I was just checking my stats on Amazon's affiliate program. In the many years, I've made approx. $50 on sales of over US$1200 ... since I've not really tried.

The actual CTR was quite impressive... about 10%-11% if I discount my own test clicks.

Pity the actual sales total is so low! So I'm going to find some ways to start to drive traffic to the sites that host my Amazon store.

I also managed to integrate the store very neatly with my own site. The only...

An American organization has 10 engineering job vacancies it has to fill and there are about 100 candidates to choose from;

- 80 are US born
- 20 are born outside the US
- 10 of the candidates have US masters degrees (3 Americans & 7 foreigners)

The company decides it must have Masters Degree workers given the demands of the position, potential for future job growth and it needs the new hires to start in a week. It also wants to minimize costs in the...

Read my other blogs on the past 4 steps. Now we are to the 5th and FINAL step in offline selling.

The close.

Now this isn't where you put on your finest black suit, slick back your hair, and become a used car salesman.

In fact you should never do that or even have to do that.

To be honest if you've done your job correctly in the previous 4 steps this should be easy.

Closing is easy.

So you've found out where they are,...

Hi guys,

There are different types of forums, beyond the obvious topical types, of “marketing” or “special interest”, etc. “Marketing” and “special interest” are two types of what are commonly referred to as “open forums”.

There are, however, business and professional forums, which do not operate under the same rules and, more often than not, disallow any and all types of advertising or self-promotion. Forums that have been created to support the membership of a particular...

In my subject line, I asked if I could help you with
your project. That's because I, and most of the top
marketers that I know, are always looking for new
projects to get involved in.

Please allow me to explain and even to share why I
chose that subject line this morning.

I recently ran a special sale to help a friend who
was several MONTHS behind on his house payments.
I took one of my products that was normally $27 and
marked...