Aweber Announces Changes In Its Affiliate Program

aweberRecently Aweber announced few changes in their affiliate program. They have added many new features and some of them are very welcome.

This change has been based on a recent survey conducted by Aweber and includes

All commissions will be raised to 30%.

Aweber has raised the commission it used to pay its affiliates. This includes existing 1st tier commissions of 20%.This means more money from your sales efforts.

Second tier commissions are being phased out

I do not like this one. You get hit badly if you are making a good money from your sub affiliate sales. apparently this has been done to meet Paypal’s terms of service and enable paying of affiliates via Paypal.

One Year Cookie

Your affiliate cookie will be a 1 year, first visit cookie. This seems to be too much as people are whining over it.
PayPal

This again is great move. No more checks in the boxes. Paypal would handle it now.  All affiliates will be paid once a month, on the first of every month.
Minimum Payout
Minimum check payout will be $30.00 for US affiliates and $50.00 for affiliates not based in the US.  I do not think there is much change here.

There are certain good fearures

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Online Business Competition Assessment – How To Do It?

Analyzing your business competition is vital part of your business. Competition assessment and analysis helps you to tell the strength of your businesses against your competitors, the weak areas and strong points. It also enables you to become proactive and make first moves to take more of the market.

Competition analysis is a detailed review of business of your rival sites and then you measure yourself against them. In online business, the competition analysis is easier to do than offline and can be performed with minimum tool.

First thing is to  know who are your competitors. These are the websites which compete with keywords of your sites and offer similar products. Not all sites competing for the same keyword would have similar products. Some of them would have different monetization strategies. [Read more...]

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Market Search – Secondary Search For Your Online Business

Unlike primary search, the secondary search relies on information that is preexisting or previously collected data. It is the type of search we are used to conduct fo rour online business. Whether you study some search engine, ebook or book for your market search, you are doing a secondary search.

And unlike primary search, the secondary serch is cheaper. You do not have to build from scratch. Secondary search is ideal for small businesses.

The information for the secondary search can come from a lot of sources. Here are few examples [Read more...]

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Market Search – The Concept of Primary Search

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There are many methods to coduct a research, from Google to Amazon and so on.

Today we would discuss, primary search.

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New Kind of WordPress Comment Spam and How To Tackle It

Comment spams area headache. But they are reality too. We may get irritated but we need to combat it. As the antispam measures get better, spammers evolve too. It is an everlasting fight with no end in the near future.

Lately, I witnessed a type of comment spam that would appear almost like a real comment. But a closer look determines that they are in fact spam.

Look at these sentences

This sentence can be easily mistaken for a genuine comment

Great posts and expecting more updates form you this year.

This was a good try but context was not relevant.

Does people here have a touch on where Stockmarket is ending?

This might appeal to your heart but beware of the garb

Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.

Even people would utilize God’s name

I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.

This one is too clever

Just like you, I go forever with out reading RSS. My view is, if it’s important at all, It will hit my twitter stream.

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