Now this is one powerful mp3! Durk Price had permission from Dave Taylor (Ask Dave Taylor!) to record a 40 minute conversation where they discussed blogging and branding strategies from many different perspectives. This is a very informative piece to sit down and listen to. It’s a pretty big file to download but absolutely worth it.

The power of blogging and interacting with other bloggers is the central theme. For long-term success, Dave highlights the importance of crafting compelling topics and posts that are unique and in your voice. Plus, he hits on how someone can become an expert over time just by starting a blog on a topic they’re interested in. *Just the nature of fully involving oneself in the process of watching an industry, then blogging about it will make them an authority, and they will start to get feedback.*

Hopefully I’ve intrigued you enough to grab the mp3 file and listen. The blog post and transcript of the entire recording available on Durk’s AffGoo Affiliate Blog. Enjoy!

Gary & AvantLink

Introducing another great addition to the AvantLink network:

Colorado Baggage Co.

Not only does ColoradoBaggage.com carry thousands of brand name travel luggage and gear, they have some great promotions for Affiliates to feature. This is a brand new Affiliate program in the Travel/Luggage category. With a new program, they’re are a few things to fine tune but this program is going to be a long-term powerhouse…

“…the nation’s leader in fine luggage and leather goods. Including brands such as Tumi, Victorinox, Travelpro, Samsonite, Eagle Creek, and more. Their site offers more than 3,000 travel-related products, including women’s designer handbags, ski and golf bags, laptop bags and briefcases.” Read the program launch announcement on ABestWeb.

Drop us a line if you need anything,

Gary & AvantLink

WindyCityParrot.com is one of the most recent merchants to launch in our network. It’s a very focused product line in the bird/parrot category, and their site is a vast knowledge base for consumers. They have a high conversion rate site-wide, and a high percentage of return customers.

To get things started, Mitch from Windy City Parrot is offering a $50 cash bonus to the first five Affiliates to send $500 in sales. This promo is ongoing until all five bonuses thresholds have been reached.

Happy converting! Click here for more info on this program..

Let me know if you have any questions.

Gary & AvantLink

Readers, I’m Jumpin’ back to August 24th. This is when we announced the Coupon Feed Syndication tool that allows affiliates to promote the actual ’subscription’ to a coupon/on sale feed right a long side the publication of the web on their web page.

With a call to action like ‘Subscribe to this Merchant’s On Sale RSS Feed’, Affiliates can actually own a customer for the duration of the subscription. It basically helps Affiliates syndicate their ads to web shopper’s RSS feeds. Affiliates, these creative (various RSS reader icons) are as easy to grab and add to your site as a banner.

From the release:

“Kamas, Utah (PRWeb.com) August 24th, 2006 - AvantLink.com announced this week the launch of the Coupon Feed Syndication tool, the first of several advanced Affiliate tools that allows online marketers to promote On Sale RSS feeds merchants.”

Read Entire Press Release on PRWeb or AvantLink.

Sincerely,

Gary & AvantLink

Just a quick post to mention what’s going to move through this blog over the next couple of weeks. AvantLink has been cranking with the integration of new merchants, in addition to the development and launch of powerful Affiliate tools over the past several months. There are a ton of things we need to get into these blog archives including PRWeb.com press releases and new merchant announcements.

Starting with the most recent news and announcements (merchant and press room additions to the site), I’ll be posting entries dating back to Sept 1st or so. I just wanted to make a quick post and clarify why some of the topics in the near future will be about ‘old news’ so to speak in the network.

Have a great day!

Gary & AvantLink

We just had another merchant launch with our Deal Of The Day (DOTD) tool. ExecStyle.com (visit their site) is now populating the DOTD creative dynamically each day with a new killer deal on top men’s fashions. ExecStyle.com already has some of the best prices online for suits from popular brands like Raulph Lauren and Calvin Klein…and now there is a DOTD tool to push even better discounted offers!

We’re proud to bring attention to ExecStyle.com as the 4th Deal Of The Day campaign live in the AvantLink network!

Let us know if you have any questions,

Gary & AvantLink

Today I did a podcast to highlight our new Deal Of The Day tool that was announced on October 30th through AbestWeb and PRweb. I blogged about the new tool here. It went pretty well. Short and sweet. The interviewer explained that he wanted to try and wrap it up around 3 minutes…which is a good thing since I continue on and babble forever

At any rate, take a listen to learn about our new Deal Of The Day tool.

• Deal Of The Day Information on AvantLink (avantlink.com)
• Deal Of The Day Press Release (prweb.com)
• Deal Of The Day Podcast (prwebpodcast.com)
• ABW Thread for Deal Of The Day (abestweb.com)

Gary & AvantLink

Hello Everyone,

We’ve launched another outstanding Affiliate program in our ‘Pet Supplies’ category! WindyCityParrot.com datafeeds and Affiliate creative are now available in the network to qualified Affiliates. Mitch Rezman, General Manager of Windy City Parrot (based in Chicago) runs a progressive online store and he’s committed to forming long-term partnerships. Check out the amount of rich content and other conversion drivers on the Windy City Parrot website.

Affiliates take NOTE: Mitch and WindyCityParrot are currently running a promotion for new Affiliates joining through AvantLink. For the first 5 Affiliates to send $500 in sales, he’ll pay out a $50 cash bonus. This covers the hour or so it will take to integrate this parasite-free, niche program.

More Information on the Windy City Parrot Affiliate Program

If you have any questions feel free to contact us or Mitch from Windy City Parrot directly: mitch-at-windycityparrot.com

Gary & AvantLink

Hello Folks,

AvantLink’s Deal Of The Day tool is now live. Click For Live Examples

Going to notch it back a week to October 30th…which is the day we announced the hard launch of the first integrated Deal Of The Day (DOTD) tool in AvantLink. As we all know price drives conversion, especially when high-profile brands are featured. As far as we know, this is the first DOTD tool from any affiliate marketing network/technology provider on the Internet.

For Affiliates
It’s great for Affiliate marketers because it offers dynamic displays of a new product on a daily basis…plus, the product is discounted which increases conversion. There is even an RSS option for the DOTD tool that results in dynamic, web content that is seen by the search engines.

For Merchants
Online retailers find value in terms of inventory control, ie, if they have to move a product they can just apply a discount then add to AvantLink’s queue.

Options for publishing the daily deal content include dynamic text, banner and html ads or dynamic RSS feeds. Affiliates, the dynamic html display is a simple Javascript cut-n-paste on any page dedicated to a merchant or their category.

More information:

• AvantLink Tools: Deal Of The Day (AvantLink)
• AvantLink Free Tools: Deal Of The Day (AbestWeb)

Gary & AvantLink