http://immania.com Internet Marketing Journal Fri, 21 May 2010 10:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/adwords-negative-keywords-no-kids-and-no-animals/ http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/adwords-negative-keywords-no-kids-and-no-animals/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:38:21 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/?p=123 The great W.C. Fields left the world many hilarious one-liners. His cynical view on life and stinging sarcasm was way ahead of his time and his influence can be seen in comedians as diverse as Don Rickles all the way through to Kathy Griffin today. Unfortunately, it appears that poor W.C. is all but forgotten [...]]]> http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/adwords-negative-keywords-no-kids-and-no-animals/feed/ 0 http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/prediction-for-a-dark-holiday-shopping-season/ http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/prediction-for-a-dark-holiday-shopping-season/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:57:25 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/?p=103 I truly don’t mean for IMMania.com to become a mirror of CNBC, but being an affiliate marketer, it’s in my best interests to follow consumer trends. And the latest reports from the retailing front lines are not at all encouraging. Unrelenting pressures from the cost of energy as well as a declining job market have [...]]]> http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/prediction-for-a-dark-holiday-shopping-season/feed/ 0 http://immania.com/advertising/ppc/researching-consumer-buying-trends/ http://immania.com/advertising/ppc/researching-consumer-buying-trends/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:12:13 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/?p=99 In addition to the affiliate marketing stuff I do with eBay (ePN) I’m also pretty involved in two other niches that I’ve promoted with both SEO methods and PPC. For the latter two niches it has been a lesson in shifting economic trends as well as what areas seems to resist economic downturns. I won’t discuss [...]]]> http://immania.com/advertising/ppc/researching-consumer-buying-trends/feed/ 0 http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/google-nemesis-and-energy-alchemy/ http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/google-nemesis-and-energy-alchemy/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:30:57 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/?p=97 Today, July 8, 2008, is the big day when “Google Nemesis” “drops“. I like that term: “drops“. The first I heard it used was by Chris “Credit Card Killer” McNeeny. Oops, sorry! That should be Chris “Day Job Killer“. Just a little morbid humor from the wonderful world of IM and interestingly enough, “Google Nemesis” [...]]]> http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/google-nemesis-and-energy-alchemy/feed/ 0 http://immania.com/products-i-like/bayrss-plugin-for-epn/ http://immania.com/products-i-like/bayrss-plugin-for-epn/#comments Mon, 26 May 2008 15:35:47 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/products-i-like/bayrss-plugin-for-epn/ I’ve been using the BayRSS plugin from Azlan Kasim for several months now, both here on IMMania.com as well as on several niche affiliate blogs. This is a fantastic WP plugin and has worked for me without a hitch. My approach to using the eBay affiliate program, now called ePN since the migration in-house by [...]]]> http://immania.com/products-i-like/bayrss-plugin-for-epn/feed/ 0 http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/transition-to-ebay-partner-network-aka-epn/ http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/transition-to-ebay-partner-network-aka-epn/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:30:12 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/transition-to-ebay-partner-network-aka-epn/ Effective April 1, 2008, eBay opened the doors to their new in-house affiliate program. Previously, the eBay affiliate program had been managed by Commission Junction (CJ) with all link tracking performed by eBay. That’s what all those canine sounding affiliate links were about: “rover” A transition period has been in effect during the entire month of April, [...]]]> http://immania.com/affiliate-marketing/transition-to-ebay-partner-network-aka-epn/feed/ 2 http://immania.com/article-marketing/bum-marketing-method-in-action/ http://immania.com/article-marketing/bum-marketing-method-in-action/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:09:00 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/article-marketing/bum-marketing-method-in-action/ I’m taking a hiatus from posting about Adwords and Google Slaps for a bit. I am still very much involved with running Adwords campaigns for various offers and have even started doing a little SEM consulting. So Adwords PPC is still very much at the core of what I do online. However, so as not to [...]]]> http://immania.com/article-marketing/bum-marketing-method-in-action/feed/ 6 http://immania.com/advertising/ppc/scorched-earth-affiliate/ http://immania.com/advertising/ppc/scorched-earth-affiliate/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:13:56 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/advertising/ppc/scorched-earth-affiliate/ During the Prohibition Era in America when alcohol was illegal, there were underground nightclubs and watering holes referred to as “speakeasys“. Old newsreel footage from the period would show well-dressed men and women knocking on a door in a seedy back alley that had a special peep hole built in to it. A pair of [...]]]> http://immania.com/advertising/ppc/scorched-earth-affiliate/feed/ 2 http://immania.com/products-i-like/ppc-classroom-final-grade-is-in/ http://immania.com/products-i-like/ppc-classroom-final-grade-is-in/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:51:33 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/observations/ppc-classroom-final-grade-is-in/ I joined “PPC Classroom” on the day it launched – September 25, 2007. I can easily remember that date because it’s my dad’s birthday, but anyway, I was sitting in front of my PC refreshing the sales page in order to qualify for the “fast action bonus”. I’ve waited until now to write up a full [...]]]> http://immania.com/products-i-like/ppc-classroom-final-grade-is-in/feed/ 4 http://immania.com/observations/im-in-an-uncertain-economy/ http://immania.com/observations/im-in-an-uncertain-economy/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:51:19 +0000 Rich http://immania.com/observations/im-in-an-uncertain-economy/ Well, the numbers are finally in and the US retail sector had its worst holiday season in 5 years. Economists had been predicting this even before the 2007 holiday shopping season kicked into gear. Actually, anyone paying any attention at all to the dire economic news — sub-prime mortgage mess, turmoil in the credit markets, [...]]]> http://immania.com/observations/im-in-an-uncertain-economy/feed/ 4