Increase your performance and success with the “If-Then planning”. It’s a simple plan with great benefits. Researches show that by acting based on the “If-Then planning” you are two or three times more likely to succeed. The basics: If X happens, then I will do Y. The X can be a time and place, or it can be an event. Y is the specific action you will take whenever X occurs. The plan works so well because it speaks the language of your brain: the language of contingencies. Best part is that it becomes an unconscious act, so you can reserve your energy towards more important tasks.

Are you using social media in your advantage? We may feel a certain level of discomfort at first, but as we push through we will be able to get a lot of valuable comments and ideas on how to better ourselves and the product we are offering. People are going to write whatever they want on your “wall”, but, often rewards await those who push through the discomfort of the unknown. Push through the discomfort and use everything in your advantage. Building trust with your customer base doesn’t come easy – each day is a step forward towards a successful product.

Start 2011 off right! Here are some financial tips to get your finances back in order.

1. Get your credit score and report: Knowing your credit score can help you check for inaccuracies on your credit report. A higher credit score will get you lower rates on loans and credit cards.
2. Get Organized: Knowing where all your bills and bank statements are can help you keep track of your spending and saving.
3. Track spending: Track all spending for 30 days. Evaluate and see where you can cut spend, such as eating out less.
4. Do an insurance checkup: Meet with your current provider and see if the converge you have is really what you need. Find our about loyalty discounts and good driving perks.

These simple tips can help you get your finances back in order!

Leadpile offers many great financial offers such as Credit Score and Bankruptcy. Contact us today for info on our affiliate programs and offers!

It’s time to look back over the year at our accomplishments, as well as the things we wished to or still need to fulfill for ourselves and others. Our clients need us as much as we need them – we are all connected as a large network and our success is always dependent on the connections we have created and maintained. We can end the year strong and better ourselves starting today. Give back to all your partners and show them gratitude as each one of them helped you one way or another to get you where you are at. 2011 can bring you the opportunity to accomplish great things!

Networking is part of what we do, and it’s critical for our growth and success in this industry. When looking at the networking aspect of our business, remember a simple rule: offer to help others first, and they will return the favor. Understand their challenges and see what you can do to help them out in achieving better results.

Based on a research by Robert Kaplan and David Norton (founders of Balanced Scorecard), only 5% of employees understand the company’s strategy. Are you in line with the company’s goals and future strategy for the company? If you are in the executive team, makes sure you communicate it over to your team members. If they are on board with your strategy, it will be much easier to execute. Also, one thing to remember is not to “dictate how”, and instead let your team figure out the best approach to accomplish the goal. Your affiliates will definitely be a lot more receptive to your company’s message.

Utilize those around you to build your knowledge about the industry. You could be someone that has been in the industry for many years and probably knows a lot about affiliate marketing, however sometimes picking the brain of those around you is a good way to keep your ideas fresh and in line with what is going on with everyone else. Be a sponge with your peers around you and your new affiliates that might be able to shed some great light on what’s new and innovative!

Do you feel like you crossed the finish line of a half marathon at the end of every week? Maybe not all of you are into running, but you get the idea. Feeling that way means you have gone the extra mile with your job, taking care of your clients and affiliates. We are now into the Q4 – so the final marathon is here. Who is going to make it the 26 miles? Gather your strengths, tie your shoes and have a great run.

In this business adding new or additional tools and reporting options inside your administration interface is imperative to creating success and sending the right information to publishers and advertisers. The truth is, the data needed is always available, it’s just not always obvious to see. Working with your programmers to get what you need and updates to make information more accessible is important – just remember, marketing terminology does not apply to the tech team, so make sure to be precise in your requests to make the necessary changes a smooth process on all sides.

A great Affiliate Manager does not take no for an answer and will always find a way to get the job done! If you need something to make your job better, you will always find a way. At LeadPile it is our constant and never ending passion to make everything we do for our Advertising and Publishing Partners the best that it can be!

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Landing a fish is just like landing a customer. Why do some businesses fail when others succeed? Here are 10 ways to keep your business afloat.
1. Know what you’re after: Know your products demographics, typically 20% of your audience will generate 80% of your revenue.
2. Know where to fish for your customers: Now that you know your customer find out where they spend their time. Find the blogs they read, the social networking sites they frequent, and their sites of interest.
3. Be aware of your competition: Do some investigating of your competition. See what design style, copy, images are working for them. Don’t necessarily copy but know what’s out there so you can learn.
4. Use good bait: Your product isn’t the only one. Make sure you use compelling graphics, catchy copy and have some value to your site to make your product stand out amongst the rest.
5. Setting the hook: Make sure once your customer bites you have an amazing offer they can’t pass up. It’s your job to get them threw the door once they’ve come a knockin.
6. Forget catch and release: Remember is a lot more cost efficient to re-sell to an existing customer. Re-marketing, high-quality affiliate offers and up-sells are great ways to retain customers.
7. Test the waters: Try different marketing campaigns, A/B test landing pages, test time and/or day of the week. Find when your product best performs and increase your ROI.
8. Don’t get discouraged: You’re not going to know everything over night. Continue to educate yourself on your competition and bettering your offer, you’ll land your big fish soon enough.
9. Partner up to get a bigger catch: Partner up with sites that can help you real in a bigger catch, having an offer that compliments yours on your site and referring traffic can be a great idea.
10. Enjoy the trip: Be proud of what you’ve learned, not everyone will succeed but enjoy the journey of trying.

Are you up to date with the new offers and developments in the industry, especially from your competitors? If not, you will be missing out.

Your clients need an educated affiliate manager or salesperson to can guide them in becoming more successful. In this fast pace industry, it’s imperative to keep yourself up to date with the new offers and industry news.

Myself, being a Mac user and spending most on my time in Mail app, I found the following solution:

• Create your Google Alerts
• Create a feed for every keyword (example: Leadpile, Hydra Network, MediaWhiz, etc)
• Add each Feed to your Google Reader
• Group them in a Folder
• Add them to your preferred RSS reader – in my case, I have added a new RSS to my Mailboxes

Now I can get alerts on all the topics I am interested in, and they will show straight into my Inbox.

Do you have any recommendations as to what topics I should follow? Let me know!

Phoenix June 30th, 2009 — LeadPile, The World’s Largest Online Exclusive Lead Exchange announced today record results for its MicroClick Form (http://www.microclick.com) in June, 2009. LeadPile reports a record number of Lead Verticals being served by its MicroClick Form with Lead Sellers producing leads in 61 different verticals in the month of June. This makes the LeadPile MicroClick Form the most widely used Multi Vertical Lead Generation Form in the lead Marketplace and Lead Exchange Industry.

LeadPile’s Centralized Online Exclusive Lead Marketplace supports thousands of affiliates that use the exchange to sell to suitable lead buyers. By using the LeadPile MicroClick Form, Affiliates can focus on driving traffic to their pages and not on managing lead buyer relationships. Over 90% of LeadPile’s active affiliates are currently using the MicroClick form, offloading the responsibility for lead collection, management, technology infrastructure, and quality control to LeadPile.

Astoundingly, LeadPile’s MicroClick form has been used to produce leads as diversified as Tax Debt Relief, Home Improvements, Business Loans, Health Insurance, Equipment Leasing, Credit Card Processing, Cash For Gold and more.

Andrew Jacob, CEO of LeadPile says, “The LeadPile MicroClick Form allows us to handle leads across multiple verticals, including payday, starter credit, debt consolidation, credit repair, bankruptcy, auto financing, and homeowner. While the majority of leads currently being exchanged in the  Marketplace are in the Financial sector, the fact that Lead Sellers are using the MicroClick form to produce leads in over 60 verticals is very rewarding for our team.

Jacob adds, “I would like to personally thank our existing Lead Buyers and Leads Sellers for their business, and it is our promise to everything we possible can to help them in their efforts by continuing to provide the type of technology infrastructure and transparency that they have come to both expect, and deserve, from LeadPile.

To read more, please visit http://www.LeadPile.com/