The last week, Pepperjam Network launched a beta version of Pepperjam Store Builder™, which is available exclusively through Pepperjam Network for FREE to all advertisers and affiliates.

Pepperjam Store Builder™ allows you to quickly and easily manipulate Pepperjam Network product feeds in real-time to build product storefronts on your Web site.  You can use Pepperjam Store Builder™ to easily link to specific products, create dedicated product feed Web sites, supplement your existing content or blog, add additional value to your coupon or incentive site, or for just about anything else your imagination will allow.

With Pepperjam Store Builder™ you have access to millions of products from hundreds of Pepperjam Network advertisers. You can automatically create storefronts by selecting any combination of merchants, categories, or keywords.  The more merchants and / or categories you select the more products that will be available to your Web site visitors. However, you may also choose to use the Pepperjam Store Builder™ search filter to refine your search to a specific kind or type of product.  For instance, you may select CostumeKingdom.com as your merchant, but only want to display “pumpkin” costumes.  No problem!  Simply use the search filter and type in “pumpkin” to refine the feed to show only the products you want.

Now, let’s check some screenshots to let you know how it works:

As you can see, it’s easy like a 1-2-3! Once you completed 4 easy steps you will get the html code of your store! And you know what’s the best of it? It is WordPress Optimized!

As you can see, you can customize everything you want: Products, links and colors! So it is perfect to merge it with your website or blog without altering neither the look nor the niche of your website.

So if you want to try and start making money with Pepperjam Stores, feel free to do it by signing up here. Stay tuned because the next week I will be dealing with this kind of stores!.

PS: Unfortunately I don’t have screenshots for you, thing which I will cover in the next week!

The fact is that many people use this kind of marketing just to send unwanted emails, or commonly called as spam. In the last years, the number of spam messages in people’s inboxes have considerably increased. In a year, more than 3 trillions of emails are sent, of which an average of 70% of them are spam. For our luck, email service’s providers are constantly improving their algorithms to filter the good messages of the bad ones .

What should you know to run an email marketing campaign?

Well like everything related with marketing, creating a good campaign can take you more time than you expect. Obviously, the first thing you need to do is create a newsletter. You can do this by using Aweber, a service which you can send scheduled emails, broadcasts and configure autoresponders… And as every service of this nature, it lets you send bulk emails to your mailing lists.

Once you have ordered your email marketing service, you can start creating email lists and promoting your campaigns! On now, , let’s start with reviewing the things you need to have in mind to create and run with success an email campaign:

Respecting the Subject

• Keep it short: Make your subject as short as possible, with a maximum of 50 characters including spaces. This way, the message will be direct and concise.
• Keep it simple, don’t overdo it: Avoid using capital letters in all the words, as well as using punctuation like exclamation marks. In the case of the capital letters, they will be directly filtered by spam protectors, but if you want you could use exclamation marks, is not so bad but sometimes it could be misinterpret.
• Don’t forget your brand: Include your brand, i.e. the name of the company, product or service in the subject line. It helps the subscriber to recognize you.
• Create a sense of urgency: You can include time-depending words in order to encourage your subscribers to read the newsletter as soon as possible. Phrases like now, this week, for limited time, exclusive offer and similar can be use it to create this sensation.
• Motive the subscribers, entice it: You can let the reader know about the benefits it will get by reading the newsletter. Things like get free… or get a discount for… can work.
• Be honest: I think I have been a good broadcaster of that phrase. Being honest with the subscribers will create a sense of loyalty between you and they. You won’t get anything by deceiving them.

Respecting the From

• Don’t forget your brand: Your brand should appear either in the subject or the from fields.
• Use your website tags: This is something relatively optional, you can choose between adding or not the tags of your website, i.e. Mr Javo dot Com – Blogging and Internet Marketing Tips. This can give you good or bad results, it depends of its length. In my case, it’s fairly long to include my tags in the From field. If your tag is too long, I recommend you not to use it.

Respecting the Message

This is may be the most important aspect of email marketing because here will be displayed the information you want to promote. So let’s see the guidelines for this field:

• Provide relevant content: What would you feel if I send you through my newsletter something related with Food, Cars or Deports? Exactly, you could find it surprising and annoying! If you signed up to receive blogging and internet marketing tips why are you getting information related with other niches? So with this I want to tell you that it’s really important to match your content with your audience. You will get better click-through rates if you send relevant content.
• Emphasize your brand: Including logos and URLs related to your business will boost your click-throught rates and at the same time, you will be imposing your authority.
• Send copies in both HTML and Plain Text: It is very recommendable to send the newsletter in both HTML and Plain Text formats. The reason of this is because there are people who don’t allow HTML code in their email inbox. If the subscriber don’t allow HTML code the text plain version will be shown instead.
• Include a link to unsubscribe: Is a really important thing to include a link which the subscribers could use to unsubscribe for your newsletter whenever they want. By doing this, they won’t be moored to you if they don’t want to!.
• Provide a RSS link: If you constantly update the content of your website, as the case of blogs, you could include a link of your RSS feed encouraging the people to subscribe. Remember to tell them the benefits, i.e. a little message explaining them that they will get (quicker) updates of your site…
• Include your contact information: Is a must to include your personal information, like your company’s street address, phone number and contact email. Some services ask for this in their policy.

Ok these were the recommended things that you need to do in order to run an email marketing campaign successfully. Another great tip is to set a Follow-up message in order to give them a welcome when they sign up for your newsletter. This create a good relationship between you and them, and helps you to estimulate the sense of loyalty. For this message, you can include a kind of coupon or offer of your product/service to estimulate a sell.

To conclude this post, remember to tell to your visitors the advantages of subscribing to your newsletter or how do you expect to attract subscribers if you don’t tell them what will they win? Keep in mind NOT to send spam, and send emails only to people who are willing to receive them.

By the way, if you are not in my newsletter yet, I invite you to take part in to receive my very best tips, exclusive offers and mailings, in addition of a free copy of my ebook The Affiliate’s Start Guide .

Many times, when you think about making money online, the phrase Affiliate Marketing crosses your mind, may be because we associate the word marketing with money. Is not a secret that you can make hundreds, even thousands of dollars a month with affiliate marketing but that is not too easy as many people say on Internet.

Myth #1 – It’s easy to make money

So if I’m telling you that is not too easy, you may be wondered why. Many people lie to take advantage of, that’s a fact! Let’s be honest, when someone says that it is easy to make money with X affiliate network and it shows you checks of thousands of dollars, is because it wants you to register on that network under its name, this way it could get commissions for what you make.

Of course, it is easy to make money when you have an army of referrals behind you.

Myth #2 – Low capital required

Remember that everything has a cost, if you want to make thousands of dollars you will have to spend thousand of dollars. Is fairly impossible to make thousands by investing lower amounts, remember that affiliate marketing is mainly based on traffic, so if you want to drive many people to your website you need to invest on PPC campaigns such as Google Adwords.

In addition of that, if you are promoting a campaign with 3% of conversion rate it means that 3 of each 100 visitors will (or could) buy the product. Of course that a good web design helps but that’s basically what it means.

You need to make your plans to compensate the invested (and wasted) capital for driving the other 97 persons to your website.

Myth #3 – You will get money fast

This is the most false myth ever. Before you start making real money and not a few bucks, you will need to try many different things in order to optimize your promotion. You will need to be changing the theme of your landing page, changing its keywords, its title and redistributing the things on your website. After then, you will find what is converting for you! So how much you will need to wait until the first check? That’s up to you, it depends of your work.

Myth #4 – Work just 2 hours a day

Huh? another false myth. Affiliate marketing is mostly carried out by entrepreneurs, people who like to experiment and look for new ways to meet their goals. It is completely false to say that working 2 hours per day you could get thousands of dollars. Well, may be after many years when you have all your campaigns already optimized, you could stop working if you want, but that’s not true. Internet changes and people too, so you need to be constantly changing your promotion and keywords too!

Setting up a website with marketing purposes could take you many time, you will fall asleep after midnight trying to do your best, checking you traffic statistics and optimizing what you have done.

My Personal Recommendations

In order to make your affiliate’s life easier and avoid to be consumed by it, I suggest you to put in practice the following things:

• Make backup plans: Is something is not working for me, I try to put in practice another concept in order to improve the performance of my work. Always is good to have backup plans, when something is going wrong that kind of special plans could safe you! And I’m not telling you this just for affiliate marketing, you should apply this for everything in your life.
• Set goals: May be the most important thing. If you don’t know your goals you will be doing things without sense.
• Set a schedule: Take a calendar and fix your hours of work, this way you could take off the shackles and do another activities beside working on your promotions.
• Be patient: Remember that money won’t flow through your account immediately, and it will take days, weeks or may be months to see real money in your accounts.

In my eBook The Affiliate’s Start Guide I talk about all the basics things to create a website and make money with it, so I invite you to sign up for my newsletter and get your copy for free now!

Hello bloggers, some weeks ago I signed up to Motive Interactive Advent but I didn’t use it until now because they were upgrading their platform. My affiliate manager recommended me to wait because the new changes would be awesome, improving the platform and making it much better.

In spite of his recommendation, I entered to my publisher panel in order to meet the platform and to check the available campagins. Basically, I entered just to take a look around, and I have to admit that I found a really slow platform.

The platform was easy to use but its slowness was terrible. I have for you a screenshot of the old interface:

What is new on Advent 2.0?

Loading times have been reduced! The platform is based on AJAX, which means everything load on the same page. Before continuing, let’s see a screenshot of it:

They have optimized the platform, reordering the left sidebars to make easier for the publisher to navigate and explore the campagins. If you see the first screenshot you will see a picture of my manager (with his contact information) in the second leftbar. In the new theme they have moved the picture to the top-right and in the second leftbar you can see an Offer Spotlight.

The Campaigns

You can explore the different campaigns by offer types, distribution types, categories and payouts. I have tested this to find some specific offers and it works very fine, it’s very accurate.

As other affiliate networks, Motive covers several categories which you can work with in order to make money. I saw some well-known campaigns there which you can see in other networks, but also I saw another ones which looks great.

Something I really liked about Motive is that you can preview any campaign in order to know how will it looks when the people click the banner. In other networks I couldn’t do this with the campaigns because most of them are restricted to US. So if you are not from US (as my case) it doesn’t matter, you could check the campaign and see how it looks!.

Other thing I liked which is related with the campaigns is the navigation. It is very user-friendly and if you click on one of them, a detailed description of the offer will roll-over, as you can see in the following screenshot:

The Statistics

Sometimes we don’t like to see statistics for some reasons, either they could be difficult to understand or may be they could NOT be friendly or just because they show something that we were not expecting . Whichever the case, it won’t apply this time. The statistics provided by Motive are very detailed and friendly, giving you information about the impressions, clicks, ECPM, ECPC, revenew and the most important, coversion rates and payouts .

Affiliate Commission Rewards Program

With the affiliate commission rewards program you will get extra commission rewards a month, whose payout starts at 1% then increases to 2% the higher the tier. Here’s the current structure:

• $1,000 – $10
• $2,500 – $25
• $5,000 – $50
• $10,000 – $100
• $15,000 – $150
• $20,000 – $200
• $25,000 – $250
• $30,000 – $300
• $50,000 – $500
• $100,000 – $1,250
• $150,000 – $2,000
• $200,000 – $3,000
• $500,000 – $10,000
• $1,000,000 – $20,000
• $1,250,000 – $25,000

The Highest Affiliate Referral Commission

The Motive Network offers 5.5% of lifetimes referral earnings for those you refer, making them the network with the highest referral commission!. But the good things have a catch too: ‘The referred publisher must continue to generate commissions without a lapse of twelve (12) calendar months in order for the referrer to continue receiving the 5.5% commission from that publisher each month‘, which means that you will only get extra commissions for active affiliates.

Conclusion

Motive Interactive Advent have improved the platform to make it more comfortable and easy to use. Now it is really easy to use and loading times are really short, it has everything preloaded and ready to display whatever you click.

The feature of SIDs and AIDs tracking are really important for every publisher, as well as the advanced tracking and reporting!

I encourage you to try Motive Interactive Advent and check out what it has for us.

This is a guest post from AffiliateTips.com – an affiliate directory where you can find and compare affiliate programs.

It sometimes happens that ones affiliate marketing business gets stuck in a rut regardless of the efforts one put in it. When sales remain stagnant even though you put in some hard work it might be time to try and to improve your marketing strategies. What’s so great about affiliate marketing is that one doesn’t have to restructure the strategies from the ground up when trying to breathe some life into the business.

Blogging is one of the best tools to refresh your promotional methods. Reaching new customers will become easier and it can dramatically increase the profits. Add this simple tool and your business might once again have a bright future.

Blogging When Working with Affiliate Marketing

Blogging is not only for personal thoughts, far from it. Blogs can be found covering every possible subject and some of the most popular blogs are information powerhouses that are designed to meet the needs of their audience. Regardless of what segment in the affiliate business that you are working in a blog can strengthen the power of your company brand, maintain a high customer loyalty and attract new readers.

Including a blog in your affiliate marketing business can for example get you a higher rank on search engines (Search Engine Optimization), increase your online visibility and organic search traffic. As mentioned it’s also a great way of achieving good customer loyalty and to promote new offers.

What the above mentioned benefits will mean for you is increased traffic to your affiliate marketing site. An average blog post is very brief and packed with keywords that will get you a high rank on the search engines. So, when web surfers search for information on your topic they’ll encounter your blog.

Blogging Strategies for Affiliate Marketing

In order to get the most out of your affiliate marketing blog you’ll have to assess both your needs and the needs of your visitors. As with all marketing strategies, planning is of great importance and to make it easier for you, I have created some important steps to take into consideration.

1. Who is Your Audience?

If you want to create an appealing blog you’ll have to understand your audience and what they are looking for. Conduct some simple marketing research and have a look at your website statistics – this way you’ll learn a whole lot more about your customers.

2. Placing of Your Blog

Most blogs should be placed on your site but if you lack the ability or resources for this then you could consider an outside hosting service. Don’t forget to use a domain name that is somehow related to your affiliate marketing business.

3. Keywords When Blogging

If you want to get a high rank on search engines you’ll have to consider keywords. For each blog post you should choose a keyword that should be used in a natural way throughout the blog and it should also be used in your headline, URL and page title.

Regardless if you’re running an old or new affiliate marketing business a blog might just be the injection it needs in order to be really successful. Have a look at this simple and easy to use tool.

In the last post, I talked about how to drive traffic to your affiliate programs, touching some important points such advertising and building links. Promoting an affiliate programs is different than driving traffic to them, and it’s something misunderstood by many people in Internet.

Some weeks ago, I signed up to Market Leverage and promoted it in my blog by writing a little review about that program. What you can find there, in the review’s post, is a reflection of how to promote your affiliate programs.

If you want to be recognized and create an authority on Internet, you need to Be Honest with your readers. Many people lie in the blogosphere, even more when they are promoting a service or product. They do that with the purpose to convince the people who read their blogs about something that is not true. By catching them as referrals, they will earn money from their sales and from each activity the referrals make in the affiliate network.

Now, I will tell you why you SHOULD NOT to do that. At the first instance, you will earn more money with all those deceived referrals, the problem isn’t that, who don’t like to earn money? The problem starts when you are going to promote another affiliate program, in the future. What do you think will happen with all those people who signed up under your link in the past? Obviously, if they were deceived they will not trust in you anymore. Surely, they will sign up to the program referred by you, but through another blogger who inspire them more trust.

To be successful promoting an affiliate program you need to be transparent, telling to the people what they will find in the program, the most important features of the program, how much they will earn… All those kind of things, and if there is a catch, tell them. For example, many people get angry when they expect something for free and suddenly they need to pay a quote to receive the information.

By being honest at time of promoting an affiliate program could give you more chances to multiply your earnings in a future. Then, when you suggest to your readers to sign up to an affiliate program, surely they will do it under your name and this way, you will get many commissions from them.