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Are You Cashing In On The Holiday Traffic? If Not What Are You Waiting For?
Posted On: November 25, 2008Posted In: Marketing Tips, Video Blogging
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I just wanted to know how many of the readers in Joeville are cashing in on holiday traffic? You know…Novemeber through the start of January 2009 is usually “holiday buying season”.
You get all the black friday sales or day after thanksgiving, whatever you call it. You also have all the Christmas shopping going on, and even New Year’s Day sales!
I know many affiliate marketers do great at this time, people are buying, everyone is buying, online and offline. I also know niche marketers do well, with their adsense style sites by posting up content that people are looking for during this period.
One of the dudes that really gets this done, in a great way is my buddy Garry Conn. He has a blog that he runs year round, listing the best online deals…and as you can imagine, his numbers soar around holiday sales!
Some people plan all year for this one period, and their bank accounts thank them. I had been planning on doing something since the summer, but lately, I’ve been caught up in so many projects that I completely forgot about it!
I got something setup recently, to see what happens…but I know I’m going to start planning this year, for next years holiday season, and try to take advantage of all the holidays throughout the year.
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November 25th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Yea I’m getting ready to push all of my affiliates products that are going on sale. Its amazing how many affiliate companys have online black friday sales.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Welcome to the site firefox fanatic! Lol. Cool man…I’d love to hear about it, you don’t have to give specifics, or urls, but if you feel like sharing…go for it. Or, you can come back and share in 09 after the holiday season! lol
see ya
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November 25th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Hmm
I seem to forget at time to cash in on the holday season or anytime that there is a holiday. I have sen a few promotions on Christmas already around but I’m sure by next week it will be full blown.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Yeah man, it’s a huge opportunity! It’s not too late! Christmas isn’t here yet, shoot, neither is Thanksgiving! Or New Years….it’s never too late to do something!
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November 25th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Normal Joe finially taking his own advice and taking action! git r done!!! Lol.. j/k
be easy Joe and Happy Turkey Day!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
First off sucka, you need to go to gravatar.com and get you a gravatar yo! Second, I HAD TO MAKE MOVES SON! lol
enjoy them mashed tatoes man!
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November 25th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Do you think you’ll earn as much this year compared to other years?
Economy isn’t doing well.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I haven’t been doing it that long, this will be my first holiday season as a marketer online, so….YES hahaha, anything I make will be more than previous years
I started this journey in feb/march 08
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November 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Yes it’s about that time of the year…and even with the economy as it is online sales are still booming!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Sup man! Long time no see! Yeah, sales will still be crazy these last two months man, especially for the next week or so.
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November 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
We live in India and here Christmas is not the festive season. So, I’m not expecting to do a lot of shopping here. But I’m planning to buy myself some books and maybe some cool gadgets too.
Just subscribed to Listed Instantly. I sure want to know how to rank on Google instantly. And if I like it (most probably, I will), I’ll surely write about it on my blog.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Yeah, I bet! It’s all good…not really so much about what you’re gonna buy, but putting yourself (or your site) in front of the online holiday traffic.
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November 25th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Looks like it’s time for some affiliate marketing.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Yes sir, I will definitely be more prepared next year!
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November 26th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I live in Australia so i am not feeling the thanksgiving vibe but i most of my market is America so it’s now hunting season for the affiliate marketer, leading into xmas things should heat up.
Jason
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Yeah, I hear that….but that’s the thing about the internet, you can still bank off of us crazy americans!
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November 26th, 2008 at 9:56 am
@Normal Joe – Ha HA… Alright dude, I got r done with the gravatar (been meaning to for a while, so I just went and took action, Normal Joe style)
and you KNOW I’ll be killin them mashed taters dude.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Bout time sucka! That’s what I’m talkin bout…oh, just to let you know
I experienced the Lonnie Q turkey, wife brought some home from work, I AM HOOKED
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November 26th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Sammich man, the first rule of speaking is TURN YO PHONE OFF, sucka!!!
I don’t have any holiday sites…yet. I will get it crackin in 2009 for all of that. Think I will start with valentines day…., maybe I will flip it. hahahaa.
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Sly from SlyVisions dot Com (28 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 12:20 am
If you’re planning to flip it, start now and sell before February!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:13 am
sucka, you know I don’t follow know rules man! That’s was the wife callin, u sum bees just have to take a back seat to my lady man! lol.
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November 27th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Too bad, I don’t do affiliate marketing yet. i’m just into internet marketing which is a lot more different! BTW, why don’t you to drop by at my blog, I have a really funny post about Shawty LO, I really recommend you to read it!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Yeah, affiliate marketing is just a small part of internet marketing, what exactly do you market if I may ask?
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November 27th, 2008 at 5:47 am
@Normal Joe – It depends, because in affiliate marketing, it doesn’t matter where you live right?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Nope, doesn’t matter man, everyone can be reached online, so yes, the entire world can make bank off of the crazy americans and their holiday shopping.
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Desmond - DesmondBlog.com (5 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am
“crazy americans”… lol
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November 27th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I am not yet taking advantage of the shopping season, but this season will not be too good because of the economy. I hope the economy get better by next year so that I would be positioned to have my own share.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 8:40 am
I hear ya! But uh….I’m pretty sure the economy will have no effect on the shopping season, people are still buying, and will still be buying. Plan for next year!
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November 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
To be honest, I’m actually getting things ready for post-Christmas resolution traffic and Valentines day – gotta be thinking ahead!!!
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November 27th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Hey Joe, I’d have to admit that I’m pretty bad at marketing differently during the holiday. To tell you the truth, I hadn’t even thought about it until I read this post. This is actually the first year for my blog going into the holiday season, so I still have some time to get it done.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 28th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Yeah man…it’s a huge opportunity, and I really plan to be on all the holidays this coming year…just too much money being left on the table man! I don’t know if I’d do much on my own blog…but with niche blogs.
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November 28th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I have recently created my own site to make money but I am concerned when I read that you have been planning for this season since the summer and some people you know even longer, am I too late for christmas with my new site or do you think if I work really hard I can still make money from this season?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Well, I didn’t actually do what I needed to take major advantage this year, it’s not too late for Christmas though, it’s never too late! Just decide what you plan to do and do it. Welcome to the site Carla.
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
@Normal Joe – You got some of that Lonnie Q turkey?!?! oh SNAP!! Dude… I tried to warn you man. Once that Lonnie Q hits your lips, it will never be the same. (no joke there man)
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 28th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Yeah man, it was serious, gonna get a couple for Christmas…you gotta hook me up wit da info.
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November 30th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Hey Joe, only just come across your site. Great site man!
. Not sure why. Hoping it will pick up again tomorrow.
With regards to the Black Friday thing, my traffic has taken a bit of a dive since Thursday 27th so income is down
Great Blog, I’m off to read some more.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Cool man! Welcome to the site…hope to see you around a bit more. Yeah, the rush usually happens the day after thanksgiving, that’s a HUGE shopping day here in the US.
Don’t worry man, I’m sure your traffic will bounce back.
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November 30th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
joe,
I have made up a site and used storestacker to help build pages
this is kinda an experiment
i used the listedinstantly tactics,……..
but it took a friggin week for google to even list my site.
anyway the site is
http://shop-blackfriday.com and we’ll see how the season rocks.
thanks and take care
Bryan
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 30th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Sup Bryan! Yeah man, I like storestacker…well, I like how it looks, I haven’t used it myself. I wonder if the method takes a bit longer on higher competition keywords maybe? I know black friday is a pretty competitive market. I’ll be asking how it’s going cuz I’m very interested…especially in the storestacker site.
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November 30th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
@Normal Joe – Storestacker rocks, I just wonder if the structure of the site pisses off google, i mean when you can Zap out 1200 pages of affiliate linked products in about 5 minutes, something may not sit well with Big brother Google.
I will keep you posted,
I plan to use it on some more of my less time sensitive domains and to build with more content,
see if they like that better.
thanks and take care
Bry
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
Sounds good man! It does look pretty dope, and if you take the time to add good content it will be awesome I’d imagine.
I’m very interested in the performance, as I have looked at them in the past.
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December 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I recently signed up for Amazon’s affiliate program. What are some other reputable programs out there?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
Hmmm…..market leverage, motive, neverblue ads…cj.com, there’s a few…what you looking to sell?
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December 1st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I’ve been hearing a lot about this, and how specific niche sites for this can be really successful. Though it’s a little late now I’ll have to remember this for next year. But your right, we can’t miss this opportunity for future years.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
It’s never too late, you can still cash in on the Christmas/online shopping traffic…new years traffic, etc.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
@Normal Joe –
True, new years is still open. I wonder what keyword I could choose though. Maybe new years resolutions or something. Thanks for the tip.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 am
Yep, dude…Christmas is still here man! You still got time for that one too dude.
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December 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Hey Joe, I finally got the MarketSecrets Shopping Portal ready…check it out and tell me what you think…
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 4th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I checked it out dude…what did you use for that? Got any sales yet! lol. How do you plan to drive traffic to it?
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
The link to where I got the amazon script is located near the bottom of the Shopping Portal -it may take a bit of tweaking if you plan to use it.
No sales as of yet because I just installed it, but have already recieved some unique visitors. My marketing strategy is to use what’s been working for me: comment marketing(on shopping/ecommerce sites of course)
I also plan to use Adbrite’s inline ad service because it too has worked well for me in the past. I use to get great conversions with ebay aff on my other online shopping creations using a service that redirected expired domain traffic to them until ebay dumped me
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 4th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
cool man….keep me posted on your progress with it.
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December 5th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Oops! I said Abrite’s inline ads when I meant to say Adbrite’s interstitial ads.
These are the ads displaying your full site page throughout the pages of other sites within Adbrite’s publisher network. For example: a publisher can set their interstitials so that after you’ve clicked through a certain number of pages(say after 5 pages) ,then your full page will instantly display.
Of course,you would only run your interstitials with those publishers that are in the same niche as you.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 9th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Yeah, sounds like a cool little system…I know a few folks that run that.
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December 9th, 2008 at 11:52 am
DAMN – i was missing all this fun.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 11th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Yeaaaaah maaaaaaan, welcome to the party though!
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December 9th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
@Shanker Bakshi – That’s right sum bee! Get in on that action!
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