The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “Affiliate Marketing Niche Idea – Star Wars: The Old Republic”.Samuel Frost says, “When most affiliates think of niches they automatically run to the “big guns”: weight loss, dog training, making money online etc. There is nothing wrong with these evergreen niches—in fact, I recommend them all the time because of their proven profitability and huge potential for earnings. However, there are times when you need to look beyond the heavyweights of the affiliate world and find relatively untapped niches... [...]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “12 Scalable Link-Building Tactics”.Jason Acidre says, “Link building/earning is essential in online marketing, and not just because it improves your SEO. It also helps a website be discovered (click-through visitors), generate leads, connect with other publishers (relationships), and build a stronger online brand presence.Although establishing yourself as an authority to eventually earn links throughout the process is what search engines naturally want websites/brands to do, you still can’t disregard artificial link building (link marketing)”.12... [...]

MarketingSherpa has published a video titled “How You Can Use Email to Discover the Essence of Your Value Proposition”.MarketingSherpa team says, “A company’s value proposition is “probably one of the most fundamental aspects of a business,” Austin McCraw, Senior Editorial Analyst, MECLABS, explained during his presentation at Email Summit 2013. In this full video replay, see how email testing can be used to devise an applicable and meaningful value proposition to customers through testing.Testing a value proposition through email enabled McCraw and his team... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Google Reportedly Looking To Replace Third-Party Cookies With New AdID”.Ginny Marvin says, “USA Today is reporting that Google is looking to upend the way the industry tracks online activityfor advertising purposes.According to the newspaper, a source at Google says the company is developing an AdID, an anonymous identifier that would replace the third-party cookie as the industry’s primary tool for tracking browsing activity and gathering information about user interests for ad targeting. The source, who spoke... [...]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Google is Poised to Revolutionize Consumer Retail”.JP Gownder says, “nfrastructure professionals are now all too familiar with the dynamics of bring-your-own (BYO) technology and devices: Their workers walk into the office with consumer technology all the time. This post is one in a continuing series on how consumer retail stores act as de facto extensions of the IT department in today’s BYO world.The rumors have abounded for more than six months: unconfirmed whispers that Googlewill open up its own major chain of consumer... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “5 Issues That Could Derail Twitter”.Todd Wasserman says, “Twitter is on top of the world right now. Its user base and revenues are both growing. A slew of recent acquisitions and hires have maintained momentum — and of course, there’s thatupcoming IPO.Recent history has shown that such perceptions can be quickly upended. Facebook famously stumbled out of the gate after filing for its IPO. Others, like Zynga and Groupon, have demonstrated that the days before a company goes public may be its best. Looking back even further,... [...]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Who Uses Search? [Infographic]”.Verónica Maria Jarski says, “Need to know how many people purchased the latest iPhone? Want to remember who played Hanson’s best friend on the 1980s show 21 Jumpstreet? You probably jumped on your favorite search engine to find the answer.You’re not alone.Some 82.6% of all Internet users used search last year, according to an infographic by Levelwing. Also…• Searches were made more often by people who are white, 18-29 years old, and college graduates“.Who Uses Search? [Infographic]MarketingProfs [...]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “How To Turn Free Traffic Into Money Right Now”.Chow says, “Traffic has to do with people coming to your website, not some pieces of scripts or bots called search engines.Oftentimes, if you don’t convert your free traffic as quickly as possible, they’d start to perceive you as not being serious and a joker. Aha! You don’t want that to happen!When I first started building my email list, I didn’t promote any affiliate offer to them and when I eventually did, 12% got angry and unsubscribed”.How To Turn Free Traffic Into Money Right... [...]

Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “7 Lessons From the Front Lines of the Social and Content Convergence″.Baer says, “That was just one of the excellent and interesting lines I overheard last week at the Expion Social Business Summit in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Expion is an enterprise social media management software platform, and I was the opening keynote speaker at the event’s second day).Here are my 7 Lessons Learned about the convergence of social and content, from the Expion Summit”.7 Lessons From the Front Lines of the Social and Content... [...]

MarketingSherpa has published an article titled “Tactics that are seeing a budget increase (and decrease)”.Daniel Burstein says, ” It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it will be here before we know it.No, we’re not talking about the holiday shopping season, but rather, budget time. With tongue firmly in cheek, we’d like to make the annual process of crunching numbers, scrutinizing spreadsheets and justifying projections just a little bit easier for you.To help you get a jumpstart on crafting your 2014 budget, this week’s MarketingSherpa Chart... [...]