Web Marketing Strategy Update

DealDotCom is a new site from Jason Potash & Marc Quarles offering big discounts on the best Internet Marketing products, using a “deal a day” format.

From the site:

“DealDotCom is the place on the web to find all the Internet Marketing products you really want for rock bottom prices. We sell products and services that help save you time and money when it comes to running your online business.”

Unfortunately, there’s no prior notification of which product will be on sale when, nor how much you’ll save. So you have to visit the site regularly — well, daily really — to be sure you don’t miss out getting something you really wanted for a lot less than normal.

Sounds very promising though, and of course you can just bookmark it.

DealDotCom Affiliate Program

There’s also an attractive 3-tier affiliate program, that pays you commissions for life on purchases made by anyone you refer. You also get a commission on sales generated by people introduced by anyone you refer.

As Jason and Marc say on the site, this could bring you some healthy commission checks and a nice passive, residual income.

This is something I rarely talk about, but datafeeds are a great way to make money with affiliate programs.

A datafeed is essentially a product database that merchants make available for their affiliates to download.

The data is contained in a large text file, with one product per line. Each line will contain things like the product name, its code number, price, description, order link, and image links.

These different bits of information are usually separated by commas or tab stops, (although the pipe (|) symbol is sometimes used), leading to comma-separated value, .csv or tab-separated value, .tsv files.

Whilst the datafeed might look like an unreadable mess in a text editor, if you open the file in spreadsheet software like Excel or Filemaker, you will see the information is actually in neat columns as defined by the commas or tabs.

You can buy software and scripts (or roll your own) to manipulate this data to create websites with hundreds, even thousands of pages in no time.

These can be static pages pages you upload to your server, or dynamically generated on the fly as the page is requested (my personal preference).