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ProBlogger Christmas Eve Party – Save This Date

Darren Rowse — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:57:43 +0000

OK – last year I did an impromptu ProBlogger ‘Christmas office party’ on Christmas Eve. It basically involved me drinking beer and eating some chips sitting in front of a webcam while Twitter followers dropped by to say G’day. We did a bit of Q&A and had some fun for an hour or so.

This year I want to open it up to everyone and give you a little advanced warning.

This year I’m going to do it a little earlier in the day (I’ll swap out beer and chips for coffee and a muffin) and it’ll be on at 9am this coming Thursday Melbourne time.

This will make it:

2pm Wednesday in Los Angeles
5pm Wednesday in New York
10pm Wednesday in London
6am Thursday in Singapore
3.30am in New Delhi (sorry friends!)

I’ll Tweet out a reminder in the lead up and when we start but it’ll be at the ProBlogger Show channel on Ustream.

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ProBlogger Christmas Eve Party – Save This Date

What Are You Doing with Your Blog Over the Holidays?

Darren Rowse — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:35:48 +0000

What are you doing with your blog over the holidays?

As the end of the year draws nearer I’ve been pondering what to do with my blogs over the Christmas/New Years break.

In the past I’ve done a number of things including:

Blogging on as normal
Getting a Guest in to cover the blog over a week
Running a special series of ‘lighter’ posts
Running a variety of guest posts

This year I’m going to do something I’ve not done before – take a break from blogging for a whole week.

I will be putting up a few posts over the week that are wrap up posts looking back at the year that has been on different topics – but these will be written in advance and set to go off so that I can have a break from blogging between Christmas and New Years. I won’t be having the week off completely though – I have a couple of other writing commitments that I need to finish off so will use the week to tackle those.

What are you doing with your blog over the holidays?

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What Are You Doing with Your Blog Over the Holidays?

Make More Money in the Coming Holiday Season

Alan Liew — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:27:00 +0000

Is your e-business ready for the holiday shopping season? It’d better be as the online holiday shopping season begins the day after Halloween.

Holiday web sales keep growing every year as more and shoppers go online. Online retailers that don’t get ready for the holidays can expect to loose lots of holiday web sales to their competitors.

Preparing for the holiday rush isn’t hard. You know it’s near and its time to start preparations. Even if you start preparing in October or November you can still get ready in time to get your piece of the holiday web sales. The peak of the holiday shopping spree online is between December 5 and 10.

The first step you need to take to get ready for holiday web sales is the most basic: get your website ready for the holidays. Just as brick and mortar stores decorate for the holidays, you should decorate your site with Christmas themed graphics like Santa Claus and Christmas trees. Remember it’s the holidays so remind your customers that the holidays are coming because they’ll need to buy gifts.

Do more than decorate for the holidays; offer your customers something special for the holidays to generate holiday web sales. Hold a sale or spotlight a special product that you only make available for the holidays. To drive holiday web sales consider adding products to your line just for the holidays. Take advantage of the power of bundling by combining some of your products into gift sets.

You can also help your customers decide what gifts to buy with the power of suggestion. Adding a list of great gift ideas with links to products in your inventory to your web site is a great way to drive holiday web sales. Organizing the list into categories like “gifts under $20,” “stocking stuffers” and “gifts for mom” can give people ideas of what to buy.

Generate holiday web sales without adding inventory or shipping expenses by offering gift cards and gift certificates. Gift certificates and cards are a great income stream you get paid even though you don’t have to deliver a product or deal with holiday shipping. Anybody who gets one of your gift certificates or cards is a potential new customer. Gift certificates and cards are great advertising because people receive them from somebody that they already know and trust.

Don’t forget to remind your customers about shipping during the holiday season. Go to the websites of the main shippers such as US Postal Service, UPS, and FedEx and get their holiday shipping schedules. Then post the schedules on your website to remind your visitors that the deadlines for shipping packages to arrive in time for Christmas are approaching. This can drive holiday web sales by creating a sense of urgency, by reminding your customers they have a limited time to place their orders.

AVG Anti-Virus versus Affiliate Marketing

Shawn Collins — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:24:00 +0000

There is a thread on ABestWeb discussing a troubling new development where AVG Anti-Virus is putting up alerts for affiliate links.

It seems the alerts are coming up for users on Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not Chrome and Opera.

And with the Christmas season coming quickly, there are a lot of potential customers that could be blocked from using affiliate links. According to download.com, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0.686 has had 226,636,250 downloads (1,547,382 just last week).

Affiliates, merchants, and networks should take a look at http://forum.abestweb.com/showthread.php?t=125338 for more details.

This post originally appeared on the Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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New Coupon API and Offer Preview/Accept Tool from LinkShare

Shawn Collins — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:26:41 +0000

LinkShare has announced some new enhancements to their system: a new coupon API and offer preview/accept tool.

The LinkShare Coupon Web Service is a new API for affiliates to access coupon and promotional links from advertisers without logging in to the Publisher Dashboard.

And starting October 21, affiliates will be able to view and opt into upcoming advertiser offers in the Publisher Dashboard. This will be helpful as we approach the Christmas season.

More details at http://blog.linkshare.com/2009/10/21/introducing-new-coupon-api-and-offer-previewaccept-tool/.

This post originally appeared on the Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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