You can also “park” a domain, — with services like Cash Parking—which means placing ads on your domain and earning a percentage of revenue from the sales of visits your site generates. There are companies you can work with to do all the hard work, from finding advertisers to making sure you get paid.
Some people also lease their domains, use it to generate leads for businesses and more.
Just like retail, a boutique shop carries many brands and styles of products within the same niche. As an affiliate, you may receive a % of the total purchase price or free products to promote. Usually somewhere between 4-6% to start.
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1. Find a unique niche and buy your own products with your affiliate links. If you already love it and use it, you can sell it easily. Check your recent order for product ideas.
ProFLIP TIP: Selling something you spend your own money on and appreciate. It can be as simple as a favorite hair dryer or extension cord you swear by. Becoming an affiliate of your favorite products is a fun and truthful way to make passive income.
2. Search Engine Marketing. Share to Strangers. Many affiliates share on social media in groups and on pages. Many affiliates use pay-per-click engines to share products. You don't have to be yourself online, make yourself into a salesperso and sell, research, sell.
3. Know your audience. This is an excellent way to increase your credibility and build trust. Know your audience will love your affiliations as much as you do and they will be satisfied.
4. Always update your products, check prices from different merchants, within your niche. Add new links and update your old links every 30 days.
5. Seek knowledge and embrace changes. Stay on top of trends and share your links as much as possible but don't fall for trends if you can help it. Share your favorites as an affiliate.
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Consider these Valuable Criteria
Relevance
When selecting a domain name, you will want to choose a domain that fits with your business, meaning it is relevant to your business name, product, or industry, so that customers can easily associate your domain with your business.
Communicate to your customers exactly what you sell and work to promote your store name simultaneously.
Memorability
You want your customers to remember you. Choose a domain that name that is easy to say and spell. Select a short domain that is straightforward and will communicate exactly what your business offers.
Keyword Rich
When it comes to your web presence, it's essential that you are aware of relevant keywords. If your domain name is an exact match for your top keywords your website will likely rank well for these searches. Consider the most popular and relevant keywords searches for your business and see if they are available.
Appropriate Extensions or TLD
.com is the most popular domain extension. Others that are well known are .net and .org but there are multiple domain extensions to build your brand.
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Leasing hasn’t really taken off in a big way so far but that seems likely to change. For the idea of leasing to work, we need three things that are all just starting to come together:
1) Public awareness and education. Ten years ago, if you owned a company with a telephone number, the chances are you’ll have been cold called from someone trying to sell you a website. Over the next five years, pretty much everyone already had a site so now it shifted to selling website marketing. At one point we had three companies call on the same day who all promised to get us to the ‘top’ of Google – highly entertaining if you’re bored and the person calling has no idea you’re a web company.
Originally, small businesses were just coming round to the idea of needing a site, but now their understanding has become about getting traffic to it. On the whole, businesses now understand the power of the web, and accept that they need traffic so there’s little educating that still needs to happen. Many companies also have some form of online spend, usually in PPC so it’s easy to make a quick ROI comparison when offering a site that delivers qualified leads.
2) Increased PPC costs – remember when you could buy clicks to pretty much anything for around $0.05 per click? PPC costs have continued to rise year on year as demand increases quicker than supply, and will probably continue to do so until people find viable alternatives. Companies who spend on PPC usually fall into two camps – either they want to reduce their spend, or their campaign is converting profitably and they want more clicks. The leasing option satisfies both criteria.
3) Massive distrust in Google traffic. With all the ranking and algo changes happening over the last couple years, building a marketing site and getting it to rank isn’t only difficult – it’s risky, as that top spot can be snatched away at almost anytime leaving you with little return for all your investment. Non web based companies who are savvy enough to have previously built their own feeder sites are now thinking twice about the effort and risk involved and seeking alternatives.
So it seems that if you’re thinking of selling and your site meets the criteria, now could be a good time to consider this as a viable option. I usually make a point of staying away from writing about things I haven’t done personally, but for this article I managed to pry some good advice from a pro, thanks to a cheap lunch and a (broken) promise of beers.
(note – If you’ve ever googled “Website leasing”, you’ll probably be fooled into thinking it’s something that it’s not, thanks to the majority of the search results being from web design companies trying to sell more sites. Leasing a site, in this context, refers to leasing an established site with a significant amount of traffic for a targeted niche. The real idea behind leasing a website (for the lessee) it that you still maintain your main source of marketing whether this be your own site, or a bricks and mortar storefront. What you gain from the leased asset should be complimentary to what you already do and not something your business depends on.)
]]>The idea is simple; instead of selling your site, you (the lessor) agree to lease the site to an end user (the lessee) for a pre-agreed monthly or yearly amount. The lessee retains full ownership of any data exchanged in this time – most commonly leads, or email signups for example, but sometimes product sales too. At the end of the agreement, the site is still yours and you can choose to extend the lease, sell the site or continue to operate it for yourself.
The benefits to the lessee are obvious – leads or customer acquisition at ‘wholesale prices’ less than their current PPC costs, the tax benefit of capital allowances (UK companies at least), reduced risk of traffic loss versus owning the site and no responsibility for SEO and marketing.
To you as the seller / lessor you have the overhead and risk of operating the site, but this is usually more than offset from the benefit of being paid for the asset on a monthly basis and still owning it at the end of the term, hopefully with some capital appreciation to boot.
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Google offers Image ads in the Adwords Program. Google differentiates image ads from traditional banner advertising.
Google attempts to display on Google search results pages, but on websites that participate in the Adsense program. Participants must have agreed to display image ads on their own websites.
If they have both text ads in an Ad group, Google displays the ad that is relevant for the immediate website.
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There are many misconceptions when it comes to knowing how to increase engagement on Instagram. Hot tip: do not believe ANYTHING written in the following list:
There is no shortcut for growth. Instagram’s algorithm is a fickle beast. It is constantly evolving, you can seldom predict its patterns, and it is unlikely that it will promote your post way beyond your current followers. In fact, the algorithm starts out by showing your post to only a small percentage of your followers to gauge interest. The best thing that you can do is to put out regular, quality content certain to engage your followers. In other words, make sure that your content is relevant to what people signed up for. For example, if your posts are all beautiful nature shots, but you suddenly post a picture of a car, Instagram knows that most of your followers are probably not interested in the automotive category. This will lower your engagement on that post and will likely decrease your overall engagement as well.
There is not a single correct posting frequency or strategy. Posting schedules are different for every industry and type of account. In general, photo sharing accounts that curate the work of artists on Instagram, post several times per day because their content is lighter, meaning it makes a near-instant visual impression and is by nature quicker to like and scroll past. However, if your posts contain more complex and rich content such as infographics, videos, etc., then you do not have to post as often. It also likely takes more time to generate this type of content, so your followers will understand. When working with a digital tech agency like Vivid Candi, you can create a schedule that works for you and your business. It’s important to also pay attention to your insights and analytics and tailor your strategy based on those results.
Getting onto Instagram’s Explore page is a great feat and definitely something to celebrate, but you will get a lot more likes than you will get followers. It is helpful to think about this from your own perspective. How often do you actually take the time to follow people when you are mindlessly scrolling through the Explore page? We would be willing to bet that you simply like and move on. So, you may see a spike in engagement on that post, but this will not translate to more engagement on your account after that initial growth dies off. However, within this achievement, there are important takeaways for growth. You should consider creating and posting more content similar to your post on the Explore page. If the Instagram algorithm sees that you can consistently produce content with high potential for virality, they will promote your account to more potential followers.
Joining Engagement Groups, DM groups on Instagram where fellow users interact and promote each other’s content through shout-outs and engagement does not get you an automatic ban or restriction from Instagram. In fact, when used properly, these groups can be the key to viral growth on Instagram.
To find an Engagement Group to join, first search for accounts in your niche. Leave them a comment to look out for your DM. This DM should be very personalized to their account so as to not appear spammy or bot-like and should emphasize co-promotion through this type of group. If they respond that they are not in any engagement groups, you can always create your own group chat on Instagram and add people with their permission.
The algorithm will send out your post to a wider audience if it sees lots of activity (i.e. engagement such as likes and meaningful comments of 5+ words, not including emojis) in the first 30 minutes of your post. However, you must exercise caution when sharing your new posts to the group. Stay away from sending the post directly as Instagram will know that you are sending it to an Engagement Group and will not value the engagement on your post as much. Instead, send a link to your post, or simply comment that you have a new post up.
As a side-note on the correlation between bot-like behavior and shadow-banning, make sure to follow/unfollow a maximum of 150 people per day and space these actions out over the course of several hours.
Avoid buying followers. Here is an easy red flag to look out for: accounts or services that promise THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS in an instant (after you pay them) through Instagram story shout-outs or other sketchier methods. Although it is most likely that you will simply get ripped off and lose your money, you may get the followers they promised you.
We have seen far too many businesses fall for this scheme and instantly regret it. Here is why. While your account may look like it gained a few thousand followers, the followers you receive, despite the promises, are more than likely inactive. In other words, these followers are not necessarily interested in your type of content and are not active engagers on Instagram anyways.
The word “active” is extremely important here as engaged followers who interact with a large percentage of your posts are the most likely out of your followers to transition into a future clients or customers when you monetize your account. If your main goal is to get a large amount of followers, then your followers to engagement ratio will suffer. This has all kinds of consequences with respect to how Instagram’s notorious algorithm functions. The algorithm will see that you have lots of followers who are uninterested in your content, so it assumes that your content is not interesting and is not worth sharing past your current, deceptively small core audience. As a result, your account will be crippled with little recourse.
]]>The acronym BOGO stands for Buy One, Get One. This technique works so well because it plays directly into the most powerful motivators of consumer psychology: free stuff. It is true, everyone loves free stuff. In fact, people love free things so much that they will overvalue these items to the point of choosing something free over higher-quality items no matter how great the discount. Now, you may be wondering how to use BOGO to increase your own profitability. Here are two ways you can use this eCommerce marketing technique to your advantage:
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Sponsored posts on Instagram fell from representing 35% of influencer content in mid-February to 4% of creator content in mid-April, according to a report from the marketing-analytics firm Launch metrics. The drop comes as many influencers have had deals put on hold. Marketers are predicting somewhere between 15-25% drop in the average price of a sponsored post as demand for branded influencer content declines and popular platforms are unsteady.
Instagram influencers and YouTube creators, especially those whose main content revolves around travel or events, are facing a steep decline in business. Those who earn the bulk of their money through sponsorships such as paid trips and experiences are having to make major adjustments during this time.
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Music promotion is the process of raising awareness about your music. A lot of people can make good music, but the ones who excel in the music industry are the ones who know how to properly market their music. If you don’t market your music, no one will know it or you even exist! It’s extremely important to know how to properly promote yourself and your music.
There are a number of ways in which you can market your music. Many marketing efforts including interviews, social media views, live performing gigs, getting on TV, and letting people on various social networking platforms know what you are all about and also interacting as your brand.
Online music marketing is the most commonly used. Although using social media as main platforms for promotion is good, you also want to reach these places:
Why? Because these places will allow you to reach a much wider audience.
You also have to make sure that these platforms are catered to your genre of music. If not, you won’t be targeting your desired audience.
In order for your music marketing to be effective, you need a few things:
Please feel free to promote your music here.
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