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Developing an Email Marketing Strategy
Step 1: Know your target audience. “Who comes to my store or web site, who actually buys from me? What are they like? How old are they? What do they do for a living? What motivates them? Are they conservative, or easy-going? What controls their decision to buy? Price? Necessity? Availability?” This is called marketing research, and as a poker affiliate, you should know about it. Too many business owners guess what their audience wants without going past the surface and thinking deeply about it. Once you understand your audience, you will...
read moreRedirecting an entire folder or subdirectory in .htaccess
301 redirects in .htaccess can be a pain, especially when moving an entire directory or folder, but 301 redirecting is necessary for SEO when moving pages around or to another domain. We’ve been redesigning our old website (www.imaconlinepoker.com) from HTML to WordPress, and have run into what is likely to be a common problem. We changed several directory names such as www.imaconlinepoker.com/rule/poker/ to www.imaconlinepoker.com/poker-rules/. Permanently redirecting this individual page was no problem, but the child pages in the...
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iGaming’s New Black Friday
Here is our digest of the recent “poker black Friday” news with respect to the United States Department of Justice Inictments of Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, UB Poker, and Absolute Poker. More to come as the story unfolds… Sites Still Accepting US Poker Players Carbon Poker Bodog Poker Cake Poker Sportsbook.com Poker Players Only Poker BetUS Poker *Links go to reviews of each room 04-19-2011 If you’re stuck with a bunch of points in your Full Tilt Poker account, it may be beneficial for you to use the following...
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BeWinners Affiliate Account Closed, BeLosers.com
Bewinners.com markets itself as one of the best poker affiliate programs, with an innovative 5-tier system of revenue share. Reach “YEAH” status, and you’re receiving 35% revenue share. We beg to differ. From our experience, our opinion is that the only real winners in this affiliate program are the operators themselves. Not only do we feel that Bewinners screws their customers, but also their affiliates. Fortunately, Best Odds Corp has avoided getting mixed up with what many poker affiliates feel is the shadiest poker...
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