Affiliate Marketing Fanatics 19: It’s a Search Tool!
Wednesday
Feb 3, 2010
Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!
In this all-too-RARE episode, we reunite and make lots of fun of ourselves for being inconsistent in our scheduling and shows. We discuss some things that are kind of old and some things that are brand-spanking new. It happens. Incidentally, I realize I said the name Richard Attenborough when we were joking around and I was trying to reference those classic nature shows from our childhood with the stoic British actor describing gazelles running across the Serengeti. Not sure what the actor’s name actually was, but I know now that it wasn’t Sir Attenborough. Oh well, despite that, episode 19 comes in at a cheetah like speed of 39 minutes.
Also, I just fixed the audio problem where it cut off about 33 minutes in. Sorry, should be all good now! In this episode we discuss:
- My new gig with For Me To Coupon.
- The Advertising Tax hits Colorado. Read more about it here:
- Fox 31 KDVR News: Online sales tax bill moves through House
- Examiner.com: Are state representatives going to put work-at-home moms out of business overnight? (by Jen Goode!)
- Performance Marketing Association: Colorado House Passes Bill that Threatens to Devastate Affiliates (by Lisa Picarille!)
- The launch of Impact Radius – more of an exchange than a network.
- Seesmic Look. Seriously, what is this? We decided – it’s a search tool!
- 1938 Media starts 1938 Business & teams up with some heavy hitters to produce this year’s Audience Conference.
- Shout outs went to the losers of the Affiliate of the Year Pinnacle Award, Kim Rowley and Eric Nagel!
Want to catch up with us & ask questions for the next show? Find us on Twitter: @MikeBuechele & @TrishaLyn. Or leave us a comment!
Twitter Lists & Vanity
Thursday
Nov 26, 2009
Twitter lists seem to be the greatest thing since sliced bread lately. I have to say that I do love them. I read a post by my former lovely co-worker Manda Otto about what lists she’s on. I have to admit that got me thinking and wondering what lists I’m on. Vanity, and all. So I looked it up.
28 Listed… Pretty Sweet!
- @mcbrundage/affiliate
- @startpoken/poken-fans
- @Route53/affiliatefriends
- @Garth_OBrien/social-media
- @stefaniehutson/internet-marketing-women
- @Happy213/viewaskew
- @LisaP/affiliatemarketing
- @LisaP/coolsfpeeps
- @FredericPrigent/affiliation
- @JudiM/marketingwork
- @karengarcia/affiliate-marketing
- @CRschilliger/etc
- @LindaSherman/geeky-girls-to-love
- @latenitecoder/affiliatebiz
- @jangro/affiliatorati
- @danielmclark/geekcast-fm-podcasters
- @sharonmostyn/amazing-affiliate
- @Rexanne/affiliate-marketing
- @MarketLeverage/friends-and-fans
- @brettbum/affiliateindustryinsiders
- @jgoode/affiliate-pals
- @toddfarmer/affiliate-marketing
- @TFNDina/orlando
- @TFNDina/too-awesome-for-titles
- @nikkixbee/irl
- @nikkixbee/friends
- @drcool73/awesome-affiliate-people
- @angies91/affiliate-marketing
So let’s examine the stats… 14 mentions of affiliate… two mentions of awesome, one mention of amazing. As you can tell, I seem to have done a pretty good job branding myself as an affiliate marketing professional. I’m sure I probably reside on more lists that users have chosen to keep private. I think my two favorite are Dina’s “Too Awesome for Titles” and Linda’s “Geeky Girls to Love”. Thanks a lot ladies! Thanks to everyone who thought to toss me onto a list, for that matter. I know that, personally, a lot of my lists are private because I just don’t feel like making them public. I know when Twitter lists came out, I went through my entire list and categorized EVERYONE. And if I didn’t know what category they really belonged in, I cut some. I think this is a great development for Twitter… much better than the new retweet function!
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ASE09 Session: Getting Noticed FAST
Sunday
Aug 9, 2009
Guest Post by Dominic Fawver.
Session Description: Regardless what your role in the industry is, it’s important to be noticed within the industry. Learn the networking and social media techniques that make it possible. The panel consisted of:
- Lisa Picarille, Online Marketing Consultant, LisaPicarille.com (Twitter @lisap) (Moderator)
- Michael Buechele, Owner, MikeBuechele.com (Twitter @mikebuechele)
- Trisha Lyn Fawver, Affiliate Manager, Paulson Management Group (Twitter @trishalyn)
- Jen Goode, Doodler in Charge, JGoode Designs (Twitter @JGoode)
- Stephanie Lichtenstein, Affiliate Program Manager, Andy Rodriguez Consulting (Twitter @StephARC)
This session, Getting Noticed FAST, contained a lot of valuable information from people who have gone from being a nobody in Affiliate Marketing to being well known by many of the top people in just a couple of years. Some of the suggestions were:
“Get involved in the response…go to other sites and comment” Jen Goode
“Start blogging” Stephanie Lichtenstein
“Don’t flame people” Trisha Fawver
“Do something different the first time you meet in person” Mike Buechele
Many tips were given on the importance of using social media to get your name out there. Also mentioned was the importance of personal branding and being consistent between all of the different forms of social media that you are on.
From the standpoint of someone who is new to Affiliate Marketing, this was a very good session with plenty of examples from the panelist’s personal experience. It gave me ideas on where to start on getting noticed so that I can further a career in Affiliate Marketing (if I so chose) by meeting people who are already successful in the field and learn from their experiences and mistakes, while at the same time possibly being able to help them out with my own expertise. In many cases it is not what you know, but who you know.
Getting Noticed Fast
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