The Best Online Ad Placements (Infographic)

If you are a webmaster or blogger that monetized your website/blog through ads placement, I am pretty sure that you are aware of the banner-fatigue syndrome that "plagued" the online space at the moment. In short, not many people will view or click on your banner ads anymore. Basing on the latest survey, the average click-through-rate (CTR) of the banner ad is less than 0.5%.

 

One of the new kid on the block that offer native advertising services (for both advertisers and publishers), ContentClick has recently done a survey and produced an infographic on the best online ad placement. Even though it is more relevant to the UK audience but I am of the view that this is a general sentiment across the board.

 

Enjoy the infographic below:

 

Cheers!

The History Of Content Marketing (Infographic)

"Content Is King"!

Hence, Content Marketing is in high demand at the moment!  Content Marketing, sometimes referred to as "Inbound Marketing", is focused on delivering comprehensive consumable, effective, often times, useful, content to the consumers.  

 

Many a time, it goes hand-in-hand with Social Media Marketing. HubSpot is one of the popular inbound marketing provider.

 

Recently, Curata.com has generate an infographic detailing the evolution of marketing from Internet Bubble to Content Marketing.

 

Check out the informative infographic below:

 

ClickMagick - The Promising New Click Tracker Service Provider

ClickMagick, the new kid on the block that provide click tracking service and many more seems to be a promising addition in the market.

 

Founded by three hard-core affiliate marketers (lead by Patrick Kelly), they sleep and breath CLickMagick and developed a SaaS (Software As A Service) that they are so confidence to guarantee to make your existing traffics 56% more profitable.  

 

Following are what ClickMagick is all about :

 

1. It tracks all your ads and links

2. It automatically adds new layers of monetization.

3. It does affiliate link cloaking

4. It does click/conversion tracking

5. It provides A/B split-testing

6. It provides click-fraud monitoring

7. It provides "ninja" geotargeting and many more

8. It provides the capability to add a custom pop-up to any page (this is cool and critical to help you enhance your site's conversion rate)

9. It provides the capability to add a MagickBar to any of your link (including affiliate links) :

10. It provides the capability to add a countdown timer to your pop-up link (as proven, timer could increase the conversion by 68%)

11. Last but not least, it is hosted in cloud and built for speed.

 

Following is a video review done by Ryan Evan...

The highlight from him is :

"ClickMagick has blown me away ... multiple times!" 

 

If you are involved in affiliate marketing and still struggle with the conversion rate, which is paramount, you may want to check out ClickMagick, which could be the turning point to your venture.

 

Try ClickMagick Free for 14 days by signing-up via the banner below:

This is how confidence ClickMagick claimed towards their product:

"You'll make more money or we'll personally help you do it ourselves. Guaranteed."

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

Animated Internet Marketing Quotes That Set You Thinking

Recently, I've chanced upon a script that can produce an amazing looking rotating animated text quotes (via Pro Blogger Tricks Blog). Hence I am trying it out here to product 5 Internet Marketing Quotes which I thought are inspiring enough for the sharing.

• It is much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic.
• Create something people want to share.
• The paradox is the more info you give away, the more people will buy what you have to give.
• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
• The future of business is social.
• We are all listening here, the best listeners will end up smartest.

Note : If you see only static quotes instead of rotating animated quotes, it means that your device is not compatible with the display!

Cheers!

The Habits Of The Smartest People, The Good And Bad (Infographic)

We might not be the smartest person in the world, like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Bill Gates, but we can definitely learn something from their habits (of course, we should be focusing on the good habits only).

Courtesy of Online-PHD-Programs.org, they have compiled an informative infographic on the good and bad habits of the smart people. Before checking out the beautifully crafted infographic, following are the gist of it :

 

THE GOOD:

1. Set written goals and share it with friends

2. Avid readers

3. Self-disciplined

4. Think about thinking

 

THE BAD:

1. Tend to drink

2. Use drugs

3. Night owls

4. Anxious

 

Now, check out the infographic with more details here:

 

Udemy - Grab Your Coupon Code To Enjoy 60% Off From Courses (For Limited Time Till 17th Mar 2014 Only)

When talk about MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), the first platform that might come to your mind is Coursera. Yes, Coursera is still one of the main platform for MOOC in relation to more serious and academic courses (akin to those Universities courses).

 

Of course, there is another equally great MOOC platform called Udemy that we can't ignore. Founded in 2010 by Oktay Caglar, Eren Bali and Gagan Biyani. It has more than 8,000 online courses and with over 2 millions users have registered so far.

The great difference between Udemy and Coursera is that the former has more practical and niche courses as compared to the latter. For example, if you are interested to learn Value Investing (made popular by the best investor in the world, Warren Buffet), you can grab their FREE Value Investing Course which is split into 38 easy to digest video/ebooks. I've personally taken this particular course online and I am really satisfied with the resources/knowledge that I gained from it and the best thing is, it is FREE.

There are many Free and Paid courses you can choose from in Udemy from wide range of categories like Technology, Business, Games, Language, Design and many more.

For a limited time only (until 17th March 2014, 11:59 PST to be exact), you can enjoy 60% off from almost all paid courses in Udemy just by providing the coupon code 'THANKS310'.

Learning is life-long but time is limited, do grab it before it ends! Just click on the image below to register for a free account (if you are a new user) and sign-up for the courses (free or paid) and you can start learning right away:

Other wise, you can also take a peep on Udemy's featured courses here : Discover Udemy's featured courses!

Enjoy the online learning!

Cheers!

Online Trends In 2014 (Infographic)

The first quarter of 2014 is almost ending soon, let's recap some of the 2014 online trends and

predictions from the marketing thought leaders.

 

Compiled by ReferralCandy, basing on the list of thought-provoking trends and predictions compiled by Forbes.

 

Following are the gist of it:

 

1. More mobile than ever

2. Community, community, community

3. Brands will be the new media producers

4. Social Media is no longer a choice

5. Changing attitude about social

6. Computerised future is NOW!

 

Now, enjoy the infographic below:

 

Top 25 Most Influential Performance Marketers (Infographic)

Let's faced it, the big guys in Internet Marketing arena are mostly focusing on Performance Marketing (comprising of Affiliate Marketing [get paid when your customer buy the seller's products/services as well as CPA Marketing [get paid when your customer take an action specified by the sellers e.g. filling-up registration form etc..]).

 

Recently, Impact Radius has released an Infographic featuring the most influential performance marketers in 2014 : “Top 25 Performance Marketing Influencers”. Happy to see quite a number of familiar faces there, I guess that's why they are influential! ;-)

 

The names that strike a chord to me personally are : John Chow, Pat Flynn and Jac Johnson as I followed their blogs/podcasts quite religiously. 

Keep reading for the infographic...