic from direct links, such as an affiliate link or news source. High referral traffic is an indication of strong affiliate links or media coverage.

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 13, 2014

The Networked Age has radically changed this activity, and yet when you ask people how they look for a job, a surprising number continue to say they “search the job listings.” In my work at Greylock Partners, I don’t form an investment theory and then go search for a startup that fits this theory. You move differently.

Networking 78

Networking Search Affiliate New York 78

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Why not keep sending emails / spending on AdWords / running affiliate programs / buying display only on MSN. Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. Web Analytics, 4Q, KissInsights, Insights for Search, AdPlanner, and all the other glorious free tools. We hate change.

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

The book is for CEO's and Marketer's and Search Specialists and Web Designers and User Researchers and Website Administrators and Website Owners and HiPPO's and of course Web Analysts. Affiliate Link: If you email a link to the book or use a link on your blog please consider using www.snipurl.com/wahour.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

What’s So Special About The Net Promoter Score? Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. Use them for testimonials, affiliates, etc. It doesn’t help that the original HBR article on NPS called it “the one number you need to grow.”.

.Net 48

.Net Metrics Retention Aggregator 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. I’m an investor in this company, via ff Venture Capital, HOF Capital, and/or an affiliate thereof. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. There's a Paid Search micro-ecosystem you can download at the end of this post.) I can see that Pocket drives most repeat visits, and people are most curious (5% internal search rate).

Analytics 60

Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2017

The reason to focus on those elements is that they represent the primary source of friction and funnel dropouts (in this specific case), so solving issues in these spots can net a substantial increase in number of conversions. Step 1: Address Dropout Rates from “Add to Cart” to Shipping and Billing Info.

Analytics 126

Analytics Conversion eCommerce Technical Review 126

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Obviously, traffic found on ecommerce sites is the prime example of this and search traffic is a close second, but increasingly Pinterest is proving itself to be a massive source of high-converting traffic. It’s similar to the Outbrain example above and any search engine marketing example. net neutrality. net neutrality.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The ROI of an existing customer is higher than the ROI of a net new customer. Perhaps they’re enrolled in a formal affiliate program. Metric examples: Product affinity; Referral or affiliate revenue; Loyalty rewards redemption rate. Some 65% don’t trust ads, and 71% don’t trust sponsored social media ads, in particular.

Retention 101

Retention Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition 101

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

Bonus Tip : Oh and if you want to get a smidgen more value, configure the store locater search parameter in your internal site search and bam bam (!!) Bonus Tip : Are you using unique phone numbers for your Paid Search landing pages? It is not that hard, check out the Omniture report for the above url and bam (!),

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

It is a bit silly to believe you can use one tool for purpose x (say search analysis) and another for purpose y (say everything else). Do a Google search for the Consultant. Never bother to search for their company and look at the paid and organic results (to find broken things). Oh and don't forget rule #1 above.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The ROI of an existing customer is higher than the ROI of a net new customer. Perhaps they’re enrolled in a formal affiliate program. Metric examples: Product affinity; Referral or affiliate revenue; Loyalty rewards redemption rate. Some 65% don’t trust ads, and 71% don’t trust sponsored social media ads, in particular.

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition 48

Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

Acquiring new customers isn't getting any easier: We've picked off the low-hanging SEO fruit, we're paying more for quality clicks in AdWords and the going rate for affiliate deals just keeps getting higher. Yet they are not of the same value to your business (Net Profit!). Or hang around for a few years?

Analytics 135

Analytics Customer CPA Acquisition 135

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

For example when you look at your revenue or goal performance it takes a trivial amount of effort to look at All Visits but add to that report the Paid Search Traffic and Non-Paid Search Traffic and get deeper insights. PS: Our business is in trouble because we are over-reliant on Search! Paid search. to your website.

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 15, 2011

My business catered to higher net worth individuals so I wanted to start a site that would address the needs of regular everyday investors. I then went in search of ways that I could generate some income. My search led me to a number of different ad networks. I had the bright idea to create a financial blog.

Affiliate 82

Affiliate Stock Networking Finance 82

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

You think understanding Keywords without drilling down to each search engine will be awesome. Idea #1: Segment out your Brand Search Keywords. Most search portfolios (Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization) have a unhealthy obsessions with our brand terms. Search has a very very long tail.

Analytics 105

Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2016

Mobile searches surpassed desktop searches for the first time in 2015 and mobile devices now account for over 60% of all digital media consumption. They have an action in mind and they are searching for a key piece of data. Mobile device usage has skyrocketed in the last 4 years. Image Source. Still, a great tool). Conclusion.

Mobile 48

Mobile Conversion Design Participating Preferred 48

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Our Out-of-band technology has been endorsed by the industry as the solution of choice for fixed and mobile service providers, and our caching system, OverCacheTM is delivering tens of Gbps of Net Cache Out. With the exponential growth of video traffic, operators are being forced to invest in network upgrades to meet customer demand.

Caching 79

Caching Venture Capital Private Equity 79

marketingland.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Search Marketing |. Affiliate Marketing. We had 317 positive reviews on Yelp last month” (conveniently ignoring the 2,182 negative reviews and a poor Net-Promoter score). Learn a lot from reading Marketing Land and Search Engine Land? Search Engine Land Webcasts, Whitepapers. Social Media |. Analytics |.

Metrics 47

Metrics Analytics Search Affiliate 47

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

In fact if you search for the brand by name on Google.com or Bing.com, you'll see links to their site in the first couple organic search results, and if you click on them you get to their site and auto-redirected to their Facebook page! , and so much more. There are companies actually executing just rent.

Analytics 60

Analytics Marketing Mobile Audience 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

You are paid to find real bottom-line impacting insights (remember line of sight to net income ?). Successful searches for elected officials. Then you can bring your sexy back! If you are a purely ecommerce business then you can go a bit deeper too. There are a ton of micro conversions on the Advocacy Action Center page.

Web 96

Web Metrics Analytics eCommerce 96

Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A couple examples of passive income ideas include: A niche affiliate website. For example, Lucie’s List is an affiliate site that helps moms survive pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood in general. People searching these terms are thinking about making a purchase. Jeff Bezos.

Entrepreneur 121

Entrepreneur Affiliate Finance United States 121