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Mobile Newsletter Contest
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Through my relationship with TextMarks.com, I have started a mobile newsletter for fans of Greg Hoffman Consulting and anyone interested in mobile marketing and I plan to bribe you to join!
Mobile is the future of affiliate marketing in some shape or another. If you aren’t interested in text alerts because of your limited phone plan, I understand but if you already text your friends regularly, look at this type of alert as opt-in only, non-intrusive and used sparingly. The GHC Mobile newsletter will consist of 160-character updates on new clients and new deals to affiliates in my managed programs. I will no longer be building an email list and sending out a monthly html newsletter.
Today, I rolled out mobile marketing campaigns for my clients. They will be using the service to communicate their own messages to customers that opt-in to their group alerts. These campaigns will not be affiliate specific but it will compliment their ongoing internet marketing efforts. I’m happy to bring this value added service to them on behalf of GHC.
Subscribing to a text alert is easy and unsubscribing is even easier. This is an opt-in list only and there are no costs to join, ever. You can text the word akagorilla to 41411, you can click here or you enter your number in the widget below:
Did I mention there would be prizes? Oh yeah! Every 4-6 weeks, I will announce a new prize for anyone subscribed to my mobile alerts. Prizes will most likely be from my managed clients, such as Flirty Aprons, PokenZoo or Nanodots.
My first giveaway will be March 31. I will call the winner at random from the list and ship out the prize asap.
March winner will receive two prizes:
1. I will manage a text alert just for your company. Let’s test mobile marketing together. One keyword, no ads with nearly unlimited texts per month.
2. A very rare Poken, the Blue Gorilla. How cool is it to win the blue gorilla poken from the Marketing Gorilla?
Happy 5th Birthday Marketing Gorilla Blog
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Today is the day I chose to celebrate the fifth birthday of my little spot here on the internets. As I said in an interview on Murray Newlands’ Marketing Blog last week, I started the blog as an experiment to keep my name in the search engines. I was working on a business blog for the company I was with at the time and it seemed like a good idea to have my own branded blog. Then later on, I took the branding a little too seriously, as you’ll read in a minute.
I admit I was never consistent and didn’t have award winning content but I’ve always wanted to deliver useful information. The traffic has gone up and down over the years but now that I have a dedicated audience of affiliates the content is improving and traffic is up. I’d like to highlight the top 10 posts on both the old version in blogger and the new version here on Wordpress. These are my favorite posts over the last five years because they either generated the most conversation or they just made me happy:
10. Why Attend Affiliate Summit?
9. A breakthrough for Greg Hoffman Consulting
8. My brand of affiliate management
6. Certified Affiliate Manager
1. Resume taped to the box of donuts trick
I hope you enjoy the posts and I promise to keep improving the content. Meeting other bloggers and attending some of the sessions on blogging really motivated me at Affiliate Summit West. Please feel free to comment.
Flirty Aprons Launches on Pepperjam Network
Posted by: | CommentsMy first exposure to Pepperjam was a few conversations with Kris Jones while I was at the Kowabunga network. Over the years we have talked about affiliate marketing but it was last month that Kris encouraged me to look at launching one of my clients on the network. Flirty Aprons was ready to expand. We launched with great success on ShareASale and Commission Junction. The expansion decision was easy.
So, we launched quietly over the weekend. Same offer, same banners and coupons but I’m hoping to meet a whole new set of affiliates.
Join FlirtyAprons.com on Pepperjam Network.
On another note, my apron came in last week and I promised someone a picture of me in it. So here it is. The Marketing Gorilla in an apron from Flirty Aprons.com.
My new prescription eyeglasses
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In case you missed my posts on Twitter about my new prescription eyeglasses last month, I wanted to share here.
In July, I went to my local eye doctor for an exam and I was planning on buying contacts and glasses. But the glasses they had were just too much money to even bother. My old pair of glasses were cracked, scratched and the prescription was outdated so I never wore them anyway. But here comes 39DollarGlasses.com to the rescue. I was helping PMG with the 39DollarGlasses affiliate account and the merchant was kind enough to send me a free pair of eyeglasses. I sent them my prescription but first I had to measure the distance between my pupils because the local doctor left this off the prescription, just in case I decided not to buy from them. Thankfully, 39DollarGlasses has an easy to use chart on how to do this on their site.
The glasses showed up several days later and I wear them about half the time now, which I haven’t done consistently in about 10 years. The glasses are comfortable and sleek. It’s nice to have them as a back up to my contacts.
Anyway, I highly recommend buying your next pair of eyeglasses or sunglasses from 39DollarGlasses.com.
The new and improved Internet Marketing Gorilla Blog
Posted by: | CommentsOver the next few weeks, I will be organizing this new Wordpress blog as the new and improved Internet Marketing Gorilla Blog.
The old blog archives can be found here: Internet Marketing Gorilla Blog Archives
