Synopsis
Since 2003, James Martell has been keeping affiliate marketers inspired, informed and motivated to succeed with affiliate programs. The Affiliate Buzz is the first and longest running podcast in the affiliate marketing industry. James interviews top affiliates and industry thought leaders on whats working now (and what isnt) in the pay-for-performance industry. Topics include marketing strategies ranging from podcasting, outsourcing, copyrighting, search engine optimization (SEO), social media, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, ebooks, membership sites and more. James is often joined by his wife Arlene who draws from her 15+ years working alongside James raising their family of 4 from home thanks to their success with affiliate marketing and they share it all in this popular weekly podcast. Subscribe now.
Episodes
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AB #447 YES! There Is a Ton of Money to Be Earned By Affiliates!
16/02/2017 Duration: 32minIt’s a big world, and a big world wide web. Your chances of getting top ranking in a national market are pretty slim. But in a smaller pond, you can be a bigger fish. James and Arlene will tell you how to become the go-to site in your local market. YES! There Is a Ton of Money to Be Earned By Affiliates In Your Local Market. → The post AB #447 | YES! There Is a Ton of Money to Be Earned By Affiliates with James & Arlene Martell appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #448 | Advertisers and Affiliates; Save Yourself a World of Hurt By Understanding the Right Way to Disclose an Affiliate Relationship
09/02/2017 Duration: 29minIn this week's episode of the Affiliate Buzz, James Martell talks with Eric Nagel is Chief Technical Officer of F-M-T-C, and Preston Holland is Director of Business Development for BrandVerity, about the right way to disclose an affiliate relati → The post AB #448 | Advertisers and Affiliates; Save Yourself a World of Hurt By Understanding the Right Way to Disclose an Affiliate Relationship appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #446 | Outsourcing Essentials for Affiliates; The Secrets to Hiring a Virtual Assistant on a Shoe String Budget
01/02/2017 Duration: 51minIn this week's edition of the Affiliate Buzz, James and Arlene Martell share their secret and simple method for doing it all and having it all – two words. Hire help. They tap into a huge selection of talented professionals who are available on demand and deliver top quality work and will share the secrets to hiring a virtual assistant online. → The post AB #446 | Outsourcing Essentials for Affiliates; The Secrets to Hiring a Virtual Assistant on a Shoe String Budget appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #445 | Award Winning Affiliate Manager & OPM Jamie Birch, Shares Insight on What’s Working and What Affiliates Marketers Need to Be Focused on in 2017
26/01/2017 Duration: 53minIn this week's episode of the Affiliate Buzz, James Martell chats with Jamie Birch, Owner and Principal of JEBCommerce who should be away attending Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas. Instead, these two pioneers of affiliate marketing are here holding their own mini-summit to discuss affiliate marketing today and the state of the industry. → The post AB #445 | Award Winning Affiliate Manager & OPM Jamie Birch, Shares Insight on What’s Working and What Affiliates Marketers Need to Be Focused on in 2017 appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #444 | SmarterLocal360 – Your First $10,000 In Sales Guaranteed By James!
16/01/2017 Duration: 29minToday, they’ll revisit one of their clients, James McNamara at DolphinWorld.org to see what strategies are working and what needs to be improved on. They’ll discuss improving Google rankings and increasing your Facebook views. → The post AB #444 | SmarterLocal360 – Your First $10,000 In Sales Guaranteed By James! appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #443 | What’s Working and What’s Not! How to Take Your Business to the Next Level in 2017
21/12/2016 Duration: 28minJames and Arlene want to double their income in 2017, and they don’t want to double their workload. So in today’s episode, they’ll discuss the strategies they use to assess what’s working and what’s not, for themselves as well as for their clients. → The post AB #443 | What’s Working and What’s Not! How to Take Your Business to the Next Level in 2017 appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #442 | How to Start a PROFITABLE Local Web Marketing Business Offering High-Demand Services to Local Businesses
06/12/2016 Duration: 30minToday James and Arlene reflect on some of the strategies they’ve used to do online marketing for local businesses. They’ll cover five specific services that businesses desperately need and will share stories of the successes they’ve had with some local clients. → The post AB #442 | How to Start a PROFITABLE Local Web Marketing Business Offering High-Demand Services to Local Businesses appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #441 | How to get FREE Media Attention to Expand Your Audience, Increase Fees and Boost Sales
01/12/2016 Duration: 27minIn this week's episode of the Affiliate Buzz, James Martell talks with Andrew O'Brien, aka "The Publicity Guy", about how to get free media attention that can expand your audience, promote your brand and increase your bottom line. → The post AB #441 | How to get FREE Media Attention to Expand Your Audience, Increase Fees and Boost Sales with Andrew O’Brien, The Publicity Guy appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #440 | Affiliates and Bloggers – Tap into 200,000+ Monetized, Cleaned and Categorized Deals with FMTC
19/11/2016 Duration: 31minRachel Honoway and Eric Nagel of FMTC are with James to discuss datafeeds, aggregating affiliate content and tools for linking updated deals to affiliate websites. → The post AB #440 | Affiliates and Bloggers – Tap into 200,000+ Monetized, Cleaned and Categorized Deals with FMTC appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #439 | What Everybody Ought to Know About Top Membership Sites, and Earning Recurring Income
13/11/2016 Duration: 31minIn this episode, they’ll share what they’ve learned about turning your passion -that is your area of subject matter expertise - into a membership site with recurring income. → The post AB #439 | What Everybody Ought to Know About Top Membership Sites, and Earning Recurring Income appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #438 | Project Management Tools – Upwork + Basecamp = Magic
01/11/2016 Duration: 30minLet’s face it. Most of us, especially affiliate marketers who make the majority of their money in the late fall and early winter, tend feel overwhelmed by the holiday season. So as we approach the end of the year, it’s a good time to revisit the best strategies for getting stuff done. For James and Arlene, that’s an easy answer – their favorite project management tools combined with their favorite site for hiring freelancers. → The post AB #438 | Project Management Tools – Upwork + Basecamp = Magic appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #437 | Premium Pre Built Sites for Affiliate Marketers
27/10/2016 Duration: 31minJames and Arlene have been hard at work, not only on their own sites, but also helping their clients prepare for the season with slick looking new or updated websites. They will highlight a few of those websites in today’s show as they discuss the key elements of a premium, pre-built website. → The post AB #437 | Premium Pre Built Sites for Affiliate Marketers appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #436 | Secrets for Maximizing Black Friday Sales, the Busiest Shopping Day of the Year!
18/10/2016 Duration: 31minThe time has come! As of the airing of this episode, Black Friday is only 58 days away! James and Internet marketing consultant Karen Garcia discuss what you need to do now to be ready. → The post AB #436 | Secrets for Maximizing Black Friday Sales, the Busiest Shopping Day of the Year! appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #435 | PAD 2.0 – 8 Creative Ways to Repurpose Your Most Successful Content to Rank and Convert
15/10/2016 Duration: 32minRepurposing your content doesn’t just make Google happy. It also means that your message can land in front of potential clients, wherever they happen to hang out. Some people read blogs and some people listen to podcasts. Others can’t tear themselves away from Facebook. You need content that fits on all of those platforms. → The post AB #435 | PAD 2.0 – 8 Creative Ways to Repurpose Your Most Successful Content to Rank and Convert appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #434 | Facebook and Email Marketing Lessons Learned from a Summer with Killer Whales
02/09/2016 Duration: 34minJames is here to share some of the lessons he learned over the summer. Those lessons, about building up an email list from scratch and making the most out of your Facebook page, came from an unlikely source. → The post AB #434 | Facebook and Email Marketing Lessons Learned from a Summer with Killer Whales appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #433 | Avoiding CAN-SPAM Penalties, Managing Email Opt Outs and Preserving Brand Integrity with Clean Email Lists
15/08/2016 Duration: 29minWelcome to another edition of The Affiliate Buzz, where affiliate marketers have been coming to be inspired, informed and motivated to succeed since way back in 2003. Arlene is away today, but James is joined by Cris Angelini, Sales Director at UnsubCentral to discuss managing email opt outs and avoiding CAN-SPAM penalties. → The post AB #433 | Avoiding CAN-SPAM Penalties, Managing Email Opt Outs and Preserving Brand Integrity with Clean Email Lists appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #432 | What Everybody Ought to Know About Outsourcing, Plus How to Hire a Virtual Assistant
09/08/2016 Duration: 53minIn this episode James talks with Desmond Soon, about several platforms that offer over 10 million service providers just waiting to be hired. He’ll also learn exactly how to go about creating a job post that qualifies the potential candidates, as well as how the payment system works, and just how inexpensive it can be to hire your virtual dream team. Which platforms to use The difference between them. How to decide who to hire and not get cheated. What types of jobs can be outsourced and how much you should expect to pay. → The post AB #432 | What Everybody Ought to Know About Outsourcing, Plus How to Hire a Virtual Assistant appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #431 | What Merchants, Affiliates and Bloggers Must Know About FTC Disclosure Guidelines for 2016
05/08/2016 Duration: 30minJames is joined by CPA and attorney, Andrew B. Gordon to discuss what merchants, affiliates and bloggers need to know about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Disclosure Guidelines for 2016. → The post AB #431 | What Merchants, Affiliates and Bloggers Must Know About FTC Disclosure Guidelines for 2016 appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #430 | Tricia Meyer, Affiliate Marketer of the Year Shares What’s Working in Affiliate Marketing Today!
27/07/2016 Duration: 31minJames and Tricia will talk about what’s working in affiliate marketing today including: Negotiation between affiliates and affiliate managers, Diversification – why you can’t rely on Google or Facebook, Coupons, cash back and other strategies for combining content with “the deal”, Steps you can take to make your site a one stop shop, The latest news and resources from the Performance Marketing Association. → The post AB #430 | Tricia Meyer, Affiliate Marketer of the Year Shares What’s Working in Affiliate Marketing Today! appeared first on James Martell.
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AB #428 | What Everyone Ought to Know About Repurposing Content
25/07/2016 Duration: 29minAs listeners have no doubt realized, James produces quite a bit of content. However, he still wants to get as much mileage as he can out of it. It’s generally agreed that there are three hours of research behind every hour of writing. So, here’s James’ step by step guide to repurposing that content to scatter it all over the Internet. → The post AB #428 | What Everyone Ought to Know About Repurposing Content appeared first on James Martell.