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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

ConversionXL

Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. What Is Affiliate Marketing? Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing. You start with two affiliates: Kim and Jim.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Funny enough, I had to get permission from the US Marines who allowed us to use the name providing we did not affiliate ourselves with the military. When we started our business 14 years ago, we were based out of South Texas near the Mexican border. Our company name at the time was South Texas Saltillo Connection.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #19: Identify Website Goal [Economic] Values

Occam's Razor

To answer that question I signed up for an affiliate account with Amazon and added my affiliate id to the outbound link. Whenever possible, tag those links with campaign parameters / affiliate codes / whatever works, and collect data that helps you identify goal values for your website. But what is the value of that click?

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The Great HQ Migration

Feld Thoughts

When Oracle announced that it is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, this issue hit its tipping point. One of the clients of my first company was Damner Pike (an affiliate of Colliers International), a real estate firm in San Francisco that was the broker for Oracle. Distributed work is here.

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Thank you to the Austin Technology Incubator at UT Austin for creating the Austin startup scene as…

Austin Startup

When I came to Austin in 1999, ATI was one of the only organizations supporting entrepreneurs in Texas. ATI is a tech incubator affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin that serves student and faculty entrepreneurs, as well as those in the greater Austin community, to explore deep tech solutions that address the world’s challenges.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Josh runs a series of Capital Factory-affiliated venture funds and is the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2013, according to Pitchbook. Joshua Baer is a serial entrepreneur and founder/Executive Director of Capital Factory , the largest coworking space and tech incubator in Austin.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Up With Changing Regulations

YoungUpstarts

The Texas branch of the National Federation of Independent Businesses , for example, regularly holds an event after the conclusion of the state legislature that connects lawmakers with business owners. Affiliation or contact with a committee might seem like a small step, but tech leaders who exercise it can open particularly helpful doors.